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Prince Fielder Teaches Millennials Valuable Lesson About Ballpark Cell Phone Usage
Prince Fielder is a large baseball man who hit himself a large donger in the fourth inning of this afternoon’s Rangers win. Fielder sent the ball arching past the right field pole and, somehow, directly into this fan’s phone....

This Gyasi Zardes Lowlight Reel Is Very Rude And Very Funny
United States forward Gyasi Zardes has quickly established himself as one of Jürgen Klinsmann’s favorite attackers, racking up five goals and 26 caps in his first two years with the national team. He’s a perfectly fine runner and finisher, but good lord, his first touch looks like he’s playing socce...

Will Fox Sports 1's <i>All Takes Matter</i> Be Any Good? We're Airing Rehearsal Footage Right Now.
Fox Sports 1's All Takes Matter with Cowherd & Whitlock has been taping rehearsals all week in preparation for the show’s premiere on Monday. Deadspin has acquired several hours of these rehearsals from a Fox Sports source, and we’re airing select portions right now on Facebook Live:...

Justin Bieber Finally Punished For His Crimes Against Basketball
By now, you’ve surely been made aware of the fact that Justin Bieber got tossed around after last night’s NBA Finals game between the Cavaliers and Warriors. Watch the scuffle below, if you haven’t seen it yet:...

The NBA Playoffs Have Been Historically Non-Competitive
No matter who ends up winning the NBA Finals, they will have both won and lost a Finals game by 30 points. That’s as appropriate of a coda as any for what has been a historically non-competitive playoffs....

Klay Thompson Thinks Timofey Mozgov's Screen Was "Kind Of Dirty"
Klay Thompson was briefly removed from Game 3 of the NBA Finals after a collision with Cavs center Timofey Mozgov left him with a contusion on his left thigh. After the game, Thompson was still annoyed about how things went down:...

Cool New Baseball Strategy: Have Two Guys Cover First At The Same Time
Oh, so your baseball team uses defensive shifts? They sometimes put the shortstop on the other side of the infield when a lefty is at the plate? Wow. Cool. How revolutionary....

Giants Fan Goes Swimming For 69th Splash Hit
The San Francisco Giants play in a lovely bayside ballpark, with McCovey Cove and the Pacific Ocean (sort of) just feet past the right field wall. This nautical branch of the ballpark is famous for its flocks of boats, as well as the Splash Hit. There’s a big counter on the outfield wall of how many...

Ian Desmond Has A Goddamn Cannon For An Arm
Ian Desmond entered this year as a cautionary tale about the perils of turning down big money and betting on yourself, but the man has been revitalized as an outfielder for the Rangers. He’s hitting .310 and has a WAR of 2.1. Desmond also made one of the best throws of the season this evening to nab...

Snoop Dogg's Dreadful First Pitch Almost Took Out Some Bystanders
Snoop Dogg was at a Padres game for some reason this afternoon, and he threw out the first pitch, laying down the best highlight of the game in the process. His toss wasn’t as bad as 50 Cent’s notorious stray pitch from two years ago, but Snoop’s nearly took out a pair of innocent onlookers....

Everyone's Favorite NBA Superfan Is A Shitty Landlord
You know Jimmy Goldstein, even if you don’t know Jimmy Goldstein. He’s the crispy old man in the crazy clothes that you see sitting courtside at a seemingly impossible number of NBA games. He’s beloved by fans and players alike, and has essentially become the NBA’s hip grandpa. He is also, according...

How Do I Tell My Friends I Can't Afford To Hang Out With Them?
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...

We Have Found The Ultimate Contrarian Ali Take
God bless you, Ted Diadiun of Cleveland.com. Just when I thought this week’s avalanche of Muhammad Ali tributes would be uniformly thoughtful and compassionate, you—good sir—had the courage to write what needed to be written: that Ali was a preening showboat and is the reason lots of people died in ...

High School Ballplayer Fouls One Right Into His Nads, Collapses, Dabs It Off
These clips come to us from a high school baseball game between Henry Sibley High and South St. Paul in St. Paul, Minn. Sibley High junior Dan O’Reilly is here to teach us all how to deal with a shot to the dick and balls with great aplomb....

Let's Check In On Tim Lincecum
Throughout his highly-publicized rehab from hip surgery this past offseason, former ace Tim Lincecum was clear on one thing: He was working hard to come back as a starter, despite the moderate success he’d found pitching out of the bullpen for the Giants in several stints since the 2012 playoffs....

Maria Sharapova, Who Was On So Many Pills, Banned Two Years For PED Use
An independent tribunal just handed tennis star Maria Sharapova a two-year ban from the sport for testing positive for meldonium, a substance that Sharapova has been taking for a decade but wasn’t added to the WADA’s list of banned substances until last year....

The NHL Has Decided Whether Las Vegas Will Get A Team, But Isn't Saying
The NHL’s executive committee met for more than four hours yesterday, with one big order of business on the table: expansion. Their decision on whether to award franchises to Las Vegas or Quebec City, or both, or neither, is functionally the final decision; the full Board of Governors is expected to...

Home Run Robberies Don't Get Much Better Than This
Not all dinger thefts are created equal. There are those in which the robber tracks a high fly ball, and is afforded time to plant his feet in front of the wall and measure his leap. These catches often make for the best photo opportunities, as the outfielder gets to use the wall to boost his jump a...

A Lot Of People Were Happy To See Yordano Ventura Get Thumped
I can’t recall a player or a team being so unrepentant—so proud—of a bench-clearing brawl as Manny Machado and the Orioles were of Machado charging the mound and delivering a haymaker/DDT combo. But then, I can’t recall a player that so many around baseball have wanted to see take a punch to the fac...

Juan Uribe Grabs Fan's Weenie
When you’re hungry, you’re hungry. The food at Seattle’s ballpark looks pretty damn good, and Juan Uribe couldn’t help himself but reach for this dude’s dog....