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Gerald Brisco Has More Incredible Stories About Andre The Giant's Superhuman Alcohol Tolerance [UPDATE]

Andre the Giant’s drinking prowess is nearly as legendary as his stature or pro wrestling career, and we’ve featured plenty of anecdotes about his alcohol tolerance in the past. But an interview with retired pro wrestling legend Gerald Brisco in this morning’s Tampa Bay Times (the article’s not onli...

Kendra Harrison Breaks 100m Hurdles World Record

The 100 meter hurdles world record of 12.21 seconds stood for 28 years until being smashed yesterday in London by American runner Kendra Harrison—who didn’t learn until about a minute after the race that she’d broken one of track & field’s most impenetrable barriers....

How To Pick A Gift For A Baby

There are 4.3 babies born in the world every second. Maybe there’s 1.0 new baby in your world and you need to appease it with a gift. How?...

Giants Lose On Walk-Off Balk 

What’s the most embarrassing way to lose a baseball game? An extra-innings walk-off balk has certainly got to be up there, and that’s precisely how the Giants lost to the Padres last night, when Santiago Casilla stumbled about the mound trying to throw a pitch. ...

Andre Iguodala Says The Thunder Deserved To Win The Title

The NBA last season was, functionally, a three-team race. But according to Andre Iguodala, the best of the three didn’t even make the finals....

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James Harden Owned This Child So Hard He Will Never Grow Up

They teach you to watch the hips. But maybe also keep an eye on the ball:...

Toronto Man Boasts About Having Lots Of Money, Partying, Living At Home

This piece in Toronto Life, written by a (purported) high-spending, globe-trotting 31-year-old pharmacist who lives with his parents, is so plainly framed to bait haters that it seems a shame to even go at it. There’s actually something bubbling under the surface of this piece, which I’ll get to, bu...

Man Attempts To Dunk Over Seven Children, Dunks Over Six

Here we have Tyrell Clary, a freshman forward who plays for Wallace State in the Alabama Community College Conference, putting on a little dunk show for some school children. Some of the children enjoyed the show more than others:...

Deadspin Awards: Best Sports Baby

The Deadspin Awards are in July and we need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to answer a vexing question:Of all these good sports babies, who is the best sports baby? ...

Report: Padres Were Eager For San Diego To Install Jagged Rocks To Keep Homeless People Away From The All-Star Game

The San Diego Padres were interested in the city’s plan to place jagged rocks along an underpass in order to deter homeless people from congregating there ahead of the MLB All-Star Game, according to a report from Voice of San Diego. ...

This Is Not The Home Run Derby Lineup, MLB Says

San Diego will host MLB’s All-Star Week in July, and a reader at the Padres’ park today sent along a photo of a scoreboard graphic for the Home Run Derby. We asked MLB if it was legit or just a plausible roster used to test the graphics, and you can decide whether or not you believe them....

Snoop Dogg's Dreadful First Pitch Almost Took Out Some Bystanders 

Snoop Dogg was at a Padres game for some reason this afternoon, and he threw out the first pitch, laying down the best highlight of the game in the process. His toss wasn’t as bad as 50 Cent’s notorious stray pitch from two years ago, but Snoop’s nearly took out a pair of innocent onlookers....

Padres Blow 10-Run Lead, Give Up Nine Runs With Two Outs, Are A Complete Embarrassment

As the 2001 Seattle Mariners know, no lead is safe. The 2016 version of that team revisited that lesson last night against the Padres, but ended up on the better side of it with the biggest comeback of the MLB season....

Andre Iguodala Delivers Withering Assessment Of Matthew Dellavedova

After getting thumped in the dick by Matthew Dellavedova last night, you knew Andre Iguodala would have something to say. Rather than going fire and brimstone, he delivered a devastating series of backhanded compliments, essentially calling Dellavedova a YMCA scrub. “To make a life, and to feed thei...

Matthew Dellavedova Thumps Andre Iguodala In The Dick And Balls

Earlier today, we had Matthew Dellavedova atop our rankings of the most hateable players in the NBA Finals, and he lived up to his billing in short order, striking the first blow against an opponent’s dick and balls. The victim? Andre Iguodala....

Padres Chairman Shits All Over His Own Players

The San Diego Padres are a very bad baseball team. Nobody needs to be reminded that they are bad, and honestly nobody really cares. They are the Padres! Bad is their natural state. This has not been explained to executive chairman Ron Fowler, who went on the radio to rant about the team’s 20-33 reco...

Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>Jake And The Neverland Pirates</i>

A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. ...

Padres Catcher Christian Bethancourt Made The Most Of His Chance To Pitch

The Padres got walloped 16-4 this afternoon by the Mariners, and they lost the first two games of a weird home and away pair of two-game series on opposite ends of the (American) Pacific coast by an aggregate score of 25-7. It only took Seattle five innings to accrue all their runs, which ushered in...

Italy Manager On Pirlo And Giovinco Snubs: If You Play In MLS, You Pay The Consequences

Antonio Conte, manager of the Italian national team, has the distinct misfortune of heading into a major international tournament with the worst crop of Italian players in recent memory. So unimpressive is the 30-man preliminary roster he just announced, the bulk of which will make up the squad he t...