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What It's Like To Be In The Doghouse
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....

Michigan Tailgater Gives Pregame Speech Like He's A Real Player
Michigan's had a pretty tough go of it so far this season, so the team was no doubt needing some extra motivation heading into last weekend's game against Penn State. They did not get that motivation from this bro's rousing pregame speech, though, because this bro is not on the football team. He's j...

Ballin'-Ass Steve Ballmer And His Dead Eyes Are Here To Frighten You
New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is the subject of Bloomberg Businessweek's latest cover story, and oh my God, what in the hell is going on with this cover?...

College Football Jell-O Shots: An Unauthorized Guide
Ten days after I'd purchased 20 college football Jell-O molds, the terrible news arrived: No one eats Jell-O anymore. Five days later, we learned that the kids are abandoning college football, too....

A.J. Pierzynski Has Elite Flopping Skills
A.J. Pierzynski has long been one of baseball's most notorious heels, so it makes sense that he would become the first catcher to add shameless flopping to his repertoire. That's a flop Chris Paul would be proud of....
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[Update With Editor's Note] Is A Colorado Senate Candidate Lying About His Football Career?
Read a note from the editor here. ...

Here's A Movie About A Basketball That Bounces Between Movies
All of your favorite movies! Plus Men in Black 3....

Jesus, Have You Looked At The 76ers' Roster?
Just look at this roster. Look at it. ...

Lululemon's Buffalo Store Taunts Fans With "Wide Right/No Goal"
Being a Buffalo sports fan can be pretty depressing. The Bills are, at best, mediocre and remain the only franchise to lose four Super Bowls in a row while winning zero. The Sabres offer little relief, having also won zero championships and promising to be one of the worst teams in the NHL this seas...

TV Reporter Gets The Crap Scared Out Of Him By Screaming Royals Fan
Someone needs to send Johnny Kane to the Jim Cantore School Of On-The-Scene Reporting. You can't just let a dude crash your report like that and not send him off with a flying knee to the chest....

Chart: 145 Years Of College Football Championships By Conference
Here's a chart from 614 analytics that displays college football national championships grouped by conference over the last century and a half. Look at all those Ivy titles! ...

Ball State Football Players Allegedly Involved In "Poo Dollar" Prank
The "poo dollar" is a prank in which a person—likely a teen because teens are the absolute worst—wipes their ass with a dollar and then leaves it on the ground so that an unsuspecting mark will them come and pick it up and get poop all over their hand. According to police, three Ball State football ...

Royals Pitcher Gives Playoff Tickets To Broke Dude On Twitter
On Saturday, a Kansas City Royals fan was really sad about the fact that he was too broke to take his girlfriend to a Royals playoff game. As any sensible person would do, he looked to amend the situation by taking to Twitter and asking Royals reliever Brandon Finnegan for some tickets....

What If Tom Brady Gets Ebola?
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, and more....

38-Year-Old White Chocolate Still Has Some Game In Him
Jason Williams hasn't played in an NBA game since 2011, but from the looks of this highlight reel from the Orlando Pro Am, he's still got a lot of the skills that earned him the nickname "White Chocolate" in the first place....

Ferguson Protesters Attend Monday Night Football
Protesters participating in Ferguson October—a long weekend of protests against the deaths of Mike Brown and John Crawford, and police violence in minority communities—brought the struggle to an unusual place Monday night: the inside of an NFL stadium. ...

Alabama Tight End Busted With A Quarter Pound Of Weed In His Dorm Room
Police seized 112 grams of weed and $4,661 in cash from University of Alabama tight end Kurt Freitag's dorm room, according to a complaint filed Monday. Last Tuesday, agents from the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force observed Freitag making a "drug transaction" outside of his dorm. They followed him...

Kicker Lives The Dream, Scores Touchdown On Own Kickoff
This is William Will, the emphatically named kicker for Dayton, swooping in to recover a fumble and take it to the house for (we are going out on a giant limb here) his first career touchdown. He was named the FCS Pioneer League's special teams player of the week, because come the fuck on....

This Wild-Ass Blocked Extra Point Will Make You Shit Your Dick
We admit that Deadspin occasionally dips into the pool of hyperbole, but take our word for it that this lateral-filled blocked extra point from Saturday's Sacramento State-Northern Colorado game will make you shit your dick....

Penn State Drops Sayreville Star Myles Hartsfield From Commit List
Sayreville captain and Penn State commit Myles Hartsfield, ranked either a four- or three-star athlete by most recruiting services, is no longer appearing on Penn State's commit list. Sources have stated the Nittany Lions are "moving on" from their previous scholarship offer in wake of the Sayrevill...