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The Elements of Style: "I Never Liked Fighting"

My father wasn’t a boxing fan but talked about Sugar Ray Robinson with admiration. Robinson was a brutal and efficient fighter, I was told, “pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all-time."...

Allyson Felix Tears Hamstring In 200M Race

The American relay team took a blow Friday night when Allyson Felix tore her hamstring during the 200m race at the IAAF Track and Field World Championship in Moscow....

How (And Why) To Poach Eggs: A Guide For The Haggard

Poaching eggs is a bit more complicated and delicate—these are nice ways of saying annoying—than frying them or scrambling them or hard-boiling them or throwing them at Rick Reilly, and so the question of how to poach them kinda naturally goes with the question of why to poach them. The true answer...

Terrible Person Grabs Foul Ball Away From Young Boy At Fenway

While much of the focus on last night's Yankees-Red Sox game landed on the Fenway faithful's treatment of A-Rod, the true villain in attendance was this gent who celebrated the achievement of grabbing a foul ball away from a little kid....

Fox Sports 1 Is Already Ignoring Hockey [UPDATE]

Despite claims to the contrary and hiring two of Canada's most beloved sports personalities, today's launch of Fox Sports 1 doesn't bring glad tidings of coverage for North America's most-ignored major sport....

Here Is NBC's First Goal Call Of The Premier League Season

We have our first goal of the 2013/14 Premier League season. After some buildup, Liverpook's Daniel Sturridge received a pass from Iago Aspas at the top of the box and drove a ball with his left across goal, beating Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic and tucking just inside the right post. It was a goo...

SPEED Is Dead, Fox Sports 1 Is Alive, And Here's The Sad Transition

Nearly 18 years of motorsports tradition ended this morning, when at 6:00 Eastern Time Fox pulled the plug on SPEED in the United States and started its new ESPN competitor, Fox Sports 1....

Deadspin Up All Night: Dance This Mess Around

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Be sure to drop by again this weekend. It'll be fun. ...

Chris Hansen Secretly Funded Campaign Against New Sacramento Arena

So it turns out that the guy who tried to buy the Kings and move them to Seattle is kind of a giant scumbag. Huh, how about that....

Charlie Manuel Takes His Shorti Hoagie And Walks Off Into The Sunset

The AP's Chris Szagola snapped a couple of photos of Charlie Manuel leaving Citizens Bank Park for the final time after being fired today as the Phillies' manager. I know it doesn't look like he's got a shorti hoagie in that bag. That's not the point. That plastic Wawa bag just makes these images th...

Dead Letters: "I Have A Pic Of [ESPN Person] Performing Oral Sex"

Subject: [ESPN on-air talent]...

Here Is Michael Jordan's First Career Basket At UNC

Eye On Basketball unearthed this little gem today from YouTube's wayback machine. It's footage of a game that matched preseason No. 1 North Carolina against unranked Kansas on Nov. 28, 1981. It was the season opener at the Charlotte Coliseum. And it featured the first two collegiate shot attempts by...

Possibly Crazy Lady Breaks Up Fight Between Two Bears

Tom Ley is out sick today, so I will be presenting your Friday Afternoon Bear News....

Here's A Truly Wonderful Article About Nothing

The single best story of the day comes from a tiny local paper in Surrey, England, and it's aboutthe most boring non-event ever....

Chad Curtis Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Three Teen Girls

A jury in Barry County, Mich., needed only a few hours of deliberations to find former MLB outfielder Chad Curtis guilty of six counts of criminal sexual conduct against three teenage girls....

Your Team Is Probably Going To Fail: The 2013-14 Premier League

Fuck yeah, man. The Premier League's back tomorrow. This is super duper great, because although various leagues like the German Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1 have already kicked off, ain't nothing like the Premier League. While other leagues annually boast only two or three top sides and naught bu...

Two Olympic-Bound NHLers Speak Out Against Russia's Anti-Gay Laws

Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman and Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg, both locks for Sweden's Olympic team, have criticized Russian laws that ban "homosexual propaganda"ahead of the Sochi games....

Cleatus Is Tall

Jerry Remy To Take Time Off From Red Sox Broadcasts

Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy, whose son Jared has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, will be replaced in the booth by Dennis Eckersley for tonight's home game against the Yankees and for next week's west coast trip, NESN announced....

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: San Diego Chargers

Some people are fans of the San Diego Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the San Diego Chargers. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....