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Deadspin Up All Night: Lucky Me
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. It's Wednesday. Go do something fun....
Woman Seeking Ban Suggests Kickball League Is Worse Than Drugs, Gangs
A Lower East Side resident is trying to ban an adult kickball league, claiming it is "obnoxious" and on par with the heroin and gangs that characterized the Manhattan neighborhood decades ago....
Hey Ma, What's For Dinner?
Esquire recently published an e-book collection of sports stories. (It's also available at Byliner.) One of the stories is available on-line and it's a good one—Scott Raab's 2001 piece on Don Zimmer: ...
Yasiel Puig Clubs Two Homers In Second MLB Game
Yasiel Puig is not fucking around. After wowing everyone with his cannon of an arm in his major league debut, the rookie decided to show off his skills with the bat last night in his second game with the Dodgers....
Deadspin Up All Night: Your Daddy Was Mad As Hell
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Tuesday Night Fights coming at ya shortly....
Triple-A Manager Just Plops Himself Down In Infield After Ejection
The minor-league manager ejection is one of the national pastime's favorite pastimes. And yet, there's something so wrong about most of them....
The Eight Most Important Organs In The Male Body
I was at the grocery store the other day and I saw the most anorexic woman that I’ve ever seen in my life. We’re talking P.O.W.-thin. Her cheeks were grafted to her skull. She wore size–0 pants that hung off of her. Her arms were no thicker than curtain rods. It was one of the most haunting things I...
Yasiel Puig Made Quite An Impression In His MLB Debut
22-year-old Cuban defector Yasiel Puig made his debut for the Dodgers last night, and what a debut it was. His entry in the box score—two singles in four at-bats—may not look very impressive, but the rocket he threw from the right-field warning track to first base for a game-ending double play certa...
Deadspin Up Al Night: Sing Along
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. You've got Game 7 of Pacers-Heat, Game 2 of Bruins-Pens, and some baseball. Our man Drew Magary is also doing a reading and a Q&A in Brooklyn RIGHT NOW, with drankin' to follow. Enjoy your night....
Top Recruit Says Coach Promised Him A Meeting With Michael Jackson
Da'Shawn Hand is the No. 1 ranked high school football player in the country, and he recently sat down with CBS Sports' Bruce Feldman to talk about what life as the prize of the Division I recruiting circuit has been like. It sounds like he's been meeting some pretty dumb people....
Indiana Is Going To Wear This Helmet Because Fuck You That's Why
Yeah, that's a chrome facemask....
Navy Is Investigating A Rape Allegation Against Three Football Players
No charges have been filed, but according to The New York Times, the Naval Academy has confirmed the existence of an ongoing inquiry into allegations that three football players raped a female midshipman at an April 2012 off-campus party. One of the three players has had his graduation and commissio...
Dwight Howard Loses Free-Throw Contest To Troll Columnist's Daughter
OK, Howard was shooting with his left hand, so this doesn't really count. In fact, the biggest takeaway from this contest isn't that Dwight Howard is a bad free-throw shooter, but that T.J. Simers is and will always be the worst....
Miracle Of Coogan's Bluff: Red Smith On The Shot Heard ‘Round The World
Red Smith is the most respected sports columnist we've ever had. In his prime, Jimmy Cannon, Smith's friendly rival, was certainly as well-known. Cannon, the Voice of New York, was an emotional, colloquial writer whose reputation, unfortunately, has faded. But Smith endures. What is it about his wri...
College Baseball Player Takes A Slider Right To The Dick
Cal State Fullerton's Austin Kingsolver only got two plate appearances in yesterday's game against Arizona State, and he probably wishes that he could have skipped the first one. In the top of the seventh inning, Arizona State pitcher Josh McAlister let a 3-2 slider get away from him and sent the p...
The 111-Year-Old Yankees Fan Is Probably Lying About His Age
It was the ultimate photo op: Derek Jeter, the face of the Yankees, meeting Bernando LaPallo, who at 111 years old would be older than than Yankees franchise itself. Like every other good thing, it's probably not true. LaPallo's age is very much in dispute, and he's been accused of lying about it to...
The Japanese Version Of <em>Sport Science</em> Is Awesome
We've said before in this space that ESPN's pseudoscientific Sport Science segments are "sneakily awful," but this weekend I happened across something from Japanese national broadcaster NHK that puts ESPN to shame....
Domonic Brown Is Your New Favorite Slugger
If you haven't been paying attention to what Phillies left fielder Domonic Brown has been doing this season, now is the time to start. In the first inning of yesterday's game against the Brewers, Brown hit the absolute bejesus out of a Mike Fiers pitch, depositing the ball into the second deck in ri...
This Punt Return Is A Polish Football League Highlight
Clarence Anderson destroyed the NAIA record book as a wide receiver for the Ottawa (Kan.) Braves, but his NFL dreams fell a bit short. He's playing these days for the Warsaw Eagles of the Polish American Football League, which is a thing....
Reporter Gets In A "Tongue Twat" Trying To Congratulate Cliff Lee
Cliff Lee recorded career strikeout number 1600 yesterday, and Philadelphia reporter Sigourney McCreaf wanted to relay some fans' congratulations to Lee on the Phillies postgame show. Unfortunately, she got her tongue all twatted up. ...