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This Is Probably The New Titans Jersey
Do you care about a slight uniform change for the NFL’s most anonymous team? I bet you do....
Rhode Island Denies Ever Being Interested In Hiring Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino’s been out of the coaching game not even a full year, but that itch is already starting to come back. Whether anybody’s willing to scratch it is another question entirely. ...
The Deadspin Idiots Eat The Horrifying Things Your Grandpas Did
Here at Gizmodo Media Group, we have a functional and powerful union, one that protects us from, say, reading scripts that look like hostage statements or really doing anything debasing and against our will. So while our participation in the video at the top of this post wasn’t exactly involuntary, ...
ESPN: We're Trying Again To Get Video Of The Boy In The Bathroom<em></em>
For the record, they are talking about this video....
The Donte DiVincenzo Show Was A Damn Work Of Art
Donte DiVincenzo was not a sophomore bench player on Monday night. He was when the game started, but by the final horn he was the man who had saved a national championship for Villanova. ...
Report: Dumb Beer Ad Phrase Banned From The Masters
There’s a buzz around this year’s Masters. Tiger Woods is back. “This might be the wildest year in Masters history,” CBS Sports reports. But the biggest news out of Augusta National this week is this: A popular, stupid beer catchphrase has been banned....
How Big Colleges Prey On Fan Loyalty To Fight Back Against Scandals
If you’ve been following the ongoing developments in the Larry Nassar scandal and Michigan State University’s sexual-assault crisis, you’ve recently become familiar with the phrase “#SpartansWill.” If you’ve spent any time around East Lansing, you already knew about it, because it’s all over town. Y...
Can I Bribe You With A Beautiful Goal To Get You To Read A Short Blog About The Capitals' Playoff Chances?
You’ll see Andre Burakovsky’s goal being referred to as a goal of the year candidate, because A) it was very pretty, and B) hockey writers have a distinct lack of pithy descriptors for really good goals. It’s sort of silly, because there’s no actual official “goal of the year” award! But at least it...
Villanova Coasts To Title On Back Of Record-Setting Bench Player Donte DiVincenzo<em></em>
For the bulk of the first half, tonight’s NCAA men’s basketball championship was Michigan’s game—not by more than a few points, not convincingly, but it was. With six minutes remaining, though, Donte DiVincenzo hit a three to deliver Villanova its first lead since the opening seconds, and then he se...
And Here's An Inside-The-Park Home Run By ... Edwin Encarnacion??
This isn’t as iconic an entry into the genre of unexpected inside-the-park home runs as, say, this Prince Fielder gem or this Jhonny Peralta one, but it’s still pretty dang good: Edwin Encarnacion tonight, with his first inside-the-parker in more than a decade, thanks to a little defensive fuck-up b...
Former Astros Coach Rich Dauer Throws Emotional First Pitch After Nearly Dying During Last Year's Championship Parade
Not everything about the Houston Astros’ pregame celebration today went exactly as planned—they probably would have preferred a little less wind for the unveiling of their World Series banner—but the first pitch was legitimately touching. Former first base coach Rich Dauer did the honors, five month...
This Was Muffet McGraw's Masterpiece, And Notre Dame's Next Season Could Be Even Better<em></em>
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Muffet McGraw’s husband Matt clearly knows the drill by now. He beamed as he watched his wife of 40 years hold court with reporters after the greatest coaching win of her career. She wore a black dress that she’d bought especially for what turned out to be her second national champi...
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Ron Gardenhire Says MLB Knows It Screwed Up The Tigers' Replay Review [Update: MLB Says It Didn't]
The Detroit Tigers had an Opening Day walk-off win taken away from them Friday when what looked to be a safe, 10th-inning slide into home from Nicholas Castellanos was overturned on review. If you believe Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire, MLB admitted the call was botched....
Boban Loves To Dance
Boban Marjanovic has been working on his craft. Yesterday he was seen bopping in an adorable huddle with new friend DeAndre Jordan and old friend Tobias Harris, who accompanied him from Detroit to Los Angeles in the January trade....
The Banana Has What It Takes To Defeat Gatorade
Midway through her first-round match at the Australian Open this year, world No. 10 CoCo Vandeweghe refused to return to the court until someone brought her a banana....
On Easter Sunday, The Denver Nuggets....... <i>Resurrected</i>....... Their Playoff Hopes
Listen. I want you to know that I endured probably close to 45 seconds of deep internal conflict over whether to form this blog around a groan-inducing forced parallel between the sudden restoration of the Denver Nuggets’ playoff hopes and the Easter story of Christ’s resurrection from death. And th...
Call Bryce Harper Overrated At Your Own Peril
Bryce Harper hit the dick off two baseballs during yesterday’s 6-5 win over the Reds, and the second dinger was a particular source of embarrassment for one of the Cincinnati fans in attendance....
This Is "This Is March": Unpacking College Basketball's Most Uncanny Twitter Account
Jon Rothstein is a real person. He was born in a town at the very outermost edge of what could be called exurban New York City and has covered sports for a living virtually from the moment he graduated from Ithaca College. Rothstein won a Dream Job contest at New York’s ESPN sports radio station, 10...
Twins Mad That The Other Team Was Trying Too
Twins pitcher José Berrios was dealing yesterday. When he faced Baltimore catcher Chance Sisco in the ninth inning of Sunday’s game, Berrios had a 7-0 lead and had given up just one hit in the game....
Shohei Ohtani Looked Pretty Damn Nice On The Mound
Sunday brought most American baseball fans their first good look at what kind of pitcher Angels two-way prospect Shohei Ohtani might be. What they saw was pretty fuckin’ good....