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The true price of camaraderie and competition
The concept of sports gambling has gotten skewed in the past year. Now that it’s becoming legal in more and more places, you see Allen Iverson or Paige Spiranac in a dress that very well might cause her to cough up her soul (now word on how AI would fit into it) telling you about all the things you ...
Coca-Cola lost 4 billion in market value after Ronaldo endorsed water
Yes, billion with a b....
The Chargers are finding new ways to make us hurl
If the Chargers’ late-game meltdowns and greedy move from San Diego make you want to grab the Pepto-Bismol, you may need another bottle before scrolling through the team’s Twitter feed....
N’Golo Kante wrecked Real Madrid
When Chelsea were struggling under Frank Lampard, I was one of many who wondered what exactly they could get out of N’Golo Kante at 30. It was fair to ruminate if he could be the one-man typhoon in the center of midfield that he had been for Premier League-winning sides at Leicester and Chelsea. It ...
Pipe down Curry minions! He’s NOT the MVP right now
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing all those Steph Curry minions that think he should be the MVP.Sure, Curry is on a shooting hot streak. But his team isn’t over .500 and still isn’t guaranteed to make the postseason.Pump the brakes. There are better players on better teams more wort...
Justin Turner's HR sends nacho eater home with a ball, a brand new sweatshirt and probably some heartburn
I’ve never understood the desire to get nachos with liquid cheese at a baseball game, or anywhere else for that matter....
Ayanna Pressley wins pastries from Ilhan Omar in Boston-Minnesota hockey bet
Ayanna Pressley is, as we’re led to believe they say where she’s from, wicked smart....
If you picked against Steph Curry yesterday, you need to re-evaluate your life
For everyone hurting today after Steph Curry burned your pockets in the three-point contest, you should have known better. ...
What flavor wings should you eat for the Super Bowl? And why is it honey BBQ?
I already know some of you guys’ taste buds are suspect so if you don’t agree with my rankings blame yourself not me....
Which Flavor Of White Claw Hard Seltzer Is Best (At Football)?
This past weekend, I stopped by the little beer-and-wine store near my local supermarket and picked up a 12-can variety pack of White Claw–brand fruit-flavored “hard seltzer.” At the checkout counter, I had two options: A hip-looking 20-something dude with a beard and some kind of bunlike thing goin...
Mike Scott Enjoys Overpriced Cocktail In Between Possessions
Late in the first quarter against the Bucks, Sixers forward Mike Scott fell into the crowd while chasing after a rebound he was trying to save for his team. Without looking where to throw it, Scott somehow got the ball to T.J. McConnell who immediately made the midrange shot he attempted. Scott, cl...
Cops Will Try To Halt The Tailgating Bills Fans' War Against Tables
The Buffalo Bills will play their first home game of the season this Sunday against the Chargers. (The last time those two teams played, Nathan Peterman threw five picks in a half.) Hordes of Zubaz-clad Bills fans will presumably mark the home opener as is tradition: by getting mega drunk and tryin...
Your Saddest Desperation Cocktails, Ranked
In the relative safety of adulthood, when you can easily purchase alcohol—have it delivered to your door, even!—and legally frequent bars steeped in cocktail culture, it is easy to overlook the lower moments in our personal drinking histories. If you drink, you’ve experienced that desperate moment: ...
Basic Mixed Drinks, Ranked
All right-thinking people would tell you that the best mixed drink, especially in the summer, is a whiskey ginger, hangover be damned. Unfortunately, we have many wrong-thinking people here at Deadspin. ...
All Bars Should Do Two Things
Bars—except those that only take cash, and more power to those—would all be improved by doing two things that are already common in some parts of the country. It appears that nearly all bars in the South do these two things, for instance, while anecdotal (though intensive) reporting suggests that no...
Australians Have Once Again Gone Wild At The Melbourne Cup
Today is Melbourne Cup day, the most wonderful time of the year, the designated and officially sanctioned horserace/alcohol drinking competition when thousands and thousands of Aussies dress up in their finest duds and get blitzed while intrepid photographers capture it all in order to delight of th...
Have A Nice Hot Cup Of Herbal Tea
Shit sucks, right now. Pretty much all of the news is so bad that it’s almost, but not, funny. You can’t even fall back on sports right now! This week I am conducting myself on the internet like a wayward pedestrian forced to traverse Murder Alley, neck stiff, the plane of my face at a perfect right...
LSU Coach Ed Orgeron Drinks Enough Caffeine To Harm A Normal Man
LSU football coach Ed Orgeron is an intense, occasionally incomprehensible man. So when he was on Dan Le Batard show’s this morning, he was asked an important question: How many Monster energy drinks does he consume a day, on average?...
Where The Fuck Are This Girl's Legs?
“The internet is going crazy over this insane optical illusion.” It’s the sentence that’s started a million blogs in the past and will continue to start a million blogs in the future—and for good reason. Because where the fuck are this girl’s legs?...
The Melbourne Cup Is Decadent And Depraved
You may have read Hunter S. Thompson’s famous article recounting the rampant debauchery at the Kentucky Derby and thought you’d glimpsed the true, beating heart of insane white people shit. But you’d have been mistaken. It’s not until you see these photos of the Melbourne Cup, Australia’s most drunk...