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Florida Gators' Top Receiver Cleared In Sexual Assault Case Adjudicated By Booster
Last Friday, it was revealed the University of Florida would allow Jake Schickel, a Jacksonville lawyer and UF football booster, to serve as the third-party counsel for the Title IX sexual assault case being heard against wide receivers Treon Harris and Antonio Callaway. Today, Callaway was cleared ...
Heh, Look At This Striker Trick The Shit Out Of This Keeper
And the award for “The guy who feels like the biggest dummy in all of the Netherlands right now” goes to Fortuna Sittard’s Leon ter Wielen. No, you don’t get a speech....
All The Senior Week Blogs You Want Me To Blog, Blogged
Earlier this afternoon, I solicited pitches for blogs that you wanted me to write....
Minor League Team's Double Play Made Possible By Magical Bounces<em></em>
With a little bit of luck, a ground ball from South Bend Cubs infielder P.J. Higgins turned into a double play involving four people during Thursday’s game. Two of them didn’t mean to participate....
How Simone Biles Broke Gymnastics
The following is excerpted from The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics’ Top Score—from Nadia to Now by Dvora Meyers, available now from from Touchstone Books....
How To Be A Flake And Still Have Friends
One of the greatest things about becoming an adult is realizing that, despite what you’ve been led to believe, most things are bad. Parties, hangouts, “chill seshes”—each one worse than the last and far inferior to sitting on a couch in a cocoon of your own filth. You know that now. And thanks to th...
The Time I Got Fired By The Philadelphia Phillies
I grew up just outside of Philadelphia, the kind of rabid Phillies fan who had a life-size Pat Burrell poster on wall of the bedroom that my sister and I shared for so many years that we ended up telling two-dimensional Pat all our deepest secrets. I have also spent a not especially impressive but p...
Don't Ask About My Pubes, And Other Lessons From Two Famous Redheads
In February of 2015, the Concourse published an article about redheads that has had Jezebel’s Ellie Shechet and Madeleine Davies steamed ever since. They’re using Gawker Media’s Senior Week to finally respond....
Terry Collins Had A Good Manager Rant
Yesterday, the Mets got smoked 9-0 by the Arizona Diamondbacks, a bad baseball team that somehow managed a three-game sweep against New York. Mets manager Terry Collins was not happy with his team’s effort level during the series, and expressed his displeasure in a postgame rant....
Buccaneers' New Kicker, Whom They Took In The Second Round, Misses First Career Extra Point
The Buccaneers traded up to take kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round, because they suck. Eight minutes into Tampa Bay’s first preseason game tonight against the Eagles, they scored a touchdown—setting up Aguayo’s first professional extra point. Which he missed....
Simone Biles Just Put A Historic Whooping On The Women's Gymnastics Field<em></em>
Simone Biles, American hero, finished her dominant victory in the women’s all-around gymnastics competition with a 15.933 in the floor routine. She ended up 2.1 points clear of silver medalist Aly Raisman, which is higher than the combined margins of victory from every all-around competition from 19...
Report: Las Vegas NHL Team Will Be Boringly Named After Some Kind Of Hawk, Or Some Other Kind Of Hawk (IMPORTANT ORNITHOLOGICAL CORRECTION)
The Las Vegas NHL expansion team, set to begin play in 2017, still needs a name. Owner Bill Foley wanted “Black Knights;” West Point wasn’t cool with that. So Foley’s got some other ideas, and they’re varying degrees of uncreative....
Lawsuit: Kansas "Encouraged" Rowers Raped By Football Player To Cheer At Games
Kansas is currently being sued by two former rowers who say they were raped by the same football player. The player was investigated and expelled, but in their lawsuits both women say the university still violated Title IX in many ways. They claim that they suffered retaliation from the rowing coach...
Ashley Feinberg Is Gawker Media's Thirstiest Blogger
We here at Gawker Media are in the business of telling the truth, but we’re also in the business of collaboration. You’ve probably noticed posts from across the Gawker network appearing here on Deadspin, and you’ve probably seen our posts appear on our sister sites. Splicing blogs from site to site ...
Smelliest Sports, Ranked
Ask An Adequate Woman is a space where readers can ask the questions they can’t—or maybe just won’t!—pose to their friends about relationships, fashion, family dramas, dating, existential crises, weird sex stuff, and everything else. The Women of Deadspin (and some of our clever friends) are here to...
Manu Ginobili Is One Of A Kind
As far as you can say this about any four-time NBA champion with a 14-year career, Manu Ginobili is defined by international basketball. He first stepped onto the world stage when he led Argentina in scoring as they handed Team USA a loss at the 2002 World Championships, the very first loss for Team...
Internal Email, Texts Reveal NDSU President Endorsed Banning Media Outlets
When NDSU president Dean Bresciani rescinded a ban on news organizations covering the Bison unless they paid for media rights last week, he condemned the policy—stating that he was “profoundly disappointed” in it. Internal emails and texts acquired by SayAnythingBlog.com’s Rob Port reveal that Bresc...
Prince Fielder's Retirement Press Conference Was Sad As Hell
Rangers slugger Prince Fielder has been forced to retire from baseball at age 32. Fielder, who has been struggling at the plate this year, recently underwent his second spinal fusion surgery in the last three years, and doctors have told him that he is no longer physically capable of playing basebal...
Pirates Fan Leaps For Foul Ball, Comes Up With A Face Full Of Nacho Cheese
I understand that when you see a foul ball coming towards you, you can get a rush of blood to the head. Everyone wants to make a dope catch on a foul ball. “You did it!” they’ll say, “You made the big catch!” The Pirates will call you up and offer you a tryout because you made a sweet frickin’ baseb...
Team USA Had Some Trouble With Australia, But They'll Be Fine
Heading into the Olympics, the United States men’s basketball team was the overwhelming favorite to win the gold medal. After all, they’d won 68 straight games, and even with stars like Steph Curry skipping out on Rio, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and most other players on the roster were still be...