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2013: The Year In TV News Bloopers

We spent a few months this year tracking local news blunders until the sheer volume of them forced us to abandon the project. Thankfully, a YouTube user has been collecting awkward events and put together this wonderful montage of the year's stupidest moments in TV news....

The Amazing MLB Payroll Graphic Gets An Update

Now that the winter meetings are over, Phil Roth has updated his excellent interactive payroll tool, which lets you explore the salary commitments of every MLB team from 1998 through 2024. That purple block you see above is $240 million worth of Robinson Cano, yours for just 10 flat payments of $24 ...

LeBron James Saved Christmas With These Two Dunks

Usually, a LeBron James dunk is a thing of power, grace, and a little too much efficiency. All the power of a locomotive, and all the creativity of one as well. So when LeBron and Dwyane Wade interrupted whatever idle conversations you were having with your relatives yesterday with two preposterous...

How Do I Clean Up All These Pine Needles?

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....

The 10 Most Ridiculous Shots In The NBA In 2013

The most deceptive thing about watching the NBA is the way, from time to time, it makes everyone seem totally incompetent. We know that all these guys can make shot after shot when they're all alone, but there's enough cognitive dissonance to convince ourselves that, say, despite the threat of a 6'...

Deadspin Up All Night: Merry Christmas Exclamation Point

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Go play with your gifts....

Dogs And Cats Love Wrapping Paper So Damn Much

As Christmas presents are opened, pets receive the unintentional gift of mounds of wrapping paper left on the floor. Many dogs and cats fucking adore wrapping paper. They'll tear it apart, run through it, or just sit on it, for some weird reason. This is definitely not sports-related....

NBA's Christmas Uniforms Are Ugly As Sin

Last month, we saw the leaked NBA uniforms for Christmas Day—with sleeves? Sleeves?—and thought, hey, maybe they just seem bad because no one's actually wearing them. Perhaps they'll look better in action, on actual players. Nah. They look like generic unis for a movie set in the future designed to ...

Christmas Bosh

Texans Linebacker Reveals He Had Brain Surgery Two Years Ago

Jeff Tarpinian wasn't a notable name when he got to the NFL. Signed as an undrafted rookie by the Patriots in 2011, he primarily played on special teams until he went to the Texans this season. With Brian Cushing's season-ending injury, Tarpinian's seen a little bit of time at inside linebacker, but...

Snowboarding Bros See A Moose, Are Totally Stoked

"AWMYGAWD, CHARLIE." One of these two bros came precariously close to the moose, but from what we can tell, nothing bad happened. So, let's enjoy this at a low volume. Also, Snowboarding With Moose would be such a rad movie....

Rondo Had A Wild Christmas Eve

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

As in past years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data for the finest examples of insertions showcasing extraordinarily bad luck and/or ingenuity. [Note: Headline has ...

[UPDATE: Bullshit] Santa And His Helper Crash Sleigh, Could Face Drunk-Driving Charges

Update (10:05 a.m. June 12, 2015): BuzzFeed has a good story about how this report was total bullshit. The original post is below....

MLB Teams Will Soon Bid On The Latest Touted Japanese Pitcher

It's happening. Masahiro Tanaka, the right-handed pitching sensation from Japan, will be starting an MLB career after being posted by the Rakuten Golden Eagles. The only question is, which team?...

J.J. Watt's Mom Wants Him To Fix His Nose

J.J. Watt's already intimidating without blood on his face, but when he does bust open his nose, like he did in Week 4 against the Seahawks, it makes him terrifying. Imagine being a quarterback, seeing a six-foot-five behemoth with a bloody face trying to take him to the turf. This injury recurs eve...

Anatomy Of A Con: How The Public Was Scammed To Build Candlestick Park

While everyone's free to be as nostalgic as they like about Candlestick Park now that it's probably seen the end of its useful life, it's worth remembering that it wasn't only a miserable place to watch a game, but also a forerunner of the modern public financing con. The piece below, which original...

Deadspin Up All Night: Oh, Ring Those Christmas Bells

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll have you covered through the holiday, so check back between fits of boozing, eating Chinese food, and watching basketball to find out what's going on, and we sincerely wish you a very merry Christmas....

LeBron's Last Two Massive Dunks, Side-By-Side

You've seen LeBron's dunks. But who wore it better, Ben McLemore or Paul Millsap? ...

Geriatric Idiot On The Field Is Having A Blast

Concluding a match in Portugal's Primeira Liga between Braga and Mariti—blah blah blah, oh snap, check out this old lady bum rushing the field!...