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Hot Mic Catches Jon Jones And Daniel Cormier Talking Incredible Shit
"Hey pussy, are you still there?" ...
Dance Like Everyone's Watching: The Strange, Exalted World Of FKA Twigs
Have you seen Pina? It's a dazzling 2011 documentary—a dancer's tribute, really—to the pioneering contemporary German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died unexpectedly during the film's production. Other than Mia Michaels, who choreographed and judged the first five seasons of So You Think You Can Da...
NCAA Deadenders Are Running Out Of Arguments
On the heels of the NCAA's Division I board voting to allow the "Power Five" conferences to make some of their own rules, our man Bob Bowlsby, Big 12 commissioner and managerial-class Marxist, inadvertently made the best argument for why football and basketball players (at most schools) should be ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Atlanta Falcons
Some people are fans of the Atlanta Falcons. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Atlanta Falcons. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....
Timberwolves Fans Are Too Nice To Burn Kevin Love's Jersey
Seriously though, are you ever allowed to be mad at someone for wanting to leave Minnesota?...
Drive Angrier: The Bleak Mayhem Of Mel Gibson's Original <em>Mad Max</em>
For someone who's never been to Comic-Con, the whole idea seems a bit baffling—waiting in line all day to attend a half-hour promotional junket for a movie that won't be out for another year, getting to say you were there when Robert Downey, Jr. said he had a pretty good time making this next Aven...
Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Indianapolis Colts
Some people are fans of the Indianapolis Colts. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Indianapolis Colts. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....
Don't Buy All The Pies At Burger King To Spite A Child, You Asshole
By now you likely have encountered this thing, currently wending its way across the internet. In short, the story goes that the guy—a redditor (of course) known as thr111—spited the whiny, out-of-control child and distracted, defensive mother behind him in line at Burger King by purchasing every ...
Freelancing Sucks
You may have heard by now about Sports on Earth, the joint venture between MLB and USA Today that "laid off" a bunch of writers earlier in the week. Although the term "laid off" is a bit dicey: Technically speaking, the site only had a few full-time employees to begin with. Everyone else who wrote f...
The One Question To Ask The Commissioner Of The Big 12
Here's the commissioner of the Big 12, Bob Bowlsby, owning the absolute shit out of what's become the NCAA deadenders' Marxism of convenience:...
Report: Cavaliers Finally Get Kevin Love, Ship Out Andrew Wiggins
According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Cleveland and Minnesota have finally agreed on the exact trade that everyone has assumed will happen for weeks. Cleveland will send Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, and a protected first round pick to the Wolves in return for Kevin Love, who will agree to a long-term...
NBA Rookies Are Receiving The Best Advice
The New York Times's Sarah Lyall is at the NBA Rookie Transition Program, where the most talented young basketballers in the world learn the important things about their sometimes-rocky transitions to the pros. They're receiving advice on everything from fashion to fan relations to celebrity, an...
Greg Oden Arrested After Allegedly Punching Ex-Girlfriend
Greg Oden was arrested early this morning in Lawrence, Ind., and charged with battery after allegedly punching his ex-girlfriend during an argument....
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Which NBA Player Farted And Put His Dick On This MTV Lady?
This is Carly Aquilino, a comedian and cast member on MTV's Girl Code, doing a spot on the Brilliant Idiots podcast, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God (who tells great stories) and Andrew Schulz. Aquilino's story is about the time she hung out with an NBA player who farted very loudly and then put his p...
Do Not Challenge This Lady To A Game Of Musical Chairs
Here we have a friendly bout of mid-rodeo musical chairs wherein some poor sap gets hit harder than Mike Tyson ever hit anybody, harder than Napster hit the music industry, harder than Jadeveon Clowney hit whoever that was. This dude gets lit the fuck up, is what I'm saying, and per the full video...
The Wisconsin State Fair Has One Food-On-A-Stick Too Many
So here's the full list of truncheon-mounted foodstuffs at the Wisconsin State Fair, currently underway in, uh, well, Wisconsin, of course. Actually, no, here's not the full list, because the full list apparently has more entries on it than there are human beings to consume them. Wisconsonianitia...
Jeremy Lin Expertly Dunk Cams His Mom
So what's Jeremy Lin up to this offseason? Oh nothing, just hanging out at his house and pulling off well-orchestrated dunk cams on children, sleeping dudes, and his own damn mother....
Lay's Cappuccino Potato Chips Are Abominable
The other day, Deadspin's own Albert Burneko thoughtfully suggested we use pork in our New England clam chowder, which of course triggered the tiresome whine-siren of the Regional Food Authenticity Police, who are far more concerned with adhering to the exact chowder ingredients Tom Brady specified ...