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Deadspin Up All Night: It's Too Easy
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Ons Jabeur Is The First Arab Woman To Make It This Far Into A Grand Slam
Ons Jabeur, ranked No. 114 in the world, slipped into the French Open as a “lucky loser”—a player who lost in qualifying rounds but nevertheless lucked into a spot vacated by another player’s withdrawal. Before this tournament, the 22-year-old Tunisian had played only two other Grand Slam matches in...
Jets And Browns Exchange Hostages
The Jets and Browns made a rare player-for-player trade this morning, with safety Calvin Pryor going to Cleveland and inside linebacker Demario Davis headed back to North Jersey. Because both players are Jets draft busts, this deal feels like a ransom agreement....
Beans, Ranked<em></em>
As you know, this site supposedly exists for the sake of juicy sports news and gossip, but what we REALLY do instead is rank random bullshit and start flame wars with those rankings. This week, that means we’re ranking beans. And I don’t mean bean dishes. I’m talking about the actual beans themselve...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Thinks LaVar Ball Will Chill Out After The NBA Draft
NBA commissioner Adam Silver joined Mike and his friend Mike on ESPN’s Mike & Mike this morning, where he spoke about the forthcoming NBA Finals, competitive balance in the league, and, of course, the basketball world’s slide magnate du jour, LaVar Ball. His son Lonzo will likely be a top-two pick i...
Deadspin Up All Night: The Worst Thing In 1954 Was The Bikini
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Badass Referee Ducks Disgruntled Player's Punch, Squares Up And Starts Swinging
We’ve seen too many instances of helpless referees getting punched, smacked, kicked, jumped, stomped out, and even killed by bad soccer men mad over some call or other. So it’s a nice change of pace seeing this referee, overseeing a match in Argentina’s Copa Santa Fe, fighting back for once....
The Phillies Have Had A Truly Terrible Month
The Phillies head into their game tonight at Marlins Park with a record of 6-21 in May. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s not very good. In fact, it’s atrocious....
Rafael Nadal's Second-Round Opponent Didn't Stand A Chance
Robin Haase, a Dutch professional tennis player ranked No. 46 in the world, drew Rafael Nadal in the second round of the French Open on Tuesday, ending things at 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. He was 30....
Deadspin Up All Night: Back To The Lab<em></em>
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<i>Mike & Mike</i>'s Mike: Mike And Mike Are "Fine"<em></em><em></em>
Is the Mike situation toxic? Not so, if you believe Mike....
Rafael Nadal Notched His First Kill
Shortly before his first-round match against Rafael Nadal at the French Open, Benoit Paire took a photo of his supper. It was the post of a man totally at peace with what was about to happen to him....
Deadspin Up All Night: Struttin' With Some Barbecue
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Devastating Punch Leaves Fighter Stumbling Around "Like A Freshly Born Horse"
Serbian Bojan Velickovic took a third-round win by TKO when his counterpunch left Sweden’s Nico Musoke so brain-scrambled that he stumbled around the ring for several moments at today’s UFC event in Stockholm. (Velickovic later landed a punch straight to Musoke’s forehead before referee Kevin Sataki...
White Sox Promote Adam Engel From Triple-A
Today, the Chicago White Sox promoted center fielder Adam Engel from Triple-A Charlotte, where he was hitting .221/.312/.463. Engel takes a roster spot vacated by utility man Tyler Saladino, who is on the 10-day disabled list with “sciatic nerve related stuff.” Engel got a hit in the eighth inning o...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Wanna Play Where You Play With The Angels
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Pair Of Golazos Leave Copa Del Rey Final Knotted 1-1
An outstanding display of Barça teamwork was met three minutes later by a golazo free kick by Theo in the first half of today’s Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Alavés....
Hall Of Fame Pitcher And Former Republican Senator Jim Bunning Dies At 85
Hall of Fame pitcher and former Republican senator Jim Bunning died last night at the age of 85....
Injured Rugby League Player Miraculously Healed Once Punches Start Being Thrown
Today’s English rugby league championship match between Oldham Roughyeds and Rochdale Hornets ended in fisticuffs sparked by a head injury to Rochdale’s Danny Yates—a blow levied by his own teammate’s elbow, left a visible hematoma on Yates’s skull, but one that didn’t keep the scrum-half from enter...