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Deadspin 25: USC Better Enjoy JuJu Smith And Adoree' Jackson While It Still Can
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Deadspin 25: Wisconsin's Insane Schedule Will Do It No Favors
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Deadspin 25: Please, God, Give Us A Full Season Of Nick Chubb
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

The Deadspin 25 Is Back
It’s time again to vote in the only college football poll that matters! The Deadspin 25 is back....

Here's The Song Of The Summer, And Also Every Single Other Day Of Life
Folks, it’s a sweaty summer Friday, and chances are you’re work-sick and ready to let loose. Please find some relief in the song of the summer....

Rochelle Kanuho Came To Distance Running The Hard Way
By any standard, it was warm in Eugene, Oregon on July 2, game-changingly so for the 24 women who shook their legs and jumped at the start of the Olympic Track Trials 10,000 meters. ...

Genzebe Dibaba's Coach Arrested For Allegedly Administering And Distributing EPO
Track coach Jama Aden has been arrested after police raided his hotel room outside Barcelona and found traces of EPO and other banned substances, according to the Associated Press. ...

From Refugee To Olympic Hopeful: Biya Simbassa's Excellent Life In The Land Of Opportunity
It was the Galen Rupp show at this past Sunday’s Portland Track Festival 5000 meters, as America’s greatest distance talent executed his signature 4600-meter cruise, capped by a crowd-pleasing shift into turbo for the final lap. Nice, though unsurprising. ...



Olympian Nick Willis Talks About Beating Porn
“I am 2.5 years porn free (and it feels AMAZING).” New Zealand Olympic silver medalist Nick Willis dropped this bomb on Facebook last week, adding, “Since I was a teenager, it had been a rollercoaster ride of shame and justification as I was on and off with this addiction. Not until I realized the t...

Dada 5000's Camp Calls Joe Rogan's "Fried Chicken And Orange Soda" Comment "Overtly Racist"
Saturday’s Bellator fight between Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson and Dhafir “Dada 5000" Harris went from farcical to concerning after reports came out that Harris’s heart had stopped after the bout. ...

Here's How Fox Deportes Announcers Called The Closest Daytona 500 Finish In History
Denny Hamlin beat out Martin Truex Jr. by inches in an incredible Daytona 500 finish that proved to be the closest margin in the race’s history. Here’s Fox Deportes announcers Tony Rivera and Luis Rodriguez making the most of this amazing moment and proving, once again, the best sports announcers in...

U Can't See Me
No, seriously, Jamie Little clearly can’t see John Cena, today’s pace car driver....

Report: Dada 5000 Was In Critical Condition And His Heart Stopped After Kimbo Slice Knocked Him Out
Dhafir Harris, aka Dada 5000, was stretchered out of the ring yesterday after Kimbo Slice knocked him out in the third round (or more accurately, after he just sort of woozily collapsed and fell down). It was a strange ending to a strange fight, the line on which moved all the way to a pick ‘em afte...

Kimbo Slice Vs. Dada 5000 Match Ends In Predictably Hilarious, Stupid Fashion
Tonight’s much-hyped Bellator match between Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 ended the way you probably expected: with one of the fighters being knocked out by his own girth and being stretchered out of the ring....

No One Showed Up To That Anti-Beyoncé Rally, Which Might've Been A Prank To Begin With
A whole bunch of Twitter eggs took offense with Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance of “Formation,” which used imagery inspired by the Black Panthers. It made excellent copy for the insatiable content mill which we all must feed—it’s good and healthy to make fun of stupid people—but it didn’t ...

Von Miller Explains Gravitational Waves On <i>Saturday Night Live</i>
Super Bowl MVP Von Miller made a guest appearance on SNL as Weekend Update’s science correspondent, and he’s not totally unqualified. As host Michael Che noted, Miller studied science at Texas A&M. (Poultry science.)...

Dan Fouts Made A Dumb CTE Joke About Boomer Esiason
Pretty much everybody missed this because nobody listens to the radio anymore, especially for the Super Bowl. But in the second quarter of the game Sunday, Westwood One analyst Dan Fouts made a stupid joke about Boomer Esiason having CTE when the former Bengals QB forgot in which game Peyton Manning...

The Super Bowl's Crappy Turf Made It Harder For Michael Oher To Block
Players on both Super Bowl teams were slipping and sliding on Levi’s Stadium’s notoriously bad turf, but this video, of Michael Oher being pushed backward despite having his feet planted, is especially comical:...