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Tuesday Night Fights: Polish Street-Rasslin' Leaves The Masked Man With More Questions Than Answers
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "NEW 2013 Hardcore Nuts Crazy Drunk Polish Guys Fight on the Street Wrestling." Tonight's commentator: Deadspin's Dead Wrestler of the Week Associate The Masked Man (wi...
Deadspin Up All Night: If I Take You Home, Will You Tell The Truth?
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We hope you had yourself a fantastic Tuesday. We just bid adieu to Tom Scocca, who will be occupying a seat on the other side of the office come tomorrow. But we get Emma back! Onward....
Comrades! <em>The Nation's</em> Dave Zirin Is Here To Talk Sports And Politics
Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation, where he writes about politics and sports and angers conservatives every day. He's also a frequent guest on MSNBC and Outside the Lines, where he once found out firsthand just what a loon Paul Finebaum is. He's here now to answer whatever intelligent a...
How The NCAA Causes Gigantism: The Story Of The Small Regional Conference That Swallowed Up The Continent
Starting in the 2013-2014 season, University of Maine at Presque Isle and Mills College in Oakland, Calif., will play in the same athletic conference. These now-Division III schools are over 3,000 miles apart. How did this happen?...
Household Chores: A Dadspin Ranking And Guide
Chores never end. That's why they're chores. You would think, after a long night scrubbing pots and pans until the skin begins to peel off your hands, that such an effort would absolve you from ever having to wash another dish again. YOU ARE WRONG. There will be more dishes to rinse or clean mere MI...
Deadspin Up All Night: Queen Of Hearts
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. If you're on the hunt for some evening reading material, you might find this enjoyable....
Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend LeSean McCoy Had A Twitter War With His Babymama
LeSean McCoy Sics Twitter Army On His "Broke, Worthless" Babymama After She Accuses Him Of Being A Deadbeat Dad | It's all a bunch of stupid drama, but at the very least LeSean McCoy comes across as a piece of shit when he could have simply walked away. Read »...
Deadspin Up All Night: Don't Be Terse And Don't Be Shy
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We've got the Live Blog ripping so be sure to check in over there. Enjoy the rest of your weekend....
President Obama Talks Football And The NCAA
The New Republic has an interview with President Obama where the newly re-minted commander-in-chief discusses, among other things, violence in football. The President makes some reasonable observations about the sport and the changes he foresees—less exciting for us, safer for the players—which I th...
LeSean McCoy Sics Twitter Army On His "Broke, Worthless" Babymama After She Accuses Him Of Being A Deadbeat Dad
Look, we have no idea if LeSean McCoy is a deadbeat dad. The mother of his child LeSean McCoy Jr. is alleging that to be the case—and a whole lot more. Indeed, in a bizarre battle that resulted in McCoy deleting his twitter account, the babymama (known as Steph) accused McCoy of having herpes, havi...
Deadspin Up All Night: Havin' Thangs
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy your Saturday and come on back tomorrow, when Sean and I will wade around in the grim void that is the week between conference championships and the Super Bowl....
How To Cook Lobster Tails: A Guide For People Who Don't Have Butlers To Do All The Work
Somewhere along the way, lobster became the symbol of gustatory luxury. You picture your stereotypical Person Of Means sitting down to a feast—me, I always picture olde-tymey plutocrats in top hats and tails, monocled, even the women and babies, because my experience of society's upper class begins ...
The Most Recent Fainting Spell Over Shabazz Muhammad Distills NCAA Compliance To Its Idiotic Essence
Shabazz Muhammad spent the first three games of UCLA's season—and his college career—sitting on the bench while the NCAA deliberated on whether he'd committed a minor infraction that he'd specifically been advised not to worry about when he committed it. When he was finally reinstated, he got back ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Saved Again
We're featuring a cool new artist today. Ronaiah? You may have heard of him? So DUANaiah it is. Those weekend rascals—Tim, Sean, Isaac, Al—will make your Saturday and Sunday scintillating....
It Now Only Takes One Third As Much Marijuana—Or "Street Drugs"—To Fail An NCAA Drug Test
Maybe you thought the NCAA would be busy covering its ass for illegally paying Nevin Shapiro's attorney to help it gather information to incriminate Miami. But the NCAA is big enough that it can break its own rules while stupidly making other stupid rules even stupider. To that end, it's cracking do...
All The Nice Emails We Got From Our Moms After Publishing Our Manti Te'o Story
On Monday, we ran a special edition of Dead Letters, in which we shared all the mean emails we had received in the wake our Manti Te'o story. There was a lot of negative energy in that post. But we don't always get hateful messages from our readers. Sometimes, we get nice emails—from our moms. It's...
Deadspin Up All Night: Tomorrow Won't Be Made For You
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Night Daddy said he's just going to the store for a pack of cigarettes......
Deadspin Up All Night: Girl From The North Country
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. It's going to be freezing cold getting home. Stick around in the comments instead....
Scarves Are Bullshit
It's cold outside today, unless you're one of those insufferable L.A. people who are like IT'S SUNNY AND 70 HERE IN DOUCHE HEAVEN, BABY! Anyway, I had to venture out into the WINDSWEPT MOONSCAPE today, and it was imperative to cover both my neck and the lower half of my face. This is the Scarf Zone,...