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LCD Soundsystem Don't Owe You Anything, Including Silence
You could’ve seen this LCD Soundsystem reunion business coming if you’d looked hard enough—if you’d looked anywhere, in fact, for any length of time and with any degree of hardness. Hell, it was obvious to anyone who watched the full-length feature film devoted to their alleged final show, a Madison...
Asshole College Football Coach Comes Up With New Way To Screw Over His Players
Earlier this year, NCAA member institutions voted to redefine athletic scholarships so that they covered not only the cost of tuition, room and board, books, and fees, but also incidental expenses. Essentially, it gives players a bit of pocket money, which is really the least the NCAA could do consi...
Diplo And Skrillex On <i>Charlie Rose</i>: A Partially Fabricated Transcript
Popular music becomes harder to wrap your head around as you get older, but shit’s so weird these days that you don’t even have to be that old to find yourself flummoxed by it. The majority of people in their forties don’t get Taylor Swift, lots and lots of thirtysomethings are baffled by the succes...
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Hi, we’re the Deadspin staff. It’s a nice lazy Friday afternoon. Let’s yak!...
<i>Me And Earl And The Dying Girl </i>Is Too Precious To Be Truly Great
The biggest obstacle toward liking Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is, well, basically everything about it. From its title on, this Sundance award-winner comes draped in preciousness and ironic remove, like a teen practically begging you to steal his lunch money while rolling his eyes and making some...
Travis Kelce Loses Rodeo Dance Contest To Fan Nicknamed "Skim Milk"
Okay, let's get one thing out of the way here: Travis Kelce got jobbed by whoever was responsible for picking his song. You can't ask a showman like Kelce to participate in a dance contest and then hit him with "It's Not Unusual." Having said all that, even if the DJ had dropped "Booty Work" or "Dro...
<i>Bring It On</i> Comes To Life In Minnesota High School Dance Scandal
Officials disqualified five Minnesota high school dance teams after their symbolic protest at the state finals over a rival team's alleged plagiarized championship routine in what was basically the exact plot from the classic and very great high school cheerleading movie, Bring It On....
How To Be The Reluctant Guy At The Strip Club
So you're bound for a strip club against your will, because you've got to go to your brother's bachelor party with all his college friends, or your girlfriend is dragging you to check one out, or your boss thinks that's the best way to unwind during a business trip. You feel like a vegetarian at a s...
Virginia Fan Turns Into Furious Dancing Machine, Somehow Loses Dance-Off
There was a dance-off at a Virginia basketball game last week, and it was a travesty. The fan who gave it her all lost to some shuffling guy. Grammys voters just keep sucking....
The 10 Movies I'm Most Excited To See At Sundance 2015
If the Oscar prognosticators are correct, next month Boyhood will become the first film to both premiere at Sundance and win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Last year's festival had plenty of other highlights, too—Whiplash, Life Itself, The Raid 2, The Overnighters, A Most Wanted Man—so as w...
Joseph Fauria Scores, Twerks
Lions tight end Joseph Fauria scored his first touchdown of the season today, which means Joseph Fauria danced. Joseph Fauria is good at dancing....
Flip Saunders Thinks The Big Balls Dance Cost His Team A Championship
After T-Wolves shooting guard Kevin Martin earned himself a $15,000 fine on Monday for doing the Big Balls Dance, a reporter asked Minnesota head coach Flip Saunders what he thought about Martin's display of testicle-based showmanship. Turns out, Flip Saunders is haunted by the Big Balls Dance, beca...
The NBA Continues To Crack Down On The Big Balls Dance
If there's one thing that should immediately earn an NBA player your respect, it is a willingness to do Sam Cassell's Big Balls Dance right in the face of a tyrannical, anti-balls league....
The Pumpkin Dance
The true spirit of Halloween. Here's the story behind it, but you're probably better off coming up with your own explanation....
Lamarr Houston Injures Self Celebrating Sack While Getting Blown Out [Update]
Bears defensive end Lamarr Houston joined Stephen Tulloch on the list of idiots who injured themselves celebrating a sack this season. It's made worse by the fact Chicago is down 25 points to the Patriots, and that Houston's sack came against New England's rookie backup quarterback....
Brian Hoyer And The Browns Are Out Here Thriving
The Browns are .500! The Browns are .500! Brian Hoyer's the man after a huge comeback win against the Titans. ...
Lame Golfer Kids Attempt The Shmoney Dance, Killing Hot Dance Trend
Apparently some people are confused. The US Junior Ryder Cup team has been attempting to make their shitty interpretation of the Shmoney Dance their official celebratory dance, and some people are buying in. But this is good. This is teachable....
Washington Players Break It Down In Background Of ESPN's RG3 Reports
Washington players, presumably in a good mood after yesterday's 41-10 win over the Jaguars, walked into the background of two of ESPN Skins reporter John Keim's spots, dancing and having a grand time....
Ryan Kerrigan's Sack Celebration Was A Tribute To Shawn Michaels
Ryan Kerrigan leads the NFL with four sacks, which is impressive because he didn't have any last week. (Playing the Jaguars is good for the soul and for the stats; Washington racked up 10 sacks of poor Chad Henne.) On his first and fourth of the afternoon, Kerrigan went into a squatting, flexing c...