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The Rare Instance Of A Happy Tony Romo: Your Cowboys-Skins Roundup
Cowboys 31, Skins 16: Despite the "moral victory" last week, Dallas sought an actual victory against Washington. The Cowboys still found a way to manufacture pressure on Robert Griffin III, keeping him uncomfortable even though pass-rushers DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher were injured over the cour...
Deadspin Up All Night: Give It Up
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. More football and playoff baseball. Fall is great....
What Is This Photo Of The Duke Basketball Team Handling Assault Rifles?
We received this picture from a reader early Saturday & spent most of the day trying to figure out where it came from or what it's really depicting. We're at a loss, and maybe you have some answers....
High School Football Players Accused Of Groping Girls At Pep Rally
Ridge Point High in Texas recently held a homecoming pep rally that featured a seven minute fireworks display. While the lights were off, several football players allegedly started groping girls in the crowd and later bragged about it on Twitter. "The number of booty that was grabbed was unreal," o...
Teen Facing Discipline For Streaking HS Football Game Hangs Self
Christian Adamek was a 15-year-old " kind, quirky" and, by all accounts, well-liked kid at Sparkman high school (Alabama) who was arrested for streaking through his school's football game on September 27th. On October 2nd, reportedly facing school expulsion and criminal charges—including potentially...
Desmond Howard Is Not Impressed: Your Oregon-UW <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
The College GameDay crew is messin' around in Seattle before today's Oregon-Washington kickoff. Let's start the fun....
Referees Arrested In Middle Of Football Game
That is referees with an "s," two of 'em. The two refs, who were officiating the Mandeville-St. Paul's (high school) game last night in Louisiana, were arrested on public intimidation charges after allegedly threatening police officers in charge of crowd control....
Deadspin Up All Night: We're Past Elation
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Simone Biles Vs. The Racists: Are Black Gymnasts The New Black QBs?
Last week in Belgium Simone Biles made history by becoming the first woman of color to win an all-around title at the world championships, just a year after Gabby Douglas took the top spot at the Olympic Games....
The Los Angeles Dodgers Are Just A Group Of Hard-Nosed Overachievers
Without characters and storylines, baseball is just a bunch of idiots running around wielding sticks, so of course baseball writers were going to contrive a narrative for a seven-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals that doesn’t really feature a natural one. You co...
Third Buccaneers Player Diagnosed With MRSA, And Everything Is A Mess
We've been calling the 2013 Buccaneers things like "garbage fire," "dysfunctional shitshow," and "sad mess" lately. Now we can add "roiling pit of disease" to the list....
Watch This Awesome First Person POV Of A Famous Horse Racing Jockey
These really never get old. Here's John Velazquez riding Greyfall, a two-year-old colt, at the Keeneland Race Course. He wore "camera glasses" (off-brand Google Glass?) and captured video of exactly what it looks and sounds like to be out on the track. ...
Oregon's Cheerleaders Would Like To Haunt Your Dreams Now
Having run out of new color schemes and design tweaks to throw at their football uniforms, the Oregon Ducks have turned their attention toward the team's cheerleaders. The cheerleaders will be wearing custom contacts at this weekend's game against Washington, and oh man are they unsettling. Do not s...
Korean Baseball Player Wastes Yet Another Awesome Bat Flip On Foul Ball
We've seen Choi Jeon-suk do this before, and now we're starting to wonder if this is just his thing. Maybe he just believes that a crushed baseball, no matter how far foul it flies, is worthy of an amazing bat flip. If that's the case, more power to him....
Blind Alley
Friday, what better time for a good bowling story? This one, by the late Jeff Felshman, is a keeper, a funny and understated gem:...
How Those Painfully Awkward Local Commercials With Athletes Are Made
You've probably seen a local commercial with one of your area's athletes, and it was most likely awful and unnatural. For me, nothing will beat Dustin Pedroia's cringe-worthy Sullivan Tire ad. ("I don't believe it. It's Jim Rice.") This funny video featuring Scott Hartnell proves that there's a scie...