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Dimitri Payet Is Still An Animal
This isn’t even a dedicated Dimitri Payet individual highlight video and yet it’s still composed almost entirely of West Ham’s superstud going all best mode all over Blackburn in the FA Cup this weekend. And that’s because any time the Hammers do something cool, you can bet Payet will be at the cent...

Jeb Bush Is Not A Joke; He's A Sack Of Shit
Jeb Bush finally—fucking finally—dropped out of the Republican primary campaign over the weekend, by my reckoning at least a few months later than observable reality said he should. Nobody wanted him to be president. Possibly he himself did not really want to be president, so much as he wanted not t...

Don Mattingly's Marlins Take A Lesson From Mr. Burns And Ban Facial Hair
Let’s all go back to 1992, when The Simpsons’ “Homer At The Bat” first aired. Mr. Burns recruits a bunch of ballplayers as ringers for his softball team, including Don Mattingly. Here’s a very good, long piece on the episode, and how it got made....

Look At This Incredible, Diving Open Net Save
Bud Holloway and his St. John’s IceCaps lost 4-1 to the Binghamton senators in some hot AHL action last night, but you ask me, this here diving save to prevent an open-net goal is worth at least three goals on its own....

Wild High School Banked Buzzer-Beater Gets Perfect Wisconsin-Accented Call
Reader Joe sent this along with the note (warning?), “Yes, this is how we sound.” If you are also of the mind that thick Wisconsin twang is charming, well, strap in for the good shit....

Referee Gets Fed Up, Walks Off In Middle Of Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund Match
Referee Felix Zwayer took his officiating crew off the pitch after Bayer Leverkusen manager Roger Schmidt earned an ejection but refused to leave during today’s match against Dortmund....

Would-Be Nevada Game-Winner Thwarted By UNLV's Buzzer-Beating Three
Tonight’s MWC rivalry matchup between Nevada and UNLV went to overtime after a wild final five seconds of regulation that saw both teams hitting desperation three-pointers....

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Volkswagen-Sponsored Wolfsburg Fine Nicklas Bendtner For Posting A Photo Of Himself With A Benz
Nicklas Bendtner has always been, let’s say, a vibrant character. A few years ago, he whipped his dick out and tried to hump a taxi, UEFA fined for wearing the wrong underwear, and he’s been arrested for trying to kick down a door in his own apartment building because he wanted to go swimming. Bendt...

Jung-ho Kang Has A Tattoo Of Himself On His Leg
Jung-ho Kang’s first season with the Pittsburgh Pirates was cut short last September when Chris Coghlan ruthlessly slid into Kang’s leg, breaking it and tearing his MCL. Kang, who finished third in NL Rookie of the Year voting, has spent all offseason rehabbing his leg, but isn’t sure if he’ll make ...

Brice Johnson's Full-Court Buzzer Beater Goes In, Fails To Beat Buzzer
If there is a perfect Deadspin highlight, it’s the extraordinary athletic play that achieves the impossible but has no impact on the game’s result. So here’s North Carolina’s Brice Johnson casually launching the ball the length of the court after the first half buzzer of the Tar Heels’ home game aga...

Sabres' Dave Legwand Scores On The Blue Jackets From Goddamn Mars
Dave Legwand was just trying to get this puck the hell out of his half so he could end his penalty-killing shift, but he messed around and zapped a goal past rookie Blue Jackets keeper Joonas Korpisalo....

Thomas Müller Scored Himself A Clean Little Half-Bicycle Kick Goal
Thomas Müller has, apparently, been reading the pamphlets and watching the tapes. The move in 2016, it seems, is knocking the ball down to yourself and spinning about while scoring. Christine Sinclair did it. Dele Alli did it. And it wasn’t as pretty as the Canadian or the Englishman, but Thomas Mül...

PSV Defender Promises To Eat Atlético Madrid Like His Soup, Which He Then Burns His Mouth On
PSV will play host to Atlético Madrid and the best defense in Europe next week, but new PSV defender Nicolas Isimat-Marin ain’t scared. He declared in a video interview with the team’s YouTube page that he was going to eat Los Rojiblancos like soup....

Report: District Attorney And Police Department At Odds Over LeSean McCoy Case
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has been noticeably silent regarding its plans for LeSean McCoy. News of the bar fight he was allegedly involved in broke over a week ago, and that was quickly followed by reports that charges against McCoy were imminent. But there hasn’t been any movement...

Julian Draxler Clowns The Shit Out Of Gent's Whole Defense
Here you have basically Gent’s entire defense getting humiliated by Wolfsburg’s Julian Draxler. One center back gifts Draxler the ball on a terrible back pass, his partner scoots over to confront the attacker only to get nutmegged, and before the right back can slide tackle the ball away, Draxler fl...

Yankees Will No Longer Accept Print-At-Home Tickets, Thus Screwing Their Fans
Here’s some bullshit that the Yankees just added to their ticketing policies:...

Evander Kane Partied Too Hard At NBA All-Star Weekend, Missed Practice, Suspended One Game
It was a busy Sunday for Sabres winger Evander Kane, who scored in Buffalo’s afternoon win over Colorado, then took a private jet to Toronto for the NBA All-Star Game. It was the busy wee hours of Monday morning that might have done him in, though....

Detroit Contractor Who Negotiated $285 Million In Public Money For The Red Wings Now Works With Red Wings Owner
Stadium financing is a scam no matter where it happens, but it’s particularly appalling when a bankrupt city like Detroit is conned into gifting $285 million to Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch so that he can build a new hockey arena. It gets worse: One of the men who negotiated with Ilitch on behalf of ...