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Tom Landry's Widow Says Tom Landry Died A Giants Fan
For the first 29 seasons of the Dallas Cowboys' existence, they were coached by Tom Landry, who was best known for his formal sideline attire, most prominently that ever-present fedora. Landry was the Cowboys, at least until Jerry Jones bought the team in February 1989 and promptly fired him, among ...

Oilers Head Coach Dallas Eakins Is Now Getting Heckled By Little Kids
I guess it's true what they say, there is no creature on earth as cruel as a Canadian child....

Teacher Accused Of Being High On Heroin In Class: "Roll Tide"
A Pittsburgh-area high school teacher who police say confessed to arriving at school high on heroin and passing out in class had only two words for comment-seeking media members today: "Roll Tide."...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Disagreeable People
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Baseball's done, but everything else is happening tonight. Samer and Supercat will be on shortly....

Minor League Hockey Team's "Star Wars Night" Sounds Awesome
If you live in Toledo and were having trouble finding something to do Saturday night (as if), you definitely now want to buy tickets to see the ECHL's Toledo Walleye host the Kalamazoo Wings. It's Star Wars Night. The teams will be wearing these sweaters....

Here's Your Champagne-Soaked Gallery Of Red Sox Celebration Pictures
I would lament the wasting of absurd amounts of all kinds of alcohol to the air, ground, and clothes of those in attendance, but holy shit, this looks like so much fun....


I Gotta Rock
Kid Koala with the funkiest Halloween record of them all. ...


Halloween Trick-Or-Treating Treats, Ranked
1. Junior Mints...

It's OK If You Don't Know Much About Football
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....

Jrue Holiday Forgot What Team He Plays For Last Night
What's up, Pelicans fans? Are you excited about your team's new identity and collection of talented young players? That Anthony Davis sure looks like he's going to be great!...

The Most Gut-Wrenching Defeat Of The Season: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....

Pete Holmes And James Harden Team Up For Hilarious Interview
Do you want to watch Pete Holmes, comedian and host of The Pete Holmes Show, talk to NBA superstar James Harden about pubes and humping mattresses? Of course you do! So hurry up and click play on the video above....

Why I Quit The Major Leagues
During my first year in the major leagues, I was twice sent back down to the minors. This is common for rookies, especially if their competition for a roster spot is doing well—and I was playing behind Darwin Barney, who was chasing the record for the most consecutive games at second base without an...

76 Years Later, Maryland Tries To Right A College Football Wrong
In October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy....

Boo!
I don’t go for horror movies. Sure, I watched a mess of them when I was a kid—The Exorcist, The Omen, and Rosemary’s Baby. I also saw Halloween and Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I Spit On Your Grave, all that stuff and more. I had a stronger constitution then. Now, I just don’t like ...

Halloween Special: Madness! Torture! Applause!
The legendary Grand Guignol Theater in Paris was not a haunted house, but a serious dramatic enterprise that put on gruesome, faux-blood-splattered shows year-round for decades. It featured staged killings, mutilations and scenes of depravity and torture so realistic that audience members often fled...

Koji Uehara's Son Gave The Best Postgame Interview Last Night
If there's one thing about this World Series to be thankful for, it's the the fact that Red Sox closer Koji Uehara and his son Kaz have been thrown into the national spotlight....

Allen Iverson Finally Obeys Laws Of Nature, Officially Retires
Allen Iverson made his retirement official today, even though it's hard to know how, exactly, to define such a thing for him. Iverson, now 38, was never a professional basketball player so much as he was, foremost, an object in motion, tending always to stay in motion. If Iverson can be said to reti...