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The Only Super Bowl Preview You Need Is This Taiwanese Animation
The Super Bowl is on today at some time or another, and if you aren’t gonna check out Drill My Gay Stepson!, American football is an okay substitute I suppose....
World's Best Cycling Team Disinvited From Tour Of Qatar Because They Take Too Long To Change
Riders from Etixx-Quickstep have won eight of the past 10 Tours of Qatar. The race’s crosswinds and wide roads are perfect for the classics-focused squad, and they’ve cleaned up. But they won’t be going this year, because the race’s owners are unhappy with their costume changes....
Chelsea's Kurt Zouma Stretchered Off After Nasty Knee Injury [Warning: Graphic]
Chelsea center back Kurt Zouma went down in a heap after going up for this header and coming down with knee bent the wrong way. He immediately (and audibly) began screaming, and was stretchered off the pitch. ...
Fastest Rugby Player In The World Gets Absolutely Lit Up By New Zealander
The Sydney Sevens Cup is going on down in Australia right now, and the United States went up against World Cup holders New Zealand yesterday. The U.S. has former Olympic-level sprinter Carlin Isles on their squad, and despite his pedigree as the “world’s fastest rugby player,” he got rocked by New Z...
Report: Marshawn Lynch Plans To Retire
Marshawn Lynch has teased his possible retirement for a few seasons now. After last year, he was reportedly considering retiring, but then he changed his mind and signed a two-year deal. Now, he’s apparently told people he’s retiring, per Adam Schefter....
Two Teens Die After Sneaking Onto Olympic Bobsled Track And Trying To Sled On It
Last night, eight teens snuck into Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park (where the 1988 Winter Olympics were held) with a sled, and crashed while trying to take it down the bobsled track. According to emergency services personnel, they crashed into a wall separating the luge and bobsled tracks, and two twi...
I Want To Kiss This Gorgeous Futsal Goal Right On The Mouth
Ricardinho is a Portuguese futsal player and also apparently a real actual wizard. He scored this wondergoal on Serbia at the European Championships yesterday, and oh man is it pretty....
Terrell Owens Didn't Make The Hall Of Fame, Which Is Bullshit
Terrell Owens is second all-time in receiving yards, sixth in catches, and third all-time in receiving touchdowns, yet was not elected to the Hall Of Fame this year, in his first year of eligibility. Owens announced the news this evening....
Deadspin Up All Night: I Got Hot Sauce In My Bag
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Houston Rockets Decide As One To Just Not Play Defense
The Rockets’ pick-and-roll defense is apparently, uh, no pick-and-roll defense? At least Corey Brewer got in there and did a swipe. This isn’t as bad as that one time James Harden just sort of froze against the Knicks, but geez....
The Case For The Broncos
Just about everyone thinks the Carolina Panthers will win Super Bowl 50. ESPN asked 70 staffers for their predictions and 53 of them chose the Panthers. Eight SI writers out of 10 picked Carolina too. The Panthers opened as 3.5 point favorites and so many people bet on them, that the line swelled to...
High Schooler Hits Game-Winning Buzzer-Beating Desperation Heave From Half-court
Look at this shot from Male High School’s Alex Cook to beat St. Xavier....
What Are You Cooking For The Super Bowl?
As much as we recommend it, we know that not everyone will be making a pepperoni cheese loaf monstrosity. For one, ingesting that much dairy can only be a recipe for disaster. ...
Joe Montana Says Football Ruined His Body
At this point, everyone has heard all those terrifying stories about retired football players’ brains falling apart on them. But years and years of hits add up, and the impacts can stay with you forever. Joe Montana talked to USA Today about what football did to him and it sounds awfully bleak:...
Radio Dummy Gets BOFA'd For His Dumb Tweets About The Dunk Contest
Get a load of Matt Steinmetz, a Bay Area radio guy, spewing some colossally dumb shit onto his Twitter feed about Andre Drummond, dunking, free throws, and Playing The Game The Right Way....
Nobody Makes A Fool Of This Very Good Super Bowl Predicting Bear
Look at this shit....
The Sacramento Kings Are Just A Huge Fuckin' Mess
Two weeks ago, DeMarcus Cousins scored a then-career high 48 points as the Kings beat the Pacers for their fifth straight, and you could almost talk yourself into this misshapen collective of wonky players led by a too-old-for-this-shit coach who doesn’t give a fuck about defense maybe, maybe, comin...
This Hassan Whiteside One-Handed Catch Is The Best Block Of The Year
Ole Blancoté went and had himself a perfect Hassan Whiteside game last night; 10 points, 10 boards, and 10 blocks, including this beauty. He came off the bench, but played crucial minutes down the stretch as Miami beat Charlotte. ...
Liverpool Fans Leave Anfield In Protest, Liverpool Joins Them By Immediately Giving Up A Pair Of Goals
Liverpool fans planned and executed a 77th minute walkout from today’s game against Sunderland to protest ticket prices getting increases up to £77, and apparently, their team decided to join them in protest, so they laid down and let Sunderland of all teams roar back and tie them 2-2....
Uh, Can Anyone Catch Leicester City?
For the entirety of this EPL season, it’s never been a question if a big club could catch Leicester City and retake the Premier League lead, but which big club would. Eventually, the thinking went, this plucky group of upstarts would turn back into a pumpkin and they’d be eclipsed by the inevitable ...