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Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For Sad Knicks Fans
We're in the midst of a typical New York Knicks season, meaning yet another talented but disjointed squad is underachieving for fans with both unrealistic expectations and a fatalistic acknowledgment of what was always to be. To cheer them up—or kick them while they're down—we're enlisting you for g...
Thanksgambling: A Betting Guide To Thanksgiving Day Football
Thanksgiving Day is upon us, which can only mean one thing (for the purpose of this exercise, we're ignoring things such as binge eating, awkward interactions with family, reckless alcohol consumption, and stabbing strangers for discounted electronics): three times as many NFL games this Thursday! W...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 13
Here is your betting info for Week 13 NFL; we'll just be doing this one post this Thanksgiving week, but feel free to check our source sites if you're looking for a Friday or Saturday update....
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: "Go Fuck Yourself"
The Donald reached out to us last winter, thinking he was being gracious. Fuck him. Here's an illustration of Donald Trump with a dick for a nose....
2013 Deadspin Hall of Fame Nominee: Vodka Samm
Vodka Samm stumbled and slurred her way into our hearts back in September. She tried to jump on the field during a University of Iowa football game, was snagged by police before she could get there, had a .341 blood-alcohol content, and unashamedly boasted about it all on Twitter. Vodka Samm showed ...
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: "Horrifying Diarrhea Sludge"
There may be a regional foodstuff somewhere in America that's worse than "Cincinnati chili." But we've yet to find it. More than a few Ohioans took umbrage with our take on their "abominable garbage-gravy." But what's important to keep in mind is that these are people who actually enjoy eating the ...
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Drunk Papa John
Papa John likes his Louisville Cardinals. Papa John allegedly likes his whiskey. Papa John allegedly just can't drink a lot of it. Let us once again admire the sight of Papa John, shitfaced beyond belief....
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend
Lennay Kekua was the heartbreaking story of the 2012 college football season. She was the young, beautiful girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, but she died that September. The way the narrative went, her death served as an inspiration for what would become a charmed season, both for Te'...
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Rocket Frog
This remarkable photograph of a frog's ascension into the heavens was captured during the September launch of NASA's LADEE-laden Minotaur V Rocket. We'd like to think that, instead of succumbing to fiery death and returning to Earth as fried grenouille a la NASA, Rocket Frog slipped the surly bonds...
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: The Buttfumble
The Jets may have finally out-Jets'd themselves on Thanksgiving night last year, when Mark Sanchez ran headlong into Brandon Moore's backside, triggering a fumble that the Patriots' Steve Gregory returned for a touchdown. Sanchez was demoted this season and then got injured. Moore has since retired...
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame: Let's Have Your Nominees
Holy shit. Thanksgiving's, like, next week. That means it's time for you to do something constructive for a change by giving us your nominees for this year's Deadspin Hall of Fame induction class....
Red Sox Take Out Newspaper Ad Thanking St. Louis
You'll find this full-page ad in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and it seems the Red Sox aren't done trolling everyone. "Your region, its people, and the entire Cardinals organization represent everything that's great about baseball." Damn it. We just spent a month breaking them down, and now Card...
Sloppy, Swearing Red Sox Bros Give Fantastic Interviews On Local News
These Red Sox bros are the best, because they're everything you think they'll be. When it comes to describing the feeling of winning a World Series, the first kid just knows it can't be captured in words. He would know, experiencing this team's highs and lows since 1988. But the second guy is the r...
A Red Sox Fan Called Sports Radio To Complain About John Farrell Today
Billy from Lynn woke up this morning, presumably after a long night of celebrating the most unlikely of championships, and was so annoyed by John Farrell's moves in the postseason that he just had to call up WEEI to complain....
Boston Fails To Celebrate Like It's Been There Before
It's probably too late now, but since the Red Sox have won three championships over the past 10 seasons, perhaps this advice will come in handy again in the near future: On the night of a possible World Series clincher, don't park anywhere near Fenway....
St. Louis Man Arrested After Threatening Boston On Twitter
Everybody say hi to Bobby Metzinger. St. Louis police arrested him over the weekend and charged him with making terroristic threats against the city of Boston from his Twitter account. The 30-year-old former PR professional was once highlighted by a St. Louis television station for having landed a j...