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Are Silent Farts Really More Deadly? Science Has An Answer

Our buddies at AsapSCIENCE have created this short educational film that explains just exactly why you fart, why you fart at different volumes, and why those tiny little noiseless bandits are often the worst farts of all....

Would You Do It Again? We Ask Former NFLer Jon Melander

This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...

The NCAA Was Shamed Into Overturning Another Dumb Eligibility Ruling

After tons of public pressure and negative media attention, the NCAA has reversed its stance and will allow BYU runner Jared Ward to compete for his senior season. Good job, everyone!...

Pot Isn't Life And Death, And Tyrann Mathieu Isn't A Redemption Story

Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardin...

Deadspin Up All Night: All These Things That I Can't Stand

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Todd Christensen, RIP: He was a five-time Pro Bowl tight end who twice won the Super Bowl with the Raiders in the 1980s. The official cause of death was complications from liver transplant surgery. He was 57. [AP] ...

Mike Krzyzewski Thinks Tanking NBA Teams Are Un-American

Someone asked Mick Krizilonski what he thought about NBA teams potentially tanking the season in order to get a better shot at drafting someone like Jabari Parker or Andrew Wiggins. His response was peak Coach K....

Alex Gibney And Betsy Andreu Are Here To Talk About <em>The Armstrong Lie</em>

Documentarian Alex Gibney, director of the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, has spent his career making films about corruption and the abuse of power. The project that eventually became The Armstrong Lie wasn't necessarily meant to be one of them. What had initially been a story about Armstrong'...

Join us at noon Eastern for a chat with acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney, director of The Armstrong Lie, and Betsy Andreu, a key figure in the Lance Armstrong story. They'll be up to talk about the movie, Armstrong, doping, vindication, and whatever else comes up....

Deadspin Up All Night: Everybody Said That You'd Better Watch Out

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Women Of America, Beyonce Is Conning You

Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering sharts, porn star moms, tugs of war, and more....

$40 Deviled Eggs To Help You Survive The Great Sriracha Panic

From time to time we come across a highfalutin recipe with an ingredients list that strikes us as a hair on the costly side. And when we do, we're gonna run those ingredients through the checkout aisle at Whole Foods on the Bowery to see how it adds up....

NCAA Declared Student Ineligible For Entering Costume-Optional Fun Run

It's clear now that the NCAA uses public opinion as its final appeals process. It ruled former marine Steven Rhodes ineligible to play football at Middle Tennessee State because he had played in a military rec league. It ruled Colgate basketball player Nathan Harries ineligible because he had played...

Derrick Rose Tweaks A Hammy, And Chicago Fans Freak

Late in the Bulls' win over the Cavaliers tonight, Derrick Rose went from his all-angles self to a version with an unsettling lack of verticality. Turns out the Chicago point guard, who spent all last year and much of the previous season mending a knee injury, merely tweaked his hamstring or somethi...

We have been made aware of a $470 pair of Hermes men's underwear. For men who love their loins more than money, sanity or self-respect. [via @mattyglesias]...

Deadspin Up All Night: I'm Losing My Favorite Game

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Deadspin Up All Night: Congratulations

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Derek Moore, the murdered Missouri Southern State football coach, was at a movie with the estranged wife of Jeffery Bruner, the suspect. Bruner shot Moore after a confrontation, put his gun in his car, and surrendered to authorities. [Des Moines Register]...

How To Make Home Fries, The Breakfast Of Sluggards

The basic idea is that breakfast is supposed to supply your wretched, dead-eyed carcass with enough chemical energy to work itself up into a state vaguely similar to the authentic vitality of the functional, well-adjusted people edging away from you in half-concealed disgust on the bus. This is why...

Deadspin Up All Night: With Fragments Of Fiction

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The weekenders will be here for you, so be here for them....