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Your World Series Game 4 Open Thread
Game 4 is here and the Tigers turn their lonely eyes to Max Scherzer to avoid a sweep. Here's your place to yak about how Prince and Miguel are shitting the bed, or put all your chips on the table and call it: Tigers in seven....
Deadspin Up All Night: Chomping Bits On Your Way To The Supermarket
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll have some more stuff for you tonight as football continues and baseball possibly concludes. It's gonna be good times. Tomorrow? Who knows if it will even come....
Giants Shortstop Brandon Crawford Was An Adorable Little Voice Of Reason As A Child
This picture has apparently been floating around for a few weeks now, but it's news to us so maybe it's also news to you. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, this is a picture of a young Brandon Crawford with his father at a Giants game at Candlestick Park on September 27, 1992. At the time, m...
![Gronk Spiking Like A "Nutcracker Dude That's Guarding The House," Kissing The Jets Goodbye, And More: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/183ljcc5vyqjogif.gif)
Gronk Spiking Like A "Nutcracker Dude That's Guarding The House," Kissing The Jets Goodbye, And More: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here from Antonio Brown running in reverse to the Miami Dolphins kissing the Jets' season goodbye. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...
Respectfully Yours, Eli Manning: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide
Another week, another week with just two late afternoon games and one of which is a total snoozer. But there is Giants-Cowboys so lets all watch that to see how Dallas will screw the pooch this week. New York Giants at Dallas (FOX): The Giants are looking to avenge an opening night loss at home to...
A Man Was Arrested For Landing A Private Helicopter At The Nassau Coliseum During A Concert That Had To Be Shut Down Early Because Everyone Was Drunk
What a weird, weird scene this must have been. Saturday night the Nassau Coliseum, just days after learning it would soon lose the Islanders, played host to some kind of electronic music concert called "Haunted Coliseum" and people—"teens"—went crazy. Depending on which report you read, anywhere fro...
Steve Spurrier Says Marcus Lattimore Dislocated His Knee, Thinks He Can Come Back [UPDATE]
Steve Spurrier met with Marcus Lattimore Sunday morning and said the junior running back's spirits were not dampened by this devastating injury. Spurrier informed the press that Lattimore suffered a dislocated knee and "South Carolina team doctor Jeffrey Guy was able to put Lattimore's knee back i...
Your NFL Open Thread
Football in London highlights another early-heavy day of NFL action. Later there will be Giants-Cowboys and then, shock of shocks, Peyton Manning in primetime. Here's your place to yak about all of that fun stuff, or about Hurricane Sandy, or about how east coasters love freaking out about hurrican...
When In The Course Of Human Events You Get Stuck With A St. Louis Rams Game: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
Another week, another fast and furious beginning. We've got nine games kicking off in just a few minutes, so for those of you who shelled out for RedZone, well played. For the rest of us, Game Breaks, sponsored by State Farm Or Whatever! ...
The NFL Network Crew Continues To Push The Envelope With Truly Bizarre Content
Man, I don't know what is going on here, but like a lot of the NFL Network's content, it just makes me uncomfortable. This is one of those segments that sounds great in theory: a goofy Halloween-themed bit that is also about football....
In A Postseason Of Redefined Roles, Tim Lincecum Is Flipping The Script
Alex Rodriguez grabbed plenty of the headlines this postseason because of his poor play and subsequent benching and coddling, but Tim Lincecum was also benched in a way when he was shipped out to the bullpen after his own poor play. Where A-Rod flailed, Lincecum is thriving....
Here Is A Northwestern Student Reading At A Football Game, Perpetuating Stereotypes
Sent in by reader Andrew, here is a Northwestern student, presumably, doing nothing to dispel the brainy rep schools like Northwestern have. So, we have a Northwestern student reading at a football game. But there must be more....
"3 words... FIRE MIKE MATHENY": The Best Fans In Baseball Are Having A Major Meltdown
Cardinals fans are known the world over as the best fans in baseball. This is, of course, indisputable but it makes what has to be a fandom-wide psychotic break after watching their beloved Cardinals get shellacked by the Giants in Game 7 of the NLCS troubling indeed....
Ndamukong Suh Tried To Break Jay Cutler: Detroit-Chicago, In A GIF
Chicago 13, Detroit 7: This unnecessarily vicious hit notwithstanding, the Lions got steamrolled by the Bears, to the extent that a team can get steamrolled in a 13-7 game. It was one of those "defensive battles," I suppose....
Saints Wide Receiver Joe Morgan Doesn't Watch ESPN Because Of Skip Bayless
Joe Morgan had one of the more memorable touchdowns this week when he sent a Tampa Bay Buccaneers defender flipping over him, collected himself and trotted into the endzone. Unfortunately for Morgan, he was unable to watch his highlight reel catch on the ultimate highlight reel because he is a man o...
Hunter Pence Had Three Hits On One Swing
OK, so technically that's impossible, but look at this thing! In the bottom of the third, as Hunter Pence's bat explodes in his hands, the ball makes its way down the barrel of the bat, hopping all the way like some kind of concussed bouncing Mickey Mouse head in a Sing-Along Song. Pence wound up w...
What Can Groupon Tell Us About Alex Rodriguez?
A lot. It can tell us a lot. Like, according to a scientific analysis, including but not limited to the sale of plush MLB and NFL dolls, Derek Jeter is roughly 60 times more popular than Alex Rodriguez. That's a bit of an unfair comparison, though—I mean, Mr. November!—let's check some other figure...
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears (ESPN): The Bears are coming off an inconveniently scheduled bye week this year. Two weeks ago, they destroyed the Jacksonville Jaguars 41-3, after smoking the Cowboys (34-18) and the Rams (23-6) the previous two weeks. They were rolling, man! And then they had to hit ...