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The NCAA Has Wagged Its Finger At Oregon And Chip Kelly

The NCAA's committee on infractions has spoken: Because of payments made to a recruiting service run by a guy who steered a prospect toward the Oregon football program, the Ducks have been hit with three years' probation and other penalties, most of which they had already imposed on themselves. Thus...

Punchy Bros Take To The Street As The Blackhawks Win The Stanley Cup

Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Blackhawks celebration brawl." Tonight's reviewer: A little bit of context for said brawl....

Deadspin Up All Night: Call It What You Want

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Back to baseball. And Tuesday Night Fights. Have a great evening....

Deadspin Up All Night: Ain't No Love

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Hockey tonight, and Sean's around. Bobby "Blue" Bland, RIP....

Don't do mushrooms, kids: "The man was kneeling outside the school, bloody from the waist down, with parts of his genitals ripped off, Fox said. He said parts of the man’s body were transferred to the hospital with him." [Detroit Free Press; h/t Pete and Andrew]...

The "Wilt Chamberlain Of The Deaf" Lost His Home In A Tornado

Only three basketball players in U.S. history have scored more points in a high school career than Bennie Fuller did. From 1968-71, Fuller amassed an astounding 4,896 points for the Arkansas School for the Deaf and in the process became something of a legend in the state's basketball circles, as Rex...

Deadspin Up All Night: Never Back Up Like Cleo Lemon On Myself

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Two Ways To Make Alfredo Sauce So Rich It'll Stop Your Heart

So you've decided to end your life, or at least the segment of your life during which you could walk from here to there without your chest making sounds like a whirring blender full of silverware. Because that is the only conceivable reason why you would choose to make Alfredo sauce, which, scientif...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Know I Know Nothing At All

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Dead Letters: "Something Fishy With Game 7?"

Subject: Something Fishy with Game 7?...

Zombies took over Petco Park last night, right from the ceremonial first pitch. It was The Walking Dead Night, and it had nothing to do with the Dodgers being in town....

CWS Fan Flips Off ESPN Camera, Then Gets Karate Chopped In The Face

While the world was watching LeBron & Co. repeat as NBA champions, there was another championship at stake on another Disney/ABC network: a College World Series elimination game between in-state rivals UNC and North Carolina State. Not everyone attending that game in Omaha, it seems, went home happ...

Let's Relive Bill Russell Yawning In Super Slow Motion

When your career includes 11 NBA championships, two NCAA championships, an Olympic gold medal, five NBA MVP trophies, and getting confused for Morgan Freeman, we imagine pretty much anything basketball-related might bore you to tears. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Well I Was Rollin' Down The Road

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Sean and Burke will carry you through the basketball. Godspeed....

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Report: Aaron Hernandez Was With Victim On Night Of Homicide

While police continue to investigate the homicide of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's girlfriend's sister, MyFoxBoston is reporting that Hernandez and two other men were out at a bar with Lloyd just hours before he was killed....

"With regard to the student-athlete," wrote a senior NCAA executive in an email, "I think the focus on exploitation may be misplaced, and maybe it is not our duty to protect the student-athlete." [NYT]...

Deadspin Up All Night: All I Ever Wanted

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Victim Identified In Murder Probe With Ties To Aaron Hernandez

The media have swarmed the North Attleboro, Mass., home of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who has been questioned in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old Boston man. WBZ said the victim is Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player whose body was found by a jogger on Monday in an industrial ...

Tuesday Night Fights: UFC Fans Brawlin' At Buffalo Wild Wings

Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Huge Brawl at Buffalo Wild Wings." Tonight's commentator: A response from corporate. (Coming next week: A high-point in street-fight cinematography history.)...