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Gone Fishin' With Deion Sanders
Another good one for ya—Charlie Pierce's 2000 Esquire profile of Deion Sanders:...
Payback Is A Bitch
Friend of mine in London sent me the following. Taken from Maiden Speech by Eleanor Brown, published by Bloodaxe in 1996:...
Why Was Manchester United's Offseason So Bad?
Let's talk about that Manchester United offseason....
Junior High Coach Accused Of Throwing Baseballs At Players
It sounds like the old schoolyard game "butts up." Only with an adult throwing the ball at the kids. Also, it's a freaking baseball....
Shane Victorino's Nifty Catch Gives Way To Slapstick Routine In Stands
Here we have a happy-go-lucky Red Sox fan, his mood perhaps buoyed by the effects of a few alcoholic beverages, becoming a whirlwind of destruction following a brief encounter with Shane Victorino....
The Marx Brothers Play Football
From the Marx Brother's fourth feature, Horse Feathers (1932)....
Ed And Steve Sabol: The NFL Dream Machine
Today gives the start of the NFL season. What better place to start than Rich Cohen's excellent portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol? The league as we know it is hard to imagine without them. Published last October in the Atlantic, here's "They Taught America How to Watch Football":...
Lamar Odom Reportedly Checks Into Rehab
Like all right-thinking human beings, we like Lamar Odom and are rooting for him. So today's news ought to be viewed as a good thing, a sign things can only get better from here....
Reds Run Suicide Squeeze With Two Outs In The 15th Inning
Dusty Baker called for a suicide squeeze with two on and two out in the 15th inning and guess what? It didn't work. The Cardinals took the lead the following inning on a Matt Adams home run and defeated the Reds 5-4....
Columnist Amazed College Football Players Aren't Scumbags
That is the major takeaway from this overcooked word-soup from Rick Reilly. Sure, he bizarrely shoehorns George Zimmerman into an article about "young, urban athletes" who were neither murdered nor murderous, but the real gist of this column is that Rick Reilly is fucking shocked that those four kid...
Pro-Pot Billboard Erected Outside Mile High Stadium
The Broncos host the Ravens for the NFL season opener Thursday night and all eyes will be on Denver. Looking to capitalize on the publicity, a pro-marijuana group has put up a billboard one block west of the stadium, urging the NFL to follow Colorado's lead and stop being such puritanical tight-asse...
Deadspin Up All Night: What We All Need
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Keep at it....
The 16 Fall Movies You Should Be Excited About: A Guide
Labor Day is the signpost every year that the sugary summer junk is behind us and that the nutritious square meal of awards season has finally arrived. That's the theory, anyway: In actuality, summer movies like Before Midnight and Fruitvale Station will be as well-received as any Oscar bait, and th...
John Wall's New Mansion Has 10 Bathrooms And A Basketball Court
It's good to sign a max contract....
Good Job, Everyone
Earlier: The Predators Just Earned Themselves A New Nickname...
Infographic: Which MLB Team Has The Most Expensive Beer, Per Ounce?
We've given plenty of grief to the Yankees for their misleading advertising, but new data from the Team Marketing Report—which tracks sports attendance costs for its annual fan index—show that Boston has the most expensive beer at $0.60 an ounce, followed by St. Louis, Toronto, and Washington. The A...
Costa Rica Is Trolling The Shit Out Of The USMNT
On Friday, the U.S. national team takes the pitch in Costa Rica for a World Cup qualifying match. The Costa Ricans are making it as difficult as possible, denying them training grounds and even going so far as to refuse them game balls for practice....
The Nation's Best Players Who Will Be Ignored By Heisman Voters
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (you know, that one, whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....