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Washington Football Team Sues Former Player For Extra Severance Pay They Accidentally Gave Him

H.B. Blades was a sixth-round pick from Pittsburgh who played four seasons for Washington as a linebacker. The team cut him in 2011, and formally paid him $40,000 in severance pay in September 2012. However, they also paid out that same sum a few months later, and they’ve been fighting in court ever...

NFL Network Screwup Catches Analysts Mocking Prospect

NFL Network inadvertently aired its analysts’ off-air commentary on a quarterback prospect at the NFL combine, mocking both his singing and throwing ability while declaring him “the next former Browns quarterback.”...

Bellator Match Ends With Knocked-Out Dude Taking Several More Punches To Head

Tonight’s Bellator 150 middleweight fight between Kendall Grove and “Kiko” France ended with Grove knocking out his opponent. That part was exciting, though what came after might have been more frightening than thrilling....

It's 2016 And You Can Still Watch Steve Yzerman Score On Patrick Roy

Ciccarelli. Ysebaert. Lidstrom. Primeau. Cheveldae. Growing up in northwest Ohio and well within the night-time range of Detroit’s WJR-AM, these Detroit Red Wings players were my earliest hockey heroes. The opportunity to see some of them skate again no doubt drives the NHL’s Alumni series, which th...

Deadspin Up All Night: Take Me Down Easy

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This Pass From Isaiah Whitehead Is Extremely Good And Cool

Okay, so it’s not as good as Isaiah Thomas’s dime, which I still can’t wrap my head around, but this is still pretty cool. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Just Be Glad

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Women's Lacrosse Player Repeatedly Bashes Her Opponent In The Head With Her Stick [Update]

An Oregon Ducks women’s lacrosse player was caught on video smacking her opponent in the head with her stick three separate times during the team’s game against Detroit Mercy on Feb. 21....

Every NYC Romantic Comedy Is Full Of Shit In The Exact Same Way

Our first mistake was going to see this thing when we did. A friend and I stumbled into a showing of How to Be Single after a few glasses of wine a few days after it hit theaters—the same weekend Deadpool opened. Our theater is a small one a few blocks away from my apartment in Williamsburg, Brookly...

The Phillies’ new quant guru would like to assure everyone that the team did in fact have computers before he was brought on. [MLB]...

Jason Pierre-Paul Sues Adam Schefter And ESPN For Tweeting His Medical Records

New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul has sued Adam Schefter and ESPN for posting his medical records on Twitter, alleging a violation of his privacy and Florida’s medical records statute, and asking for in excess of $15,000 in damages. This is the tweet at the heart of the lawsuit:...

Deadspin Up All Night: All This Obscenity

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Is Steph Curry Making Other NBA Players Worse?

Steph Curry is a bloodless assassin who could shoot your eyelashes off from a mile away and is destroying the rest of the NBA by nailing shots from near-mid-court on a regular basis. He’s a fucking freak of nature, but is his uncanny long-range ability rubbing off on lesser NBA players (****cough co...

Dada 5000's Camp Calls Joe Rogan's "Fried Chicken And Orange Soda" Comment "Overtly Racist"

Saturday’s Bellator fight between Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson and Dhafir “Dada 5000" Harris went from farcical to concerning after reports came out that Harris’s heart had stopped after the bout. ...

Who's Responsible When A Couch In The Road Causes An Accident? 

Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below....

Former British Olympian And Diehard Arsenal Fan Did Not React Well To Yesterday's Loss [Update: This Didn't Happen]

Update [11:01 a.m.]: Turns out, the tweeted picture showing the remote in the TV was a joke and not actually a picture of Sotherton’s TV. Sorry for the error. The original post is below....

The Canadiens' Automated Twitter Promotion Has Gone Horribly Awry

I thought we’d already learned our lesson here. Just like the New England Patriots, the Montreal Canadiens decided to celebrate reaching one million followers on Twitter by creating custom avatar jerseys with Twitter handles. But the Canadiens were so lazy that they didn’t even bother to filter out ...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Hot Sun

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D-Backs Pitcher Josh Collmenter Teaches Physics To Teammates

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Josh Collmenter is using his free time during spring training in a productive way: classes for his teammates. Today, the players learned about physics....

Craig Smith Did A Thing That I Have No Idea How He Did

I say this without hyperbole: this might be the most improbable thing that’s ever happened in sports. With a wide open net two feet away in overtime, Nashville’s Craig Smith shot the puck—somehow got his stick in front of it—and blocked his own shot....