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Michael Bradley Scores From Long Range To Put U.S. Up 1-0 On Mexico
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Deadspin Up All Night: The Greatest
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Rafael Nadal Cruises To Record 10th French Open Title
Rafael Nadal won a record 10th French Open title today by making quick work of Stan Wawrinka, 6-2, 6-3, 6-1. Nadal faced one break point all day, and saved it. It was a brutal, dominating performance, and of a guy who just took out world number one Andy Murray, and notched a title of his own at Rola...

Deadspin Up All Night: We're On Drugs
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Deadspin Up All Night: Start All Over Again
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Rafael Nadal Took A Gifted Youth's Lunch Money, And His Will To Live
Towards the tail end of the clay season, even this skeptic had cast aside old doubts: 23-year-old Dominic Thiem is the future. Particularly on the dirt. But as of right now, the future still feels impossibly far away. Rafael Nadal, 31 years old and the best clay court tennis player past and present,...

Christian Pulisic Is Restoring My Faith In U.S. Soccer
There was, I must admit, a moment there before the start of last night’s crucial USA vs. Trinidad and Tobago World Cup qualifier when I thought it would be better if the U.S. blew the match and the next couple and wound up missing out on next summer’s World Cup....

LaVar Ball Talks About Disciplining Kids With Belt, Immediately Explains He Doesn't Actually Do So<em></em>
LaVar Ball gave an extensive interview to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman this morning, wherein he discussed hypothetical future NBA plans for his three teen sons (two of whom have never played college basketball), his wife’s recovery from a stroke she suffered three months ago, and how he disciplines his sons,...

First-Round NBA Draft Prospect Jonathan Jeanne Diagnosed With Career-Threatening Disorder
Jonathan Jeanne is a 7-foot-2 center from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe who’s played a bit in the French league and was expected by some to be a first-round pick in the NBA Draft. Jonathan Givony had him going to Brooklyn with the 22nd pick and Chad Ford projected him to be picked by the Rapto...

Ohio State Hires Butler's Chris Holtmann As New Men's Basketball Coach
Chris Holtmann, who only two days ago was tweeting about how eager he was to coach Butler’s team this year, will succeed Thad Matta and take over the Ohio State men’s basketball program, the school announced today. ...

Are The Warriors The GOAT If They Complete A Sweep?
The Golden State Warriors stand on the brink of history this evening, poised to make an unprecedented clean sweep through the NBA playoffs and rendering all resistance futile. So I suppose it’s time to take the Talk Radio Summer Argument lockbox out of the attic, open it up, and ask: If the Warriors...

Maikel Franco's Bat Causes Lengthy Delay In Atlanta
Philadelphia third baseman Maikel Franco, like many of his Phillies teammates, found a new way to screw up a baseball game tonight as he hurled his bat into the backstop netting, lodging it there and leading to a series of pathetic attempts to retrieve it....

Deadspin Up All Night: You'll Never Break
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MLB Will Investigate Domestic Violence Accusations Against Addison Russell
While the Cubs were playing the Marlins last night, Addison Russell’s wife, Melisa, shared an Instagram post in which she claimed that Russell had cheated on her. In the comments of that post, a friend of Melisa’s accused him of being physically and emotionally abusive....

Brian Burke To Calgary: Nice Hockey Team You Got Here, Shame If Something Happened To It
It’s remarkable that one of the most blatant threats to leave a city somehow begins with the words “we’re not going to make the threat to leave”:...

Let Us All Marvel At Andrés<em></em> Blanco’s 70 MPH Fastballs
The Phillies, already the worst team in baseball so far this year, trailed 12-0 in the bottom of the eighth last night. So why not bring in an infielder to pitch? Utility man Andrés Blanco toed the rubber for the first time in the majors....

Deadspin Up All Night: Take Me Away To Nowhere Plains
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Cal Is Fucked Because Of Its Stupid Stadium Deal
The University of California-Berkeley first built Memorial Stadium atop their campus in 1923 as a tribute to those who died fighting World War I. It’s one of the most beautiful college football stadiums in the country, a gem perched in the Berkeley Hills that overlooks the East Bay, San Francisco, a...

Neighbors Are Hell
When I was a young kid we knew all the names of pretty much everybody in our whole little neighborhood. The kids were a pack; in the summer, when your parents kicked you out of the house after breakfast—everybody did this—you just found the other kids and skulked around until somebody came up with ...

Rafael Nadal Is Two Wins From The French Open
Pablo Carreño Busta offered the only blip of diversity in a quarterfinals that was otherwise purely chalk: seeds No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 were all still in play. As nice as it was to see one of those three-name clay courters edge past No. 5 Milos Raonic in five sets and make his way into this rar...