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Beer Of The Week: Australia's Coopers Brewery Sparkling Ale
When I dropped the six-pack of Coopers Brewery Sparkling Ale on the counter at the liquor store, the clerk immediately began singing its praises, in what sounded like an Australian accent. This was pure happy coincidence, best I could tell....
Al Capone Once Got A Motorcade Escort Into The Northwestern-Nebraska Game
Today Nebraska and Northwestern play their sixth game in a rivalry that began in 1902. As the Huskers are a recent refugee to the Big Ten, this will be the first trip for Nebraska to Evanston since October 1931. Among the spectators in that game, according to this delightful clipping the Northwester...
This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....
Missouri Man Holds Up Bank, Yells "Go Cards" As He Makes His Getaway
Fans of the St. Louis Cardinals are just the best in baseball, aren't they? While everyone else robs banks in the greater St. Louis area in such a negative, surly way, Cardinals fans do it with gusto and spirit and enthusiasm....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Bill Cartwright, The Scourge Of The Free-Throw Line
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Cam Newton Spent His Bye Week Soul-Searching And Living Out Every 12-Year-Old's Fantasies
The world is not happy with Cam Newton at present. Newton hasn't been the fantasy force he was last year, and he hasn't been the real-football force, either. The Panthers are 1-4, and both Newton's completion percentage and Total QBR have fallen from last year's levels. But he does not despair, repo...
Here's How A Year-Old Aerial Shot Of St. Louis Ended Up On Last Night's Fox Broadcast
When we noted earlier today Fox's apparent use of old video during last night's NLCS broadcast from St. Louis, we asked how such a thing might happen—and if it was simply a mistake or a revelation that much of what we assume is a live broadcast is, indeed, not live at all....
Last Night's Rain Delay Was Called One Out Before The Cardinals Had To Stop Selling Beer
When Shane Robinson grounded out to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead, with two outs in the seventh, it was raining. Raining hard. Raining hard enough to call the game? Raining harder than in the previous at-bat? Raining not quite as hard as it would for the next batter, when crew chief Gary Darling cal...
Danica Patrick's Days As A Spokeswoman For Go Daddy May Be Numbered
Might Go Daddy have to sign up another attractive, underachieving female athlete for its next round of Super Bowl advertisements this February? That might be the case, as it appears Danica Patrick and the controversial web hosting provider look to be on the outs at the moment....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Anthony Carter, The Quiet Sinkhole Of Despair
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Nike Dumps Lance Armstrong In The Smarmiest Way Possible
In case you missed it earlier today, Lance Armstrong stepped down from his LiveStrong charity (but Rick Reilly says he's still an American treasure!), and Nike fired him with the following terse press release: ...
Lance Armstrong Steps Down As Chairman Of Livestrong
Lance Armstrong, having been hit with a set of doping allegations that portray him as a sort of East Germany on a bike, has decided to leave his position as chairman of Livestrong. Armstrong founded Livestrong in 1997 for the purpose of raising cancer awareness (not actual cancer research)....
This Isn't Your Life: On the Brilliant, Trippy <em>Holy Motors</em>
We like to believe that we're the masters of our own destinies, that our lives are ours to do with as we wish. But in reality, that's not true. We behave differently around our bosses than we do around our friends. Even as grown-ups, we still revert to childish tendencies when we're around our paren...
High School Soccer Player Is Very Sorry For Destroying Her Opponent With A Knee To The Face
"Sorry" doesn't put the teeth back in the jaw, or reset the broken nose. Still, it's a good start toward sportsmanship! The incident, from a Utah high school soccer game a couple weeks ago, managed to go viral when video of Petiola Manu going all Great Muta on Makenzie Clark's face made the local ...
Some Of Kevin Kolb's Ribs Are No Longer Attached To His Sternum
Well, this puts Kolb squarely atop the Most Horrifying NFL Injury Of The Season leader board, doesn't it? Having your ribs detached from your sternum sounds like one of the most awful things that could ever happen, and I'm not confident that doctors even know how to reattach a man's ribs to his ste...
Your Cardinals-Giants Open Thread
Game 2 of the NLCS is tonight, and this is the spot to talk about the game with all of your internet friends while the action unfolds. The Cardinals took Game 1 after jumping out to an early lead against an out-of-sync Madison Bumgarner, and they look to take control of the series tonight with Chri...
Yankees: Derek Jeter's Injury Tied To Steroid Use. No, Seriously.
The Yankees used injections of the steroid cortisone to keep Derek Jeter playing through a cascade of ankle injuries, culminating in his crippling on-field fracture in Game One of the American League Championship Series, according to manager Joe Girardi. ESPN New York reports that Girardi smiled and...
Cranky Columnist Writes Anti-Stats Column That Reads Like Parody Of Anti-Stats Columns
Chaz Scoggins has been around. The longtime Lowell Sun writer has served as the Red Sox's official scorer for 34 years. He's been a SABR member for nearly as long. He even served as president of the BBWAA. But his hidden talent appears to be master satirist. How else to explain his weekend column, w...
South Carolina Fan Arrested For Mooning The Crowd At LSU Game
You do get the feeling that Saturday night's game would have been extra-frustrating for a Gamecocks fan who traveled all the way from South Carolina only to watch his No. 3 team get upset in Baton Rouge. So that explains, but does not excuse, the actions of Charles Hattaway, a 34-year-old from Charl...