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MLB Team Logos Redesigned As Star Wars Characters
Vader as the Yankees is easy. It's Jabba standing in for the voluptuous Tigers and the pervert Ewok standing in for Clark the Cub that really do it for us here, in these new Star Wars-themed logos by designer Mark Kenny. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Wreck-It Ralph
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Here's the whole soundtrack to Wreck-It Ralph. ...
Lacrosse Bros Smoke More Weed Than Any Other College Athletes
Buried in a stupid NCAA research blast about substance vice among young people and college athletes' relative virtues, you'll find this chart, which is hilarious. ...
Guy Loses $1 Million Buy-In On Pocket Aces Vs. Pocket Aces Bad Beat
Oh god, we've all seen this happen, but you probably haven't seen it in a $1 million buy-in tournament. But with 18 out of 42 entrants remaining, and a $15 million prize sitting at the end, Connor Drinan saw his aces cracked by Cary Katz's. ...
NCAA Head Injury Lawsuit Settled With $70 Million Brain Evaluation Fund
The NCAA has settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to set up a $70 million fund to evaluate current and former NCAA athletes in a variety of contact sports for brain trauma. Unlike the NFL's maligned but needed settlement that's still evolving, this seems at first blush like an OK deal for NCAA...
Vince Carter Windmill Dunking For The Rest Of Your Life
Eight minutes of VC windmilling. Never gets old. ...
U.S. Rep Mistakes American Officials For Foreigners; Awkwardness Reigns
The Cable at Foreign Policy has documented the collapse of the American government. In a congressional hearing on Thursday, Rep. Curt Clawson of the 19th District of Florida, mistook two senior American officials, Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar, for representatives from the Indian government, and repea...
How Frequently Does <em>The New York Times</em> Use "Fart," "Poop," And "Butt"?
This here is a tool that looks up the frequency of words used in the New York Times, both in the percentage of and how many total articles the word appeared in. We put it to terrible use. ...
Hockey's About To Get The Bullshit "Anti-Concussion Helmet" Treatment
Virginia Tech thinks hockey helmets are bullshit, which is more or less true. In turn, it wants to look at the differences between hockey's helmets and football's recently evolved versions, and bring the concussion-stopping advances to hockey. This is pretty much bullshit. ...
A Reminder: LeBron Is A Freak Genius With A Photographic Memory
ESPN's Brian Windhorst has a new profile on LeBron; it's good, and ostensibly about how LeBron uses his uncommonly good memory to enhance to his more obvious physical talent. It's full of relevant basketball examples and wide-eyed onlookers. It's also front-loaded with some stories that are actually...
Watching NFL Rookies Find Out Their Madden Ratings Is The Best
Think about how much Madden you play. Now think about how much Madden you'd play if you were actually in Madden. That would be pretty dope, right? Unless they gave you a rating that made you look terrible. Here are a bunch of NFL draftees seeing their ratings for the first time. ...
We Really Need More Of This In NBA Advanced Metrics
ESPN Insider is doing something funny with its advanced nerds at the Las Vegas Summer League: The stat guys are talking shop with the players. ...
This Mugshot Isn't Dan Le Batard
This morning, a reader named Jason sent us a link to a missing persons hoax in north Myrtle Beach, with no context other than a subject line that read: "This mugshot looks like Dan Le Batard." Yeah, it does. He's really got Dan's beard. ...
Satellite-Free NFL Sunday Ticket For Xbox, PS4, Tablets: Coming Soon?
NFL Sunday Ticket has always been notoriously inaccessible, limited to just DirecTV subscribers and people who bought a copy of Madden last year. It sucks. But that looks like it's about to change. A page that's turned up on the DirecTV website says satellite-free packages of Sunday Ticket will be o...
Bryan Lee O'Malley's <em>Seconds</em>: Scott Pilgrim Grows Up (Maybe)
The problem, you would think, with creating the single greatest slacker-nerd fantasy of a generation is how you follow it up. "Get a little older, and draw the ever-loving shit out of it" isn't a bad answer. ...
The Best Place To Sit At The Home Run Derby
I mean, if you're going to go to the damned Home Run Derby, you may as well catch a home run ball, right? Here's where to sit if you want to catch one—and where the most cost-effective seats per home run happen to be. ...