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Ohio State Forced To Stop Recruiting Top Recruit After Obscure Kirk Herbstreit Photo Violation
Micah Parsons is considered one of the best high school football players in the country. The defensive end is ranked as the seventh-best overall prospect by ESPN and fourth overall by 24/7, and before today, he was considering joining Ohio State. However, Ohio State has agreed to stop recruiting Par...

Some Unabashed Gushing Over The Coolest Scene In <i>The Last Jedi</i>
I think my favorite thing about Star Wars: The Last Jedi is how successfully writer/director Rian Johnson dove into the giant toy box that is the Star Wars universe and started playing. His willingness to repudiate the franchise’s nostalgia industry—to let the past die, as Kylo Ren put it—is what I ...

Iconic MMA Coach Robert Follis's Death Ruled A Suicide
Longtime MMA trainer and coach Robert Follis was found dead Friday night near Las Vegas. Follis’s girlfriend, Myra Fukuno, announced his death Sunday and invited friends and family to share their favorite memories of Follis for a forthcoming memorial. This afternoon, a representative of the Clark Co...

Deadspin Up All Night: We All Know Conspiracies Are Dumb
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A List Of Some Of The Times <i>The Last Jedi</i> Told The Older <i>Star Wars </i>Movies To Eat Shit
Needless to say, major spoiler action follows....

Deadspin Up All Night: Where The Treetops Glisten
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Ottawa Senators Radio Announcers Casually Discuss Grindr In Middle Of Game
I don’t have much to add to this. Tonight Ottawa shut out Montreal 3-0 in a centennial celebration game played outdoors in what looked to me like horrifically cold weather at Ottawa’s football stadium, but despite all the pomp and circumstance of the event Senators radio announcers Dean Brown and Go...

Deadspin Up All Night: My Two Front Teeth
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Deadspin Up All Night: Just Give Me The Script
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Here Is A Short Review Of <i>The Last Jedi</i><em></em>
The Force Awakens was fun on its own merits, and thrilling in a nostalgic sort of way, and the fresh Star Wars youths were charming and compelling where they were supposed to be (Rey and Finn), and darkly charismatic where they were supposed to be (Kylo Ren), and absurdly good-looking and sexy where...

Independent Review: Edmonton Didn't Follow Its Own Policies Before Boxer Tim Hague Died In The Ring<em></em>
Ex-UFC heavyweight Tim Hague died this summer two days after getting knocked out by Adam Braidwood in a boxing match. Hague, who was 34 at the time of his death, had been working as a teacher and was supposedly retired from boxing when he took the fight against WBU heavyweight champion Braidwood on ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Open The Till
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A Bonus Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
Hello again. Earlier this week we all gathered round the wassail to roast the goofiest items in this year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog. HOWEVER, it was a really thick catalog this year, and there simply wasn’t enough room in print for EVERY ridiculous item featured. Especially the champagne saber. So, ...

Louisville Countersues Rick Pitino, Seeks Money Lost From NCAA Violations
The clusterfuck of Rick Pitino getting fired by Louisville amid an FBI corruption investigation is only getting more complicated. While Pitino has active suits open against his former school for wrongful termination and Adidas for intentional infliction of emotional distress, Louisville has now coun...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Will Surely Come In Last
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NFL Network Exec Deletes Dozens Of Twitter Interactions With Escorts And Porn Stars, Then Entire Account
David Eaton is the vice president and executive editor for NFL Media, which comprises the NFL website and television channel. (According to a 2011 story about his hiring as a new editor, the ABC News veteran was brought in to run the “NFL Media Super Newsroom.”) He appears to have spent much of yes...

Tom Thibodeau Is Destruction
In his stints as an associate head coach in Boston and head coach in Chicago, Tom Thibodeau made his name and his career with a set of genuinely smart and hugely influential defensive tactics, leveraging the NBA’s relaxed rules against zone defense to essentially eliminate what had been the dominant...

Deadspin Up All Night: May Your Days Be Merry And Bright
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Deadspin Up All Night: It Won't Let Go
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Lomachenko-Rigondeaux, High-Tech Dreams And Mechanical Reality
NEW YORK — On Saturday evening, midtown Manhattan was afflicted by plagues. A snowstorm had turned the crosswalks into slushy lagoons. SantaCon had drawn thousands of drunken Jersey residents dressed as Saint Nick into the city’s streets, where they yelled and WOOOO-ed and eroded the quality of life...