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Andre Roberts Blown Up By Punter
In an instance of football violence likely to result in positive results for neither party, Dallas punter Chris Jones annihilated Lions returner Andre Roberts late in the teams’ Monday Night Football matchup. Sure, it worked out well for the punter this time—but not always....
Russell Westbrook Did Not Troll The Warriors Yesterday
Shortly after Kyrie Irving’s turnaround jumper put the Warriors in the ground, a clip of Russell Westbrook finishing up his pre-game warmup routine started making its way around Twitter:...
The Chiefs Just Outran The Broncos
There’s never a great way for a defending champion’s playoff hopes to die, but for the Denver Broncos, a 33-10 beatdown at the hands of the Kansas City Chiefs, who controlled the game from start to finish and were stunting late in the fourth quarter, is about as bad as it gets....
Fat Guy Touchdown Pass!
Tonight 346-pound defensive tackle Dontari Poe threw a touchdown pass to Demetrius Harris to seal a big win for the Chiefs over the Broncos. All those who witnessed it were so shocked at having seen NFL history, Kansas City was unable to successfully convert the try....
Once Again, It's Kevin Harlan's Live Radio Call Of An Idiot On The Field
Tonight’s national broadcast of the Broncos-Chiefs game featured an Idiot On The Field in Kansas City, and like most national games Kevin Harlan was calling play-by-play on Westwood One radio. Since his call of the Idiot in San Francisco earlier this season was one of the year’s best moments in spor...
Kyrie Irving Buried The Warriors Again
Round one between the new-look Warriors and the defending champion Cavaliers went to Cleveland, 109-108, with the knockout blow once again delivered by Kyrie Irving, who drove Klay Thompson into the paint with four seconds left before spinning around and getting an improbable fadeaway jumper to just...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?<em></em><em></em>
Deadspin’s Christmas Day tradition returns. It is time to sound the depths of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits. Below are the strangest, most awkwardly shaped, and least pleasant objects that America has shoved into its various holes. God bless us, eve...
The Cleveland Browns Are 1-14
The Cleveland Browns beat the San Diego Chargers this afternoon, 20-17. Rejoice. ...
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Joe Mixon Says He's Sorry In Press Conference Nobody Watched [Update]
Joe Mixon apologized repeatedly in a press conference today, the first public appearance for the star Oklahoma running back since his lawyer one week ago released video of him punching fellow OU student Amelia Molitor in 2014....
Cleveland Goes After Dingers, Signs Edwin Encarnacion To Three-Year Deal
Free agent Edwin Encarnacion is headed to Cleveland, on a three-year contract for a reported $65 million with an option for a fourth season. ...
Michigan Wide Receiver Grant Perry Charged With Criminal Sexual Conduct, Assaulting A Police Officer
Michigan wide receiver Grant Perry was arraigned yesterday on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assaulting a police officer. The charges follow Perry being accused of “sexually assaulting (by touching)” a woman on Oct. 15 while waiting outside a bar, according to the East Lansing Police Departm...
The Least Important Writers Of 2016
Congratulations to all the wieners. ...
How Two Investigations Into Minnesota's Sexual-Assault Scandal Reached Two Very Different Conclusions
It was in the early morning hours after the Golden Gophers’ victory—in their September season opener, no less—that the student said she was sexually assaulted by multiple football players. She gave a statement to Minneapolis police a day later, going into detail about how she had sex with two guys a...
George Karl: I Struggled Because My Players Didn't Have Good Dads
Longtime NBA head coach George Karl has written a book, titled Furious George, and in it he partakes in the time-honored and always-wack tradition of coaches talking shit about players they used to coach. (Or so we are told by the New York Post, which got its hands on a copy of the book.)...
Duke Suspends Grayson Allen Indefinitely
Duke beat Elon, but who cares. We’re all here for Grayson Allen getting T’d up for tripping an opponent (his third such tripping incident in the calendar year), having a mini-meltdown about it, the ensuing pile-on of Coach K, and everyone waking up this morning to the news that Duke has indefinitely...
George R.R. Martin Offers Fans A Christmas Present (Not <i>The Winds Of Winter</i>)
Famed no-pages haver George R.R. Martin, author of the popular A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels on which HBO’s hit sibling-fucking drama Game of Thrones is loosely based, offered up a Christmas treat for fans over on his Not A Blog, which is a blog, today. Was it an announcement that he’ll fina...
Duke Doofus Grayson Allen Trips Dude
Aspiring Matthew Dellavedova Grayson Allen did the following just now in front of God, his mom, and the world as Dook played fearsome Elon:...
This Strange Column About Bud Selig And Drugs Is Extremely Confusing
Estimable baseball writer Tim Brown has a column up today that’s either about how Bud Selig’s election to the Hall of Fame shows up the condemnation of players such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens by the likes of the veteran baseball writers who have refused to vote them into the Hall of Fame for ...