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Deadspin Up All Night: Isn't It Amazing What You Can Accomplish
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Deadspin Up All Night: Tennessee's A Brother To My Sister Carolina
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Rick Pitino Files Federal Lawsuit Against Adidas For Emotional Distress
Rick Pitino was officially fired by Louisville and dropped by Adidas yesterday, and it took him exactly one day to file his first lawsuit. This afternoon, Pitino sued Adidas in United States District Court on grounds of intentional infliction of emotional distress, claiming that Adidas’s alleged pay...
De'Aaron Fox Says In-N-Out Is "Just Not Good"
Kings rookie PG De’Aaron Fox was born in Louisiana, went to high school in Texas, college at Kentucky, and is settling in to his new life in Sacramento. And, as with anyone who goes to California for the first time, he’s been bombarded by locals’ boasts about a certain fast-food chain. He’s supremel...
Deadspin Up All Night: With No Gripe To Bear
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The Deadspin Milk Idiots Try To Identify Some Milks
Deadspin did a blind milk taste test. There were multiple fat percentages, and one non-cow wild card. Each of the six participants sipped the four milks and recorded their answers. You should watch the video, but here are the results: ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Aging And Aching And Raging And Faking
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Indonesian Keeper Dies After Penalty Area Collision
Choirul Huda, the keeper for Indonesian soccer team Persela FC, collided brutally with teammate Ramon Rodrigues while rushing forward on a ball in the 18-yard box. The collision left both players hurt, but Huda took the collision to his upper body—Rodrigues’s knee seems to drive Huda’s arm violently...
Deadspin Up All Night: After The Fall
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Deadspin Up All Night: Turn Up The Volume
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N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School
After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, an...
NCAA's Three-Year Investigation Into Fake Classes At UNC Ends With A Whimper
After three-and-a-half years of investigating fake classes in North Carolina’s African and Afro-American Studies department that dated back over 18 years, the NCAA announced on Friday that it does not have the jurisdiction to charge the university with violations of either academic fraud or providin...
Renowned Climber Hayden Kennedy Commits Suicide After Girlfriend, Fellow Pro Inge Perkins, Dies In Avalanche<em></em>
Last Saturday, Inge Perkins and Hayden Kennedy were six miles into a backcountry skiing hike up to the top of Imp Peak, a mountain in Montana’s Madison Range, when they triggered an avalanche. The slide was 300 feet long and 150 feet wide at a depth of one to two feet, and both Perkins and Kennedy w...
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What Is The Worst Store?<em></em>
As you know, shopping is a migraine. It is a brutal conglomeration of terrible parking spots, high prices, slow-moving old people, heavy bags, and shoddy merchandise. But which store is the worst of them all? Which store—and we’re talking about any store that sells any type of good—is the one that b...
Deadspin Up All Night: No No No
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The NCAA's Commission To Fix College Basketball Proves Athletes Are Still Fucked<em></em><em></em>
In response to the FBI’s investigation into the black market that is college basketball recruiting, the NCAA’s member schools and Board of Governors voted to convene what it’s calling the “Commission on College Basketball.” The group will be chaired by none other than Condoleezza Rice, the former Se...
The FBI's College Basketball Investigation Made Simple
Even though the fallout from the FBI’s ongoing college basketball investigation is just in the beginning stages, the abruptness of the Department of Justice’s announcement made it difficult to keep tabs on just what or who is being investigated, let alone understand the sprawling effects this will h...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Need To Know
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Y.A. Tittle, Football Great, Was Once Tackled By His Own Pants
Quarterback Y.A. Tittle now sounds like a grizzled relic of football, but there was a time when his name was just weird. Comic Phil Foster had a bit about it in the 1950s: “I used to love the tough guys in pro football. In my day we had real he-men: Bronko Nagurski, Alex Wojciechowicz, Mel Hein. Now...