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Deadspin Up All Night: This Scam Will Still Save Us All

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Deadspin Up All Night: Like A Brace Of Jackrabbits

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Deadspin Up All Night: Welcome To Nowhere Fast

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Deadspin Up All Night: Tell Me You'll Never Be In Love Again

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Deadspin Up All Night: Nuclear Dicks With Dialect Drawls

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Coach Who Made $850,000 Last Year Says His Unpaid Players Are Required To Donate $50 To Program

At a post-workout press conference earlier this week, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns coach Billy Napier announced a rather odd initiative for the members of his football team. Napier said that, starting this year, all scholarship members of the team will be required to donate a minimum of $50 to ...

Kyler Murray's Snap Clap Might Be A Problem

Kyler Murray played four series in the Cardinals’ loss to the Raiders on Thursday, going 3-for-8 for 12 yards. Not great. But also who cares, it’s preseason. Potentially much more relevant were the two false start penalties he was called for in the first quarter....

Bryce Harper's Walk-Off Grand Slam Was Pure Catharsis

The Philadelphia Phillies were down to the Chicago Cubs entering the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday night. The Cubs have had a dicey bullpen all season long, so this was by no means a sure thing, but that doesn’t make what happened any less nad-rocking, for all but the most committed Bryce Har...

Deadspin Up All Night: Into The Black

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From the Washington Post, here is the tragic story of Nick Dixon, a high school football star who died during ACL surgery one day after deciding where he wanted to play college football. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: It Doesn't Have To Be Like This

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The Cubs Were Screwed By The Worst Strike Three Call Of The Season, Maybe Of All Time

Maybe it’s time to let our robot umpire overlords reign supreme. At the very least, Cubs fans would be well within their rights in calling for the technology that will, in theory if not yet in practice, remove human error from strikes and balls, after Chicago was on the wrong end of one of the worst...

Ohio State University has reportedly filed a trademark application on the word “THE” in order to sell “t-shirts, baseball caps and hats.” Here’s a pretty funny summary of their chances, from a trademark attorney who discovered the application....

Andrew Luck's "Small Little Bone" Injury Is Apparently On The Move

The saga of Andrew Luck’s strained calf has reached the point where it’s time to worry whether anyone knows just what the hell is going on. Colts owner Jim Irsay identified a “small little bone” in Luck’s left leg as the source of the quarterback’s ongoing pain and discomfort, which leads to all sor...

Magic Johnson Is Doing Lists [Updates]

It has long been known that Magic Johnson quit his job with the Lakers so he could be free to tweet the most inoffensive takes imaginable without running afoul of the NBA’s tampering rules. But since retiring from his semi-retirement, he’s reached a brand-new level of old-guy social media usage—nami...

The Olympics Are Coming To Tokyo, And So Is The Movement To Kill The Games Forever

TOKYO, JAPAN — In the lobby of the Marunouchi Nijubashi Building, which is undergoing final preparations to host the 2020 Olympics, a robot is on patrol. A combination of information kiosk and surveillance camera, the robot stops directly in front of me. It has the word ALSOK plastered across its ne...

Jim Irsay Reveals That Andrew Luck Is Suffering From An Issue With His "Small Little Bone"

In an unwelcome throwback to offseasons past, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has been largely absent from most team offseason practices and workouts as he has dealt with a lingering injury. This time, the problem is not his chronically borked throwing shoulder, but rather a left calf str...

“Please don’t take me from the society right now. I’m 34. I can go play in China for another six years, take care of my family.” Sebastian Telfair was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday following a conviction for criminal possession of a weapon, in what sounds like a really sad hear...

Deadspin Up All Night: Cranes In The Sky

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Why Your Team Sucks 2019: Carolina Panthers

Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....