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Former Jags WR Jimmy Smith Is In Jail For 6 Years, Apparently

Any "where are they now?" story that ends in jail is bad. This one's worse: former Jags great Jimmy Smith has been in jail for nearly two months, and no one noticed until today....

Brother's Little Helper

Last November, Paul Solotaroff wrote a great piece on the NFL's secret drug problem for Men's Journal:...

Now Vijay Singh Is Suing The PGA Tour Because Of Deer Antler Spray

Deer antler spray may not be effective at delivering a growth hormone, but it does keep giving strength to dumb stories....

Baseball Player Uses Teammate's Pee For Drug Test, Fails Drug Test

Pro tip: If you're going to use somebody else's pee to try and weasel your way out of a drug test, don't borrow pee from the guy who has an Adderall prescription....

Deer Antler Spray Panic: Vijay Singh Is Dumb, But He's Not A Doper

Vijay Singh admitted to using deer antler spray, a "supplement" containing the banned substance IGF-1. But deer antler spray is so ineffective at delivering IGF-1 that the PGA tour has decided not to punish him. This is almost more embarrassing for Singh: he may not be suspended, but he did get scam...

Ingenious Prank Sends Parents Into Weed Panic

Comedian Nathan Fielder came up with a wonderful idea yesterday. He instructed his Twitter followers to text "got 2 grams for $20" to their parents, immediately follow up with "Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you," and then tweet a screenshot of the ensuing conversation. The results were, as you mig...

Bro Rolls Two-And-A-Half Pound Joint, Gets It Confiscated By The Cops

If you're ever going to roll a two-and-a-half pound joint, I guess 4/20 at UC Santa Cruz is the day to do it. Also, "butthurt" is a term that we are wary of throwing around, but that bro is the definition of butthurt. ...

Rocky Mountain High, Amirite?

We'll have what the guy with the beard and sunglasses is having....

Hebrew University, Pfizer, and Clemson University: where synthetic marijuana came from. [PopSci]...

Reports: It Was A-Rod, Naturally, Who Bought PED Evidence

Earlier today, the New York Times reported that MLB had paid a former Biogenesis employee for documents relating to the clinic's alleged supplying of PEDs to a number of baseball players. That's foolish and self-defeating on its own, but the interesting part was the insinuation that MLB's move was i...

The Lions Signed That Norweigan Kicker Who Was A Big Deal On YouTube

Until December, Havard Rugland was just some guy in Norway with a YouTube video that showed him kicking footballs in all sorts of crazy ways. It was fun while it lasted, but then the Jets gave him a tryout because they're the Jets. That didn't work out, and we all went back to forgetting about Havar...

MLB Breaks Out The Scuzz Money, Pays For Biogenesis Evidence

You almost feel a little bad for MLB, like a toddler aware of, but not quite capable of the locomotion required to reach and open the snack drawer. They know all those juicy Biogenesis clinic records are there for the taking, but just can't seem to get their hands on them, even as seemingly everyon...

Major League Baseball Just Straight Up Sued The Wrong Guy

Major League Baseball, an organization with massive revenues and a squadron of high-priced lawyers, filed against the wrong person—just, flat out, the wrong guy—in its (specious) claim against Biogenesis, forcing the falsely accused Miami-area salesman to retain a lawyer for his defense. This mix-up...

Using Weed To Pay For A Cab Ride In Front Of Cops Is Never A Good Idea

Just, you know, FYI. Because Michael Medvec, a 23-year-old Philly resident, tried it last Friday night, when he didn't have the eight bucks he needed to pay the fare back to his apartment. Let's read along with the Philadelphia Daily News, which got the deets from Philly police captain Brian Korn:...

Jason Taylor Went On CNN And Said Dumb Shit About Drugs

From time to time, former NFL star Jason Taylor has been known to say thoughtful and inspiring things on camera. This was not one of those times. Last night, Taylor was a guest on CNN's (Get To) The Point—a show about baby boomers attempting to perch themselves precariously yet gracefully on plasti...

"Six-Month Investigation" Reveals Synthetic Marijuana "Epidemic" At Auburn

If you were wondering what it takes to write a good, old-fashioned Scary New Drugs! article, it takes 12 failed tests and a principal's testimony in open court about using "spice," the scary-sounding and "highly addictive" pot-like substance....

Metta World Peace Was Zonked Out On Painkillers After His Knee Surgery, And His Tweets Were Slightly Stranger Than They Usually Are [UPDATE: This Might Be Some Sort Of PR Stunt]

Update: This—part or all of it—is some sort of PR stunt, because in in this gilded age, even the most banal things are guerrilla marketing. A Deadspin staffer got this email yesterday, excerpted in part:...

Report: Ric Flair's Son Found Dead In Charlotte Hotel Room

The news had been bouncing around the internet this afternoon, but it's now been confirmed by WCNC in Charlotte: Richard Reid Fliehr, the youngest son of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair, was found dead in a hotel room there around 10:30 a.m. today, according to police. He was 25....

MLB Is Playing Legal Whac-A-Mole In The Biogenesis Case

Major League Baseball is not the government. Bud Selig is not a senator, Joe Torre is not a district attorney, and the Phillie Phanatic has sworn no oath to uphold principles of any kind. And judging from the news today about MLB's plans to sue Biogenesis (the clinic which, according to the Miami Ne...

One Of Our Favorite Sports Columnists, Sally Jenkins, Is Here To Take Your Questions

Sally Jenkins is an award-winning sportswriter for the Washington Post, but don't hold that against her. She's one of the sharpest columnists in the country. She's also written a bunch of books, including It's Not About The Bike, the No. 1 New York Times bestseller she co-authored with Lance Armstro...