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Michigan State Suplexed Purdue's Akeem Hunt Right Onto His Head
Oh, man, that's an ugly botch. (Commentators noted it could have been called a personal foul.)...

Report: Bradley Beal To Miss "Significant" Time With Wrist Injury
Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal will miss "significant" time after suffering a wrist injury in a preseason game against the Charlotte Hornets Friday, according to CSN Washington's J. Michael. Nobody would give Michael a specific timetable because Beal and the team are still consulting with doc...

How To Braise A Big Chuck Roast, And Stave Off Scurvy, For Now
Living the life of a regular person—teetering indefinitely on the edge of total destitution, that is to say—you get familiar with the tension between the limits of your financial wherewithal and the ugh like totally selfish desire to not just eat pasta and plain rice and cereal all the time and get...

Football Team Rushes For 600 Yards, Scores 78 Points, Still Loses
Last night's Pennsylvania high school game between Warren and Meadville finished with a 79-78 final score, in regulation. Losers Meadville racked up 799 total yards—600 of them on the ground!—and couldn't top their hosts, who came into the game with a 1-5 record....

Hockey Fight Ends In Player's Head Being Bashed Into The Ice
Your ugly ice hockey fight of the night comes from the AHL, where Trevor Gillies of the Adirondack Flames grabbed Rochester forward William Carrier's head and bashed it into the ice....

This Shot Looks Like It Was Deflected. It Wasn't.
Enner Valencia earned an 88th-minute equalizer for Ecuador with this wild shot that looks like it was deflected—but replay showed it wasn't. He just put that much Guzan-stunning English on it....

Deadspin Up All Night: Leaving The Bodega
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Have a nice weekend!...

The Eagles Made A Halloween-Themed Video About Li'l Eli Manning
It looks like they worked very hard on this. The least you could do is watch it....

The Best Car-Drying Towel, Cheap TVs, $15 Vacuum, and More Deals
This microfiber towel is considered by many detailing aficionados to be the best for drying off your car. I own it, and can confirm that it's less a towel as much as a towel-shaped sponge. [ Meguiar's X2000 Water Magnet Microfiber Drying Towel, $8]...

Hate Mail (Mostly) From Cardinals Fans
Our recent coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals has elicited many responses from our readers. Some of them are angry, some of them less so....

Trinidad & Tobago Women's Soccer Team Gets Unlikely Help From Haiti
On Wednesday we wrote about the Trinidad & Tobago women's soccer team, which arrived in the U.S. for World Cup qualifying with just about $500 to its name. That wasn't nearly enough to cover the food, travel, and equipment needed for the next three weeks. But fans and colleagues have stepped up to h...

Endurance Is Booming, But Has Leadville Trail 100 Gone Too Far?
Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colo., is as quirky and canted and laid-back as any mountain town main drag. The commerce here is of the kitschy variety you find in ex-boom towns—antique stores, gem shops, ice cream parlors—except for an August weekend every year when the intersection of Harrison and ...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Speak Double Dutch To A Real Double Duchess
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Bad News, Baseball Fans
We get tips. (You should send us some!) Here's a tip we just got, and it's bad news for those of you who were looking forward to watching baseball tomorrow and Saturday nights:...

Adrian Peterson Told His Urine Tester He Smoked Weed, For Some Reason
Prosecutors in Adrian Peterson's criminal case in Texas are asking a judge to revoke the running back's bond and have him arrested, again, after they say Peterson admitted during a urine test that he "smoked a little weed." ...

NFL Fines Colin Kaepernick For Wearing The Wrong Brand Of Headphones
Forced to choose between the pandering of Pinktober and its commitment to its sponsors, the NFL has come down firmly on the side of its corporate overlords. Colin Kaepernick confirmed today that the league fined him $10,000 for wearing the wrong headphones on Sunday....
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AHL Mascot's Backstory Totally Includes A Dead Firefighter [Update]
Via Puck Daddy, this is Scorch. He's the newly revealed mascot of the AHL's Adirondack Flames. He was probably purchased a local Halloween superstore. But his shoddy construction and uninspiring photoshoot locations are probably the least problematic thing about him....

Sweet ESPN Martial Arts Broadcast A Throwback To Network's Early Days
If you're old enough to remember any of the 80's, you know that ESPN wasn't always the home to 24-hour jabbering analysts and NFL talk shows. In its more fledgling days, the WWL aired whatever content to which it could obtain rights; thus, Americans were introduced to wacky hat-wearing and fingerg...

A Zippo To Warm Your Hands, Spheres to Cool Your Drink, and More Deals
If you tend to go through a few packs of those chemical hand warmers every winter, this Zippo alternative will pay for itself while looking really cool, and doing less damage to the environment. It features solid reviews, a sub-$13 price tag, and can run for 12 hours on a single ounce of lighter f...
