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Spongebob to co-host Nickelodeon's Super Bowl LVIII broadcastThe folks that gifted us Slimed Mike McCarthy, Patrick Star’s commentary of a Russell Wilson interception, and the Mitchell Trubisky NVP are coming back for the Super Bowl....

The New York Rangers eat dirt like the frauds they’ve always beenIt’s important to review recent New York Rangers history to know why they ended up with a handful of their own dicks in the first round, to a New Jersey Devils team that is far more equipped for what wins in the NHL these days. Two years ago, James Dolan took a break from his normal paint-huffing ro...

"Ninja Headbands" Are Taking Over The NBA And I Am Here For ItTraditional headbands are gross and lame. It’s a minimal loop of terrycloth designed specifically just to keep a disgusting bodily fluid from dripping into your eyes, so honestly it’s a wonder that something so guaranteed to be completely radioactive at the end of games ever gained even a modicum of...

Please Enjoy 84 Seconds Of The American Ninja Warrior Broadcast Team Losing Their Shit

The old institutions slouch and rot and tip towards collapse; the culture turns inward, agoraphobic and sleepless and helplessly in thrall to rancid idle fantasies of violence or narcotic visions of capitulation and release; the people in charge loot and lie and then go blank and soft before the ima...

Can American Ninja Warrior Save Men's Gymnastics?

If you want to get boys into gymnastics, call them ninjas....

I Respect American Ninja Warrior's Complete Lack Of Mercy

I don’t watch American Ninja Warrior all that often, but every time I do I find myself enjoying it far more than I expected. Last night, NBC aired Week 1 of the National Finals, and it was a rad time. Bunches of seasoned competitors were undone by a particularly difficult course, and Jessie Graff be...

The Worst Of American Ninja Warrior's Terrible Commentary

Rescuing us all from a post-Olympics malaise, American Ninja Warrior returned on Monday night with its Philadelphia city finals. Now in its eighth season, ANW has provided us with plenty of wow-worthy moments, such as Kacy Catanzaro’s first female completion of a city finals course and Isaac Caldier...

Marcelo Huertas Pulls Off The Sneakiest Play In The History Of Basketball

Lakers “rookie” (he’s almost 33) Marcelo Huertas is the craftiest man in the NBA, and I will brook no dissent. Look at this shit!...

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American Ninja Warrior Is A Lot Better With Dinosaur Costumes

Even if you have no idea what American Ninja Warrior is, I promise that you will enjoy this clip of someone running through a training course in a T-Rex costume. ...

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Oct 08 2015

Someone Finally Completed American Ninja Warrior's Final Course

American Ninja Warrior, a sort of modern and souped-up version of American Gladiators, has been on TV for seven seasons without anyone ever making it to Stage 4 of Mt. Midoriyama—let alone completing it. Until tonight....

by Kevin Draper|

|Tue Sep 15 2015

All White Everything: The Glorious Badness Of Enter The Ninja

Ninjas tend to wear all black because they want to move around in the dark without being seen, right? Like, that’s the whole point of being a ninja? I’m asking this because the hero of 1981’s Enter the Ninja is a white ninja, in both senses of the word: He’s a Caucasian man who’s become a ninja, and...

by Tom Breihan|

|Thu Jul 09 2015

Seahawks Punter Competes On American Ninja Warrior, Loses

For the record, I’m pretty sure every member of the Deadspin staff would fail on the first American Ninja Warrior obstacle. None of us are professional athletes, either, so we’re not sure whether to be impressed or underwhelmed by Seahawks punter Jon Ryan’s very short appearance on last night’s epis...

by Timothy Burke|

|Tue May 26 2015

Grierson & Leitch's 2014 In Review: The Year's Worst Films

Yes, most people have already written their Top 10 movie lists for 2014. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Today, it's a look at the worst movies of 20...

by Will Leitch|

|Tue Dec 30 2014

Sweet ESPN Martial Arts Broadcast A Throwback To Network's Early Days

If you're old enough to remember any of the 80's, you know that ESPN wasn't always the home to 24-hour jabbering analysts and NFL talk shows. In its more fledgling days, the WWL aired whatever content to which it could obtain rights; thus, Americans were introduced to wacky hat-wearing and fingerg...

by Timothy Burke|

|Thu Oct 09 2014

Watch This Former Gymnast Tear Up The Course On American Ninja Warrior

Kacy Catanzaro's about 5-foot-nothing and 100 pounds, and somehow she's wrecking shit on American Ninja Warrior....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Wed Jul 16 2014

Comments Of The Fortnight-Ish: No One Cares What You Would Or Would Not Do To The Person With Boobs In That Picture You Saw

Let's talk meat....

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The First Jose Canseco Joke Known To Mankind

It's easy to forget that Jose Canseco used to be a baseball player of some distinction and not just a social media punchline. Which got us thinking, how long has this been going on? When did the tide start to turn against the Worcester Tornadoes' newest outfielder?...

by Erik Malinowski|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Comments Of The Fortnight-Ish: Srsly?

To kick off today's discussion, here are two exceptionally great, fairly recent comments for you to examine:...

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Comments Of The Fortnight-Ish: Your Racist Jokes Are The Pee-Pee In Our Coke

In recent articles on commenting we've discussed freshness and originality, and now, having tackled those, we're prepared to move on to the slightly weightier topic of race relations in Western culture. Well, not quite. But we are going to talk about racist jokes....

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013