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People Who Got Rich In America Should Stop Criticizing It
The reaction to learning 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is making a political statement by refusing to stand for the national anthem has raised myriad opinions today, but none more unified than the belief that those who became millionaires in this country are in no position to angrily criticize ...
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(Update: A Trump staffer has deleted the tweet, and replaced it with one where Wade’s name is spelled correctly—because, to the Trump campaign, that’s what was wrong with the tweet.)...
Things Said By Donald Trump's Nutjob Doctor, Ranked By How Insane They Are
Today NBC News released details of an interview with Donald Trump’s possibly non-HIPAA-compliant personal doctor Harold Bornstein. Bornstein issued a statement praising Trump’s health back in December, and today we learned that statement was drafted in all of five minutes. We learned a lot more abou...
Maine Governor Calls State Rep A Cocksucker, Says He'd Like To Kill Him
Unless you live in Maine, probably the last time you thought about Governor Paul LePage, the Rob Ford of the Pine Tree State, was when he complained about “guys that are named D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” coming up from Connecticut and New York to sell heroin and “impregnate a young white girl.” ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Pittsburgh Steelers<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
Trump Campaign Chief Stephen Bannon Charged With Domestic Violence In 1996
Stephen Bannon, erstwhile Breitbart shitbag, recently took over as campaign chief for Donald Trump after a series of power struggles cost Trump’s first two campaign managers their jobs. A little more than a week after Bannon’s new job was announced, Politico published a 1996 police report from when ...
Clinton's Speech Denouncing Meme-Toting Racists Interrupted By Meme
The alt-right is a fringe political movement, primarily concerned (as far as we can tell) with disseminating Trumpism via memes. Their favorite is Pepe the frog. In her speech denouncing these internet users this afternoon in Reno, Nevada, Hillary Clinton sadly did not say the words “meme” or “Pepe....
My Year In Gawker Hate Mail
I started working at Gawker.com in April of last year, and ever since, I’ve received a constant barrage of always furious, often antisemitic, and rarely coherent emails to my inbox. Reading these is, truthfully, the single best part of my day....
Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Cincinnati Bengals<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
Katie Ledecky Turned Bryce Harper Into A Medal Rack
Strong-as-hell swimming champion Katie Ledecky is from Washington D.C., and the Nationals invited her to come throw the first pitch tonight before their game against the Orioles. She arrived, as well she should, decked out in all five of her recently-acquired Olympic medals. Thankfully, Bryce Harper...
Donald Trump Says Leonardo DiCaprio Isn’t “Very Hot Anymore"
At a rally in Tampa earlier today, Donald Trump spent some time helping along the Hillary health conspiracies before offering a bit of insight into young Hollywood....
Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Minnesota Vikings<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Minnesota Vikings. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Minnesota Vikings. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
Team Great Britain Thought It Was Being Helpful By Providing The Luggage
I have few rules of airplane travel, but they are inviolable. Get to the airport ass-early, because having to wait around is worth the stress of worrying you won’t make it through security in time. Sit at the front of the plane so you can board later and get off faster. Only do carry-on if at all po...
The Calculus Of Enjoying Almaz Ayana's World Record
The Olympic 10,000 meters was eyeballs out, hands down the fastest, deepest women’s 25-lap race I have ever seen. But instead of cheers, before the race was even over, half of the commentariat lit up with shouts of “Dirty!”...
Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Houston Texans<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
Why Don't They Just Make The Whole Airplane Out Of Olympic Venues?
By now everybody knows the modern Olympic Games system—whereby competing cities bid for the right to piss the GDP of Iceland into shabbily constructed venues that will host esoteric sports competitions for three weeks and then persist as rotting, uninhabited, politically radioactive civic boondoggle...
Actually, Horse Sports Are Good
The funny thing about bias is that it’s the necessary basis of any opinion. And now that we’ve all had our quadrennial opportunity to reinvest in mildly-biased opinions on oft-ignored athletics, it’s time to talk about horse sports, and opinions about horse sports....
Welcome To Mike Pence's Living Hell
Mike Pence, who will be spending the next three months paying for the grievous sins of a past life and also probably this one, forced his mother to hold a piece of chicken on a plane yesterday evening....
Neymar Flipped His Shit On A Heckling Fan Right After Winning Olympic Gold
Brazil has a complex, often combative relationship with its national soccer team. Winning their first Olympic gold medal, as they did on Saturday, to some extent cooled the beef, but obviously not entirely. So this video of an irate Neymar shouting at a fan on the pitch immediately following Brazil’...
Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Washington Redskins<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Washington Redskins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Washington Redskins. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....