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Office Xmas Parties Are The Perfect Time To Run Over A Fire Hydrant
With Christmas just around the corner, it's time to share a few of the stories you folks sent in about your various holiday party failures. LET'S GO....

Your Office Xmas Party Is The Wrong Time To Tell The World’s Most Racist Joke
With Christmas just around the corner, it's time to share a few of the stories you folks sent in about your various holiday party failures. LET'S GO....

Eagles Fans Celebrate Punt Return With Nudity
Eagles fans, folks. One promises to strip if DeSean Jackson wins the game; he's buck naked before Jackson hits the end zone. Another actually calls the return, and runs down the street topless....

Heat Strokes, Games 28-30: The Heat Go Mainstream
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, a regular contributor to NBA FanHouse and co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!), is keeping a game-by-game diary of the Heat's season — the one you're pretending not to care about....

This May Or May Not Be Rex Ryan's Wife Making Foot-Fetish Videos (UPDATE)
There’s a celebrity in the foot-fetish world who posts videos with titles like “Hot Mature Sexy Feet.” The videos feature a woman who looks like Jets coach Rex Ryan’s wife, Michelle — and, in one, a man offscreen who sounds like Rex....

Batshit Hall Of Fame Voter: "I Compare PED Users To Murderers"
And we compare Lowell Cohn to a cymbal-banging monkey toy. I'm beginning to suspect HOF voters really do fancy themselves an elite task force of karacter kops. Drugs make people crazy. A Hall of Fame ballot makes people crazier. [PressDemocrat.com, Business Insider]...

Last Night's Winner: The Brett Favre Miracle
The following comprises actual phrases from actual stories written about a quarterback who last night performed the miracle of transfiguring his old ass off the injured list. These are taken verbatim....

The Aussie Football Players, The Pregnant Schoolgirl, And The Leaked Naked Photos
Australian football is in the middle of a sex scandal that blows away anything we've got. Months after a 17-year-old came forward claiming two footballers slept with her, she released nude photos of players and is threatening to leak tons more....

The Office Horndoggery Of A Longtime ESPN VP
This was a minor blip for most of us not fully entrenched in the sports media universe, but the departure of ESPN's Senior VP of Programming and Acquisitions, Len DeLuca, to "pursue other opportunities" last fall was a little surprising....

The Former Tennis Pro, The Reality TV Lady With The Porn-Star Friend, And The "Viking Cruise"
Here's our first entry into this "Days of Reckoning" extravaganza. It's a shady sports tale that has it all: porn stars, scuzz-money shakedowns, and former athletes with unimpeachable reputations. Welcome....

The NFL Has Its Cigar Guy Moment
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

Danny Woodhead Doesn't Know Danny Woodhead Personally But Thinks "He's A Likable Guy"
Setting aside my disdain of corporate gimmicks for a moment — like, say, the sickening PR blood-orgy called "Undercover Boss" — this sporting-goods store/sneaker-company mashup that puts Patriots RB Danny Woodhead to work hawking his jersey is rather-OK fare....

New York Ranger Gets Orange Gatorade Facial
In today's Flyers/Rangers game, call-up center Dale Weise had a goal waved off due to his "distinct kicking motion" to score it. Then, he tried to get some refreshment. (H/T The 700 Level) ...

Lenny Dykstra Won't Dispense Stock Tips And Autograph Balls For $35 At A Mall Today After All
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

Prepare For The Next Big Deadspin Shitstorm
Monday morning, Dec. 20, will mark the beginning of some not-so-relaxing days for a handful of current and former professional athletes, college coaches, and, of course, ESPN employees. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: dying time's here....

This Is How You Give A Post-Game Interview
Rugby — it's just 30 men having a hug/fight. Still, when it comes to cutting through the post-match bullshit, Saracen's boss Brendan Venter has got it all worked out....

Heat Strokes, Game 27: Heat-Knicks, The Best Kind Of Rancor
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, a regular contributor to NBA FanHouse and co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!), is keeping a game-by-game diary of the Heat's season — the one you're pretending not to care about....

Send Us Your Holiday Party Horror Stories
For someone who has spent such a large portion of his life drinking and vomiting, I have a shocking deficit of embarrassing holiday party stories. That's where you come in....

You'll Never Guess Which White Patriots Player Has The Best Selling Jersey
I know we keep harping on this. But Hub fans keep doing stuff like running out and buying a guy's jersey just because he's "scrappy."...

How Low Can Joe Paterno Go? What Coaches Do When They Hang Out
Former Texas A&M Coach R.C. Slocum seems like a stand-up guy. That's why we think he won't mind us highlighting some of his favorite photos through the years, as posted on his Facebook page....