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There's More Action In 3:53 Of Tuscaloosa Tailgate Brawling Than In The Alabama/LSU Game It Preceded
A little late to the game with this week's Fights and/or Boobs inbrawlment, but hell, Alabama/LSU was the Game of the Century, and it's worth taking our collective minds off Jerry Sandusky for a spell, right?...
There Is Finally An Inspirational Children's Book About Danny Woodhead
If every undersized, scrappy professional athlete could have an inspirational children’s book written about him or her, the world would be full of adolescents with overblown expectations about their futures. But since that’s already the case with America’s youth, scraptastic young men like Greg Paul...
How A Comedian Helped Birth The "F-You" Patriots
Back in September 2007, the Patriots were caught taping the Jets' defensive signals on the sideline. This was week one, after the Patriots beat the Jets, 38-14. The next 15 games—all of which the Patriots won—were blowouts a lot like that, but with a venomous edge. In his new book, War Room, which h...
Deadspin I-Team: Is The "Boom Goes The Dynamite" Guy Joining The Army?
His name is Brian Collins. He is the unfortunate soul above that we have come to know and love. First, he was a student sportscaster at Ball State University. Then, he worked at a television station in Waco, Texas, and eventually Alexandria, Minnesota. We thought the last chapter in his story was ...
ESPN Has Found Its Answer To Problems Like Bruce Feldman And His Book
From the network that never lets its business interests interfere with its coverage: "Of note is that ESPN, as a matter of policy, will no longer grant permission to write as-told-to books with sports personalities." It's a conflict of interest, you see. Except when it isn't. [Front Row]...
This Is Why You Don't Ask A Professional Athlete To Be A School "Reading Champion"
I absolutely cannot think of a better inspiration for getting schoolchildren to read than by choosing a man who got very rich without ever having read a book in his life....
Book Readings That Don't Suck
If you're in New York, tonight is the latest installment of Gelf's Varsity Letters reading series, which this time features Stefan Fatsis, John Krewson, and Jeff Pearlman. It's at 7:30 at Le Poisson Rouge in NoHo. Doors open at 7....
Watch Three Young Men Throw Punches In A Heated Battle For Sexy-Nurse Girl's Love
In this installment of random fights across America, three shirtless bros wield fists in an effort to win the affections of a near-shirtless "sexy nurse girl" at a Halloween party in Isla Vista, Cal. Granted, there's nothing to indicate that girl was wearing anything resembling a nurse's uni. But ...
Romanian Soccer Team Supporters Make Philly Fans Look Downright Amicable
So this is a match between Romanian clubs Petrolul Ploiești and Steaua București, in which Petrolul is losing to visiting Steaua 0-2. A Petrolul supporter invades the pitch and suckerpunches Steaua defender George Galamaz, an act that earned the rogue fan a brutal beatdown by Galamaz' teammates. T...
What Counts In Soccer As A Fight Broke Out After The Red Bulls-Galaxy Match
The MLS playoffs are underway—you knew that, right?—and after the L.A. Galaxy's 1-0 victory over New York Red Bulls things got a bit testy. It wasn't brouhaha levels, mostly because the guy who appeared suffer the most pain (Red Bulls defender Rafael Márquez) wasn't actually touched, as far as any...
"An Olympics Without Black Athletes": Martin Luther King Jr., John Carlos, And The Boycott That Wasn't
John Carlos is best known as the man who, along with Tommie Smith, raised a clenched fist—the Black Power salute—on the medal stand after the 200 meter race. Carlos took bronze, and Smith gold, at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. But that moment was a culmination of months of political discussion amon...
This Is What Happens When Things Get Real At The Tuscaloosa Waffle House
"Investigators have determined that the fight was linked to an August robbery, [Tuscaloosa Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brent ] Blankley said. ... The camera that captured the fight on video was turned on after security in the restaurant made the parties involved leave the building. Blankley s...
Fans Trying To Cheer High-School Football Players Up After Rivalry Loss Get Pepper Sprayed
After a Thursday night high-school rivalry football game in Roosevelt, Utah, fans of the losing side "tried to boost the team's morale by performing the Haka, a fierce traditional war chant often performed at football and rugby games around the state."...
It Seems As If There's A Proper Protocol To Follow In A "Redneck FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
There's no indication as to watch brought on this scrap between Cody "Ol Blue" Bridges and Aj "fag." Maybe it was just something that needed to be done. But whatever it was, it resulted in a solid number of punches being landed, to the delight of the redneck fans....
Presenting Fight Night From The Denny's In Binghamton, NY
Writes amateur filmmaker twall0313 of this slice of Americana he opted to share with the world, "Two guys get into a fight at a Denny's in Binghamton, New York, right outside of Binghamton University. It happened around 4am and it was awesome."...
Let This Serve As Proof That All Basketbrawls In China Don't Involve Georgetown
"Towards the end of a closely fought exhibition game, the CBA's Foshan Dralions got into a bench-clearing brawl last night with Australia's Melbourne Tigers, after a player from the Aussie team (in maroon) gave a tentative love-tap to a Foshan player (in white)." [Shanghaiist] (The action starts a...
This Asian Champions League Semifinal Match Turned Sour After A Guy Got Kicked In The Head
At the onset of this video from Al Sadd's 2-0 win over the Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Choi Sung-hwan of the latter's head gets jacked up. Before trainers can even finish wrapping Choi's dome, Al Sadd scores a goal (at the 1:18 mark). From there, the discord ranges from yappy to shovey until roughly ...
This Week In Frozen Armadillo Attack News
"According to investigators, the altercation occurred when the suspect was selling the carcass to the victim, who planned to eat the animal. The pair apparently began arguing over the price of the item when the man twice threw the armadillo at the woman. The animal first struck the woman in the leg...
In Case You Were Interested In A Book That Calls LeBron James A Whore
Esquire has the first excerpt from Scott Raab's The Whore of Akron, on sale Nov. 15. We'll have more later in the week. For now: "Lord. This is where LeBron James wants to play basketball, in front of sun-dried cretins who must be bribed to act as if they care about the game and the team. ... For as...
Jon Mirasty Is Crazy Enough To Grin Through A Hockey Fight And Then Casually TKO His Opponent
Jon "Nasty" Mirasty, currently throwing down for Chekhov Vityaz in the KHL, gets in a lot of fights while playing hockey. In his most recent bout, during a game against Metallurg Novokuznetsk over the weekend, he mixed it up by smiling maniacally (and possibly even giggling?) and then reaching bac...