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Oh, Cool, The NFL Is Trying To Kill One More Vestige Of Weirdness
The NFL’s determination to erase fun from its sport isn’t limited to its staid distribution of training videos for touchdown dances. The Washington Post and ESPN have reported that the league’s competition committee is also set to consider a proposal to ban leaping over the line of scrimmage on extr...
NFL Developing New Way To Drain All Joy From Sport For No Reason
The NFL will develop “an educational training video” on how to celebrate a fucking touchdown, according to a tweet this morning by executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent, who if this was not the most embarrassing thing he has ever announced in public has had an extremely awful ...
Deadspin Up All Night: We Owe You Nothing
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You Are About To Be One Dumb Accident Away From Bankruptcy, If You Aren't Already
There are some nights when it keeps me up in a panicked haze. What if I get hit by a car while I’m running? What if I take a spill on my bike and tear some ligaments or, worse, have to take an ambulance to the hospital from some far flung road outside the city where I live? An x-ray? I’m eating lent...
Deadspin Up All Night: Money Made Power
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The Deadcast Is Returning<em></em>
Hey you! Do you like awful takes? Do you like awkward pauses? Do you like hearing two people agree on topics because they didn’t put enough planning into preproduction? Do you like the sounds of dogs barking in the background? Well, do I have good news for you: The Deadcast is BACK. I think. I mean,...
Deadspin Up All Night: Now I'm Old
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Deadspin Up All Night: Don't Wanna Be Your Cheerleader
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Verne Lundquist Taking A Basketball Square In The Face, In Extreme Slow Motion
Now that Vin Scully’s retired, Verne Lundquist reigns supreme as the patriarch of sports broadcasting. The CBS legend got a bit more into the game than usual, though, before today’s broadcast of the Notre Dame-WVU game in Buffalo. Ouch!...
Deadspin Up All Night: You Can Choose Anything
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The Clippers Are Falling Into Their Usual Slump
For the sixth year in a row, the Los Angeles Clippers are having the exact same season. At one point this year, they were 14-2. This month, they’ve won four of their last 10. After Thursday’s loss to the Nuggets, the team’s 40-29, and the players seem glum....
Deadspin Up All Night: Principle Over Profit
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Deadspin Up All Night: It's Such A Dang Shame<em></em>
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New Orleans Player Chokes Teammate, Gets Benched
UNO lost by one (which I swear is not intended as a pun) in their NCAA Tournament play-in matchup against Mount St. Mary’s, and there were precisely two highlights, both involving New Orleans’s junior forward Travin Thibodeaux....
Deadspin Up All Night: So Amazed<em></em>
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Deadcast: The Deadspin Sports Podcast
Do you like awful takes? Do you like awkward pauses? Do you like hearing two people agree on topics because they didn’t put enough planning into preproduction? Deadspin’s Drew Magary and Tim Marchman bring you all the sports lunacy you can handle....
Endurance Running Legend Ed Whitlock Dead At 86
Ed Whitlock owns more track and field records than almost anyone else. He’s held age-group records at every distance and middle distance event, from the 800 to the marathon. Whitlock died this morning in Toronto, a week after his birthday. He was 86 years old....
Deadspin Up All Night: When Things Were Cool
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What Does This Profile Make You Think About Jim Nantz?
Last year, minutes after Villanova defeated North Carolina on a buzzer-beater to win the NCAA title, CBS play-by-play man Jim Nantz took the tie from around his neck and gave it to Villanova senior Ryan Arcidiacono. At the time we called Nantz—who explained that it was a tradition to honor his fathe...
Dave Bliss Is Still A Disgrace
Former Baylor men’s basketball coach Dave Bliss, who has somehow continued to make a living as a coach despite being best known for smearing a former player, Patrick Dennehy, right after Dennehy had been murdered by a teammate, is once again, for some goddamn reason, smearing Patrick Dennehy....