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18 Overrated Beers
I take very seriously my role as the Lone Listicler, keeping my own counsel and avoiding the corrupting influences of scuttlebutt and daylight to provide the Beer Internet with its only fair and accurate source of rankings, slander, and bullshit. But I was nervous about this compilation of overrated...
The Big Hurt
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Golovkin Demolishes Geale
Tonight's Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Geale bout on HBO was nasty, brutish, and short. It wasn't as short as it should have been, though, because a (drunk?) timekeeper allowed the opening round to go for four minutes....
Roger Angell: A Baseball Companion
On Saturday in Cooperstown, Roger Angell was given the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the baseball Hall of Fame's writing writing honor. His sports writing career is a happy accident that began in 1962 when Angell went to spring training to write about New York's new team, the Mets. He was a 41-year-old...
How To Make Chicken Salad The Star Of The Show, For Once
Your whole life, chicken salad has been there for you. When you had leftover chicken, drying out in the refrigerator, and no appetite for it, ol' chicken salad was there to make it interesting and appetizing again. Ol' reliable. Silent and steady and dependable. A closer....
Deadspin Up All Night: One Time
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Pat Fenis....
U.S. Rep Mistakes American Officials For Foreigners; Awkwardness Reigns
The Cable at Foreign Policy has documented the collapse of the American government. In a congressional hearing on Thursday, Rep. Curt Clawson of the 19th District of Florida, mistook two senior American officials, Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar, for representatives from the Indian government, and repea...
Bulldog Mascots Are Doomed, Flatulent, And Beloved
Excerpted from Travels With Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country....
Scarlett Johansson Enters The Matrix: <em>Lucy</em>, Reviewed
1. Lucy posits that if a person were able to somehow assess 100 percent of his or her brain capacity, he or she would be able to travel through time, from the Big Bang to the dinosaurs to the dawn of man to the end of the world, and gather all the wisdom from millennia and hand it over as a gift to ...
Aaron Gordon Crosses A Little Girl To The Ground, Flees The Scene
If there's one thing we love, it's people running away from awesome things that happen on a basketball court. If there's another thing we love, it's small children getting their shit wrecked by a sweet crossover. So this Vine, featuring Magic rookie Aaron Gordon, is essentially the perfect Vine....
25 Years Ago Today...
...couple of classic Hip Hop Records were released. ...
Stop Making Sense: The Lunkheaded Genius Of <em>Big Trouble In Little China</em>
In 1988's Die Hard—probably the most perfect and pure American action movie ever made—we met Bruce Willis's John McClane, a different kind of action hero. McClane wasn't an ultra-capable superman, but instead a resourceful, slippery, one-liner-slinging everyman, not to mention, sometimes, a smarmy a...
Rookie Reporter
Dig this cool episode of the Moth featuring Lewis Lapham. ...
The Latest From Steinski
Yeah, that Steinski. Here are two of his latest mixes for WFMU....
Why Pete Rose, Lance Armstrong And Mike Tyson Won't Fade Away
Nice story over at Grantland by Bryan Curtis on the never-ending sagas of Armstrong, Tyson and Rose:...
Deadspin Up All Night: Hurry Up
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Let's jam....
Rock Bland: <em>Hercules</em>, Reviewed
What makes Dwayne Johnson such an appealing movie star is that he's never seemed hung up on being a movie star. Not unlike Jason Statham, he has a twinkle in his eye that suggests he's having way more fun at his job than most of his action-hero brethren. That sense of fun (self-effacing withou...
Naked Burger Thieves On The Lam In Florida Beach Town
Listen. Sometimes it's 3:06 in the morning, you and a couple of your buddies are wandering around a beach town in various states of undress, and suddenly you have need of 60 hamburgers, three pounds of bacon, three red peppers, and, uh, a paddleboard. Immediately! And the grocery stores are cl...
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Everybody, Especially Blake Griffin, Loves This 6'7" Burlesque Dancer [NSFW]
Amazon Ashley is a person that we were not aware of until today. She is a 6-foot-7 dancer who is best known for touring with Miley Cyrus, but she is also known for other things. One of those things happens to be taking boobsy photos with various NBA players—mostly Blake Griffin....