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Holy Moly Expectations Are Lowly In Washington
Your morning roundup for Feb. 25. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Hang On To Each Other
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The usual cats will be with you this weekend....
Deadspin's Top 10 Movies Of 2011
For many years, prior to the Oscar nominations, the boy from Mattoon and his friend Tim have put on their Ebert t-shirts and run down their personal best movies the year. It's cute. Sometimes I chime in. My list is below....
Cockblocked By Kim Jong Il!
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....
Reader Mail: All The Letters We've Gotten From One Persistent Critic
We’re doing a special edition of Dead Letters this week, featuring recurring Deadspin agitator Joe Devanna, and every email he’s sent us in the past 12 months, presented in chronological order....
Rob Lowe Is Literally The Biggest OKC Thunder Fan In The World
Your morning roundup for Feb. 24. Photo via ESPN/Getty. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Sick Children Are Where Good Food Goes To Die
There's a half a bowl of Top Ramen sitting in my kitchen right now. It's gorgeous. The broth is warm. The noodles are all soft and crimpy. It's just begging me to eat it. It's just aching for me to take it into the coat closet and do VILE, DISGUSTING things to it....
Deadspin Up All Night: Cool As An Icebox
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HOLY SHIT DISINTEGRATING HELICOPTER
In Brazil, helicopters are apparently built with the same structural frequency as the rotors' mechanical resonance. Or something, since I just made that up. [via Daily Telegraph]...
How Did This Personalized Note From Kevin Durant End Up On The Floor Of A University Of Texas Bathroom?
Homer Rainey Hall is an unassuming administrative building in the middle of UT's Austin Campus. It largely contains offices for professors in the school's language department, but today it contains a mystery....
Hurry Up, Harbaugh. That Water Isn't Going To Pour Itself.
Your morning roundup for Feb. 23. Photo of Jim Harbaugh, in Indiana for the NFL scouting combine and moonlighting as team manager for brother-in-law Tom Crean's Hoosiers, via Larry Brown Sports. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
The Hater's Guide To The 2012 Academy Awards
Ah, the Academy Awards. To give you a firm understanding of just how awful the Oscars are, consider this: This is the only entity in the universe that considers the inclusion of Billy Crystal to be an act of salvation. If they told you they were going to try and fix all the gaping plot holes of The ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Hang
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Help Us Identify These Hundred-Year-Old Sports Photos
A reader named Sam sent along some wonderful old photos, taken more than a century ago, of what appear to be local sports teams. Sam says the photos were in the possession of his late grandmother, but they have no provenance beyond that....
Doug Gottlieb Talks, Kid Behind Him Says Something Else
Your morning roundup for Feb. 22. Image via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
The Small Child/Hockey Enforcer Fight Dynamic Has Spread From NHL To Skate Park
What we have here is not all that dissimilar to the great Derek "Blue Jacket" Dorsett vs. John "Blackhawk" Scott Ice Brawl of Feb. 18, that being small guy tempting his fisticuffs fate with big guy....
The Guy Whose Neighbor Got Arrested For Eating Cats Had Some Interesting Things To Say
Per Bakersfield Now's report: "I heard a cat cry. It was a weird cry, real loud," neighbor Joe Nuno said. "I smelled cooking. It smelled like some awful meat."...
Deadspin Up All Night: We're All Winners
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Hickey will be along....
They Blew Up A Bridge Today
Ah yes, the old Fort Steuben Bridge, spanning the Ohio River on the West Virginia/Ohio border. No more: they blew it up this morning. Or imploded it, to use proper bridge-blowing-up terminology. The Ohio DOT was there to film the occasion, and then replay it in slow motion. Good job, bridge-blower...
Does Being Named "Ashley" Make You Hot? An Unscientific Study
Before we get to the Funbag, a quick programming note: I'm gonna be liveblogging the Oscars over at Gawker on Sunday night. We'll be plumbing depths of bitchiness heretofore unimaginable, so stop by if you feel like it. To your letters:...