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Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: But Were They Six <em>Impressive</em> Touchdown Passes?
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Scoreboard!
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be....
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: The Tide Doesn't Move
Happy Labor Day weekend! Your unpaid student-athlete workforce is already on the job. So it's time for the 2012 Deadspin College Football Top 25 Or So. As always, teams are ranked according to the values and priorities of college football, as best we understand them, no matter how contradictory thos...
The 2012 Hater's Lover's Guide To The Top 25
Every year, we preview the upcoming college football season with a Hater’s Guide to the Top 25, and every year I make the same jokes about Ohio State fans being dumb and Alabama fans being racist (it’s true!), and it’s always a great deal of fun. But this year, between the Hater’s Guides and the Why...
Watch BBC Announcers And Commentators Go Berserk As Mo Farah Won Gold In The 5,000 Meters
Mo Farah scored a royal double for Great Britain in winning the 10,000m and today's 5,000m, and the importance of his win can really only be understood through how their media covered the event. Here, then, is the final 150 meters of his race, with isolated cameras on announcer Steve Cram and the...
Woman Plans On Running 52 Marathons In 52 Weeks
A Santa Monica woman, Julie Weiss, just finished her 10th marathon in as many weeks. According to her mission statement, she's got 42 more to go. Last week in Minnesota, she finished the 26.2 mile race in Duluth in four hours and forty minutes....
Look At These Fucking Loopsters: Chronicling The Indy 500
Some maniac on Twitter is scouring the web and documenting the Indianapolis 500 in picture form this afternoon. Here are a few of the snapshots we found most interesting. The whole thing is a wonderful contemplation on absurdity and Americana, however, so you should check it out throughout the day....
"Fake Ass White Boys:" A Brief History Of MMA Trash Talk In Advance Of UFC 145
After a year of injury-related cancellations, Jon Jones and Rashad Evans will finally fight tonight at UFC 145. The two best light heavies in the world were once teammates but they now hate each other with a passion that comes only from personal betrayal. I know, I know. You hear that whenever a fig...
NASCAR's Cool With Tweeting During Races, Won't Punish Brad Keselowski
That's according to a statement stock-car racing's governing body issued today, which it did in the wake of Keselowski's tweeting spree during last night's fire-delayed Daytona 500:...
Some Men (In The 18-49 Demographic) Just Want To Watch The World Burn
FOX easily won the ratings battle with a rain-delayed, fire-delayed Daytona 500. There's a lesson here, and I'm pretty sure it's "don't underestimate the drawing power of things blowing up."...
Danica's Got To Go, Daddy
Your morning roundup for Feb. 28. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Armageddon At Daytona As Juan Pablo Montoya Hits Jet Engine-Powered Track Dryer And Boom, Explosion
Miraculously, there were no injuries after a bizarre incident on the 160th lap of the much-delayed Daytona 500 in which Colombian driver Juan Pablo Montoya's car fell apart at just the wrong moment: as he approached a track-drying truck, complete with jet fuel-powered turbine in the back....
NASCAR Drivers Spent Yesterday's Daytona 500 Rain Delay Mentioning Their Sponsors As Much As Possible
This will surprise absolutely nobody familiar with the constant shilling for products and sponsors that takes place before, during, and after NASCAR races, but when slapped together back-to-back it's worth realizing that yesterday's eventual postponement of the Daytona 500 wasn't a lost cause for...
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Daytona 500 Open Thread [Postponed]
Here is an open thread for all you adrenaline/high speed wreckage junkies. Feel free to use the comments to talk about other stuff while the race is on in the background....
Fox San Diego Sports Anchor Implies Danica Patrick Is A Bitch
Ross Shimabuku, Fox 5 San Diego's current sports anchor could teach a master class in subtlety. Of course, no one would know a thing about what "subtlety" means, but the arts are a dying skill anyway....
250 Credentials Stolen From Daytona 500; First 250 People To Sign Up For The Deadspin Newsletter Receive Credentials To Daytona 500
Authorities are looking for the person who broke into a guest services trailer at Daytona International Speedway and made off with 250 race credentials offering limited infield access to Sunday's Daytona 500....
Danica Patrick Hit The Wall Hard At Today's First Gatorade Duel Race
It didn't cost her a ticket to ride—she'd already earned one—but Danica Patrick will lose starting position in Sunday's Daytona 500 grid after a nasty-looking wreck just one lap from finishing her first NASCAR Sprint Cup race, today's first of two Gatorade Duels....
Here's Whitney Houston Singing The Super Bowl XXV National Anthem
With word tonight of Whitney Houston's death, we'll take this opportunity to highlight one of the best renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner—Houston's National Anthem performance in Tampa before Super Bowl XXV....
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Hi, Tide!
It's time for the final installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be....
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Everyone's A Champion
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. While we wait for bowl season to begin, we're celebrating the conference championships. ...