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ESPN X Games Memo Asks Staffers To Work For Free And Not Make Fun Of Brazilian People
ESPN's X Games are slouching toward Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, the first of three new international host cities, where competition begins next week and where staffers are arriving to find that their mellows have already been thoroughly harshed. It seems that money is tight in this corner of the $40 bi...

Vladimir Putin Was Confronted By A Topless Protestor, And He Really, Really Liked It
Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Germany this morning when he found himself in the crosshairs. Ukrainian protest group Femen, known for their topless protests against the church, the sex trade, and "dictators" like Putin, crashed his appearance at a Hanover trade fare wearing slogans, and lit...

Steelers Player Tweets Really Dumb Photo
Last October, Steelers nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu got wasted and decided to play bumper cars with several parked vehicles on Pittsburgh's South Side. Thursday, Ta'amu was sentenced to just 18 months' probation for it all. Last night, Ta'amu's friend tweeted the photo you see here, and Ta'amu re-twee...

This Is The Perfect Miami Marlins Vanity License Plate
Mierda means "shit" in Spanish....

Just Because, Here's Babe Ruth's World War I Draft Registration
Historian Michael Beschloss dug this up yesterday, and it's absolutely worth sharing—and not just because today is the anniversary of Ruth's home run record being surpassed by Hank Aaron....

A Scary Minor League Hockey Injury Led To This Blood-Covered Skate
This skate belongs to Eric Wellwood of the Adirondack Phantoms, the Flyers' AHL affiliate, who hurt himself during a game yesterday afternoon. The blood is his own, and the injury—a severed tendon in his right leg, just above the ankle—was of his own doing....

Blake Griffin Decides Finger Rolls Are Stupid, Throws Down Dunk
This play is impressive enough at full speed, thanks to Griffin's ability to momentarily transform into Clyde Drexler and go gliding through the sky for a breakaway dunk. But then you see the slow-motion replay, and you realize that Griffin was planning on laying that ball in, only to change his mi...

OK, Maybe It's Time For Patriots Fans To Start Panicking About Rob Gronkowski's Injured Arm
Rob Gronkowski woke up to find his left forearm, operated on three times since November, was swollen and leaking. An infection, contracted sometime after his second surgery, has not cleared up as expected. An immediate cross-country flight back to Boston and a medical examination later, and now ther...

Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend <em>SNL</em> Took On Mike Rice
The Story Of "Wrong Way" Willie And The Buzzer-Beater That Lost A Game...

Deadspin Up All Night: Make It Electric
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll be around. There are sports on television. ...

Man Shot With Arrow At Gentleman's Club
A security guard at the Ball Gentleman’s Club in Knoxville, Tennessee suffered only minor injuries after he was reportedly shot with an arrow. ...

Idiot On The Field Attacks Referee With Vuvuzela
This happened yesterday in South Africa in a match between the Golden Arrows and the Kaizer Chiefs. The idiot got by security and found himself on the field/pitch running over 100 meters before he hit referee Lwandile Mfiki with his green vuvuzela....

Will Middlebrooks Had Himself An Afternoon In Toronto
Will Middlebrooks beat the Blue Jays 4-0 on the strength of a three-home run, four-hit afternoon. His second shot, a two-run homer off starter R.A. Dickey in the fifth, was an absolute bomb. ...

Ohio State Provides Another Heartwarming Spring Practice Video
Yesterday we showed you Nebraska's feel-good video, where the Huskers gave seven-year-old Jack Hoffman a memory to last a lifetime....

The Dodgers Instagram Account Is Pretty Weird
Following another dominant performance from Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers Instagram account posted the whimsical picture you see above last night with the following caption:...

Failure Is An Option, Or Why You'll Always Be A Loser And That's OK: Recovering Fatass Soundtrack
A weekly look at the iPod of a regular dude trying to run himself out of an early grave....

Speaking Of Quiche...
Our buddies Sarah Sprague of KSK and Spilly of SB Nation teamed up for this... um... this, er, well... this quiche, I guess you could say? last week....

Mario Balotelli Smokes Thing
On Saturday, the A.C. Milan star was caught smoking a cigarette in the toilet of a train as he and his teammates were traveling for a match against ACF Fiorentina. You'd think Italy would be the one place left on the planet where it would be OK to smoke on a train, but you would be wrong....

There Has Been A Dick Vitale Fathead For Years
I don't know how I missed this when it was initially announced, but there has been a (talking!) Dick Vitale Fathead for more than three years. ...
