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Team USA Eliminated In Women's Baseball World Cup Opening Round
There was an awful lot of college football this weekend. Plus all those Labor Day parties. And the pennant races are just starting to heat up. Those are all perfectly good reasons for why you completely missed the first weekend of the Women’s Baseball World Cup (and I’m pretty sure you did—only a fe...
Matt Shoemaker Takes A 105 MPH Line-Drive To The Head
In the second inning of Sunday’s game against Seattle, L.A.’s Matt Shoemaker was struck in the head by a 105 mph line-drive off the bat of Kyle Seager....
These Three Burger Sauces Will Make Almost Any Patty Palatable This Labor Day
Don’t let anyone serve you burgers as unsettlingly floppy as the reheated deli patties very good Deadspin writer Nick Martin and I ate on camera earlier this week. Any respectable Labor Day party will be hosted somewhere with an actual heat source (preferably a charcoal grill; gas grills are largely...
Do Violence To A Chicken And Eat Like Royalty All Week<em></em>
Both of my parents are talented, dedicated cooks with demanding law careers. This means that in order to feed themselves and their four kids homemade dinners during the week, they were, without ever calling it that, masters of meal planning. Huge swatches of the weekends were spent on intricate reci...
Aspire To Have As Much Conviction As This Little League Catcher
On Sunday, the Little League team from Maine-Endwell, N.Y. beat the team from Seoul, South Korea, 2-1, in the championship game. More importantly, South Korea’s catcher Jungseo Cho set a new gold standard in commitment to pitch framing....
Actually, Horse Sports Are Good
The funny thing about bias is that it’s the necessary basis of any opinion. And now that we’ve all had our quadrennial opportunity to reinvest in mildly-biased opinions on oft-ignored athletics, it’s time to talk about horse sports, and opinions about horse sports....
How To Get By In The Minors On $1,500 A Month<em></em>
Matt Paré, a catcher with the San Francisco Giants’ Single A affiliate in Augusta, Ga., doesn’t seem to mind sharing a two-bedroom apartment with three other guys. “Since half the time we’re on the road, it’s only 15 days a month,” he says. On the road, he shares a hotel room with just one of those ...
Paul Chelimo Earns Silver In 5,000m, Learns He Was Disqualified On Live TV, Then Gets Reinstated
U.S. runner Paul Chelimo thought he was giving an interview in recognition of his earning the 5,000m silver medal behind Great Britain’s Mo Farah. Instead, he was informed on live television by NBC’s Lewis Johnson that he had been disqualified for “infringement of the inside border.”...
Brazil Win Their First-Ever Soccer Gold In Penalty Shootout
Neymar scored Brazil’s only goal in regulation during the gold medal game against Germany today. But it was his shootout-deciding penalty kick to give the host country its first ever gold medal in soccer that will likely be remembered as one of the enduring moments of the 2016 Olympics....
How To Plan Your Lunches And Avoid Cooking All Week
You would think a single AC unit would be sufficient for cooling the sort of diminutive New York City one-bedroom for which I am currently overpaying. But, alas, despite racking up what is sure to be a reprehensibly reckless utilities bill, it’s still at least a billion degrees in my apartment this ...
The Time I Got Fired By The Philadelphia Phillies
I grew up just outside of Philadelphia, the kind of rabid Phillies fan who had a life-size Pat Burrell poster on wall of the bedroom that my sister and I shared for so many years that we ended up telling two-dimensional Pat all our deepest secrets. I have also spent a not especially impressive but p...
Look At How Hard These Olympic Weightlifters Are Trying
One of the notable and mesmerizing things about competitive weightlifting (I say from a place of virtually no meaningful knowledge; but, hey) is that it features maybe the simplest form of distilled grit in the Olympics. I’m sure there is invisible strategy and skill in every attempt but, perhaps mo...
Michael Phelps's 200-Meter Butterfly Was Beautiful
Michael Phelps just won Olympic gold in the 200-meter butterfly. It’s his 20th lifetime gold medal and the perfect narrative conclusion to his comeback from having faltered in that very same race four years ago. It looked pretty cool, too. ...
Witnesses: Rio Media Bus Shot At While Returning Passengers To Olympic Park<em></em>
A bus carrying media personnel and volunteers between Olympic venues was attacked in Rio this evening, according to multiple media reports. Several people who were on the bus described the attack as gunfire. Initial reports said the bus was shot at on the Trans Olympic Highway when the attack happen...
Brandon Crawford Would Not Stop Hitting Baseballs Last Night
On Monday night, the Giants’ Brandon Crawford accomplished something rarer than hitting for the cycle or throwing a no-hitter: He became the first player since 1975 (and just the fifth player since 1913) to get seven hits in a game. ...
Watch A Pro Pitching Tutorial, Including Steven Wright Teaching Us His Knuckleball<em></em>
You probably know how to throw a ball, and maybe even how to do so with some force, accuracy, and/or intention. Maybe you played baseball as a kid, or in college, or once a week this very summer with a ragtag group of friends and coworkers....
How Should I Handle A Friend's Homophobic Partner?
Ask An Adequate Woman is a space where readers can ask the questions they can’t—or maybe just won’t!—pose to their friends about relationships, fashion, family dramas, dating, existential crises, weird sex stuff, and everything else. The Women of Deadspin (and some of our clever friends) are here to...
Go Ahead And Keep Not Flossing, Dirty Scoundrels
Is there anyone more reliably smug than a person who actually flosses the recommended amount? Somehow, routinely dredging up unidentifiable morsels of past meals from between their teeth gives people a sense of self-righteousness that they feel find about lording over the rest of us more casual, shi...
The TSA's Unrelentingly Cheerful Helpline Is The Best Thing On Twitter
Twitter is bad. The TSA is bad. And yet, somehow, the intersection of the two is surprisingly useful and a little bit beautiful. It seems the Transportation Security Administration’s most competent employee is working their @AskTSA Twitter account, treating each question, compliment, and complaint w...
Don't Play Rock-Paper-Scissors With The Tigers
Evidently bored with the regular non-contact version of rock-paper-scissors, the Detroit Tigers added more physical comedy to the game today. Shortstop José Iglesias chose paper, and came out on the losing end....