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This Is What It’s Like To Be Hungover At 34
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Every year I get older, hangovers get worse. Like this hangover, the one I'm suffering through right now. It feels like someone wiped their ass with my face. I woke up this morning at 6AM in my friend's apartment and was paralyzed on the bed because I knew the slightest mo...
Is The Justice Department Responsible For Online Poker's Ponzi Scheme?
The Justice Department dropped another bombshell in their assault on online poker, alleging that Full Tilt Poker ran a Ponzi Scheme that saw owners being paid nearly half a billion dollars, while player accounts were filled with "phantom money" to the tune of more than $300 million. The original Bla...
Deadspin Classic: The Forgotten Man Of <em>Moneyball</em>
Moneyball the movie is in theaters on Friday. Eric Walker doesn't appear in the film, and he's mentioned only briefly in Michael Lewis's book, but he was central to the statistical revolution that Moneyball chronicles—the "pebble that started the avalanche," in his words. Two years ago, he told us h...
Former IT Guy "Will Ruin Shaq," One Embarrassing Leak At A Time
If you can keep track of the Miami New Times's Hack-a-Shaq saga, then we salute you. It is an overlapping jumbled mess of blackmailing and threats and nearly indecipherable text messages. We tried drawing a visual aid for all of the accusations cataloged here, but we gave up, because there are, like...
Surfer Grifter Hits The Red Carpet At The Emmys, Possibly Responds To Allegations, Continues To Lie
The weird tale of Hannah Cornett has taken a turn for the weirder. After a brief Twitter meltdown last Thursday, in which she posed as James Alesi, the New York real estate broker who'd accused her of running up $20K in charges on his credit card at a Las Vegas hotel, she fell silent. Then, on Sunda...
Carson Palmer Prefers Tailgating At USC Games To Losing More Games With The Bengals
As noted by Larry Brown Sports, it's tough to tell whether that's a can of Tecate or a Coke in Carson Palmer's right hand outside Saturday's Syracuse-USC game. Not that it matters. Palmer had warned the Bengals he'd retire if they refused his trade demand, and the Bengals chose to move on rather th...
Michael Boley Hugged It Out With The Kid He Nailed In The Face
When Giants linebacker Michael Boley took a failed lateral 65 yards for his first career touchdown, he was so hyped up he was all "GRAARRR I'm gonna throw this ball as hard as I can," and he absolutely smoked a kid in a backpack. It was great TV, not so great for the kid....
Cam Newton, A Quarterback To Build A Dream On
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
The Weekend's Best Tackle Was On This Guy Running From The Cops
Your bare-chested speed demon is one Andrew Sercu from Columbia, Mo., who is charged with domestic violence and resisting arrest. After a brief standoff, Sercu sprinted from his home but didn't get very far....
Texas A&M Fans Provoke Baylor With Waco Billboard: "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Conference Deal"
Just when we think we've gone and boiled Texas football down to its essence, the Texans go and out-Texan themselves....
SprtsCntr: All New York, All The Time
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Lady Gaga Poured Champagne Into A Disabled Section At The Giants Game Last Night
For those keeping score, she has also flipped the bird at a Mets game and chugged whiskey and fondled herself in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse. No word on whether she plans to continue her unique quest for the New York sports cycle by spitting on children at Madison Square Garden. [New York Post; Ph...
Ah Yes, The Old "Off The Back Of The Defender's Skull" Own Goal
In keeping with our mission to bring you the latest in Midwestern religious college soccer, we happily present a moment from this weekend's Oklahoma Baptist-MidAmerica Nazarene showdown. The OBU Bison keeper will be seeing this one in his dreams for a while, but we're particularly taken with the c...
The Enduring Myth Of Mookie Blaylock And Pearl Jam
Vacuous, unchecked rock lore holds that Pearl Jam—before they settled on the sploogiest name in pop music history—were first called Mookie Blaylock. Grunge's stadium heroes would have been named after a very good, but never great, NBA point guard, if only Blaylock hadn't taken notice and forced a na...
Mike Stanton Hit The Ball About 900 Feet Last Night
The Marlins don't do distance estimates, so we'll never know precisely how dead Stanton killed the ball. But rest assured, he killed it very dead....
The Rams Were A Real Pain In Ahmad Bradshaw's Nuts Last Night
Your morning roundup for Sept. 20, the day we learned that putting on a banana costume sometimes isn't worth it. Photo via tipster Ryan, who saw it on ESPN.com and wrote, "Thanks for the nut grab photo, ESPN." Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Eli Manning Told Suzy Kolber He Was Impressed With How Big Brandon Stokley's Package Grew During The Game
Here's Eli Manning with some important postgame football talk about how wide receiver Brandon Stokley's package size changed during tonight's game. Giants won, 28-16, even though the offense didn't play too well....
Giants LB Michael Boley Celebrates His Return TD By Whipping The Ball At Some Dude's Face
Whatever godforsaken gig has this guy standing on the sidelines—an innocent victim, forced into Boley's warpath—I hope like hell he's getting paid for it....
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Hakeem Nicks is likely to play; Steven Jackson will not. So it's Cadillac time in the Meadowlands! The Rams and the Giants both had hopes of competing this year, and one of them is going to have a lot less hope once this is done....