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I Was Wayne Gretzky's (Hungover) Linemate: An NHL Journeyman Picks The Wrong Night To Drink
To say I was a Wayne Gretzky fan as a child would be like saying that my brother has a small gap in his teeth. The Oilers were my team and Wayne was my idol. When Chris and I played hockey in the basement, I was always Gretzky and he was always Mike Bossy. Two of the most creative offensive forwards...
The Boy On The Edge Of The Bathtub: Sam Lipsyte On Growing Up A Sportswriter's Son
Whenever somebody makes the connection between my father, Robert Lipsyte, the legendary sportswriter, and me (usually because Lipsyte is a rare name, unique to our family, a family that may or may not include a Lithuanian paratrooper I once found online who boasted in emails about our fierce mountai...
Tuesday Night Fights: Chris Kluwe Breaks Down Some Dudebros Brawling In The Streets Of Hollywood
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Unbelievable street fight in Hollywood - Bro vs. Hipster." Tonight's commentator: friend of Deadspin Chris Kluwe, a sensible human who is scheduled to appear on tonigh...
Fight During Race Doesn't Even Interrupt Track Meet
Track meets can be interminably long affairs, what with all of the various heats for all of the various races. Most meets, then, run on a tight schedule with little time for interruption—even when there's a brawl in the middle of a race, apparently....
How Bad Does Hockey Hazing Have To Be To Get An Entire Women's College Team Suspended?
Last week we brought you the news that Dalhousie University, in Halifax, is shutting down it's women's hockey team for the rest of the season, after suspending 19 of its 24 members for their participation in a freshman hazing incident in September. We wondered just how bad the hazing was to qualify ...
The Bengals Really Could Break Their 8,400-Day Playoff Winless Streak Today
For a summer in college I interned for the sports department of the Columbus Dispatch, which sent me for a few days to cover Cincinnati Bengals training camp. The 1990s had just come to a close—a dismal era even by the Bengals' standards—and the beat writers killed time during practice by stumping o...
Bills Guard Andy Levitre Tweeted Out A Photo With Some Inadvertent Side Boob (NSFW-ish)
Andy Levitre has been a mainstay on the Buffalo Bills offensive line since being drafted in 2009. Since the Bills suck, however, it's unlikely that many people outside of Buffalo have any idea who he is. After tweeting out the photo you see above sometime last night, though, Levitre will at least b...
Bonnie Bernstein Explains Ray Lewis's Crimes With An Unfortunate Parable About Middle Schoolers Smoking
Somewhere along the line, we as a nation apparently chose to forgive/forget the fact that Ray Lewis was involved in a murder at a Super Bowl party in 2000. That Lewis and his friends got into a fight with another group, and two people in that other group were stabbed to death. That Lewis lied to cop...
The Betting Public Killed Las Vegas Sportsbooks In The 2012 NFL Season
So the NFL did its ouroboros thing again this year. Lots of parity. Or so it would seem. But 2012 mostly just brought us a handful of excellent teams—Football Outsiders says three of the 12 best teams since 1991 (Seahawks, Broncos, and Patriots)—and some supremely terrible ones. The result is that, ...
Tuesday Night Fights: Jeff Pearlman Watches A Knife Vs. Cane Fight, Thinks About Albert Belle
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Crazy fight in downtown Houston!!!" Tonight's commentator: best-selling author and SI.com contributor Jeff Pearlman, a one-time virgin, and bane of John Rocker, Roger ...
Hockey Fight That Starts As A Whole Team Against One Player Eventually Envelops Everyone On Both Teams, Including Trainers
"Referees grabbing one guy, I don't know why he's grabbing one guy, there's about 50 guys involved," says the announcer about midway through this vast, all-encompassing hockey brawl between the Hunstville Havoc and the Mississippi Surge of the Southern Professional Hockey League. The answer is tha...
Alex Rodriguez Has Given Himself A New Nickname, So Everyone Be Sure To Call Him That
Say hello to Captain Rodriguez. A-Rod has been spending the holidays in Florida with his family (and Torrie Wilson), and he's documenting it all on his Facebook page. He put this photo up yesterday, but quickly deleted it. Maybe because the Yankees already have a captain, or maybe because he realize...
Seahawks Corner Richard Sherman Won His PED Test Appeal, And Then Dropped The Mic On Twitter
Back in November, Seahawks corners Brandon Browner and Richard Sherman—the league's best tandem, until Darrelle Revis's ACL heals—both tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs (reportedly Adderall) and faced four-game suspensions. Browner decided not to appeal, and his suspension will conclud...
How Creepy Chinese Automakers Use Sexy Naked Women To Sell Unsexy Cars
Sex appeal is used to sell cars in every country, but China has outdone the rest of the world with what they call "breast milk exhibitions," i.e. regular auto shows filled with topless and sometimes totally naked women....
Tuesday Night Fights: Lady Sees Lady Hitting On Her Fella At Rap-Video Shoot, Takes Corrective Action
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Girl Goes Into Party to Fight," aka "best FIGHT on youtube." Tonight's commentator: Brawlotographer Zack Yutzey, whose filmography can be viewed via YouTube....
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DeMarcus Cousins "Talked Back" To His Coach, Never Came Out Of The Locker Room After Halftime, Is Suspended Indefinitely [UPDATE]
DeMarcus Cousins didn't play the second half of last night's game against the Clippers, or even come out of the longer room after the half. Cousins was asked to stay behind because of, according to Kings coach Keith Smart, "conduct detrimental to the team." Smart declined to expand on that explanati...
Oregon Football Boosters Are Mad That Chip Kelly Doesn't Hang Out With Them
The Chip Kelly era has brought the Oregon Ducks to two Rose Bowls and a BCS Championship Game in three seasons—and a Fiesta Bowl appearance this season—so it'd seem difficult to complain about the then-unknown New Hampshire offensive coordinator who took over a Pac-10 program. And yet, some of the ...
Gift Guide Roundup: Last-Minute Gifts For People Who Read
We asked you, our scholarly readers, to let us know what books would make for great Christmas gifts. We had some suggestions of our own, too. Here's what to buy for the bookworm in your life—there's still time!...
Tuesday Night Fights: Our Beijing Correspondent Shares Some Epic Backyard Wrestling From Rural China
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Backyard pro wrestling in rural China - absolutely awesome." Tonight's commentator: TNF's Beijing Correspondent Anthony Tao....
"That Was Real, And That Was Spectacular!" Ian Eagle Shoehorned A <em>Seinfeld</em> Reference Into His Call Of Joe Johnson's Game-Winner
I watched this game while sort of glancing at the television and then looking away again, so when I first heard this call, from the YES Network's Ian Eagle, I thought it was pretty irredeemably dweeby, regardless of the quality of the source material. Now that I've watched again and seen that Jerr...