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Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: The Tide Doesn't Move
Happy Labor Day weekend! Your unpaid student-athlete workforce is already on the job. So it's time for the 2012 Deadspin College Football Top 25 Or So. As always, teams are ranked according to the values and priorities of college football, as best we understand them, no matter how contradictory thos...
Freshman UCLA Quarterback Brett Hundley Rushed For A 72-Yard Touchdown On His First Career Snap
When new UCLA head coach Jim Mora named redshirt freshman Brett Hundley starting quarterback for this season, it raised a few eyebrows. After all, the Bruins had two returning senior quarterbacks. To Mora's credit, it appears he may be on to something—the 6'4" 225 quarterback from Chandler, Arizon...
How To Entertain After Hours
Welcome to the final installment of A Gentleman's Quest for the Perfect Night Out, a four-part guide written by etiquette expert John Bridges meant to instruct our more testosteroney readers on how to comport themselves during the evening hours. With the help of Clear Men Scalp TherapyTM, which giv...
Secrets Of A Sports Photographer In A Wicked Awesome Sports Town
Every summer, Boston comes out to play. Shut-ins seep into the streets, the city's parks brim with ballers, and the town's unmarked vans are painted purple with anti-New York graffiti. It was this annual migration that Taylor Davidson — one of Gizmodo's Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge...
If You Feel Compelled To Stroll The Beach In A Banana-Hammock, Do So
No one will care if your spare tire is gleaming in the late-summer sunshine. No one will blink an eye if your body hair creates a halo around your creatively toned muscles. No one will give a flying fig if your sunglasses were purchased at a Taos gas station sometime during the hazy summer of 1981...
Josh Beckett Joins Twitter, Is In Desperate Need Of New Handle
Josh Beckett joined twitter today for the express purpose of saying goodbye to the Red Sox faithful, wherever they may be. It's very touching. But this here's a business and it can't be getting mussed up with feelings and dumb Twitter handles....
Is Robert Griffin III Fast Enough To Run Track In The 2016 Olympics?
Is Robert Griffin III really a "world-class hurdler," as ESPN called him? In this week's Hang Up and Listen, Mike Pesca takes a look at RG3's times from high school and college and finds that, well, maybe it's not an exaggeration....
Dead Letters: "Wishing You A Lifetime Of Genital Herpes And Shingles"
Subject: Ephesians...
How to Not Look Like a Slob at Dinner
Welcome to A Gentleman's Quest for the Perfect Night Out, a four-part guide written by etiquette expert John Bridges meant to instruct our more testosteroney readers on how to comport themselves during the evening hours. With the help of Clear Men Scalp Therapy, which gives you 100% dandruff protec...
Ask An Anonymous PR Guy About The Shady Work Of Being A Pro Athlete's Publicist
Gang, meet Anonymous PR Guy. Anonymous PR Guy, say hello to the gang. Anonymous PR Guy is an actual publicist for a handful of pro athletes, and in exchange for his anonymity, he's agreed to share a few stories with us about what his job is really like. We've always wondered, and now we know: He's a...
Red Sox Player Mutiny Now Kelly Shoppach's Fault Somehow
The New York Daily News features a screamer of a headline this morning: "Adrian Gonzalez off the hook as NY Mets' Kelly Shoppach takes fall for Boston's text mutiny." Oh, weird! I guess, contrary to the report from Yahoo, it was not "Adrian Gonzalez, texting on behalf of himself and some teammates,"...
Dead Letters: "Congrats You Unimaginative Retard"
Subject: Too Funny...
What's The Deal With Football Players And Barbecue Sauce?
Many ex-athletes have entered the food industry—or, more specifically, the meat industry—and in this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh Levin ponders the marketing strategies of former NFL players who have come out with their very own barbecue sauce, the ultimate meat acc...
Massive 12-Year-Old Too Big For Pee Wee Football, Too Bad At Football For Middle School Football
KDFW reports on the story of Elijah Earnheart, who at the tender age of 12 is already six feet tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds. Elijah wants to play football, but because of his size, he's been banned from his Mequite (Texas) Pee Wee team. Once you get the giggles out over the Fox screengrab of po...
Lax Bro Apologizes To Entire Southwest Flight For Acting Like A Lax Bro
Lax bros are one of the fastest-growing scourges to American society. They are members of a subculture that is composed entirely of privileged white kids with annoying names. Even worse, they are getting attention from the Boston Globe and stupid movies made about them....
NBC Cut Nearly An Hour From Its Closing Ceremony Telecast. Here's Everything They Didn't Show You (Including The Kinks' Ray Davies)
We knew NBC would heavily edit its broadcast of last night's London Olympics closing ceremony; they cut out a bunch of stuff from the opening ceremony, too, in the name of "tailoring programming to our American audience." Last night presented an additional scheduling challenge for NBC, as they had ...
Why Isn't Synchronized Trampoline In The Olympics?
Last week we talked about the sports that haven't yet made it to the Olympics. In this week's excerpt from Slate's podcast Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin makes the case for synchronized trampoline—another contender—to join the ranks of Olympic events. Especially if it saves the participants from a...
The Baseballs In College Summer Leagues Appear To Be Juiced
A lot of college baseball players don't go home for the summer. Instead, many make their way to tiny dots on the map like Falmouth (Mass.), Celina (Ohio), DeLand (Fla.), or Quakertown (Pa.), to play in one of a handful of summer leagues....
Dead Letters: "Just Read Your Article. I Printed It And Wiped My Ass With It. You Should Get It In The Mail Shortly."
Subject: Why your team sucks....Atlanta Falcons...
How to Dress Like a Real Man
Welcome to A Gentleman's Quest for the Perfect Night Out, a four-part guide written by etiquette expert John Bridges meant to instruct our more testosteroney readers on how to comport themselves during the evening hours. With the help of Clear Men Scalp Therapy, which gives you 100% dandruff protec...