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Deadspin Up All Night: So Really, What The Fuck I Got To Lose?

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Here is a very good blog from Kyle Wagner, former Gizmodo intern, about Jeremy Lin’s free agency, legacy, and place—or lack thereof—in today’s NBA. [New York Daily News]...

Brazilian Police Recommend Against Charging Neymar With Rape

Police in Brazil have closed their investigation into the rape allegation against Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar, and recommend that prosecutors not bring charges against him due to a lack of evidence. The prosecutor’s office will have 15 days to “evaluate the case,” according to the AFP....

“Oh my God, what did I do?” Barry Rozner of the Daily Herald checked in with Peggy Kusinski, the veteran Chicago reporter whose inexplicable 2014 question to Patrick Kane—“was that your first overtime game-winner?”—went viral and gained her the bad kind of internet fame. [Daily Herald]...

A new analysis of the deal to build a stadium for MLS’s FC Cincinnati shows it will cost taxpayers $213 million, or more than four times what was described in the 2017 agreement between city and county leaders and the team’s ownership. Even “favorable” public-private stadium deals wind up screwing t...

Deadspin Up All Night: Don't Sing Love Songs

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Last week, Hope Solo offered to be the enforcer for the USWNT in their fight for equal pay, fearing the team might succumb to intimidation in the proceedings against the USSF without her. This week, the USWNT said, “Nah, we’re good” as forcefully as lawyer-speak allowed them to. [The Athletic]...

Deadspin Up All Night: Stuck In A Rock And A Hard Place

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Two weeks after his third and most recent surgery, David Ortiz was released from a Massachusetts hospital on Friday. He’ll be rehabbing at home while receiving visits from his personal doctor, and getting assistance from full-time nurses, according to ESPN’s Enrique Rojas. [ESPN]...

Deadspin Up All Night: It's A Bird! It's A Plane!

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Tour de France Stage Abruptly Called Off Mid-Race After Landslide Ruins The Course [Update]

Today’s Stage 19 of the Tour de France was set to be a decisive one, with a 13-kilometer ascent up the Col de l’Iseran, followed up by a winding descent into the Val d’Isere, and capped off with a summit finish into the town of Tignes. It would’ve made for great racing, and in fact it did, until the...

Panthers Tight End Greg Olsen Is Getting A Raw Deal With This Generic <i>Madden </i>Face

Greg Olsen is a 12-year NFL veteran and a three-time Pro Bowler. He’s been one of the better tight ends in the league for the duration of his career. Madden 20 acknowledges all this by giving him a 89 overall rating, making Olsen the fifth-best tight end in the game. That makes it all the more stran...

The Colts Are Afraid Of Andrew Luck's Leg Pulling A Kevin Durant

Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has already been through several circles of injury hell, and lost roughly a jillion years of his career to a devastating shoulder injury. Right now he’s recovering from a little old calf injury suffered during the spring, but after joining the rest of the world in watch...

The Maryland State Athletic Commission has said it will conduct an investigation into the bout that led to the death of boxer Maxim Dadashev. In the meantime, underscoring just how brutal and dangerous boxing is, the president of the Association of Ringside Physicians told the Washington Post that h...

Deadspin Up All Night: Every Hello Is Goodbye

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Original Deadspinner Rick Chandler suffered a stroke on July 3 and has been in critical care since. A page has been set up if you’d like updates on his condition. You can also write a nice note for him as he recovers. [Caring Bridge]...

Our own Dave McKenna is on Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen this week talking about everything from himself to himself! But seriously, do yourself a favor and listen to Dave yak for 50 minutes. Genious, as he would say....

Deadspin Up All Night: Fear

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Taylor Lewan Issues Weird, Tearful Apology After Testing Positive For PEDs

Have you ever had the experience of having to watch someone deliver a long and weepy statement on a topic you truly do not care about? If not, Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan is here to provide you with that experience:...

Remember John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed by the North Sentinelese last year when he tried to make contact with the isolated people? Alex Perry has a tremendous feature over at Outside Magazine about his life and death and it is well worth your time....