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Dead Letters: The Horse People Are Furious
Last week, I wrote a blog trashing the presence of horse sports at the Olympics. My point was that they should get these goddamn horses out of my face, because the Olympics are for humans. I watched a bunch of horse sports during the first weekend of the Olympics, and they were even more boring than...
Idiot On The Field Invades Awful Brazil-Iraq Match
There’s a lot of pressure on the Brazilian men’s soccer team at these Olympics after they crashed out of their own World Cup two years ago in a historic, humiliating 7-1 beatdown from Germany. Brazilian men have never won gold in Olympic soccer, so a first-time tournament win on home soil would rede...
Check Out These Small, Powerful, Incredible, Expressive Weightlifters
That’s Chinese weightlifter Long Qingquan. He is 123 pounds of muscle packed into a 5-foot-1 frame, and he won the 56 kg weightlighting gold medal this afternoon with a world record total score of 677 pounds on two lifts. Right before his record-breaking 170 kg clean and jerk, North Korean lifter Om...
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NFL Hall Of Fame Game Cancelled Due To Terrible Playing Surface [Update]
Tonight, after six months of bleak NFL news and training camp reports about how football is not sleeping (it never does), football is back! Rather, it would have been, if terrible turf conditions in Canton didn’t force the NFL to cancel the Hall of Fame Game preseason opener between the Colts and Pa...
Ichiro Joins 3,000 Hit Club With Triple
Ichiro Suzuki, the true Hit King, joined Paul Molitor as the only member of the 3,000 Hit Club to do so with a triple when he did so in the top of the seventh inning today in Denver....
Cycling Is Cruel
Yesterday’s Olympic men’s road race was an incredible, arduous lungbuster of a race that ended with about as happy of an ending as you could hope for. This afternoon’s women’s road race was just the opposite. ...
Giancarlo Stanton Just Jerked The Mightiest Dong Of The Season
Are you sitting down? Okay....
Deadspin Up All Night: Knock It Out The Ball Park
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Florida Gulf Coast Somehow Wins Game Despite Finishing With Three Players
Florida Gulf Coast University, aka Dunk City, defeated the Providence Storm this afternoon down in the Bahamas. As you’ll notice the box score below, FGCU picked up the 92-89 comeback win despite five of their eight players fouling out. The Eagles finished the game with just three players, coming in...
These Archery Outfits Are Dope
In some Olympic sports, the competitors are clad in nothing but little tiny swimsuits. In some, they are covered head-to-toe in protective gear. There’s a wide spectrum of outfits, from cycling’s skintight spandex to boxing’s obtrusive headgear, but one group of athletes stands above all challengers...
Second Place Artist Greg Van Avermaet Finally Wins The Big One
In 1971, the greatest cyclist of all time, Eddy Merckx, put together the greatest season of all time. He won the Tour de France, the world championships, three monuments, and took 45 percent of the races he started. That figure is incredible, and nobody ever has or ever will touch it, but he still l...
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French Gymnast Suffers Horrific Leg Break [Graphic]<em></em>
French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd was coming in for a landing after flipping several times off of the vault, when his left leg buckled and snapped horrifically upon contact with the ground....
Report: Bomb Squad Detonates "Suspicious Package" At Olympic Road Race Finish Line
The Olympic road race is currently winding its way towards the finish line, but according to multiple reports from the scene, there was a loud explosion from the finish line area....
Report: A's Employee Installed Secret Locker Room Camera To Spy On Players
According to a report from Yahoo Sports’ Tim Brown, Oakland A’s strength and conditioning coach Michael Henriques installed a secret camera inside the A’s weight room in order to spy on players. Henriques apparently installed the camera on July 24, and a player discovered it the next day. Union rep ...
Iranian Cyclist Takes A Header Into Concrete Wall During Olympic Road Race
Where most tough bike races are defined by one particularly cruel feature (for example, the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix), the Olympics road race course has everything. The course is packed with cobbles, crosswinds, technical descents, and Grand Tour-length climbs. This is not to mention that Olympic te...
Welcome To Our 2016 Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Liveblog
Tonight’s the night. Despite the crushing problems facing the Rio Olympics, the Games are finally kicking off tonight (sort of). We’ll be liveblogging the televised Opening Ceremony here. Clearly moved by the Olympic spirit of cooperation, our friends from Jezebel are joining us! Let’s do this....
DeAngelo Williams' Teammates Pranked Him With A Bunch Of Dang Balloons
I wish someone would prank me like this....
A Third Of All Potential Russian Olympians Have Been Banned<em></em>
The International Olympic Committee waited until the day before the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics to make their ruling on how many Russian athletes would be allowed to compete in the Games. The protracted and diffuse process made for a logistical nightmare for some competitors, like cyclist I...
Coco Crisp Leaps For Topsy-Turvy Home Run Robbery
Ji-Man Choi has spent this evening’s game hitting the daylights out of the baseball. He dinged a solo dong to right center in the second inning, then followed it up with a three-run shot to the right field corner....
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Report: Russian Diplomat Uses Jiu-Jitsu To Disarm, Kill Would-Be Robber During Rio Torch Relay [Update]
Russian diplomat Marcos Cesar Feres Braga disarmed and shot to death a man who attempted to rob him while he waited in traffic after the Olympic torch relay today, according to Globo....