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Yasiel Puig Benched For Game 4
Yasiel Puig has barely been a warm body since the start of September, but Don Mattingly chose today's potential elimination game to make the change. Puig is out of the lineup, replaced by nonentity Andre Ethier....
Beats By Dre Banned From The Heads Of NFL Players
Bose is now "the official sound of the NFL," apparently replacing the confused whimpers of retired defensive tackles with CTE. That means that you're not going to see many more pictures like the one above, because players now must wear the NFL's preferred brand of oversized, overpriced headphones at...
ESPN's Andrew Brandt Really Needs A New Twitter Joke
A thing that happens quite often on Twitter is that people will tweet out pictures of strange foods, usually because those foods are grotesque in size or construction, and thus there is a need to gawk at them. This is a communal exercise, involving various Twitter users retweeting pictures of the fo...
The Guys Who Helped Make The Marathon World Record Happen
Kenyan farmer-turned-world-record-holder Dennis Kimetto crossed the Berlin Marathon finish line alone, in an astounding 2 hours 2 minutes and 57 seconds. But in this instance, as in others that press hard against the limits of endurance, it was a team effort, with a cadre of sherpas doing the heavy ...
Why Football Players Crave Contact
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Illustration by Sam Woolley....
The Problem With Peter King
Let’s begin with Peter King on Twitter last night. If you hate-follow poor Peter on Twitter, as I do, you know that his stream consists largely of mangled replies and random compliments to entire towns—Helluva main street you got there, Hanover, New Hampshire!—and last night was no different. The S...
Reports: San Francisco Giants Boycotting Long-Time Beat Reporter
Yesterday CSN Bay Area's Giants beat writer, Andrew Baggarly, reported that San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Sergio Romo and coach Shawon Dunston "exchanged heated words with raised voices, causing Bruce Bochy to emerge from his office to intervene." Fast forward to today, and something weird was...
That Can't Be Right, Can It?
A weird note on Andrew Luck, from ESPN's QB report this week:...
Marshawn Lynch Casually Picks Up One Of His Torn Dreads
What's Marshawn Lynch going to do with his fallen dread, though? Reattach it? He'll figure it out later....
Cyclist Jens Voigt Breaks Record With Over 204 Laps In An Hour
German cyclist Jens Voigt rode 51.115 kilometers—or almost 32 miles—in an hour at the Velodrome Suisse in Switzerland tonight. It's tiring to just read those words. The 43-year-old became the first to break 50 kilometers since the Union Cycliste Internationale changed the requirements in May....
Andrew Luck Doing Weird Things With His Mouth, In Extreme Slow Motion
We've pointed out here before that Andrew Luck is gross , but the Colts quarterback just keeps giving us reasons to make videos that will ruin your lunch....
The Deadspin -51*: The Most Useless Thinkers, Doers, And Dreamers
Last week, Politico, a Washington, DC-based native advertising shop, produced the Politico 50, a list of "the thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."...
Lalalala, The Ginger Hammer Can't Hear You!
Here is a story in three tweets....
Dodgers Screw Up So Hard, Commit Three Errors On One Play
The Dodgers pulled off a blooper for the ages tonight against the Padres. Let's go over it slowly and appreciate how terrible it was....
Maurice Jones-Drew Bicycle-Kicks His Fumble Into Derek Carr's Hands
Maurice Jones-Drew was fortunate enough to kick his own fumble back to quarterback Derek Carr. He definitely knew what he was doing. No fumble luck here. Seriously though, impressive awareness by Carr to watch the play and reel in the ball....
Pam Oliver: Fox Sports' New Hires "Are All Young, Blond, And 'Hot'"
Pam Oliver will have one more season as a Fox Sports sideline reporter, although she'll no longer team up with Fox's "A" crew of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Oliver has written an account for Essence of how Fox broke the news to her, and on where sideline reporting is headed....
Large, Half-Naked Dodgers Fan Is Living The Motherfucking Dream
Hi, what are you up to? Actually, shut up, it doesn't matter what you are doing because you are not this Dodgers fan, who, aside from this good doggie, is the only one on Earth doing this whole "existence" thing correctly....
Andre Iguodala Pokes Fun At Haka Dance; Steven Adams Is Not Amused
The New Zealand national team did a haka dance before playing Team USA in the FIBA World Cup Tuesday, and it was neat to watch, as haka dances are. (James Harden and Derrick Rose seemed puzzled as it happened, but whatever.) The Warriors' Andre Iguodala, who isn't playing in the tournament, cracked ...