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Deadspin Up All Night: You Know You Make Me Wanna

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I highly, I highly suggest you click the play button above and do your best Animal House impression. ...

Thon Maker, Supremely Watchable Tall Teen, Declares For NBA Draft

Thon Maker, a 19-year-old stick figure with maybe once-in-a-generation basketball skills and a strong name, declared for the 2016 NBA Draft last night in this Bleacher Report video....

Bad Soccer Man Gets Sent Off For Mushing His Own Teammate

What was it with shoving your buddies this weekend? You’re supposed to be brothers, goddammit!...

DA: LeSean McCoy Won't Be Charged In Bar Fight

Bills running back LeSean McCoy won’t be charged for his role in a fight with off-duty cops at a Philadelphia bar in early February, District Attorney Seth Williams announced today. In a release, Williams wrote that there wasn’t “enough evidence to meet the legal threshold to issue charges.” William...

Walmart Fucks Up Maryland Shirt; Literally Truthers The Shape Of Maryland

In case you missed it last week, an enterprising Twitter user pointed out to Walmart that they were selling University of Maryland shirts with the nickname TERPS jammed into what is clearly an outline of Massachusetts:...

Only One Moment From Barcelona-Real Madrid Lived Up To The <i>Clásico</i> Name

It’s normally a safe bet that the two Clásicos of any given season will both be among the biggest and best matches of the year. Clásicos pit the two giants of Spain against one another, with teams as rich in talent as in history, in arguably the most intense and passionate rivalry in Europe, and whi...

UNC's Blatantly Fake Classes Were The Best Thing For Athletes

The NCAA is expected to complete its investigation into claims of long-running academic fraud at North Carolina within the next few weeks, and given the size and scope of what’s alleged, major sanctions are a distinct possibility. But Roy Williams isn’t sweating it. He believes the basketball progra...

Regular-Season Baseball Team Victories, Ranked

1. Win No. 1 (We’re not going to lose all our games)...

Wrestlemania Kicks Off In Front Of Half-Empty Jerry World After Ticketing Mishap [UPDATE]

Irate fans chanted “LET US IN! LET US IN!” as a stadium ticketing issue kept tens of thousands of pro wrestling fans from entering the stadium in Dallas before tonight’s Wrestlemania kicked off at 6 p.m. local time....

Deadspin Up All Night: What Was That?

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No Canadian NHL Teams Made The Stanley Cup Playoffs This Year, Woe Be Unto The North

Been to Canada lately? Everything’s marked down. Five years ago, the loonie was at historic highs against the greenback. Lately the Canadian dollar will get you about 77 American pennies, a partial result of Canada having yoked its economy to crude oil, which in 2014 went off a frickin’ cliff. Every...

Jim Nantz, He Ain't

Villanova-Oklahoma Highlights, As Called By Jim Ross Clips From Wrestlemania

Wrestlemania is tomorrow in Dallas, but it was elsewhere in Texas that saw the slobberknockers tonight as Villanova smoked Oklahoma in the first Final Four semifinal. Here are some highlights of the game, as called by “J.R.” Jim Ross’s commentary in Wrestlemanias of the past....

Deadspin Up All Night: Let's Cool One

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Report: NFL Team Wants Player To Pay To Play For Them

Here is a dumb thing!...

Stadium Blacks Out Ribbon Boards To Fix Horrific TBS Glare

Massive viewer complaints about glare from the Final Four venue ribbon boards on TBS’s broadcast led to the lights being blacked out late in the first half of tonight’s Oklahoma-Villanova semifinal....

Adrien Broner Tries To Call Out Floyd Mayweather, Turns Self Into Laughingstock

A D.C. crowd featuring mayor Muriel Bowser and Steve Francis scornfully mocked Adrien Broner after the boxer clumsily tried to call a ringside Floyd Mayweather Jr. back into boxing....

Play the Game the Right Way

This is a special Jezspin guest post by Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan....

Man Achieves Adequacy 

On April 1, in the Year of Our Lord 2016, a man finally achieved adequacy. We gave him a trophy, and surprise-interviewed him about this historic achievement. ...

NCAA Escapes Upsetting Crucial Auntie Fan Base By Keeping Luther Vandross-Sung Theme Song

In an embarrassing lack of judgement, Turner Broadcasting announced it’d be replacing Luther Vandross’ iconic version of “One Shining Moment” as their NCAA theme song last week. But once the all important Auntie and smooth R&B contingent weighed in, TBS realized their grave mistake....