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Chris Froome's Next Race Will Be Against History
There hasn’t been genuine last-week intrigue about who would win any Tour de France since 2011, when Cadel Evans took the yellow jersey from Andy Schleck on the penultimate day of the race. Schleck gouged Evans and the rest of the field for minutes on Stage 18's summit finish atop the Col du Galibie...
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Cowboys Cut Lucky Whitehead After He Skips Court Appearance [Update]
On June 22, fringe Cowboys receiver Lucky Whitehead was arrested in the parking lot of a Woodbridge, Va. convenience store after a worker reported that he had shoplifted from the store. Police charged him with petty larceny for allegedly making off with less than $200 of merchandise....

Maester Qyburn's Big Anti-Dragon Crossbow Looks Stupid
Game of Thrones—HBO’s hit show about camping and horny sailors—has made it very clear that the trio of dragons possessed by Daenerys Targaryen are Westeros’s ultimate weapons of destruction. She’s torched one proud city with them already, and the only reason King’s Landing didn’t go up in flames on...

Steph Curry Went To China And Mocked Klay Thompson's Infamous Botched Dunk
Klay Thompson appears to have spent most of his offseason tour of China dancing like a maniac, but he also found the time to make everyone laugh with a very ill-fated dunk attempt....

Trump's New Lackey Says The President Is So Good At Sports<em></em>
This morning, beleaguered and incompetent White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned and went off to the great briefing room in the sky in protest of the White House’s hiring of hedge fund guy Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. Scaramucci gave his first address to the press today, ...

Carmelo Really Wants To Go To The Rockets
It’s no secret at this point in the NBA offseason that Carmelo Anthony is over playing his basketball for an irradiated wasteland of an organization, the New York Knicks are equally done with Carmelo Anthony, and the Houston Rockets would like to help both parties out of their predicament by trading...

Guy Who Ran Out The Back Of His Own End Zone Gets Job Before Colin Kaepernick
What’s your favorite Dan Orlovsky highlight? ...

<i>Real Sports </i>Talks To Crazed Chechen Warlord Ramzan Kadyrov About MMA And War
HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel sent correspondent David Scott to Grozny, Chechnya to tell the story of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord running his private fiefdom with an iron fist thanks in part to the strategic use of MMA and soccer. Kadyrov is the most powerful man in his small corner o...

Dallas Police Abruptly Suspend Investigation Into Bar Incident Involving Ezekiel Elliott
Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was reportedly involved in an incident on Sunday night at a Dallas bar that left a man hospitalized with a broken nose. A 30-year-old man was taken to the hospital after someone allegedly punched him out. TMZ obtained video from just after the incident, which sho...

Red Sox Mercifully End Pablo Sandoval's Sad, Horrendous Time In Boston<em></em>
Since signing a five-year, $95 million contract with the Boston Red Sox in 2015, Pablo Sandoval has been an unqualified disaster. Sandoval played just 161 games in two and a half seasons with the Red Sox, hitting .237/.286/.360/with 14 home runs. When he wasn’t hurt or playing poorly, he struggled t...

Tour De France Teams Are World-Class Germaphobes
Phillipe Gilbert has had a resurgent season in 2017, winning a pair of one-day classic this spring. However, he won’t finish the Tour de France. Kiwi climber George Bennett was one of the most pleasant surprises of the race’s jaunt into the Pyrenees, but he too won’t make it to Paris. Star riders Ma...
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Kris Bryant Leaves Game After Hurting His Hand On A Slide [Update]
Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant left today’s game against the Braves almost as soon as it started. Bryant slapped a first-inning double off R.A. Dickey, then tried to take third on a passed ball, although he was picked off by Tyler Flowers to end the inning. While sliding into third, his left hand go...

Records Show How Miami Con Man Allegedly Tricked NBA Stars Out Of Free Shoes
Miami con man Justin Jackson and his wife Angel Agarrat were booked into Miami-Dade County jail this afternoon for the second time in three months on felony fraud charges. Jackson has a history of posing as the manager of famous artists and using his pretend platform to extract goods and favors from...
![Michael Vick Suggests That NFL Teams Are Put Off By Colin Kaepernick's Hair [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/hv94nll7hrwttxetmmnf.jpg)
Michael Vick Suggests That NFL Teams Are Put Off By Colin Kaepernick's Hair [Update]
Colin Kaepernick still doesn’t have a job in the NFL. Could that be because he’s no longer a star, only an average starting quarterback, and the league has thus deemed him more trouble than he’s worth? Or is it because he won’t cut his afro? Former NFL QB Michael Vick suggested on All Takes Matter...

MMA Fighter Loses After Barfing All Over The Cage
Last weekend, Michigan-based fight hosts KnockOut Promotions held something resembling an MMA bout between Jesse Reasoner and Sean Needham. It took place in the super heavyweight division and both amateur fighters weighed in at over 270 pounds. Although the fight was held on the water in Muskegon, M...

Bruce Allen Explains Why He Didn't Sign "Kurt" Cousins
Kirk Cousins did not get a new contract before the NFL’s franchise tag deadline passed this afternoon, which means he’ll play the 2017-18 season on a one-year deal before becoming a free agent next summer. Washington president Bruce Allen detailed the team’s effort to lock up their QB, claiming that...

The Rockets Are For Sale
If you have a few billion dollars lying around and want to own a good NBA team, now’s your shot....

Hell Is Winning Free Tickets And Not Realizing It
Predators fan Andrew Fudge wanted some free tickets to see his team play the Penguins in the Stanley Cup, so he entered a promo that the team was running, once before Game 3 and once before Game 4. He’s not much of a Twitter user, and it seems that he forgot about the promo shortly after entering it...
