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Chad Johnson Busts His Ass On A Skateboard
Chad Johnson, ex-NFL receiver and former Chad Ochocinco, went skateboarding in Atlanta this weekend and inadvertently produced a flawless piece of physical comedy:...
Deadspin Awards: Best Scandal
The Deadspin Awards are this month, and you can come! We also need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to help us determine the answer to an important question: What is the best sports scandal?...
Cameraman Is SO MAD At Bus That Blocked View Of Georgia Dome Implosion
The Weather Channel was one of many outlets that aired this morning’s implosion of the Georgia Dome. The Weather Channel was the only outlet thats camera was set up in the exact wrong spot for this MARTA bus pull up at the exact wrong time to ruin the shot. After 40 minutes of unobstructed streaming...
Warriors Endorse Jahlil Okafor's Quest For Freedom From The Sixers
Sixers center Jahlil Okafor is pretty much done in Philadelphia, as he’s played just 25 minutes this season and slipped behind Amir Johnson on the depth chart. Even though both parties should move on for their mutual benefit, the Sixers are holding Okafor hostage and hoping to trade him for somethin...
How A Bootleg Prep School Profited By Ripping Off Teens With NBA Dreams<em></em>
During his first few days in jail, Mumin Tunc folded the limbs of his 7-foot-tall teenage frame as best he could and sat on his cell mattress with his back glued to the wall. He barely slept. Accused criminals filled the cells around him at the York County detention facility in York, S.C. Some were ...
Penn Coach Sorry For Costing Fans A Shot At Free Cheesesteaks, Vows Future Culinary Satisfaction
The University of Pennsylvania Quakers men’s basketball team took on Penn State Brandywine at the Palestra on Saturday, and I was in attendance. I took my dad, who actually played for Penn State Brandywine back when it was Penn State’s Delaware County extension campus. I figured getting to see my al...
Georgia Dome Blowed Up Real Good
It took only 25 years for the Georgia Dome to be deemed obsolete and replaced, and another 15 seconds for the whole thing to come down....
NBC Airs A Bizarre NFL Promo Featuring Lawrence Taylor
In 2010, former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was charged with third-degree rape, patronizing a prostitute, sexual abuse, and endangering a child, after he had sex with a 16-year-old who’d been delivered to him against her will by a pimp, who’d punched her in the face in order to secure her comp...
Deadspin Up All Night: Where It's Goin' No One Knows
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The Vikings Locked Down The Rams
So far this season, only one team had held the Los Angeles Rams to fewer than 20 points—the Seattle Seahawks. Since that blip of a loss in Seattle, though, the Rams had continued to put up points at a rate unmatched by any other NFL team, scoring 27, 33, 51, and 33 points in their past four games....
Sunday's Exciting Markelle Fultz Update: Fultz Still Out Indefinitely
Word started to spread Sunday morning that the Philadelphia 76ers would be sharing an update on the injury status of young Markelle Fultz, and that the news would be positive. That’s great! There has been almost no good Fultz news from the moment the Sixers drafted him—any good Fultz news is great F...
Giants Find Yet Another Way To Fail
Perhaps tired of seeing Eli Manning’s leadership of the New York offense come up dreadfully short, Giants coach Ben McAdoo called a toss for running back Shane Vereen and hoped he could give the team a lead with a tricky pass play. It went as well as any other McAdoo decision this year, with Vereen ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Carrion Flowers
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Get those rotten pumpkins off your stoop you damn slob!...
The NBA's One-And-Done Draft Rule Is Just Dumb Enough To Allow One More Prep-To-Pro Star
ESPN reported this week that Adam Silver and Michele Roberts are more open than ever to changing the NBA’s draft eligibility rules, which currently require American high school players to be a year removed from the graduation of their high school class by the time of the draft in order to be eligibl...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Got Mine But I Want More
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. This album is 20 years old today....
Deadspin Awards: Most Offensive Sports Media Personality
The Deadspin Awards are this month, and you can come! We also need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to help us determine the answer to an important question: Who is the most offensive sports media personality?...
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O'Neill Wants You To Know He Has Fucked
The last time we saw Ohio Supreme Court Justice and prolific Facebook user Bill O’Neill around these parts, he was taking the “draft dodging millionaires” of the Cleveland Browns to task for kneeling during the national anthem. O’Neill is self-evidently a man of many passions, but mostly he loves to...
The Curtain Falls On The Mikes
Today was the final episode of Big Mike and Little Mike. Take a moment to remember them....
I Can’t Get Enough Of The Stupid NFL Pizza Wars<em></em>
Earlier this week the Papa John’s Twitter account, which apparently thinks it is a real person, bravely denounced Nazis who might enjoy its product and apologized for dipping their garlicky, ranchy toes into the middle of an NFL civil war. And while I love it when a brand publicly steps on its own n...
Deadspin Up All Night: That's No Place For Me
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Less talk....