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Deadspin Up All Night: I'm Not From Earth, From Far Away

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Darren Rovell Can't Tell A Two From A Five

Darren Rovell is a petty dickhead. Because people make so many jokes about how he is a money-grubbing, soulless, post-human shill for rich old men and corporations, his sheer petty dickheadedness can go underappreciated, but it's really what defines him, which is why the very best Rovell stories i...

Contract? What contract? That's what the University of Akron told a Kent State journalist who asked for a copy of the TV contract between ESPN and the MAC. The contract reportedly is worth more than $100 million. [When Journalism Fails]...

What Should A Commissioner Be?

Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....

NFL Issues Press Release Through <em>USA Today</em> On How Hard It's Working

The NFL wants you to know it's working hard on the issue of domestic violence. It hasn't actually changed anything since the video of Ray Rice slugging his wife was released. But why should that get in the way of a good press release, also known as an exclusive interview, as Tim Marchman explained y...

BC Coach Steve Addazio's Vine Account Is A Wonderful Relic

Boston College head football coach Steve Addazio hasn't uploaded anything to his Vine account in over a year. That is very sad, because before abandoning the medium, Addazio spent one fateful day in June of 2013 creating some of the best Vines I have ever seen....

Rugby Guy Gets Hit In The Balls, Checks To Make Sure They're Still There

This happened during the Rugby World Cup way back in 2003, but it's surfaced on the internet now because the English rugby team is celebrating the top moments from the 2003 tournament (thanks, English rugby!) This top moment involves Will Greenwood taking a shot to the balls while getting tackled, a...

Two not-unrelated things worth reading: Bill Barnwell on what football could become without the NFL, and a look back at the heady days of the XFL....

Friday Night Lights

Longform has been killin' it these days. Yesterday, they reprinted this classic from Buzz Bissinger:...

Texas QB David Ash Gives Up Football Due To Concussions

Texas coach Charlie Strong announced today that quarterback David Ash has given up football after suffering multiple concussions over his career. Ash is the second college football quarterback in a little over a week to give up the game because of concussions. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: You've Already Been

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The NFL's Useful Idiots Want Roger Goodell To Get Tough; They're Wrong

The bad thing about the corruption in NFL reporting is that there's literally no way for a league higher-up to fuck up badly enough to be held to account by the people best positioned to do so. The good thing is that if you want to know what the NFL wants you to think, all you have to do is read w...

Jameis Winston To Sit One Half For Yelling "Fuck Her Right In The Pussy"

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston will sit out the first half of the Seminoles' game against Clemson Saturday as punishment for yelling "Fuck her right in the pussy" on a table in the middle of campus Tuesday....

Rickey & Robinson

Roger Kahn's latest book, Rickey & Robinson, has just been published. For more, check out this post by the book's editor, Mark Weinstein. ...

Adam Jones Pies Fans While Celebrating AL East Title

The Baltimore Orioles clinched the AL East last night, which is great news, because the Orioles are not the Red Sox or the Yankees. It is also great news because it gave Orioles all-star outfielder Adam Jones a chance to celebrate his team's division title by mashing pies into the faces of Orioles...

Korean Mayor Egged By Councilman For Relocating Baseball Stadium

What you see here, via our friends at MyKBO.net, is the mayor of Changwon, South Korea, Ahn Sang-soo, getting busted with an egg thrown by councilman Kim Sung-il. ...

Sally Jenkins has a very good column out today about the fundamental insanity of the NFL, which is not in fact a credible moral arbiter, trying to use its conduct policy as a branding tool. [Washington Post]...

Brandon Marshall's Pissed, But What Did ESPN Do Wrong, Exactly?

ESPN's newsmagazine show E:60 broadcast a segment on Bears receiver Brandon Marshall tonight and he is pissed off about it. Marshall took to Twitter to air his grievances before the show even began:...

Sandy Koufax: Jackie Robinson Tried To Make Things Easier For Me

The beauty of the Internet is that it offers up surprises and treats. Never know when you're going to find something worth remembering. I was toolin' around my Tumblr feed the other day when I ran across a beautiful illustrated piece by an artist named Katherine W. Wirick. Another talented picture-m...

Deadspin Up All Night: It's Gotta Be The Shoes

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