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Cats, Dogs, Balls and Pizza: Deadspin's NBA Draft Betting PreviewAh, yet another strange oddity in the sports calendar during pandemic life....

Would You Fight And Die For Titan, The New Dog-King Of Baseball?Look upon Titan, your new sovereign. Titan began his reign at last night’s Rockies game, leading a legion of hounds into the ballpark and laid claim to all lands within it....

Here Are Some Ugly DogsMartha, a 3-year-old Neapolitan Mastiff, took first prize at the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest, held annually at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in California. It was something of an upset—older, smaller, often hairless dogs tend to win these. But Martha reportedly impressed the judges by farting and flopping d...

Here's A Video Of Dogs Saying "I Love You"

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Here Are 2,000 Photos We Took At The Westminster Dog Show

The thing about the Westminster Dog Show is (and this is going to sound obvious) that there are so many dogs. If you watch the primetime TV broadcast, you see one of each breed—a perfect kibble-sized snapshot of the dog world. But attending the show, something you should absolutely do if you're in...

Exile In Dogville: Westminster Gets Comfy In Its New Home

Welcome to Dogs in Donut Coats Deadspin's seventh annual coverage of the Westminster Dog Show, featuring a dog in a donut coat. If you're only here for the dogs in donut coats, you can leave now, because there are no more. Otherwise: welcome. Donut-coatless dogs are within. ...

Mark Buehrle's Pit Bull Is Illegal In Toronto

Alex Anthopoulos thought he hit paydirt, ripping off the miserable Miami Marlins for most of their good players in Jeffrey Loria's latest fire sale. This sabermetric-darling GM, however, is about to learn that the stats can't tell you everything you need to know about a player—e.g. whether that pla...

George Brett Turns To Twitter To Find Lost Dog

"Still new to this tweeter stuff," George Brett wrote a couple of days ago. That was before Brett's beloved Labradoodle Charlie ran away from his Mission Hills, Kan., home last night. In a matter of hours, Brett turned into a tweeter expert as he harnessed the crowdsourcing powers of the internet to...