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Boston Man Arrested For Setting Off False Fire Alarm In Steelers' Hotel
A Boston man who falsely set off a fire alarm in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ hotel early this morning has been apprehended and charged by Massachusetts State Police....
Gregg Popovich Expresses Support For The Women's March, Again Criticizes Donald Trump
On a day that saw millions around the world march in support of women’s rights and against President Donald Trump, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was in Cleveland preparing his team to play a basketball game. Speaking with reporter pregame, Popovich spent five minutes praising marchers and c...
Indianapolis Colts Fire GM Ryan Grigson After Five Seasons
The Colts have fired general manager Ryan Grigson after five years in the role and a second straight 8-8 season, as first reported by ESPN....
Look At All These Beautiful Clutch Basketball Shots
Time for another edition of the quiz that we played here on Deadspin last Wednesday: “who had the best buzzer-beater tonight?” In order to reflect the nature of today’s choices, however, it will now be amended to “who had the coolest shot in the closing seconds of regulation last night?” (No, that i...
Another Title IX Official At Baylor Says She Quit Because Working There Was Hell
A second woman whose job at Baylor was to investigate reports of rape has spoken to ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Like Patty Crawford, the previous Title IX official who talked after leaving Baylor, Gabrielle Lyons describes a bleak situation, one that made her so paranoid she dreamed about rape. Lyons ...
Seriously, Curt Schilling, That's Not The Real Sidney Ponson, Here's Proof
Yesterday, we all got a chuckle out of meme-loving toad Curt Schilling getting into a Twitter fight with someone pretending to be former MLB pitcher Sidney Ponson. Then we all chuckled some more when Curt insisted that he was in fact beefing with the real Sidney Ponson. Then he just kept insisting, ...
I'm Sorry, But When Did They Become The Toronto Red Jays???
Folks, get a load of this:...
Conference Investigating Wild, WWE-Style Brawl In DII Game<em></em>
Most basketbrawls get mopped up shortly after they start. Refs and coaches intervene before things boil over into a full-blown free-for-all and the perpetrators are quickly subdued. Most never escalate to the point that a fan takes a chair to the head of a player who is currently being, but that’s e...
Extremely Tall Basketball Teen Debuts In Ohio
Romanian basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi, who was 7-foot-6 and 184 pounds at last check in 2015, is now 7-foot-7 and 190 pounds. The Italian pasta strategy does not appear to have filled him out....
Allonzo Trier's Indefinite Suspension Is The Result Of A Bullshit NCAA PED Rule
Why is Allonzo Trier not playing basketball? This question has been asked repeatedly by media members and basketball fans alike for the past three months, and all that time both Arizona and the NCAA remained silent. Late Wednesday night, an answer finally came....
San Diego Chargers Fans Got Fucked To The Last
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here....
Atlanta Bar Forced To Apologize To Crybaby Falcons Fans
There is a bar in Atlanta called Park Tavern that will be hosting a pep rally for Packers fans the day before the NFC championship game. The event is being put on by Packers Everywhere, a group that rents out bars and hosts events for Packers fans all across the country. A fanbase taking over a part...
Oklahoma Cornerback Arrested For Alleged Role In Three Armed Robberies
Freshman Oklahoma corner Parrish Cobb was released from McLennan County jail on $90,000 bond Wednesday morning after turning himself in to police Tuesday night. Cobb was charged with three counts of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony. According to KWTX, a second man, Ayorinde Gibson, was als...
Curt Schilling Is Convinced He Is Beefing With The Real Sidney Ponson
There are a lot of fake athlete accounts out there on Twitter, because it’s fun to pretend to be Jonathan Broxton or whatever and tweet, “just did a big wet fart.” One of these fake accounts bears the name of former MLB pitcher Sidney Ponson, and last night the owner of the account started a beef wi...
Russell Westbrook Committed The Most Egregious Traveling Violation Of All Time
I don’t really know what to say about this Russell Westbrook travel, except that it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen....
Look At All These Good Buzzer-Beaters
A quiz: Who had the best buzzer-beater tonight?...
Jameis Winston Sexual Battery<em></em> Lawsuit Formally Dismissed
This morning, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed two lawsuits involving Jameis Winston, finally ending a four-year legal saga. A sexual battery lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston in 2015 and an earlier suit filed by Winston against Kinsman for defamation were both dismissed. The pair settle...
Vicious Dunk Brings Down The House, Sends Coaches Scrambling
Pity the poor defender who found himself in sophomore Chase Hunter’s path on this play. He probably thought he had a chance at drawing a charge or at least not getting completely wrecked, but, sadly, that is not how things played out....
Here Is Your 2017 Baseball Hall Of Fame Class
Thanks to Ryan Thibodaux’s diligent ballot tracking, we already knew that Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines (thank God) were going into the Hall of Fame this year. Now that all of the ballots have been counted, we can see if anyone else will be joining them....
Tim Raines And Jeff Bagwell Look Like Locks To Make The Hall Of Fame Tonight
Finally, mercifully, the period of speculation about who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame this year will come to an end. ...