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Daft Punk's New Record Is Out; Now Let's Allow The Robots To Umpire
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Alex Sanabia Spit On The Ball. That Doesn't Mean He Threw A Spitball.
Alex Sanabia spit on the baseball. Just hocked a stringy, viscous loogie all over it. You can't get more blatantly illegal than that. Still: this isn't cheating....

Sweet Dreams
From Carlo Rotella's collection of essays and stories Playing in Time, check this out:...

A Brutal No-Goal Call, And The Blackhawks Are On The Ropes
Hockey's never been much for the sanctity of seeds. No one blinked last year when the eight-seeded Kings blew through the competition on the way to a Cup. So it's not any sort of mathematical upset that the Red Wings took a 2-1 lead in their series with the top-seeded Blackhawks last night—but they ...

Tie Domi's Son Pulls Off Between-The-Legs Saucer Pass
This nifty bit of stick handling came during the second period of MasterCard Memorial Cup round robin action between the Portland Winterhawks and London Knights on Monday night. Max Domi floated the puck over the defenders stick and it landed neatly on Bo Horvat's—in mid-air—before being redirected...

University Of Minnesota Lost Money Selling Beer To College Kids
Gentle people of Minnesota, you may want to rethink shelling out for that Golden Gophers diploma. ...

Man Breaks Record For Most Backflips On A Pogo Stick
We throw the word "hero" around a lot on the internet, but sometimes there is simply no other word for doing more backflips on a pogo stick than any other person in the history of human-and-pogo-stick coexistence. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Wisdom's A Gift, But You'd Trade It For Youth
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Sean will join you shortly to talk about the baseball and hockey. Gab away....


Jerry Colangelo Says He Punched A Bulls Fan During The '93 NBA Finals
The man in charge of USA Basketball once owned the Suns and the Diamondbacks, the WNBA's Mercury, and the arena league's Rattlers. He was also responsible for bringing the NHL to Phoenix. But if you were to say something nasty to his mom, Jerry Colangelo wasn't always above behaving like some beer-s...


Metta World Peace Did The Weather Report Again
This is becoming an annual tradition: the Lakers get eliminated, and Metta World Peace does a local weather report....


Listen To The Evolution Of Rappers Referencing Alonzo Mourning
OK, so this is just brilliant, and I can't believe that nobody has thought to do this before. A rapper who goes by the name Young Braised created a track that contains every instance of former NBA star Alonzo Mourning getting name dropped in a rap song, running in chronological order from 1993-2012....

Ole Miss Football Coach Engages In Some Revisionist History
The picture you see above was sent from Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze's Twitter account today, along with the inspiring hashtags #HottyToddy, #DoSomethingSpecial, and #WinTheDay. What a great way to recall the storied legacy of the Ole Miss football program! Except, of course, for the fact that ev...

We Have No Idea Why Kobe Bryant's Wife Posted This To Instagram
Vanessa Bryant's Instagram sometimes can be a valuable source of actual news. Today, it featured an image of these four photos, which were taken yesterday at a barbecue....

Seattle Mariners Botch Final Out Of Game, Allow Tying Run To Score
It's right there! The ball's right there!...


