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RIP, Dick Butt
This obituary appeared in the Spokesman Review last weekend. Richard A. Butt must have been a very cool guy, because anyone who willingly goes by the name Dick Butt for 93 years can't really be anything else....
![After Rout, Mark Richt Writes Letter To Trash-Talking Clemson Fan [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/k7neusthwgto1bwttpi1.jpg)
After Rout, Mark Richt Writes Letter To Trash-Talking Clemson Fan [UPDATE]
Update: Richt says it's "bogus." See the bottom of the post....
Denver Mayor Doesn't Know CSU Coach's Name; CSU Coach Gets All Sad
Despite the fact that the University of Colorado and Colorado State University both have garbage-ass football programs, the two schools like to make a very big deal out of their annual early-season meeting, which is dubbed "The Rocky Mountain Showdown" and played in the Broncos' stadium. So of cours...
Townsfolk Embark On Thrilling Mission To Remove Bucket From Bear's Head
For weeks, the people of Perry Township, Penn., had been crossing paths with a black bear that had its head stuck in a plastic bucket. The bear became known as Bucket Bear, and the townspeople's concerns became so great that they made a Facebook page dedicated to saving Bucket Bear from his bucket, ...
Sidney Crosby Was Not Arrested In Ottawa
Preeeetty major fuckup here from the Ottawa Sun, which reported earlier this morning that Penguins star Sidney Crosby was arrested for unknown reasons. That would be a big story in the middle of the NHL offseason doldrums, if it were true, which it is not....
Yankees Mourn The Passing Of Derek Jeter
Classy move by a classy organization....
Reporter Who Didn't Actually Ask Historically Dumb Question Passes Away
"How long have you been a black quarterback?"...
Slightly Creepy Bart Simpson Joins Russian Soccer Club
In some kind of convoluted branding exercise, Russian soccer club Zenit St. Petersburg introduced a slightly off Bart Simpson as its new player today. Synergy!...
![Justin Verlander And His Butt Appear In Celebrity Nude Pic Flood [NSFW]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/lob8kigs8fkfnjkt2q4t.jpg)
Justin Verlander And His Butt Appear In Celebrity Nude Pic Flood [NSFW]
A huge wave of nude celebrity photos hit the internet earlier today. Some, like Jennifer Lawrence's, were confirmed to be real; others were disputed and debunked as fake. Among them were a series of photos featuring two people who look an awful lot like—and almost certainly are, though for obvious...
Kliff Kingsbury Morphing Into Charlie Weis Is Quite Disturbing
The Big 12 has a commercial with some of the conference's coaches morphing into each other, and that's how we get Kliff Kingsbury turning into Charlie Weis. This transformation can actually happen if Kingsbury screws up every major decision in his future. Don't do that, Kliff. You're too handsome to...
Auburn's Ball Boy Is Hella Fast
It might not be the best sign for Arkansas's football season when the opponent's ball boy has a better chance of catching Auburn's Melvin Ray on his 49-yard touchdown jaunt than any Razorback defender. But look at the wheels on that kid!...
What's Wrong With Baseball?
Over at the New Yorker, Ben McGrath has a brief, characteristically thoughtful essay up about a question that people have been asking basically for as long as the game has been played but which, lately, seems to actually have something to it: What's wrong with baseball?...
Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Buffalo Bills
Some people are fans of the Buffalo Bills. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Buffalo Bills. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....
MLB Network Host Predicts Buster Posey Walk-Off Home Run, Flips Out
This shit is straight up paranormal. Greg Amsinger, hosting a live look-in to Wednesday's Giants-Rockies game for MLB Network, eerily predicted Buster Posey's walk-off home run. It started with an innocuous feeling in his "bad knee." But the real wizardry begins right before Amsinger hands off the...
The Making And Unmaking Of Preston Zimmerman, American Soccer Player
A version of this story originally appeared in the fall 2012 edition of XI Quarterly. ...
Warren Buffett Is Friends With A Serial Woman Beater
Like a lot of very well off athletes, Floyd Mayweather recently met with Warren Buffett to discuss his financials. There's an Instagram photo of them chumming it up and everything. Unlike most well off athletes, however, Floyd Mayweather is a serial and unrepentant abuser of women, palling around ...
Burger King, And <em>Only</em> Burger King, Wants To Be Canadian
Burger King Worldwide Inc., a chain of over 13,000 sad, ignored, tumbleweed-strewn burger graveyards in 79 countries around the world, has agreed to fork over around $11 billion to purchase Canadian donuts-and-breakfast chain Tim Hortons Inc., giving the new combined company ownership of exactly...
Dance Team's Pop Gun Hazing Incident Goes Horribly Wrong
A very successful dance coach with the Cannon Falls, Minnesota school district lost her job on August 25 due to a team-building/hazing activity she organized....
Madison Bumgarner And His Fastball Are Unstoppable
Last night, Madison Bumgarner was about as perfect as one can be without actually pitching a perfect game. In nine innings against the suck-ass Rockies, Bumgarner allowed one hit and struck out 13 batters while throwing just 103 pitches. And he did it by adhering to a very simple formula: Throw a ...
15-Year-Old Catherine Bellis Upsets 12-Seed At U.S. Open
Catherine Bellis turned 15 years old in April and sits at 1,208 on the WTA's rankings. At the start of the day, her career record as a pro in singles matches was 8-4. That record has improved to 9-4, as Bellis just finished off 12-seeded Dominka Cibulkova in a first-round match at the U.S. Open. ...