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Remembering The Tour De Trump, Donald Trump's Failed Bike Race
Donald Trump, a talking tube of bronzer, is a man of leisure and failed investments. Right around the end of the 1980s, he expanded with a truly catastrophic series of investments which led him to declare his first of four corporate bankruptcies in 1991. There was Trump Airlines, Trump: The Game, an...
How To Talk To A Grieving Person
In the weeks and months after my father died, “How are you?” became my least favorite question. It was always benign and well-intentioned, but it also inevitably reminded me that I felt like shit. I’d rather have given a gruesome blow-by-blow account of how my father died than talk about how I felt....
Deadspin Up All Night: Feel The Breeze
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Deadspin Up All Night: I Read It On TV
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Eagles Fans Will Steal Your Trash Cans, And Your Trash
The Editor-In-Chief of this website had his garbage can stolen from outside his house last night, with his garbage still in it. By a man wearing an Eagles jacket. Why did he steal it? Will it end up on Chip Kelly’s lawn? Are Philadelphians just natural scavengers? This deepening mystery is the subje...
The Elmore Leonard Starter Kit
One of the coolest things about Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction is that he didn’t get to it until he was close to 50 years old and had been a professional writer for more than 20. His books pared away anything unnecessary with the ruthless good cheer of a steely veteran with little patience for wasti...
Seahawks Beat Lions After Referees Miss Easy Illegal Batting Call
Down 13-10 with just under two minutes left against the Seahawks Monday night, Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford dropped back from the Seattle 11 and found an open Calvin Johnson. As Johnson was tackled with the ball about to cross the plane of the end zone, Kam Chancellor popped it out of Megatr...
Deadspin Up All Night: My Baby Plays A Guitar, I Pick A Banjo Now
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High School Football Player Dies From Injury Suffered While Making A Tackle
Seventeen-year-old Kenney Bui, a senior at Evergreen (Wash.) High School and a defensive back on the football team, died today from injuries suffered while making a tackle during a game on Friday....
Deadspin Up All Night: You Wanna See A Dead Body?
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UCLA's Kicker Inadvertently Tackling A Guy With His Helmet, In Extreme Slow Motion
UCLA kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn got blown up while serving as the Bruins’ last chance to stop a Tim White kick return. But Arizona State didn’t take the kick to the house, because Fairbairn’s helmet brought White down. It’s Pac-12 after dark, at least on the east coast....
Deadspin Up All Night: At The Tee-Ball Games
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<i>College GameDay</i> At Clemson A Chance To Get Messy
The eastern seaboard is a bit wet this morning, which provided the ideal opportunity for this lanky bro to belly-flop into a mud pit. It’s Clemsoning, visualized!...
Deadspin Up All Night: Forever You'll Just Be Another
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Tell Us About Your Bad Tattoos
Oh, you have a tribal band around your bicep? I can tell you were cool in 1997. Maybe it’s a butterfly on the small of your back or a shamrock on your foot to celebrate your shred of Irish heritage. They might call up feelings of regret, but bad tattoos are nothing if not stories to tell. So tell us...
Deadspin Up All Night: Feeling So Tired, Can't Understand It
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Deadspin Up All Night: Hoe-Down
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Petchesky claims hockey is starting soon; not sure if he’s pulling my leg....
<i>Purity </i>Went To Communist East Germany And Found Itself
We’ll move further along in Purity in just a moment. First, I want to relay the story of what happened the first time I opened the book up after the last dispatch, in which I discussed how much truer and more knowledgeably written Jonathan Franzen’s one-paragraph description of Santa Cruz’s weather ...
A U.S. Appeals Court Just Did The NCAA A Big Favor
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision in Ed O’Bannon v. NCAA, which ruled that the NCAA’s larger amateurism rules are in violation of anti-trust laws. The appeals court also, though, vacated a key portion of the lower court’s ruling, and that makes it hard to coun...
Deadspin Up All Night: Raise The Flag
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