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The Deadspin Awards Are Coming
Sports awards are bad; sports awards shows are worse; the Deadspin Awards will be bad in their own way, but at least, and definitely, fun....
Manny Machado Charges The Mound, Lights Up Yordano Ventura
After throwing at him earlier in the game, Yordano Ventura plunked Manny Machado in the fifth inning, prompting Machado to quickly remove his helmet, limp to the mound, and light into Ventura. It looks like he landed a decent string of punches before he got pulled off the Royals pitcher....
Chelsea Settle Former Team Doctor's Lawsuit Against Club And José Mourinho
After José Mourinho blew up on then-Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro during a game back in August, apparently for her unforgivable sin of tending to an injured player, and after he then demoted her for said unforgivable sin, and after Carneiro was like “Screw this, I’m out of here, and I’m suing all...
Blackballed MMA Reporter Admits He Was UFC's Paid Shill
MMAFighting.com’s Ariel Helwani and his colleagues Casey Leydon and Esther Lin were booted from UFC 199 on Saturday and banned from future UFC events, apparently in retaliation for Helwani having reported, a few hours before the UFC’s official announcement, that Brock Lesnar was in talks to fight at...
UFC Throws Reporter Out Of Event, Bans Him For Life For Reporting News
Imagine the NBA having Adrian Wojnarowski escorted out of a game in the third quarter and banning him for life for having reported a trade rumor. Ridiculous as it seems, a scenario exactly like this just happened at a UFC show....
Garbiñe Muguruza Beats Serena Williams, Wins French Open Title
Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza defeated Serena Williams in straight sets today at Roland Garros, claiming her first career Grand Slam title and denying Williams her 22nd....
Hurricanes Owner Sued By His Three Large Adult Sons For $105 Million
There’s a real King Lear situation brewing within the Karmanos family, as the three large adult sons of Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos Jr. are suing their father for over $100 million, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Oakland County (Michigan) court. According to the sons (Nick, J...
Report: Two More Baylor Football Staffers Fired
Two more members of Baylor’s athletics department have been fired, USA Today reports tonight, citing an anonymous source. They are Colin Shillinglaw, the athletics director for football operations, and longtime athletics staffer Tom Hill. Both were fired last week. ...
![Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw Has Resigned [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/f1o6otvrrjt7allgdrsl.jpg)
Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw Has Resigned [UPDATE]
Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw plans to resign, according to Baylor247, making him the third person to leave his position as a result of the sexual assault scandals at the Waco university following head football coach Art Briles’s firing and the demotion of president Ken Starr. Baylor sanctioned...
SB Nation Releases Report On How Daniel Holtzclaw Story Was Published
In February, SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?,” a lengthy profile of a college football player turned cop turned convicted serial rapist. The story, by freelancer Jeff Arnold and edited by Glenn Stout, was so roundly criticized for showing one-sided sympathy to Holtzclaw that it was del...
Tony Gwynn's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against The Tobacco Industry (UPDATE)
Tony Gwynn died in 2014 at the age of 54 from salivary gland cancer, a disease which he attributed to three decades of chewing smokeless tobacco. He underwent several surgeries during his career to manage salivary gland problems, and he was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. Gwynn blamed his tobacco hab...
Am I Committing Cable Theft?
Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below....
Here's A Fantastic New Angle Of Kris Jenkins's Tournament-Winning Buzzer-Beater
A nice reader sends us this amazing shot of Villanova forward Kris Jenkins’s game-winning buzzer-beater from the end of the NCAA championship game. We’ve all seen this shot from a dozen or so angles, but I don’t think this one has been out there yet....
Clayton Kershaw Is An Apex Predator
Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw is on one of those runs that has baseball writers banging down the door of Elias Sports and plumbing the depths of Baseball Reference, all in an attempt to put whatever the hell it is he’s doing in context. Kershaw struck out 11 Angels in eight innings last ni...
Don't Declaw Your Cat
If you get a cat—and, you should, cats are fine—you should be prepared for them to scratch on everything in your home (except, confoundingly, the scratching post). You can and should combat this by keeping their claws clipped to a safe and sanitary length, just as you do your own nails, or by purcha...
Reporter Says 49ers Owner Jed York Once Stuck Him With A $2100 Dinner Bill
Tim Kawakami, the longtime Mercury News columnist, hosts a podcast, and during a recent episode he told a story about 49ers owner Jed York being a rich jerk....
Blue Jays Call Rangers "Gutless" And "Cowardly" After Excellent Brawl
I believe with my whole heart that the seventh inning of last year’s ALDS Game 5—the non-interference throw back to the pitcher, the baby-soaking beer rain, Elvis Andrus’s meltdown, and ohmygod that bat flip—is the most entertaining inning of baseball ever played. That seven months later it is still...
![Blue Jays And Rangers Brawl, Completely Ignore Game [UPDATE: They Brawled Again]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dzytltukqx096x7lbsyd.gif)
Blue Jays And Rangers Brawl, Completely Ignore Game [UPDATE: They Brawled Again]
Toronto and Texas brawled in the top of the eighth as punches were flying while the ball was still bouncing around the field. We’re waiting on a good video replay; for now, enjoy this feed from Fox Sports Southwest and KRLD....
Russell Wilson's Charming UW Commencement Address Was The Anti-Michael Jordan Hall Of Fame Speech
Look how chill that dude is right there. Twenty-seven years old, a Super Bowl winner, wearing a hoodie to a graduation ceremony at which he gave a funny, inspirational, self-effacing speech that also settled some scores with an old coach. This weekend in Madison, Russell Wilson—Seahawks QB, former W...