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Former Florida And NFL Quarterback Doug Johnson Beat The Crap Out Of Some Guy After A Florida Football Game
According to the Gainesville Sun, former University of Florida and NFL quarterback Doug Johnson has had a sworn complaint alleging that he assaulted a man after the LSU-Florida football game filed against him. The accuser, 28-year-old Joe Cappelletti, claims that he and his friends were twice attac...
Ole Miss's Marshall Henderson Saves The Day With A 35-Foot Buzzer-Beater
Ole Miss's Marshall Henderson, who's on his fourth school in four years, has a pregame routine. After the shootaround, he sets up at half-court and chucks up a few. Before Monday's game at Vanderbilt, he nailed six or seven in a row. When it came down to a 35-foot buzzer-beater to save the Rebels'...
That's One Brave Tennessee Fan
The Volunteers marched into Rupp Arena last night, trying to steal their first SEC win of the season off an inconsistent Kentucky Wildcats squad. It didn't work, though those same UK inconsistencies allowed Tennessee to make it a game, with the Wildcats holding them off to the tune of a 75-65 win. ...
Tuesday Night Fights: ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER Examines What May Be The Most Disturbing TNF Video Ever
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: A San Francisco "Beatdown" which was taken down rather quickly a few weeks back. Tonight's commentator: ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER makes a return appearance, and humbly reques...
Deadspin Up All Night: Tank Tops
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There's a smattering of NBA and college basketball action to keep you busy tonight, so enjoy that. We'll see you tomorrow....
Report: The Government Has Turned Down Lance Armstrong's Proposed Bribe Of $5 Million And Testimony
You could try, but you would struggle to find two negotiating parties less likable than Lance Armstrong and the United States government. And according to CBS News's Twitter feed, negotiations between the pair are not going well....
The NFL Is Pretty Damn Funny When Subjected To Some Bad Lip Reading
If you use the internet on a regular basis, you've probably come across one of those Bad Lip Reading videos. Many of them are funny, but this one in particular caught our attention because it features NFL players....
During Bar Fight, Wyoming Basketball Player Allegedly Kicked Unconscious Man In Face "Like It Was A Football"
On Dec. 31, when news emerged that Wyoming senior guard Luke Martinez—the second-leading scorer on a team that was still undefeated at the time—had broken his hand, the injury was reported as having happened during an "off-campus incident." Yesterday, the Cowboys announced that coach Larry Shyatt wa...
Matt Bryant Went To His "Happy Place" Before His Game-Winning Kick
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: The Falcons kicker is a Happy Gilmore fan....
Who Has The Funniest Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Andy Reid Or Mike Smith?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another....
Terry Francona Says Red Sox Owners Don't Really Care About Baseball
Terry Francona has a book coming out about his time in Boston. Written with (ugh) Dan Shaughnessy, it probably won't satisfy readers expecting a bridge-burning tell-all, since he's back in baseball managing the Indians and has to work alongside the players he'd probably love to blast. But there are ...
Syracuse's Former Athletics Media Director Accused Of Videotaping More Than 100 Athletes In Locker Rooms
Roger Springfield, 57, a former sportscaster fired last month as the Syracuse athletic department's director of media, was arraigned this morning on four counts of unlawful surveillance for allegedly making locker-room video recordings of male athletes from the Orange's football, lacrosse, and socce...
"Armstrong Used Rugs," Says CBC News
The way we see it, there are two possible typos in the chyron above. The first, and most obvious, is that "rugs" is actually supposed to say "drugs." This scenario makes sense, given all the news that's recently come to light about Lance Armstrong's use of performance enhancing drugs. Or, "Armstro...
Joe Flacco, The Big-Armed Oaf Who Saved Baltimore
Joe Flacco has played five full seasons in the NFL, and in each one, he has thrown for less than 4,000 yards and completed less than 64 percent of his throws. He has never been sacked fewer than 30 times, and he has never thrown more than 25 touchdowns. Flacco turns 28 tomorrow. He'll be a free agen...
Hot Stove: Deadspin, Gawker Swap Managing Editors
Deadspin has traded managing editor Tom Scocca to Gawker for managing editor Emma Carmichael. The sign-and-trade deal makes Scocca the deputy editor at Gawker, second in command to new editor John Cook, and it returns Carmichael to the franchise where she made her professional journalistic debut....
Mike Krzyzewski Went On The Radio And Gasbagged About "Loyalty, Honesty, And Tradition" In College Basketball
Ugh. That's all that can be said about the following bit of commentary from Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, as spoken on Coach K's radio show and transcribed by DC Sports Bog:...
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Andray Blatche, Who Has No Idea
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
John Rocker: The Holocaust Wouldn't Have Happened If The Jews Had Guns
John "Pay Attention To Meeeeee" Rocker is doing god knows what with his time these days. I think there was a book? And maybe a black girlfriend? Even with his busy schedule, Rocker's been able to fit in a semi-regular column for loonypants conservative website WorldNetDaily. And his latest is someth...