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Your Indianapolis 500 Open Thread
Grand Marshal Anderson Cooper and the Indianapolis 500 Festival Princesses drew much attention on the red carpet outside the Snake Pit Ball. Jim Nabors, REO Speedwagon and the Chinese brought happiness to those attending the IPL 500 Festival Parade. Plus, there's a fancy car race today....
Real Men Support The Cleveland Indians By Kissing One Another On Live Television
Your morning roundup for April 7, the day that attempted courtroom eye-gouging became a no-no....
This Woman Crashed A Car With 54 Bags Of Heroin In Her Vagina
Karin Mackaliunas of Scranton, Pennsylvania could be a character on The Office — if they had a character who stuffs 54 bags of heroin, cash, empty bags, and pills in her vagina and then crashes a car. Bloated much?… [Jalopnik] ...
NASCAR Media Take The Restrictor Plates Off Their Praise For Trevor Bayne
OK. We get it. Trevor Bayne is going to save NASCAR. Or something like that. On Sunday, the apple-cheeked 20-year-old sent the motor sports world into an onanistic reverie by becoming the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500. It was only Bayne's second start in the big leagues of the Sprint Cup....
It's Daytona 500 Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
On Aug. 31, 1996, I drove my Toyota Corolla onto the infield of Darlington Raceway. It was an import, driven by a guy from the North, but I done didn't care. From all accounts, the Southern 500 was a grand time in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. All accounts were correct....
NASCAR Was Entertaining, Bizarre Last Night
Fistfights on the track, drivers flipping officials off, flying car parts crashing into skyboxes, and monkeys. Not just another night at Texas Motor Speedway. Monkeys!...
There Are <em>Invisible</em> Fires In Auto Racing?
Click to view File under: #holyshit. In the 1981 Indianapolis 500, Rick Mears took a pitstop and his car was sprayed with fuel that ignited invisibly after making contact with the engine. Mears and several members of his crew were immediately (and invisibly) lit up....
Bleacher Report Editors Demand Bleacher Report Writers Be Less Retarded
If you are one of those unlucky sports fans who has to slog through Bleacher Report's Google-raping SEO "stories" when you do a general news search for a topic about an athlete, team, or topseventeensidelinereportersthechileancoalminersshouldhavesexwith, this is great news....
Deion Sanders Knows How It Feels To Get Used
Noted intellectual Deion Sanders ponders the life lessons of Cowboys WR Dez Bryant's $55K dinner bill. Says it's funny....
Deadspin Classic: Of Jimmy Olson, Spittle And The Dying Of The Light
Originally published April 30, 2008...
Deadspin Classic: ESPN's Secret Interoffice Complaint Memorandum
Originally published July 17, 2007...
The Inevitable Evolution Of William F Leitch
Originally published June 27, 2008...
Deadspin Classic: The Brewers Meet The Furries
Originally published July 6, 2007...
'Mo Money Problems
Last week, Floyd Mayweather makes, and apologizes for, a video about yellow sushi. This week, video captures him walking away from the Clark County, Nev. Detention Center after spending a little Friday time on a grand-larceny charge that ......
Deadspin Classic: The Greatest "You're With Me, Leather" Reference Of All Time (So Far)
Originally published Nov. 13, 2006...
Deadspin Classic: Sean Salisbury, Mayor Of Miami
Originally published Jan. 31, 2007...
Deadspin Classic: Our Interview With Harold Reynolds
Originally published June 18, 2007...
Deadspin Classic: The Day ESPN.com Stood Still
Originally published Feb. 1, 2007...
Leave A Nice Note In The Deadspin Birthday Card
Head over to the new hashtag #deadspinbirthdaycard to share your thoughts/memories/whatever about Deadspin's five years on this planet....
Deadspin Classic: The First Leaked ESPN Memo
Originally published Oct. 16, 2006...