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Barkley: Only Kobe, LeBron And KD Would Even Make The 1992 Dream Team
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: Kobe says 2012's team is better. Charles says nope....
Rogers SportsNet Has Some Curious Suggestions About How To Spend A Day Without Sports
The day following the MLB All-Star Game is one of the worst for sports fans—and sportswriters—due to a lack of major sporting events. (Don't ask for help from MLS; they only had one match yesterday and none tonight.) Since baseball extended the break by a day, we're in the same sports vacuum today ...
Donald Trump Opened A $150 Million Golf Course In Scotland, Is Still A Dick
Perpetual punchline Donald Trump just opened a new golf course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that purportedly cost some 100 million British pounds (roughly $155 million in US dollars). Trump commemorated the occasion by teeing off with famed Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie and continuing his impress...
Deadspin Up All Night: Kill Your Television
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Erik on deck....
R.A. Dickey Saved The All-Star Game's Ratings
"Tony La Russa's decision not to start R.A. Dickey in Tuesday's All-Star Game turned out to be a good one for Fox. Ratings for the telecast peaked at a 9.0 between 10 p.m.-10:15 p.m. when the Mets knuckler entered the game in the sixth inning." R.A. Dickey: still the best. [NYDN]...
Jon "Bones" Jones Sounds Like He Really Doesn't Want To Fight Anderson Silva
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: Jones calls it "a lose-lose situation."...
Read The Full Saga Of The Piggyback Bandit
Back in 2009, we wrote about the strange antics of Sherwin Shayegan, otherwise known as the Piggyback Bandit. Intrigued by Sherwin's story, the fine folks at Grantland sent Bryan Curtis on the bandit's trail in the hopes that some sense could be made of the man's obsession with piggyback rides....
Angler's Worst Nightmare Comes True As "Big-Ass Shark" Steals The Fish Right Off Her Hook
I was thinking this morning that we really don't cover fishing enough here at Deadspin, and sure enough CBS blogger Will Brinson tweeted out a link to this video that's pretty much perfect....
Phillies Announcer Melts Down: "Somebody Figure Out How To Fucking Get Scott Hairston Out!"
Scott Hairston owns the Phillies. Just plain steals their lunch and eats it in front of them, then poops in the bag and gives it back. He's a journeyman against everyone else, an All-Star against Philly....
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The World's Craziest Home Run Derby Was A Rousing Success [UPDATE]
We gave you fair warning about the world's weirdest Home Run Derby a few days ago, the one with the on-field party, live entertainment, and trampoline in left field, among other attractions. Well, lest you think that was all just bluster and hype, here's a photo of Ryan Petzar of 97.3 ESPN Radio try...
The Moral Of This Fight Video, According To A Dead Milkman: "Rastas Can Be Pretty Badass When The Need Arises"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Rastafarian War (Real Hot Head Rasta)," brought to you by "Jamaican War heads." Tonight's commentator: Back for an unprecedented third video-review slot: Rodney Anonym...
Deadspin Up All Night: Blowing Through The Curtains In Your Room
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Erik's in the house....
Ryan Howard: "I'm Going To Go Out There And Give 100 Percent Of 85 Percent."
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: Howard isn't healthy, but he's healthy enough....
Help This Georgetown Alum Come Up With Clever, Offensive Anti-Syracuse Names For His Beer Pong Team
Reader John writes in with a question addressed to me but much better suited for Deadspin's commenters:...
The Deadspin Guide To Mutual Oral Copulation
I took my kids to the pool when I was on vacation last week, and at the end of our day splashing around I dragged my son into the locker room to shower him and change him. So he sits down and starts taking off his bathing suit, and when he stands back up, I hear this big THUD on the bathroom floor. ...
Karl Rominger, Jerry Sandusky's <em>Other</em> Lawyer, Is Here To Take Your Questions
Karl Rominger teamed with Lawyerin' Joe Amendola to defend Jerry Sandusky in Sandusky's recent child sex abuse trial. Sandusky, of course, was convicted on 45 of the 48 counts against him. But almost as soon as we introduced Rominger to our readers last month, we made one of our more pleasant discov...
Birth Of A Rumor: How The "LeBron James's Love Child" Story Went Viral
It's official: the annual damaging and unfounded rumor about LeBron James's personal life has become an offseason tradition. Two years ago, it was Cleveland teammate Delonte West having sex with LeBron's mother Gloria. Last year, it was Rashard Lewis having sex with LeBron's girlfriend, Savannah Bri...
Here's The Secret Jose Canseco Old Milwaukee Ads That Aired Last Night In Kansas City
Old Milwaukee's made a name for itself in the advertising world by dropping oft-bizarre spots (often featuring actor Will Ferrell) and running them in one, usually small, television market....
This Dude In A Tiger Suit Secretly Wishes He Was A Bear
College football is full of hypotheticals. What if the ref had called that play differently? What if the kicker had adjusted slightly to the left? What if the sad man-tiger in the video above hadn't been caught deserting his team by coaching legend Les Miles? Most of the time these questions remai...
Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Early Years Of WFAN, And More
Grantland's oral history whizzes have cooked up a doozy today on WFAN, the all-day New York sports talk radio station. Mike Francesa doesn't speak in the piece—a footnote explains that it's a "matter of principle" regarding his beef with ESPN—but everybody else does. Imus, Rose, Russo, Somers, Eagle...