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Former Marine Can't Play Football This Year Because Of NCAA Oversight

The NCAA has ruled that Steven Rhodes—a 24-year-old former Marine, now a walk-on freshman at Middle Tennessee State splitting time at tight end and defensive end—must redshirt his freshman year because he played intramural football at his military base. Hooray, NCAA!...

Deadspin Up All Night: Shine

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DeAntre Turman, a high school football player from Georgia, collapsed during a scrimmage Friday night and died. He was 16 years old. The cause of death is still unknown....

How (And Why) To Poach Eggs: A Guide For The Haggard

Poaching eggs is a bit more complicated and delicate—these are nice ways of saying annoying—than frying them or scrambling them or hard-boiling them or throwing them at Rick Reilly, and so the question of how to poach them kinda naturally goes with the question of why to poach them. The true answer...

Deadspin Up All Night: Dance This Mess Around

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Dead Letters: "I Have A Pic Of [ESPN Person] Performing Oral Sex"

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NBA Efficiency Rating Inventor Kills Self, Explains Via Website

Martin Manley, the former Kansas City Star contributor whose insight into sports made him a key component of that paper's sports section, committed suicide yesterday—and left a sprawling website to explain why....

Deadspin Up All Night: The Worrying Kind

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What Does It Mean To Be "Damn Good In The Kitchen"?

Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...

The Madness of Pro Football

This one is a keeper. From Men's Journal in May, 2011—“The Ferocious Life and Tragic Death of a Super Bowl Star,” by Paul Solotaroff and Rick Telander:...

Deadspin Up All Night: They Don't Know

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Our friends at Slate imagine a world in which the NCAA is allowed to run other American institutions. It will make you laugh. [Slate]...

Dez Bryant Says The NCAA's Johnny Manziel Problem Is Some Bullshit

It's important to remind ourselves, every now and again, just why the NCAA suspended Dez Bryant for an entire year, if only to remind ourselves what sort of operation we're dealing with. He met with Deion Sanders—not a violation!—and, confused and threatened by the interrogation from the NCAA's heav...

Is A Hamburger A Sandwich?

I was at the beach with my kid the other day and some nine-year-old girl came running out of the ocean, yelling at her friend, “We saw a stingray!”...

Fruit-Flavored Juice-Grenade Colors, Ranked

1) Red...

How To Drink Champagne Without Becoming Even More Broke Than Usual

Let me begin with an uninformed and yet almost certainly accurate assumption: you drink champagne at most twice a year, one of which is the perfunctory glass on New Year's Eve that you end up blaming for your hangover the next morning instead of the 14 Red Bull vodkas you blasted between 1 and 3 a.m...

In The Netherlands, They Brawl In Front Of Their Judges

Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Fight In Courtroom The Netherlands." Tonight's commentator: Shawn McBride, author and Philadelphia court crier. (Coming next week: A Bridezilla discusses a Vegas brawl...

Deadspin Up All Night: Thrills Me For Days And Days

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Deadspin Up All Night: I'll Be There In The Mornin'

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Here's The Race Result From "Death Of A Racehorse"

W.C. Heinz’s “Death of a Racehorse” owes none of its fame to nostalgia. Written in one hour, in one draft, on a manual typewriter, on deadline, the 1949 classic is hailed by many in the industry as quite possibly the perfect story. Jeff MacGregor called it “the Gettysburg Address sportswriting. A ru...