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Deadspin Up All Night: He'll Break Your Heart
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CNN Asks How Recent Anti-Semitic Shootings Affect The KKK's Brand
When CNN wrote the worst Kurt Cobain lede ever, we figured that they had done something on which they couldn't improve. Here, though, is a long article ("Can This KKK Leader Rebrand?") from the once-respected news organization suggesting that the true victims of the recent Overland Park shootings ma...
Here Is A Chicken Playing Baseball
British Pathé, apparently seeking a permanent end to workplace productivity, recently uploaded an enormous amount of material, much of it previously unseen by the public, to Youtube. Among it is this clip of a chicken named Barnyard Casey playing baseball before a crowd of oddly well-dressed spectat...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Read It On TV
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UFC Champ Jon Jones (Apparently) Calls Some Guy A "Fag," Blames Hacker
The other day, a Swedish guy posted some images purporting to show that after he trolled UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones—he is, roughly, the Kevin Durant or Mike Trout of his sport—on Twitter, Jones went through his photos on Instagram and tagged them with homophobic comments....
MMA Fighter Blacks Out In Corner, Sent Right Back In To Fight More
Last night, Matt Manzanares and Junior Maranhao fought for the Resurrection Fighting Alliance flyweight title at an event in Cheyenne, Wyo. The bout was going along normally enough after four rounds when Maranhao suddenly collapsed, falling off his stool and onto his face....
The UFC Has A Human Rights Problem
One curious fact about the UFC of which a lot of people aren't aware is that the repressive government of Abu Dhabi owns a substantial minority stake in it. With the promotion staging a fight card there tomorrow, Bloody Elbow's Brent Brookhouse rightly figured it would be a good time to remind fans ...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Look For Wires When I'm Talking To You
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What The Fuck Does This Thomas Friedman Hockey Metaphor Mean?
Thought leader Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has written a column about the Ukraine crisis, in which he argues, well, who knows. A good quarter of it is just an extended excerpt from a 16-year-old interview with George Kennan, who didn't think that committing to wage nuclear war on behalf of...
Yasiel Puig Isn't Perfect, But He's Everything Great About Baseball
The first time ever I saw Yasiel Puig was last year in Glendale, Ariz., at a no-account game between the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers that, for reasons no one was clear on, drew 13,721 spectators, the largest crowd in Cactus League history. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: All This Uptight Pushing And Shoving
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Deadspin Up All Night: Who The Fuck Used My Toothbrush?
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Okay, So Miguel Cabrera's Contract Is Bad. Just How Bad Is it?
The only thing more predictable than ballplayers signing enormous deals is people complaining about them, so when news of Miguel Cabrera's new eight-year, $248 million contract extension broke, you knew that this sort of thing—it amounts to saying that $248 million is a lot of money—was coming....
Chicago Sports Radio Host Shits In The Studio, Flees The Building
Les Grobstein, overnight host for 670 The Score, is a sort-of legend in Chicago, not just for his encyclopedic knowledge of area sports but for being, basically, the real life Oscar Madison. (See this great old Ben Joravsky piece, which among other things details how Grobstein got the infamous Lee E...
Jiu-Jitsu Master Eddie Bravo Wants You To Know The Truth About 9/11
Eddie Bravo is a curious case, a serious jiu-jitsu player who some think is a crackpot and some think is the truth. Best known for training UFC commentator/living expression of Reddit Joe Rogan, he's also done some impressive stuff in competition—his win over Royler Gracie at an event the Abu Dhabi ...
Shut Up About "Clickbait"
Ninety-two years ago, a 34-year-old Chicago man named Joseph Wozniak woke up missing one of his balls, which had been surgically removed by hoodlums. ...
This Trailer Has Me So Fucking Amped To See Some Jiu-Jitsu
I'm not going to lie: the Metamoris 3 event in Los Angeles this weekend wasn't really on my radar, but then this jiu-jitsu-as-Avengers-spinoff trailer came across my Twitter timeline, and now I'm fucking pumped up to see some guys jiu-jitsuing. This really has it all: bombastic music, overhead shots...