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Aw, This Career Minor Leaguer Tearing Up Over Making The Phillies' Roster Is GreatBrock Stassi is 27 and has spent his six-year career in professional baseball bouncing around the Phillies’ minor league system. He found out today that he’d get his first taste of the big leagues with a spot on the team’s Opening Day roster, and his reaction was very earnest and very sweet with ple...

We Asked Our Friends (And A Few Enemies) To Sign Our Yearbook<em></em>On Monday of this coming week, all of us at Deadspin will sit down at our computers and write blog posts about sports and other things. On Friday, we will do the same. In between, while we are blogging, our parent company, Gawker Media, will be sold by auction in bankruptcy court. This will end the ...

Who Hugged Roger Goodell Longest At Last Night's NFL Draft?Last night’s first round of the NFL draft featured many large men embracing an extremely rich one. As we do every year, we’ve measured each draftee’s hug time and measured it against his fellow rookies. The winner? New Falcons defensive back Keanu Neal, who got intimate with Roger Goodell for more t...

Clay Helton Mobbed By His Players After Being Named USC Head Coach

Clay Helton has been serving as USC’s interim head coach for a few weeks now, and the school surprised a lot of people this morning when it decided to sign him to a multi-year contract and keep him as the head coach going forward. USC fans who were dreaming of Chip Kelly may be disappointed, but the...

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Here Are Some Adorable Fox Terrier Puppies Hanging Out With A Bunny

It's been a pretty bad couple of days in sports, with lots of people acting terribly. There's no need to ignore all that and pretend the world is perfect, but there's no need not to take a minute to watch these puppies playing....

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....

Phil Martelli's 4-Year-Old Grandson Is A Mini-Basketball Coach

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