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Time Is Not A Flat Circle: <em>X-Men: Days Of Future Past</em>, Reviewed
1. X-Men: Days of Future Past feels like one of those special-edition comic books that takes all the characters we know and love, drops them in some sort of parallel universe (so the storyline's ramifications don't affect the current canon timeline), and shakes up both the plot and those characters ...

9/11 Truther Still Suspicious Of Sitting President
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Retired Stars File Suit Alleging NFL Doped Them Up Like Race Horses
Some very large piles of shit just hit the fan in the world of the NFL today. Eight former NFL players—Richard Dent, Jim McMahon, Jeremy Newberry, Roy Green, J.D. Hill, Keith Van Horne, Ron Stone, and Ron Pritchard—have filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL. The suit claims that the league su...

Former Tampa Bay Bucs Cheerleader Sues Team For Wage Theft
Former Buccaneers cheerleader Manouchcar Pierre-Val has just made Tampa Bay the fifth NFL team to get served with a lawsuit from its cheerleaders. ...

The Time Tim Donaghy Punched Out Joey Crawford
The Oregonian's John Canzano published the last of his five-part series on the state of NBA officiating last week, and he saved one of his juiciest anecdotes for last. ...

Sir Dickharem, Asshair Moan, And More Anagrammed NHL Names
Do you like anagrams? Are you also immature? You will likely enjoy these anagrammed NHL names....

Did An Iowa Basketball Player Punch A Guy In The Face Over A Tweet?
Iowa Hawkeyes basketball player Zach McCabe was arrested and charged Friday after allegedly punching a man in the face, knocking him to the ground, and blowing a kiss as he left. One report suggests that it may have been caused by an insulting tweet sent by the victim to McCabe....

SE Missouri Redhawks Tweet Weird And NSFW Bathroom Picture
So, um, we're not really sure what happened here, but a few minutes ago the official Twitter account of Southeast Missouri athletics sent out the seemingly innocuous tweet above. Clicking on that link, however, did not bring one to the live results for today's track meet, but to a very weird picture...

Golf Fan Wrecks Motorized Wheelchair Into Tree At Byron Nelson Classic
Some poor old man wrecked his Rascal into a tree today at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, and we can't stop laughing about it because it was all captured live on Golf Channel and we are horrible people....

Kawhi Leonard, Who Is The Future, Ran The Blazers Off The Floor
If you didn't catch any of the Spurs' series-clinching win over the Blazers last night—yet another perfectly orchestrated, Spursian blowout—the only highlight you really need to watch is the one above....

The Empty-Seat Game: Japanese Soccer's Non-Solution To A Racism Scandal
First it was a tall woman in bright clothing with a microphone. Then her cameraman. Then a short man in a coat and tie with a notepad. Then another man with a smaller camera that was already rolling....

Has Pete Carroll Been Tipping Draft Picks On Twitter?
On Thursday, before the draft started, Pete Carroll fired off a series of tweets with the hashtag "SeahawksDraftClues." Included within the tweets were videos from relatively famous comedy bits or movies, with the idea being that followers could find a clue to a Seattle draft pick somewhere within t...

The Minnesota Wild Are Learning The Hard Way: You Can't Buy A Cup
When the Minnesota Wild made the only real splash in team history by signing the top two free agents of the Class of 2012, people thought it would usher in a change for the troubled franchise. They were right. Instead of just missing the postseason, the Wild are primed to bow out early in the playof...

Shawn Thornton Fined For Spraying P.K. Subban With Water During Game
When Corey Perry filled Jeff Carter's glove with water during a break last week, it was cute. Shawn Thornton's spraying of Montreal's P.K. Subban last night was more dickish than cheeky, and he paid for it....

This Seems Like A Violation Of The Rules, Somehow
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Who Hugged Roger Goodell Longest At Last Night's Draft?
The NFL draft does gangbuster ratings, as football fans from around the country tune in to watch very large men embrace a very rich one. It's a Deadspin tradition to measure each draftee's hug time, and this year we've got a graph to go with it....

Deadspin's Johnny Manziel Obsession, Visualized
Both the ESPN and NFL Network draft broadcasts Deadspin and Regressing blogrolls were Johnny Football-obsessed tonight last night, but the Worldwide Leader and everyone around here was especially interested in the Heisman-winning Texan. Led by a drooling Jon Gruden a drooling Samer Kalaf and Tim Bur...

This Middle Finger Aimed At Joey Crawford Speaks For America
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