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Good News, Mark Sanchez: You Still Have One Fan In The NFL. Bad News: It's Braylon Edwards.
Braylon Edwards, who is currently a useless member of the Seattle Seahwaks, used to be semi-relevant when he played for the New York Jets. As such, Edwards has strong opinions about the current state of the Jets franchise, specifically the struggles of Mark "Buttfumble" Sanchez....
Cotto-Trout: The Sentimental Narrative Gets Its Lip Busted
Salvador Sanchez was a great Mexican featherweight boxer who ran up a 44-1 record and won a featherweight title shortly before dying in a car crash in 1982, at the age of 23. Salvador Sanchez II is a Mexican featherweight boxer. The meaningful resemblances end there. The superficial resemblances co...
Russian Youth Hockey Game Features Non-Stop Brawling, About 30 People In The Penalty Boxes At Once
Russian players don't have the best reputation as fighters in the NHL, but the next generation of Russian hockey stars seems set on changing that. As you can see, this game got away from the referees a bit, with most of each team ending up in the penalty box at once: ...
To Buy Out Failed Coach, Southern Miss Sold Home-Field Advantage Back To Nebraska for $2.1 Million
What's the market price for an easy home win in college football? The Southern Miss Golden Eagles have made a deal to move next season's opener—a long-anticipated matchup against Nebraska in Hattiesburg—to Nebraska instead. In a letter between the schools' athletic directors dated last week, which w...
Tuesday Night Fights: Brawl-Video Nuance, As Seen In A Battle Between Scantily Clad Ladies In Texas
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Sexy girls street fight outside the club." Tonight's commentator: Me....
Grierson & Leitch's Year In Review: The Best Forgotten Performances
Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2012. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Today, it's our favorite performances that won't be re...
Tuesday Night Fights: Let Us Give Thanks For Topless Women Fighting In The Street
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Frankford Girl Fight" and "North Philly Fight So Slow." Tonight's commentator: A Philadelphia cop who sees shades of NatGeo porn....
Jerry Reinsdorf Will Basically Bribe DePaul To Move To The United Center
DePaul's in the market for a new basketball arena. Currently they're way out at the Allstate Arena, next to the airport, but they'd really like to be closer to campus, or at least somewhere in Chicago. Rocky Wirtz and (especially) Jerry Reinsdorf want them to make the United Center their home, and t...
Minor-League Hockey Game Ends With Tremendous Goalie Fight
Southern hockey goalies are a salty bunch, it would seem. Last week, we brought you the story of the guy who soaked some fans with his water bottle. This past Saturday, the Pensacola Ice Flyers of the Southern Professional Hockey League beat the Mississippi Surge 4-3. If you want to know about the...
Tuesday Night Fights: A Funeral Director Sees PPV Potential In A Rumble By A Casket
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Fight at a Texas funeral." (Editor's Note: RIP to the deceased.) Tonight's commentator: Joe Lombardo, CEO & Funeral Director at the Williams Lombardo Funeral Home in C...
Vincible. <em>Silver Linings Playbook</em>, Reviewed.
1. She's a grieving cop's widow, prone to nymphomania, locked away in a shed behind her parents' home, profoundly damaged—not broken, but close. He's a bipolar basket case who nearly beat a man half to death for showering with his wife, the same wife with whom he obsessively wants to reconcile, even...
Security Camera Footage Probably Shows BYU Football Players Beating The Crap Out Of Each Other In A Rancherito's
What we know, via the Salt Lake Tribune...
I ♥ David O. Russell: An Unpredictable Career Gets Back On Track
With all the great directors out there to choose from—Tarantino, Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson—it's hard to think of many aspiring filmmakers who would look at David O. Russell's career and say, "That's who I want to be." There are auteurs who follow the beat of their own drum, and then there's Ru...
Tuesday Night Fights: Deadspin Commenter On Twitter-Beef Fights Getting Real (Bonus: Obama Vs. Romney WWE Style)
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs. The since-removed "Street Fight Over A Girl On Twitter (SMH)" between @MonopolyGee and @Rozayyy_. Tonight's commentator: Deadspin commenter Iron Mike Gallego....
The Grierson & Leitch Endorsements: Our Best Movie Presidents
In the spirit of Election Day, we here at Grierson & Leitch headquarters have decided to do our own formal endorsements. These are our full-throated endorsements of the cinematic candidates who have shown they have the fortitude and judgment to lead this great land....
David Ortiz Wonders If Bobby Valentine Has Mental Issues
You would think firing Bobby Valentine would keep him from remaining a distraction in Boston. But that's not the Bobby Valentine we know—two weeks back, Bobby V went Costas Tonight and lobbed grenades from the safety of unemployability....
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kentucky's Joker Phillips, RIP)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
Bobby Valentine Refuses To Go Away, Throws David Ortiz Under The Bus
Bobby V is no longer the Red Sox' manager—this alone is cause to break out the duck boats. But he is still talking, and saying inflammatory things, and people are listening because this is the sort of thing that happens every October in Boston, except this time it's coming from a disgruntled former ...
Tuesday Night Fights: Lady Hockey Writer Compares Lady Street Fight To College Hockey Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs. The since-removed "Crazy Girl Fight" and "Rowan Ice Hockey vs. Temple Fight - 10/13/12." Tonight's commentator: Sarah Baicker, who covers the Philadelphia Flyers for Co...
One Greek Soccer Team Needed A Sponsor, And A Brothel Saved The Day
American sports fans know that sponsorship deals can occasionally veer into the realm of the unfortunate—Enron Field, anyone?—but enlisting the deep pockets of a brothel isn't something we'll likely see here any time soon. One amateur soccer team in Greece, though, had no other choice and needed to ...