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How To Oscar-Bait Your Way To A Best Picture Nomination
Oscar nominations got released this morning, and the Academy only used nine of the 10 Best Picture slots (snubbing All Is Lost, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis, or The Butler, depending on what you're into). Last year, we took a look at the IMDB plot keywords that were most—and least—associat...
Your Grierson & Leitch Oscar Nomination Predictions
Thursday morning, the Oscar nominations come out. To mentally prepare you, here are our predictions for the eight major categories....
Our 20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2014
Now that all the year-end best-of lists are finally over, it's time for some lists that look forward rather than backward. 2014 has a lot to live up to; 2013 was one of the best movie years in recent memory....
Russian Poll: You Have No Choice But To Be Excited About The Olympics
This poll is currently on the front page of Sochi2014.com, the official page of the upcoming Winter Olympics. I'm pretty sure that if you select "Other," the FSB shows up at your door to whisk you off to a gulag. ...
Tyson Vs. Ali
A performance piece at PS122 reviewed in the Times and also featured in the Wall Street Journal. ...
Lindsey Vonn Will Not Compete In The Winter Olympics
U.S. Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn announced this morning that she will not be competing in the upcoming Winter Olympics because of a sprained MCL in her right knee. Vonn hurt her knee while skiing off course at a World Cup event in December. In November, Vonn partially tore her surgically repaired ACL...
Fox Sports 1, CBS Still Struggling In The Graphics Department
USC freshman Nikola Jovanovic is a frontcourt star for the Trojans, but we have to wonder what age-defying magic they've got over in Serbia. Can they get some to Novak Djokovic? We'd love to watch him dominate tennis for another 75 years....
This Fox Sports 1 Commercial Is So Bad And Gross
What the hell, Fox Sports?...
How The Sochi Olympics Became A $51 Billion Quagmire
The Sochi Olympic games will be the most expensive ever held, by an egregious amount. $51 billion in total, and since Winter Olympics are smaller than Summer games, the Russian government is spending an average of $520 million per event—four times as much as the previous record-holder, China. Where ...
Everything That Should Die In 2014
It's customary at the dawn of a new year to pay homage to the people we lost in the previous one. But we're optimists at Deadspin. Here's everything we hope will die in 2014....
The Story Behind The Story: The Hunt For Penise Blord
Let's go behind the scenes of one of our notable stories from 2013. When we posted our tribute to Jerry Buss, we were intrigued by the presence of one woman whom the AP identified as Penise Blord. Here are our attempts to track down Penise Blord....
2013: Our Favorite GIFs
2013 was the year we argued over how to pronounce GIF and made a lot of them (almost 1,500). Here's the favorite GIFs we made the past 12 months, in no particular order....
The Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2013: Nos. 5-1
It's the final week of 2013, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Friday, we each gave our five worst films of 2013. Yesterday, we each counted down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year. Today, we finish off with our top fives....
These Are The Top 11 Videos You Watched On Deadspin In 2013
We pride ourselves on trying to provide you with quality video of important or unique moments that are, usually, sports-related. 2013 was a big year for that at Deadspin; our top 11 videos accumulated more than three million views, or 20% the average audience for an episode of Two And A Half Men. ...
What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?
While collecting insertions into various orifices for our annual feature, we stumbled across a good number of truly awful penis-related mishaps. Culled from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's database of emergency room visits, here's a year's worth of self-abuse....
The Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2013: Nos. 10-6
It's the final week of 2013, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Friday, we each gave our five worst movies of 2013. Today, we each count down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year, and tomorrow, we finish off with each of our top five....
2013: The Year In Cursing
2013 was a banner year for televised cursing. Of course, when A.J. "Fuckin' Shit" Clemente made his appearance, we knew we were in for something special—but he's far from the only media or sports person to utter expletives on-air. Here's our favorite profane moments of 2013....
Who Will Be The Most Fascinating Person In Sports in 2014?
Over at Sports Illustrated, media writer Richard Deitsch has a collection of the responses 44 respectable sports media types gave when he asked who the most fascinating person in sports will be next year. Their picks were mostly about as exciting as you'd expect, with Johnny Football coming in as th...
F1 Star Michael Schumacher In Critical Condition After Skiing Accident
Michael Schumacher is in critical condition after he suffered a traumatic head injury yesterday while skiing in the French Alps. He's currently being treated at Grenoble University Hospital Center, but doctors said today that it's still too early to tell if Schumacher will survive, or what the exten...