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Deadspin Up All Night: I've Got Tons Of The Fun Stuff

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Pretty crazy day, huh? We'll be back at it tomorrow. ...

Roger Federer Is Out At Wimbledon In Craziest Second Round Ever

Something called Sergiy Stakhovsky just defeated Roger Federer in four sets at Wimbledon, which is less a tournament at this point than it is one of those Agatha Christie books where bodies keep piling up around some quaint English vicarage. Where do we start? Rafael Nadal got knocked out Monday. M...

Which Are The Hardest American Sports To Break Into?

I was on a flight earlier this week when the cabin pressure changed and my ears popped. So I did the normal thing where you swallow five hundred times in a row and hope no one notices you swallowing so profusely, and nothing happened. My eardrums still felt like they were buried under a pile of sand...

Burbling rumors out of both Spain and England have Cristiano Ronaldo eyeing a return to Manchester United. Madrid have no intentions of letting him go, but without a new contract they could lose him next year for nothing....

Former NFL Player Kris Jenkins Is Still A Fan Of Paula Deen

We can add Kris Jenkins, former all-pro defensive tackle for the New York Jets and Carolina Panthers, to the list of people who don't think all that n-word business that's currently sinking Paula Deen's career is a very big deal....

Smells Like Teen Spirit

This here's a good one, Donna Tartt's 1993 Harper's story: "Basketball Season, or Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team":...

Punchy Bros Take To The Street As The Blackhawks Win The Stanley Cup

Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Blackhawks celebration brawl." Tonight's reviewer: A little bit of context for said brawl....

Deadspin Up All Night: Call It What You Want

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Back to baseball. And Tuesday Night Fights. Have a great evening....

The Ravens Tried To Troll The Heat And It Backfired

The Ravens' official Twitter account posted the above photos earlier today, comparing the apparent crowd sizes at Miami's championship parade on Monday, and the Ravens' Super Bowl parade back in February....

Glendale May Sell City Hall To Pay For The Coyotes

The day after a Stanley Cup; we all have hockey hangovers. I can't think of a better day for the Glendale, Ariz., City Council to quietly vote on an emergency measure that would, quite literally, sell City Hall to pay off its debts on Jobing.com Arena. ...

Get A Load Of This Fucking Giants Fan

This fucking guy was spotted at a Giants game earlier this season. Our tipster provides further details:...

Let's Watch A Flyers Beat Writer Throw Ilya Bryzgalov Under The Bus

The Flyers bought out Ilya Bryzgalov's humungous big contract today, after two years of a rocky relationship with Philadelphia fans and media. It took about 20 minutes for Randy Miller, of the South Jersey Courier-Post, to start the smear campaign....

The Flyers announced they will buy out goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, after just two years of his nine-year, $51 million contract. Bryzgalov immediately becomes the 2014 Vezina favorite....

The CBC Put A Bow On The NHL Season With This Excellent Montage

Throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs, the CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada has been doing fantastic work producing pregame videos (this one is my personal favorite), and last night the show ended its coverage with an excellent montage spanning all of this year’s playoff action. You might want to look aw...

Deadspin Up All Night: Ain't No Love

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Hockey tonight, and Sean's around. Bobby "Blue" Bland, RIP....

Yet Another Photo Of Someone Reading At A Baseball Game

OK, so this has officially become a thing. Consider us the place to dump all of your pictures of bored baseball fans using books, gadgets, or whatever else to silently protest the fact that they were dragged to a three-and-a-half-hour-long sporting event. Send pictures to [email protected]....

Here's Allen Iverson Talking About Playing Russian Roulette

On a recent episode of Adrien Broner's online reality show, About Billions, Broner and his crew ran into Allen Iverson while they were partying in Atlanta. Above is Iverson's brief cameo—flagged by Grantland's Jay Caspian Kang—and it will make you miserable. ...

LeBron Nearly Beheaded A Couple Times During Heat Parade

Miami's championship parade was today. Double-decker buses. Tall men. Overpasses. Tragedy repeatedly and hilariously averted by inches....

Don't do mushrooms, kids: "The man was kneeling outside the school, bloody from the waist down, with parts of his genitals ripped off, Fox said. He said parts of the man’s body were transferred to the hospital with him." [Detroit Free Press; h/t Pete and Andrew]...

Paulie Malignaggi Vs. Adrien Broner: A Master Class In Macho Posturing

Imagine being a Brooklyn kid, born and raised in Brooklyn, representing Brooklyn, wearing "Brooklyn" clothes and yapping about Brooklyn! your whole life. And finally they build a big world-class stadium in Brooklyn, and you, the Brooklyn kid, get to headline a night of boxing there, and when you ge...