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When Bill Shankly Ruled Liverpool

One of the best books of 2013 will come out in its first American edition next week when Melville House publishes Red or Dead, David Peace's long, strange, and transfixing novel about Bill Shankly's career at Liverpool FC. The single most convincing fictional depiction of the endless repetition that...

Grown-Ass Men Fighting Over A Baseball Bat, In Extreme Slow Motion

Edwin Encarnación let a bat fly into the stands during the ninth inning Saturday in Texas, and some Rangers fans engaged in some epic and embarrassing struggle in an attempt to take home a very special souvenir. We slowed the footage down for your enjoyment of every participant's role in this true t...

Twins Fan Gives Finger To Little Girl Who Won't Throw Back HR Ball [Update]

This is from Wednesday's game, a David Ortiz home run that was retrieved by a girl in the first row. When the girl made it clear she had no intentions of tossing the ball back onto the field, the woman in red let the girl know to her face what she thought of that decision....

Watch Hall Of Fame Broadcasting Legend Marty Brennaman Flip The Bird

Longtime Reds radio man Marty Brennaman is a legend in the industry, and earned the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick award in 2000 as recognition of his contributions. Tonight he flipped the bird toward the Colorado Rockies' TV team, and we wholeheartedly support it....

Thank God For David Ortiz

Yu Darvish was perfect through the seventh inning against the Red Sox last night until David Ortiz hit a routine pop-up into shallow right field. It fell between Alex Rios and Rougned Odor and was officially ruled an error, thus preserving a no-hitter. For two innings the baseball world sat on the p...

You Can't Really Get Troy Tulowitzki Out Right Now

Troy Tulowitzki hit two more home runs last night, bringing his season total to nine, ballooning his slash line to .408/.512./.786, and raising his fWAR to a league-leading 3.1. Those cartoonish numbers speak for themselves, and are bound to regress, but Tulo is doing things he's never done before i...

Report: James Franklin Contacted Victim In Vanderbilt Rape Case

Former Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin made contact with the victim days after the incident, according to documents filed by attorneys for one of the four former Vanderbilt football players on trial for rape charges....

What If All Baseball Players Were Fat?

Upon several viewings of Bartolo Colon's hilarious plate appearances, the Deadspin staff discussed what baseball would be like if every player looked like the husky Mets hurler. Or, really, just fat. So here's some recent MLB highlights where we made all the baseball players fat. Video's above, GIFs...

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Blues Fan Bares Breasts During Chicago-St. Louis Overtime

First Joel Quenneville grabbed his nuts and now this: a Blues fan sitting behind the goal in St. Louis took a moment to urge her team on in overtime by flashing her breasts. Shortly thereafter, St. Louis scored and took a commanding 2-0 lead in the NHL's most x-rated series so far....

Missouri's Dorial Green-Beckham Kicked Off Team

Tigers star WR Dorial Green-Beckham was dismissed from Missouri's football program today, after the release of a police report concerning an allegedly burglary and assault incident from this past weekend. ...

Typo Dramatically Alters Meaning Of Sign About Beer Sales

A reader spotted this sign at the Colorado Rockies' home opener. Under normal circumstances, this is the kind of sign that would make a beer-guzzling baseball fan hang his head in sadness. But thanks to a typo, this sign suddenly transformed into a one-way ticket to party town, where the beers only ...

Police: Victim Pressured To Not Press Charges Against Green-Beckham

Columbia police announced today that Missouri star wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham will not be arrested in connection with an incident that occurred this weekend, when Green-Beckham allegedly forced his way into an apartment trying to locate his girlfriend and injured one of the residents. That v...

David Ortiz Goes On Slowest Home Run Trot On Record

Thanks to our friends at Tater Trot Tracker, who have been timing home run trots for years now, we know that nobody takes his time getting around the bases quite like David Ortiz does....

Hey Look, Real Madrid Might Choke The Champions League Away

Last week, Real Madrid played German side Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal. The result was a smackdown, and Madrid beat Dortmund 3-0 to more or less lay this tie to rest. Right? Nah....

Mural Of Vanderbilt Coach Is Being Repainted For Obvious Reasons

Oof. You try to do the right thing and give the new football coach some shine and then, well, this happens....

A Lesson From Carlos Gonzalez And Jose Fernandez: Baseball Is Fun

Consider this GIF a manifesto....

Aroldis Chapman "Doing Better" After Taking 110 MPH Liner To Face

Salvador Perez was crying as he left the field, hugged by Eric Hosmer. It was a line drive off the bat of the 23-year-old Royals catcher that struck Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman flush, basically breaking his face....

The Astros Have A 315-Pound Player In Camp

Saturday saw the long-delayed, long-awaited spring training debut of Astros prospect Japhet Amador. At a listed 6'4", 315 pounds, should "el Gigante de Mulegé" make the club, he could very well be the heaviest major leaguer ever....

David Ortiz: "Fuck Them. I'm Tired Of Hearing Them Talk Shit"

Red Sox designated hitter/style icon David Ortiz, who's in the last year of his contract and coming off his best regular season since his mid-aughts prime and an all-time postseason run, has made it clear this winter that he wants money. The world's response has mainly been, "Well, the Red Sox shoul...