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Ray Lewis: "There's No Comparison Between Me And Ray Rice"
ESPN rolled out Ray Lewis to talk Ray Rice tonight, because Lewis had mentored Rice during his time in Baltimore, and presumably also because Lewis was involved in one of the NFL's highest-profile criminal investigations in the past decade. But when Suzy Kolber brought that up, Lewis shut it right d...
MLB Is Clarifying Blocking-The-Plate Rule By Making It More Complicated
Jayson Stark is reporting that MLB and the Players Association are close to an agreement that would take the hugely unpopular blocking-the-plate rule and give it a few more moving parts, in the hope that it will give umpires just enough leeway to avoid any postseason fuckups. ...
World's Angriest Browns Fan Goes On World's Angriest Browns Rant
Jimmy Haslam—did you buy a fuckin' team to watch Brian fuckin' Hoyer go THREE AND FUCKIN' OUT EVERY FUCKIN' SERIES? That's a functional recap of today's first half in Pittsburgh, but our very loud and very bald hero goes on for another two and a half minutes for good measure. ...
The NYT's 4th Down Bot Is Still Here; NFL Coaches Are Still Wimps
Last year, the NYT teamed up its own Kevin Quealy and Advanced NFL Stats' Brian Burke for 4th Down Bot. It's still up running this year, and saying depressing things about the Vikings....
Goddammit, Blackface Redskins Fan
It's still blackface if you paint on a red beard. And even if it weren't, redface is not better. ...
That's A Bad Opinion, Cris
Look at this list of PEDs I'm pointing at! Accountability! What do you guys think?...
Here's The Email That Forced Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson Out Of The NBA
Hawks owner Bruce Levenson is selling his team. Here's the email that led to the decision to sell, as released by the team....
Man Assaults Touchscreen
Big news happening in the NBA today. Meanwhile, in the NFL world, the above. ...
Atlanta Hawks Owner Selling Team After Telling NBA About Racist Email
Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson is on his way out of the NBA. He's decided that he will sell the team before the completion of an NBA investigation into a 2012 email implying white fans were more valuable than black fans. Read the racist email here....
We Made Some Really Stupid Madden GIFs, And So Can You
For some reason, EA thought it would be a good idea to let the internet make GIFs using Madden player models. They made a site for it and everything, underwritten by the NFL, NFLPA, and Google. We spent 15 minutes trying to make them regret it. Here's what we came up with, but we're sure you crimina...
Today's shot. You may as well go read the WSJ's fun little item on tennis players refusing to use sunscreen: "Cara Black, a doubles player from Zimbabwe, said she uses a zinc cream. Ukraine's Olga Savchuk said the one lotion that doesn't bother her is available only in Japan and South Korea, so Japa...
Vanderbilt Overturned A Referee's Penalty By Making Him Read An Email
At the start of the second quarter of last night's Temple-Vanderbilt game, referee Ken Williamson popped over to the sideline to explain a penalty to the crowd: "Per NCAA rule, Vanderbilt is being charged with a team timeout each quarter, because of— [pause to make a face that lets everyone know he'...
Cowboys Fans Got Ripped Off More Than Any Other Fans This Pre-Season
There's no great secret that pre-season tickets are the biggest scam in the great cascade of scams that fuels the NFL machine. Season-ticket holders are compelled to pay full freight for two meaningless games played by guys they've never before or will ever again hear of. ...
Warren Buffett Is Friends With A Serial Woman Beater
Like a lot of very well off athletes, Floyd Mayweather recently met with Warren Buffett to discuss his financials. There's an Instagram photo of them chumming it up and everything. Unlike most well off athletes, however, Floyd Mayweather is a serial and unrepentant abuser of women, palling around ...
The Two Worst Icons In Gmail
Gmail is good. I like Gmail. But I fuck up and archive an email by mistake at least once a day, because for whatever reason, some loaded diaper in Mountain View decided to use the same icon, twice, for EXACTLY OPPOSITE FUNCTIONS. ...
Deadspin Police-Shooting Database Update: We're Still Going
Last Wednesday, we launched an impossibly ambitious project: cataloguing every police-involved shooting in America over the last three years. After one week, we're further along than we could have imagined. ...
This Year's NFL Schedule, Visualized
Here's a neat little interactive by Chris Polis, showing every game in the NFL season, and how each team connects to the others, by week and by team. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: It's Funky Enough
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. ...
We're Compiling Every Police-Involved Shooting In America. Help Us.
The United States has no database of police shootings. There is no standardized process by which officers log when they've discharged their weapons and why. There is no central infrastructure for handling that information and making it public. Researchers, confronted with the reality that there ...