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British Skip Bayless Has A Strong Take On Mario Balotelli
We'll have more on this as an actual soccer move when (if?) it becomes official, but it's looking pretty near certain that AC Milan striker/international style icon Mario Balotelli will be returning to the Premier League, slotting in at Liverpool to replace Luis Suárez. Chris Bascombe over at the Te...
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It's been a long week and we're pretty much done, so rather than working, we're going to hang out in the comments and answer any questions you might have for us. Let's do it....
Russian MMA Card Features Armored Knights Battling With Swords
We're ... not entirely sure what this is, but we watched, rapt, after learning it was happening via Twitter user @grabakahitman. This battle took place on the undercard of a show being held today by M1, a more or less reputable (?) Russian fight promotion, and features dudes in armor battling with s...
Deadspin Up All Night: No Way!
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Deadspin Up All Night: So What?
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Deadspin Up All Night: Promote The Hustle
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Today has been a real fucking bummer, but there's always happy music to make things better....
Here Are Some Adorable Fox Terrier Puppies Hanging Out With A Bunny
It's been a pretty bad couple of days in sports, with lots of people acting terribly. There's no need to ignore all that and pretend the world is perfect, but there's no need not to take a minute to watch these puppies playing....
Deadspin Up All Night: They Make Their Profits
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Barry Bonds Was An Alien God Who Destroyed Space-Time To Bring Us Joy
Today is Barry Bonds's birthday! The greatest player in baseball history is turning 50. Here is a list of scarcely believable facts about his career, accompanied by videos of him performing impressive feats of speed and strength:...
Deadspin Up All Night: I'll Have It Buried
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"LeBron James's surprise announcement last Friday that he planned to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers from the Miami Heat offers important lessons for effective crisis management. Indeed, the most important lesson might be applicable to House Republicans as they plan new hearings on Benghazi this f...
Lacrosse Equipment Manufacturer Dishes Out Strong Anti-Title IX Takes
Sure, sure, we're as done with #brand fails as you are, but this is still pretty weak. There was a lacrosse event going on tonight, and whoever's running the Twitter account for Warrior—"one of the sporting goods industry's premier manufacturer of innovative, high performance, cutting-edge equip...
What If A Baseball Player Were As Dominant As LeBron?
I'd like to pretend that I'm above paying attention to the LeBron James circus, but like everyone else, I spent a lot of today just sitting around waiting on some revelatory Adrian Wojnarowski tweet, so that a question like What if someone was just as dominant as LeBron James, but he played baseball...
What Brazil's Loss Meant, And What It Didn't Mean
When you visit the Museu do Futebol in São Paulo, you are at one point obliged to enter a long, narrow, pitch-black room, in which the increasingly loud pounding of a heartbeat plays heavily over concealed speakers as images of the Maracanazo—Brazil's infamous loss in the final of the 1950 World C...
Whatever Happened To The UFC?
Imagine if the NBA added 30 expansion teams over the next two years, and then sent out a favored reporter to lecture the public about how true fans should appreciate the diminished quality of play. This sounds impossibly stupid, and yet it's more or less what's happening in one increasingly dim corn...