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Deadspin Up All Night: Soak It In
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Put These Shameful Conference Commissioners Right In The Toilet
You would hope that if someone were to make an argument against paying college athletes in the year of our Lord 2016, that this someone would dig up with a few ideas that were at least slightly less mendacious, self-serving, and paternalistic than the ones that originally founded the amateurism scam...
Deadspin Up All Night: Feel This Breeze
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Clinton: You're Too Broke For A Candidate Who Represents You
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Deadspin Up All Night: If I Was You I Would Be Mad Too
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Did The Media Create Donald Trump? (No.)
So the question of the moment is: Did the media create Donald Trump?...
Deadspin Up All Night: Came A Long Way From Them Corners
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Let's Teach Ted Cruz Some Charisma
Politicians are in the business of persuasion, so it is always miraculous to see one succeed with an egregiously short supply of charm. It’s like the Hanukkah miracle, a menorah burning for eight days on a meager drop of oil; or, it’s like Ted Cruz conning his way onto the short list for our nation’...
Deadspin Up All Night: A Scandal On The Front Page
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Pro Cyclist Antoine Demoitié Dies After Getting Hit By Motorcycle During Race (UPDATE)
Twenty-five year old Belgian cyclist Antoine Demoitié was racing at Gent Wevelgem for Wanty-Groupe Gobert this morning, when he was hit by a race motorcycle after crashing. He was taken to the ICU at a nearby hospital in Lille, France, where his team announced that his condition was “extremely serio...
Deadspin Up All Night: I'ma Bring You To Vegas
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Deadspin Up All Night: I'll Tell You Pronto
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What It’s Like To Be Protested
I couldn’t hear what they were saying. I was standing on the steps of Oviatt Library at Cal State Northridge, giving a speech to all the incoming freshmen as part of the university’s formal convocation. (Quick acknowledgment: Yes, this actually happened, so you are now free to dump on me for being a...
Hallelujah, A College Football Coach Has A Sensible Position On Transfers
There is a litany of asinine and unfair NCAA rules, but perhaps the most blatantly unfair are the transfer rules. With limited exceptions, college athletes playing football, basketball, baseball, and men’s hockey must sit out a year of competition when they transfer schools. Even more onerous, coach...
Steve Francis Needs A Company To Ship One Of His Boats
Attention: Steve Francis, former star point guard for the University of Maryland and the Houston Rockets and not-star point guard for the New York Knicks, needs one of his boats moved from Sarasota, Fla. to “the Harbor.” (Presumably, if you’re the sort of person who can get a boat moved out of Saras...
What Chair Has Been Farted In The Most?
Chairs! They’re soft and comfortable and they provide the perfect acoustic backdrop for a good, solid round of farting. But what chair has been farted in the most over time? Can you even NAME a famous chair without cheating? Is an uninformed discussion about chair farts worth your time at all? THAT ...
Deadspin Up All Night: You Ain't Alone
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As Usual, John Calipari Pushes An NCAA Rule To Its Limit
In a tweetstorm this afternoon, Kentucky coach John Calipari revealed his latest plan to lay bare the machinations of the NCAA. Here is a lightly edited transcript of his tweets:...
Deadspin Up All Night: That's The Sound When MC's Get Mopped
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