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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....

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...

High School Play Features Some Of The Worst Tackling You'll Ever See

This brief highlight is ostensibly supposed to show us what a talented high school wide receiver Angelo Wiggins is, and I suppose it does that, but what it really teaches us is that high school football players can't tackle for shit....

​Deadspin Up All Night: It's A Put-On

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The NHL Probably Shouldn't Hire Chris Pronger, Who's Still A Flyer

Chris Pronger hasn't played since 2011, but he remains under contract with the Flyers through 2017. That alone seems like enough to preclude Pronger taking a job in the league office. You'd think! ...

A Mascot Showed Up At Adrian Peterson's Court Hearing Today

Adrian Peterson made his first appearance in a Montgomery County (Texas) court today on the charge of reckless or negligent injury to one of his sons. Not much happened. The indefinitely suspended running back didn't even enter a formal plea. The prosecutor said he would file a motion asking for a n...

There's Nothing Wrong With The Dodgers Spending A Lot Of Money

Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal has a column up today that rightly marvels at the St. Louis Cardinals' ability to consistently win in the postseason. Things take a weird turn, though, when Rosenthal starts referring to the Los Angeles Dodgers as the "Dollars."...

This Sous Vide Circulator Will Transform Your Cooking, And More Deals

We featured this deal awhile back, but in case you missed it, this $170 sous vide circulator will completely transform your cooking. Highly-recommended. [Anova Sous Vide Immersion Circulator, $170]...

Trinidad And Tobago Women's Soccer Team Could Use Help With Meal Money

Trinidad and Tobago just made it to the United States for the final round of qualifying for the 2015 Women's World Cup, a goal the island nation has never achieved in its 23 years of fielding a women's soccer team. It's not going to be easy: the "Soca Princesses" have arrived with, quite literally, ...

Madison Bumgarner Is Now Up To Five Beers At A Time

OK, this is threatening to get out of hand. After winning the play-in game last week, Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner "drank" four beers at once. (More realistically, he poured four beers onto his face.) After the Giants won their division series last night, Bumgarner has graduated to five....

<em>Denver Post</em> Suspends Avalanche Beat Writer For Twitter Meltdown

The Denver Post yesterday announced a two-week unpaid suspension for Avalanche beat writer Adrian Dater, after he blasted a young Kings player for a three-year-old "pussy play," got into a screaming match on Twitter with just about everyone, and slid into a another writer's inbox to tell him to ...

Adrian Peterson Shows His Dumb Talking Points To The World

Adrian Peterson took to his Twitter account Tuesday night. This was a really bad idea. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Chicken Bone Chicken Bone

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Everything You Need To Know For The 2014-15 NHL Season

The NHL season starts tomorrow, we think. So you probably have a lot of questions. We're here with answers....