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Make Your Bed. Make Your Bed? Make Your Bed!
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her....
You've Got To Be Superman To Swing Like Jose Abreu
When the Chicago White Sox signed Cuban defector Jose Abreu to a six-year, $68 million deal, the expectation was that he would be worth his money, and the hope was that he would be be the next slugging first baseman/DH in the line of team greats Frank Thomas and Paul Konerko. It turned out to be a p...
The Panthers Just Dressed Two Different Emergency Goaltenders
The Florida Panthers had enough goaltender weirdness for an entire season tonight, all in the span of about a period and a half....
Daniel Murphy Disagrees With The Gay "Lifestyle"
New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy says that he would be accepting of a gay teammate, but that he “disagree[s] with the lifestyle, 100 percent,” throwing the authenticity of his claimed acceptance into question. ...
Report: Man Who Told On Jackie Robinson West Arrested For Assault
The man whose whistleblowing—or snitching, depending upon your perspective—led to the Jackie Robinson West Little League team losing their national title has been arrested for assault, DNAInfo reports. Chris Janes is alleged to have drunkenly tried to enter a neighbor's home at 1 a.m. Tuesday, a...
Deadspin Up All Night: We're No Heroes
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Prince Was An Afro-Rocking, Coach-Hating Schoolboy Basketball Player
This is a picture of Prince. In middle school. In his middle school basketball team’s uniform. Because he was on the team....
Report: Denver Nuggets Fire Head Coach Brian Shaw
According to Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski, the long nightmare that was Brian Shaw's tenure as coach of the Denver Nuggets has come to an end....
Vladimir Guerrero Had Hubris, And He Had Balls
The following is excerpted from Jonah Keri's Up, Up, & Away: The Kid, The Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, Le Grand Orange, Youppi!, The Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos, a wonderful and definitive account of Montreal's much-lamented baseball team. The book w...
Why Your Children’s Video Game Sucks: <i>Minecraft </i>
The Game: Minecraft...
Things That Are The Worst, Ranked
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering the dress, pantsless driving, bare feet, and more....
HS Basketball Team Booted From Playoffs For Wearing "Illegal Uniforms"
The Nathaniel Narbonne High School (Harbor City, Calif.) girls basketball team has lost their place in the Los Angeles City Section Open Division finals—and has been barred from the state tournament—for wearing "illegal uniforms" in Saturday's semifinal victory over View Park Preparatory Accelerat...
Rugby League Superstar Jarryd Hayne Signs Futures Contract With 49ers
Former Rugby League superstar Jarryd Hayne—who quit in October to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL—just announced at a press conference that he has signed a futures contract with the San Francisco 49ers. This means that Hayne won't count against the 49ers 53-man roster limit for next season. H...
Hassan Whiteside Tackles Alex Len To The Floor In A Real NBA Fight
Hassan Whiteside fought just to make it to the NBA. He only played 111 minutes for the Kings in his first two seasons after being drafted, before he was waived. He played a season in the D-League without getting called up. He played in Lebanon, and then China, and then Lebanon again, and then Chin...
Seven Players Ejected As Texas Knocks Off Baylor
Texas just topped 14th ranked Baylor to bolster its NCAA tournament hopes, but not without some (threatened) fisticuffs. With two minutes left in overtime, Baylor's Royce O'Neale* and Texas's Isaiah Taylor dove for a loose ball. O'Neale—accidentally, it looks like—elbowed Taylor, prompting the ben...
Alfredo Despaigne Has The Slowest Home Run Trots Ever
Cuban left fielder Alfredo Despaigne is one of the best baseball players not currently playing in Major League Baseball, and he's going to celebrate home runs however he damn pleases. Today his Alazanes de Granma took on Cazadores de Artemisa, and Despaigne mashed two homers. To celebrate, he bu...
Deadspin Up All Night: Don't Blame The Canadians
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Arkansas Player Arrested For DWI; Bret Bielema Limits His Car Use
After police arrested Arkansas defensive lineman Tevin Beanum for a DWI early Sunday morning, Razorbacks head coach Bret Bielema didn't completely boot Beanum from the team, but he did hand out an appropriate punishment: Beanum can't use his car except for classes or practice....
Curt Schilling Goes Dadmode On Twitter Trolls Bashing His Daughter
Curt Schilling is wrong on so many things, but not this one. Schilling tweeted out congratulations to his daughter last week for getting accepted to college, where she'll play softball. Here's what he said. It's a nice, solid Proud Dad tweet. ...