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UFC 155: The Clumsy Marketing Of Cain Velasquez, UFC's Brown Ambassador
For a long time, Cain Velasquez, who will fight Junior Dos Santos for the UFC heavyweight title on Saturday, was a rumor. He trained in one of the world's best camps, in San Jose, Calif., and stories would filter out about his freak inexhaustibility, about how he would spar with good stand-up fighte...
The Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2012: Nos. 5-1
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Wednesday, we each gave our five worst movies of 2012. Yesterday, we each counted down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year. Today, we finish off with our top fives....
The 100 Most Popular Deadspin Posts Of 2012
We have our own delicate sensibilities about our favorite posts of the year. You can find them on many of our other year-in-review lists. But this isn't our show alone. Deadspin is a community, with lots of readers, all with their own favorites. So here is our attempt at democracy—a list of the top ...
The Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2012: Nos. 10-6
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Yesterday, we each gave our five worst movies of 2012. Today, we each count down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year, and Friday, we finish off with each of our top five....
The Year In Weird: Here Are 38 Bizarre Sports Moments, Slowed Down And Set To Music
One one of the most intriguing elements of televised sports is that the medium can be consumed in myriad and diverse ways: some viewers engage with their favorite team's local broadcasts, others watch for outstanding individual performances, and others enjoy observing tactics and strategy courtes...
The Most Inspirational Sports Photos Of 2012
These photos, collected from the year in sports, will restore your faith in humanity, will make you say "awwwww," and you probably can't make it through them without crying....
The Year In Deadspin's Coverage Of The Overzealous Policing Of Student-Athletes
It's a great time to be a college athlete. Well, at least it is if being a college athlete is supposed to be a whole lot like being an East German. We learned a great deal in 2012 about the Kollege Kops, and their experiments with emerging technologies. We hope we don't see them nearly as much next ...
The Year In Deadspin Stunts: All The Dumb Crap We Pulled In 2012
We sang, we sought a very special autograph, and we smoked some weed. Here are the best stunts that we pulled in 2012....
The Grierson & Leitch Worst Movies Of 2012
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Today, we each give our five worst movies of 2012. Tomorrow, we count down each of our No. 6-10 best movies of the year, and Friday, we finish off with each of our top five....
College ShameDay: What's A Belk? Is AdvoCare Addictive? Answering All Your Questions About Our Shittiest Bowl Games
Our weekly college football shame index previews the shitty upcoming bowls. ...
Deadspin's 2012 Long Reads: Everything We Wrote That You Didn't Have Time To Read
We aren't just dick jokes and cock shots. We also do our best to publish as much quality longform sports journalism as we can. Here are the best longish stories we published this year, many of which you probably didn't have time to read the first time around....
The 25 Most Stilted, Cringe-Inducing Athlete TV Cameos Of 2012 (Featuring Ryan Lochte The Sex Idiot)
2012 was a big year for athletes appearing on the little screen. Below are notes and grades for these 25 guest turns:...
Russell Wilson Is The Quarterback Darrell Bevell Always Wanted
Nineteen years ago, Darrell Bevell, a redshirt freshman transfer fresh off his Mormon mission, led Wisconsin to its first Rose Bowl win—an ugly 21-16 victory over UCLA that featured seven fumbles. Bevell's clinching touchdown came on a particularly un-balletic play. The video isn't online, but here'...
"Buster Olney U So Full A Shit": The Year In Great, Terrible, And Deeply Weird Tweets From The World Of Sports
2012 offered many windows into the athlete soul, but none were larger or more revealing than the unfiltered weirdness that came from their screwy social media presences. Here are our favorites, from Cardale Jones delicately explaining that he wasn't recruited to Ohio State for his academic prowess, ...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
As in past years, the Sun Sentinel has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data for the finest examples of insertions showcasing extraordinarily bad luck and/or ingenuity. ...
The Sports Video Games Of The Year
Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honors, the uncommon diversity of sports video games, and the unique demands placed on them to recreate both a real-world sport and the real-life experiences associated with it, support their own class of awards more than any other genre. These ar...
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"Hallelujah, Holy Shit! Where's The Tylenol?": Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [Updated]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from London Fletcher losing his lunch to sad Tom Brady. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...
The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide
There are three more gifts under the tree. Let's open them up together. ...
Christmas Came Early: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
We've got a busy start to the day in NFL-land where every game is a gift, with varying degrees of usefulness and did-I-even-ask-for-this-piece-of-junk?-ness. ...
The 27 Dumbest Things Gregg Easterbrook Wrote In 2012
Imagine the import of an alien to answer the yes-or-no question, "Does your society believe in God?"...