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Spike Albrecht Takes The Ultimate Heat Check By Macking On Kate Upton
The Michigan Wolverines may have lost the NCAA championship last night, but that doesn't mean that backup guard Spike Albrecht isn't feeling pretty good about himself this morning. Albrecht had a huge game, scoring 17 points in 28 minutes while sinking four of his five shots from downtown. Judging b...
Baseball Fans Puking Is The New Viral Hotness
The Harlem Shake is dead. Filming your kid crying after a loss? In 2013, that's about as cool as Tebowing. No, there's only one sports meme that's taking the world by storm: lightweight baseball fans vomiting their guts out at ballparks....
2013 May Not Have A Worse Game-Ending Strike Call Than This
The Rangers beat the Rays last night, but perhaps only because Marty Foster's strike zone extends to Plano....
The Only Other Team To Offer Spike Albrecht A Scholarship Was Appalachian State
Michigan leads Louisville 38-37 after a hugely entertaining first half, highlighted by tremendous performances from Michigan freshman Spike Albrecht and Louisville walk-on junior Luke Hancock. ...
Report: Naked Man Ransacks SPEED Network Offices After Break-In
Police in Charlotte said the nude dude broke into the building sometime this morning. He tore stuff from the walls, dumped trash cans on the floor, and broke trophies by knocking them over. He then dashed outside and started running down the street before being apprehended. Also? "A SPEED security g...
Fucking Vote: The Curse Word Bracket Final Is Here
The final of the Deadspin Swear Word Bracket has arrived. And despite a valiant attempt by "cunt" to take down top seed "fuck," this is looking less like a tournament than it is a coronation....
Cobra, Brah! breaks down the late Margaret Thatcher's "efforts to destroy English football" over on Sidespin: "Thatcher and other members of her Conservative cohort were quick to blame Liverpool supporters for the Hillsborough disaster, tarnishing those lives lost that fateful day in April, 1989. Du...
Man Shot With Arrow At Gentleman's Club
A security guard at the Ball Gentleman’s Club in Knoxville, Tennessee suffered only minor injuries after he was reportedly shot with an arrow. ...
Will Middlebrooks Had Himself An Afternoon In Toronto
Will Middlebrooks beat the Blue Jays 4-0 on the strength of a three-home run, four-hit afternoon. His second shot, a two-run homer off starter R.A. Dickey in the fifth, was an absolute bomb. ...
Reggie Evans Pulls Out Own Tooth, Grosses Out Ian Eagle And Jim Spanarkel
In the third quarter of Brooklyn's 105-96 win over Charlotte Saturday night, Reggie Evans's face ran into Michael Kidd-Gilchrest's head, jarring loose a tooth. ...
Huskers Nation Flips Its Shit After Someone Thumbs-Downs Cute Video
In the Nebraska spring game, Red inserted an undersized but plucky tailback by the name of Jack Hoffman for a crucial fourth-down carry. It's worth mentioning that Jack is 7 years old and has suffered from brain cancer, and because the good folks at Nebraska realize what a bullshit deal it is to be ...
Brendon Ayanbadejo Is "In Talks With A Handful Of Players Who Are Considering" Coming Out Of The Closet
It's perfect that the first NFL players to come out of the closet—indeed, the first active players in any North American sport—will do so after a protracted negotiation that resembles collective contract bargaining, except with less salary caps and signing bonuses and more public declarations of sex...
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...
Vote, Motherfuckers: The Filthy Four Has Arrived
We've made it to the final four of our Deadspin Curse Word Bracket. And, as expected, the almost all of the 1 seeds have advanced. Turns out the REAL tournament is a lot more unpredictable than our use of cruel, degrading language. Let us now break down the two national curse word semifinals. .....
Brendon Ayanbadejo Was Cut Because He's Old And Expensive, Not Because He Supports Gay Marriage
The Ravens released linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo yesterday afternoon, after five seasons in Baltimore. Ayanbadejo spent most of his tenure on special teams, and never once made the kind of news for his play that he did for his vocal support of a Maryland same-sex marriage ballot initiative. So mayb...
Ed Rush Resigns Following Accusations of Targeting Sean Miller
Ed Rush, head of officials for the Pac-12, has resigned after allegations surfaced that he offered $5,000 and a trip to Cancun to any referee who targeted Arizona coach Sean Miller. ...
You'll Remember This Psychopath: Brady Corbet's Star-Making Turn In <em>Simon Killer </em>
When we first meet Simon, he's not unlike a lot of twentysomething guys you knew after college. Recently graduated, cash-strapped, withdrawn and sorta lost, the lead of Simon Killer finds himself crashing in Paris at a family friend's place, wanting to escape New York and the girlfriend, Michelle, w...
Brandon Knight Air Balls A Layup, Just Can't Catch A Goddamn Break
Poor Brandon Knight. First he gets his ankles mercilessly broken by Kyrie Irving, then he gets murdered live on television by DeAndre Jordan, and now this. It may be time to fake an injury and just sit the rest of the season out. ...