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This MLB-In-Australia Thing Is Really Happening
It was just a glimmering possibility back in October, but it's real now—the Dodgers and Diamondbacks will open the 2014 season next March with a two-game series at Australia's Sydney Cricket Grounds (above). Yes, those Dodgers and Diamondbacks. It'll be the first-ever regular-season game played in ...
Our man Drew Magary was on Morning Joe today (where Mike Barnicle talked about beaning his kids with fastballs) to promote his new book, Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood. You should buy it if you like things that are good. He'll also be doing a thing in Brooklyn t...
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Deadspin Up All Night: Well, We'll Be Free And Easy
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Greg will join you for the basket action tonight—talk down here....
Jaromir Jagr's Playoff Beard Is Way Too Much
There are some things Jaromir Jagr is unmistakably great at. Playing hockey, for instance—which Jagr does especially well, even now, at the age of 41. When he puts his hips out and leans forward, with his body between the defender and the puck, no one can dream of filching possession. He may have b...
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The Rays' Alex Cobb Is Having His Twitter Hacked During A Bad Start
So it's a bad day when you give up six runs to the Red Sox in the first inning. It's a bad day, too, when your Twitter gets hacked. Both of those things are happening to Rays pitcher Alex Cobb right now! Don't click on this link....
Deadspin Up All Night: Hush A Wild Violet
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. No playoff sports tonight—so I guess you'll have to talk about Tebow or something. Do so down here....
Fred Smoot Has A New Disgusting Term To Explain The Love Boat
Former NFL cornerback Fred Smoot, late of double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, is trying to make it big in the D.C. sports-talk-radio biz now, and accordingly he's spilling everywhere he can. Spilling his stories. Jeez. You're gross. He did an ask me anything on Reddit today, wi...
Chad Johnson Is Going To Jail Because He Slapped His Lawyer's Ass
Chad Johnson, who was once a famous and talented football player, is going to jail on a probation violation. The reason he's landed himself there? Some locker-room-style maneuvering in the courtroom. Inherit the Wind meets Playmakers, or something. From—where else?—TMZ:...
The Weed That Came To Chris Perez's House Was Addressed To His Dog
The standard athlete-busted-for-misdemeanor-weed-possession story is one that's rarely fun to study. The drug in question is less harmful than lots of legal substances, and the details hardly shift (cop pulls someone over, cop smells something, etc.) in each case. But every so often there's a magic...
Legendary Homer Jack Edwards Compares One Bruin's Shot-Block To D-Day
So Gregory Campbell blocked a shot, broke his leg, and finished a shift. It was courageous, in the way these things are, and—to state the obvious—unworthy of this hallowed analogy, which Edwards presented (naturally) on WEEI. There will forever be a great gulf between the sacrifices of soldiers and...
MLB Umpires Manage To Blow Two Calls On The Same Play
Our old pals Tony Randazzo and Jordan Baker should have another set of companions in internet ignominy today: third-base ump Cory Blaser and first-base ump Ed Hickox both blew calls in the 12th inning of Padres-Rockes last night. And each of those blown calls came on the play where the Padres scored...