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Deadspin 25: Can Washington Be The Breakout Team Everyone Wants Them To Be?
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Oklahoma State Student Paper Demands CMU Give Back Hail-And-Lateral Victory
The editorial staff of Oklahoma State’s student newspaper, The O’Colly, is NOT happy about Central Michigan’s Hail Mary Lateral play this past Saturday, which was one of the greatest college football plays of all time but which also technically shouldn’t have been allowed by officials....
ACC Pulls Championships Out Of North Carolina Over Anti-LGBT Laws
Following the NCAA’s lead, the ACC announced Wednesday it will be relocating all neutral-site championship events previously set in North Carolina. This is being done in reaction to House Bill 2, the anti-LGBTQ piece of legislation already responsible for the removal of the NBA All-Star Game, March ...
This Actually Goes A Long Way Toward Explaining That Rams Debacle
Hi, did you stay up to watch the late Monday Night Football game? ...
Adrian Beltre Is Still Slapping Dingers From One Knee
Adrian Beltre is one of the most entertaining baseball players any of us will ever have the pleasure of watching. He’s done many great things on the field that I will remember fondly, but falling to one knee as he hits the goddamn hell out of a baseball will certainly go down as his signature move. ...
Yasiel Puig Tosses Ball To Fan, Knocks Her Tooth Out
When it comes to hazards you need to look out for at a baseball game, a player tossing you a souvenir ball ranks several dozen places behind things like “watch out for foul balls” and “try not to get puked on.” And yet, one Dodgers fan managed to get herself extremely fucked up during what should ha...
He Kicks You In The Financial Balls
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Wisconsin's Bronson Koenig To Join Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Wisconsin point guard Bronson Koenig, the most notable Native American men’s basketball player in the nation, has made public his plans to join the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Koenig will make the 11-hour drive with his older brother and his trainer to a protest site near Bismarck, North Dakota...
Why Didn't Josh Norman Cover Antonio Brown?
Washington gave cornerback Josh Norman $50 million in guarantees, money befitting one of the game’s few shutdown corners. But Monday night, it apparently was too much to expect the ‘Skins to use him to try to shut down the Steelers’ Antonio Brown, who only happens to be one of the game’s best receiv...
Soccer Man Gets Extremely Hyped About This Dope Thing He Just Did
It’s not often that defenders are the architects of highlight reel-quality plays, and seeing as an acrobatic goal-line clearance is basically the defensive equivalent of a golazo for an attacker, it makes sense that Bursaspor’s Aziz Behich was super pumped after pulling off this amazing feat:...
The Rams Might Be In A New City, But They Still Suck
The Los Angeles Rams started their season off with a robust fart noise Monday night, as the rebuilding San Francisco 49ers shut them out in Santa Clara, 28-0....
Behold The Glory Of The NFL Rulebook In One Dumb Clip<em></em>
A football move, what is it? I have no idea, but it is a term that figures into a lot of very confusing calls during NFL games....
Free Antonio Brown's Butt
A funny thing happened about a decade ago. In a moral panic that took place only inside their own head, NFL executives decided to crack down on player celebrations, the moniker “No Fun League” stuck, and everyone just...accepted it and moved on?...
NCAA Removes Championship Events From North Carolina Due To Anti-LGBT Laws (UPDATE)
The NCAA announced tonight that it was removing seven championship events from the state of North Carolina during the 2016-17 school year, mostly in response to the state’s passage last spring of House Bill 2, an anti-LGBT “Bathroom Bill.” The NCAA Board of Governors removed the events because of fo...
Chris Sale Is Wasting His Talent On The South Side
On Sunday night, Chris Sale became the first White Sox pitcher to strike out at least 200 batters in four consecutive seasons, running up 12 strikeouts over eight innings. It was the 34th time in his career that he’s struck out more than 10 batters in a game. He did so on the way to his eighth loss ...
Just Make <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i> Again
I just finished watching this dope-as-hell reel of raw footage from Mad Max: Fury Road, and goddammit, I’m all jazzed up for car crashes and explosions again. So here is my plea to George Miller: please just make Mad Max: Fury Road again....
Deadspin 25: There's Nobody Better At Losing Than Eastern Michigan
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
MAC Suspends Officials Who Allowed Central Michigan To Pull Off Miracle Upset
The Mid-American Conference has suspended the officiating crew that botched what should have been the final play of Saturday’s Central Michigan-Oklahoma State game, giving the Chippewas a final, untimed down on which they scored a spectacular game-winning touchdown....