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I Saw The Buttfumble Live And It Fractured My Family<em></em>
Sometime in the winter of 2010, my dad sat my younger brother and me down for a talk....
Mike Leach Has Some Wedding Advice For All You Men Out There
A reporter who is getting married in a few days asked Washington State head coach Mike Leach if he had any wedding advice to share with him, and this is what he got:...
Tyrod Taylor Is The Bills' Starter Again, Because Why Not?
After taking a few days to digest Nathan Peterman’s fart cloud of a debut, Bills head coach Sean McDermott told reporters this morning that maybe it would be best if Tyrod Taylor started at quarterback on Sunday at the Chiefs....
Hell Yeah, Here Comes Otani
According to reports, the MLB players’ union has signed off on a new posting system that was agreed to by Nippon Professional Baseball and MLB. This means that Shohei Otani—the most interesting man in baseball, a legitimate five-tool star and an ace pitcher whose fastball has been clocked up to 103 ...
Jerry Jones Won't Sue The NFL, Still Won't Shut Up About Roger Goodell's Contract
Another thrilling update in this saga of powerful old football men sending mean letters back and forth! Jerry Jones has announced that he will not be suing the NFL to block commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension, as he’d previously threatened to do. But that doesn’t mean he’s given up putti...
Lane Kiffin Has A Video Of Nick Saban Dancing At Karaoke And Selfishly Hasn't Shared It
There are several interesting tidbits in ESPN’s profile of Lane Kiffin today, but the best ones are those on Kiffin’s relationship with former boss Nick Saban. There’s this one, about Kiffin continuing to text the Alabama coach even though he knows he’s not ever going to get any response: ...
Some People Banned From Baseball For More Interesting Misdeeds Than John Coppolella
Former Atlanta Braves general manager John Coppolella has received a lifetime ban from baseball for violating international signing rules by paying prospects too much money under the table. This makes him the fourth living person currently on the commissioner’s permanently ineligible list, joining P...
Report: Atlanta Braves Lose 12 Prospects After Paying Them Too Much
Major League Baseball has decided that the Atlanta Braves will forfeit 12 prospects as part of their punishment for circumventing rules regarding the limits on what teams can spend to sign international prospects, according to Jeff Passan of Yahoo. Most notable among the lost players—who will immedi...
Michael Porter Jr.'s Freshman Season Is Over After Two Minutes Of Play
Michael Porter Jr. will likely be one of the first five players taken in the 2018 NBA Draft. The general consensus pegs him as one of the elite prospects available next year, although unlike Marvin Bagley III, DeAndre Ayton, Mohamed Bamba, and Luka Doncic, Porter will have practically no experience ...
Joe Morgan Doesn't Think Willie Mays Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Joe Morgan—two-time National League MVP, all-time great, Hall of Famer, and vice-chairman of the Hall’s board of directors—sent an email today from the general Hall of Fame email address to current voters, arguing (among other things) that drug users like Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle s...
It's Suddenly All Gone Very Wrong For The Clippers
After winning their first four games of the season and appearing to transition gracefully into the post-Chris Paul era, the Los Angeles Clippers have since turned into one of the worst teams in basketball and lost nine straight games. Their lone win over the past 10 games was against the hapless Dal...
Do Animals Have Accents?<em></em>
Before we start, please note there is NO Funbag next week because the entire Deadspin staff will be in New York preparing for the Deadspin Awards. I, for one, will be VERY excited to get measured for a rental tux right after Thanksgiving has passed. Real boost to the ego there....
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Nathan Peterman Is Sent To The Slaughter
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Ray Allen Says He Was Catfished By Man, Who Claims Allen's A Stalker
The day after a man named Bryant Coleman told a Florida court that he’s being stalked by Ray Allen, the former NBA player has responded with an emergency motion saying that he, in fact, is the one being stalked by Coleman. Their contact began, Allen said, after Coleman catfished him by pretending to...
Bree Horrocks Is Ready To Play Her Game
Panel discussions like the one that Bree Horrocks took part in at Purdue University in spring of 2015 tend not to make national news; they may not even make the school paper. For Horrocks, it was a different story. By participating in the Purdue LGBTQ Center’s panel on inclusion in sports, Horrocks ...
Teenage Giant Bol Bol Commits To Oregon
Because of his beloved famous father, Manute, and his own similarly pronounced height, Bol Bol has been on the national radar since he was a 6-foot-5 middle schooler, casually blocking the shots of normal pubescent boys. Now, the now 7-foot-1 high school senior has chosen to commit to the University...
Joel Embiid Has Perfected Shit-Talking
Joel Embiid didn’t have the kind of monster game we’ve grown accustomed to seeing during last night’s win over the Jazz—his 15 points and 11 rebounds were perfectly solid—but he did provide the highlight of the game....
Kyrie Irving Kept The Celtics' Streak Alive
The Celtics’ stretch of early-season dominance looked like it might’ve finally met its end tonight, with Boston losing to the Mavericks by as many as 13 points in the fourth quarter. And then Kyrie Irving scored 10 of his 47 points in overtime, and the Celtics got their 16th win in a row. With a sea...
The American Experiment Has Failed
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo lectured LaVar Ball about gratitude tonight, following President Donald Trump’s whiny rant this weekend about how he should have left Ball’s son LiAngelo in a Chinese jail with two other UCLA basketball players because he doesn’t feel that LaVar has been thankful enough....
Bill Belichick: Thank God We Made It Out Of Mexico City Without Any Earthquakes Or Volcano Eruptions
Bill Belichick wasn’t so thrilled about the Patriots’ game last weekend in Mexico City, which is fair enough—at an altitude of nearly 7,500 feet (more than 2,000 feet higher than Denver), playing in Mexico City can present some unique challenges. Fine! But rather than sticking to that point in a rad...