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NBA Likely To Adjust Playoff Seeding, Won't Prevent Hack-A-Shaq
With everybody in the basketball world in Las Vegas for the Summer League, the NBA held meetings of both its competition committee and Board of Governors, and afterwards commissioner Adam Silver answered questions from the media. There were no bombshells, just a number of small but interesting chang...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Sleep In A Sleeping Bag
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Boomerangs Are Bullshit
Deadspin is nominally a sports blogsite. There are no major sports in action right now unless you want to count baseball, which is a bad and weak sport. So we at Deadspin started talking about comic books, because at least 100 grim, gritty trailers for superhero movies came out over the weekend. Eve...
This Dude Scores A Full-On Volley From Damn Near The Halfway Line
First thing first: Check out this goal. It’s totally nuts....
Diego Maradona Can't Decide Whether To Defend Or Bash Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi failed to drag Argentina to the title in yet another major international tournament, giving his countrymen another shot to break out the bats and partake in what is now looking like the real Argentine national pastime: beating up on Messi’s reputation. As has been typical of the man’s h...
Deadspin Up All Night: Run To The River
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Chris Broussard Is ESPN’s Favorite Kind Of Shitty
Between fucking up his report on the DeAndre Jordan saga and beefing with co-workers about the chastity of Russell Wilson, last week was quite a week for ESPN reporter and self-proclaimed “thought leader” Chris Broussard. With ESPN tightening its belt and sending away expensive, outspoken talent lik...
The Time Ken Stabler Maybe Planted Cocaine On A Sportswriter He Hated
Last Friday, we republished Pete Axthelm’s great old profile on Ken Stabler, the swashbuckling former NFL quarterback who died at the age of 69 last week. In that profile is an unbelievable anecdote about a “prank” that is impossible to imagine happening in today’s NFL....
Sad Little Man Utd Fan Is Just Bawling Over Robin van Persie Transfer
Aww, there there little Louis. When we imagined Manchester United fans crying over Robin van Persie’s impending move to Turkey, we thought they’d be tears of joy. Chin up, kid. The Memphis Depay era should be a good one....
Adam Schefter Explains Why He Posted Jason Pierre-Paul's Medical Records
In Richard Deitsch’s weekly media column at SI.com, ESPN’s Adam Schefter fields questions about why he decided to publish photos Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical charts, rather than simply report that the Giants DE had his right index finger amputated after a fireworks accident. His answer, roughly: if y...
BMX Rider Nails World's First Quadruple Backflip
Riders Jed Mildon and James Foster have spent most of the last year competing to become the first to land a quad flip—just four years after Mildon hit the first triple flip. This weekend, Mildon won the race to four, helped in no small part by Foster’s separated shoulder and 10 broken ribs suffered ...
John Oliver Explains The Biggest Scam In Sports
If you frequent this website, you know the public financing of stadium construction is our bête noire—a massive, ongoing, inexplicable scandal that’s more likely than not to be taking money out of your and your community’s pockets as we speak. John Oliver’s takedown of stadium financing on Last Week...
The Moment Where It All Ended
Here are some of our favorite photos from UFC 189: ...
Joel Embiid Likely To Miss Upcoming Season After Foot Surgery
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is likely to miss the 2015-2016 season, according to Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Embiid is scheduled to have surgery in his right foot, which caused him to miss all of last season. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Get Some Air Up In This Room
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USWNT Parade Enjoyed By All Except Stranded 🍕 GuyÂ
Thing to do when Broadway is going to be shut down for two hours to honor a World Cup-winning soccer team: make sure the pizza place you ordered 10 pies from for lunch is located on the same side of the street....
Scenes From The USWNT's Victory Parade
Earlier today, the world champion U.S. women’s national soccer team was fêted with a ticker-tape parade up Broadway and presented with the keys to the city in a ceremony at City Hall. It was the 206th parade up the “Canyon of Heroes” in New York’s history (full list here), and the crowd might’ve ske...
It's Time To See If Conor McGregor, A Beautiful Troll, Can Fight
On Saturday, Irish fighter Conor McGregor will face Chad Mendes for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s interim featherweight championship. The bout will be the final chapter of a saga over two years in the making....
Is Refusing A Breathalyzer Test Ever Smart?
Welcome to Ask a Lawyer, where I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below. Keep in mind that this is general information, and not formal legal advice or legal representation; if you need any of that, you should get it from a lawye...
At The Sports Brand Awards, Brands Tell A Story About Telling Stories
When I walked into Cipriani on 42nd St.—a gorgeous Manhattan event space highlighted by stone archways, Greek columns, and ceilings higher than those of a Renaissance cathedral’s—on Wednesday night, I was greeted by a bank of MacBooks, each manned by a well-dressed young person, their faces glowing ...