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Félix Pié Was "Covered In Beer" After Near-Fight With Fans
With all the other news going on this week, we missed the fallout from the Pirates' minor league dustup on Tuesday, the one that found outfielder Félix Pié—and possibly other players—trying to climb into the stands to fight fans in Toledo. A reader who was there has contacted us with more specifics....
Look, Up in the Sky
From Leigh Montville's wide-grin of a book, Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend, here's a two part excerpt....
Cool Hand Joe
If you've never read Gay Talese's seminal Esquire magazine story on Joe DiMaggio, do yourself a favor and check out "The Silent Season of a Hero."...
Soccer Coach Steals Player's Credit Card To Buy 36 Bottles Of Jäger
This is Josip Gašpar. Jozo played nine years for Croatia's most popular team, and even had one cap at the national level. Until April, Jozo coached first-division side Prečko. But Jozo was fired, and no one knew why, until today. ...
Minor Leaguer Reportedly Tried To Climb Into Stands To Fight Fan
Details are still scarce and even a bit contradictory, but according to reports, fans in Toledo angered one or more Indianapolis Indians players last night by throwing things at them, and that at one point former major leaguer Félix Pié attempted to climb over a railing to go after people before bei...
A "Roller Derby Powerhouse" Breaks Down A Chicago Fast-Food Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Chicago Wrigleyville Bacci Brawl." Tonight's commentator: Jamie Ramsay aka Varla Vendetta of the Windy City Rollers. (Coming next week: Steve "ESPO" Powers breaks down an arts-related...
How A Med School Dropout Made America Fall In Love With Running
Excerpted from Kings of the Road: How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom, which is out today from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt....
Dukies, Single People, And Women: Data Show Who Sucks At Picking Brackets
In a feel-good "enormous corporations share user-data" story, Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to give us a rare look into the demographics that drive March Madness picks. Drawing on data from the 60,000 users who used Facebook to login to Yahoo's College Tournament Pick 'Em, Michael Bailey (cr...
Prince Fielder's Home Run Knocked Some Poor Fan Right The Fuck Out
Prince Fielder went deep off of Boone Logan in the bottom of the fifth inning today. Bad news for this guy....
Tuesday Night Fights: In Which A Bieber Wannabe Gets Slapped Around In The Street
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: the aptly named, "Street Fight." Tonight's commentator: Deadspin commenter and degenerate boxing fan Iron Mike Gallego. (Coming next week: a roller derby powerhouse exa...
Tuesday Night Fights: In Which A Philly Cop Breaks Down A Street Fight
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Philly fight on lippincott st: Precious n Neesh." Tonight's commentator: An active-duty Philadelphia police officer, who's returning to TNF. (Coming next week: TBA.)...
Hey Look, Some Hockey Parents Decided To Beat The Shit Out Of Each Other
When we last took a dip into the world of rage-y hockey parents, we saw a guy cheer the injury of a child before making violent threats toward another spectator, all while holding an infant in his arms. Today, we get to watch an entire group of angry hockey parents (dads and moms!) lose all sense o...
These Two Seconds Of Hockey Generated 44 Penalty Minutes
Wanna watch something exciting and unusual that happened on the ice during an NHL game? Watch this video! But wanna watch some hockey? Well, then don't watch this video....
Facebook Data Give Us The Best Fandom Map of the NCAA Tournament
In January, Facebook dipped into its user data and put together the greatest NFL fan map we'd ever seen. Now they've done it again, mapping out county-by-county Facebook likes for the 68 teams participating in this year's March Madness. Michael Bailey broke down the data by conference, tournament re...
Photoshop Contest: Tiger Woods And Lindsey Vonn
Have you calmed down yet? Have you had time to collect yourself and regain your bearings after learning that Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are indeed Facebook official? Good, because now it's time to mercilessly mock the happy couple with your Photoshop skills....
Tigers Woods And Lindsey Vonn Are Facebook Official
The high school cafeteria jock table nearly flipped over in pent-up anticipation today, when Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn—sports' 218th-hottest couple—made their relationship Facebook official. ...
Tuesday Night Fights: Greetings From Fremont Street
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Las Vegas Fight Hilarious." Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: A Russian concrete pile-driver.)...
Troy Hennum, The Softball Coach Who Used His Players To Pick Up Girls, Has A Side Job Handicapping Sports
We told you on Friday about Troy Hennum the newly-hired and quickly-fired softball coach at Roosevelt high school in Seattle. He used his athletes to help score him dates with other girls in a self-described "genius" use of his coaching position. He was also let go from a previous position for send...