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How Maurice Clarett Lost His Way, Bombed Out Of The NFL, Planned A Murder, Missed An Exit, And Found Himself (And Warren Buffett) In Prison
In 2009, Joe Moglia, then the CEO of TD Ameritrade, quit his job to coach football. He wanted to coach a college team. But no athletic director wanted him. So he took a job, in 2011, as head coach of the UFL's Omaha Nighthawks, a team that included former Buckeye Maurice Clarett. Moglia had an unort...
Watch A Referee Block Kris Humphries's Free-Throw Attempt
Well here's something you don't see every day. About midway through the fourth quarter of last night's Nets-Raptors game, Nets forward Kris Humphries stepped to the line to shoot two free-throws. Pretty standard stuff. That is until referee Courtney Kirkland comes flying in and tries to stop Humph...
!["It Is Totally Out Of Control": Here's The Letter That Started Washington State's Investigation Of Mike Leach [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1886jpikeef7zjpg.jpg)
"It Is Totally Out Of Control": Here's The Letter That Started Washington State's Investigation Of Mike Leach [UPDATED]
Washington State University announced today that an internal review had cleared football coach Mike Leach and his staff of any misconduct. Last month, star wide receiver Marquess Wilson was suspended for violating team rules, after which he quit the team and released a public letter alleging that co...
Deadspin Up All Night: Fuckin' Problems
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We're checking out a bit early today because we have some celebrating to do with the newly married Tim Burke. It's gonna be a time! Malinowski will be here to keep you guys company....
Throwing Elbows, Getting Diarrhea, And Losing Eight Straight: Tracy McGrady Is Not Enjoying China
Here is a picture of Tracy McGrady from Alexander Chernykh, who helpfully adds the context that Tracy McGrady's Chinese team—the Qingdao Double Star Eagles—are 0-8, and fired their coach two games into the season. Though McGrady suggested, in an exclusive interview with ESPN's chief Dancing With Th...
The Official MLB Twitter Account Just Murdered The IKEA Monkey Meme
Goddammit, @MLB. Why did you have to do this? It's bad enough that you are already one of the worst Twitter accounts in sports, but why did you have to take a perfectly good internet meme, one that plenty of people were having fun with, and murder it with a bullshit tweet like this?...
Italian Man Recognized For Being Soccer Club's Only Fan
Arrigo Brovedani is a wine merchant and a fan of Udinese, an Italian Serie A soccer club. A few days ago, he was in Genoa on business, about four hours from Friuli, where Udinese is based. It happened to be the same day Udinese was playing Sampdoria, the club based in Genoa. So Brovedani decided to ...
The Deep Breath Before The Plunge. <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</em>, Reviewed.
1. It's always important to remember that the first film of any trilogy—particularly one that has to not only introduce a bunch of new characters but take time to remind us of all the people/dwarves/elves/wizards we'd forgotten in the nine years since we last saw them—is always going to be the slowe...
Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Pete Carroll Or Gary Kubiak?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another....
High-School Girls Basketball Team Loses 107-2
It's been a rough year for the Arlington Knights. The 3A girls basketball team from Indianapolis, Ind., is 0-5, averages 17 points per game, and has lost games by scores of 77-16 and 68-14. The season reached its nadir last night, though, when Arlington fell to Bloomington South by a score of 107-2...
Infographic: Watch Coaches Climb Up The Hierarchy Of College Football
Three Saturdays ago, Tennessee lost to Vanderbilt, 41-18, dropping the Volunteers to 4-7 on the season and 0-7 in the SEC. This pretty inconsequential game has led to a brief but wonderful domino effect, wherein: ...
University Of Minnesota Player Was Unimpressed With His 360-Degree Dunk
The internet is chock-full of highlight-reel dunks by Rodney Williams Jr. The high-flying Minnesota senior forward has dunked over mascots and other players, he's done put-backs and alley-oops, and he's often been a featured attraction at dunk contests on campus....
Luncheon Meats, Ranked
24. Bologna 23. Head cheese 22. Swiss cheese 18. (tie) Olive loaf 18. (tie) Pickle-and-pimento loaf 18. (tie) Dutch loaf 18. (tie) Chicken loaf 17. Sopressata 16. Chicken breast 15. Boiled ham 14. Genoa salami 13. Smoked turkey 12. Turkey 11. Liverwurst 10. Braunschweiger 9. Hard salami 8. Virginia ...
Manny Pacquiao's Entourage Allegedly Attacked A Photographer For Taking Pictures Of Knocked-Out Pacquiao
According to Yahoo Sports, two members of Manny Pacquiao's entourage attacked photographer Al Bello because he was taking pictures of the knocked-out Pacquiao at the conclusion of Saturday's fight. Bello spoke to Yahoo, which also has photos of the incident, about the the alleged attack yesterday:...
![Saint Joseph's Player Gives Villanova Fans The Finger, Then Blows The Game [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18853efgfm3hxjpg.jpg)
Saint Joseph's Player Gives Villanova Fans The Finger, Then Blows The Game [UPDATED]
There are goats. And then there are goats. Get a load of what Saint Joseph's junior forward Halil Kanacevic did during last night's loss to Philly rival Villanova. He shit the bed during the game's final two minutes, but he also made it easy for everyone to dog him for it because he had given the Vi...
<i>The Big Bang Theory</i> Doubled Up <i>Thursday Night Football</i>: Last Week's TV Ratings, In Context
A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen, Sports Business Journal's John Ourand and @TVSportsRTGS. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all household...
Roundup: The Best Manny Pacquiao Photoshop Contest Submissions
You all worked your usual Photoshop magic with knocked-out Manny Pacquiao yesterday. Here's the best of your submissions....
Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Jim Schwartz Or Jim Harbaugh?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...
Here's A Courtside View Of Jason Kidd's Game-Winning Three
Jason Kidd's game-winning three-pointer put a massive exclamation mark on last night's Knicks-Nets game. Luckily, one enterprising fan with courside seats had his camera rolling when Kidd launched his shot, giving us the close-up view of the play you see above....
Tommy Tuberville Literally Left Texas Tech In The Middle Of A Dinner With Texas Tech Recruits
Tommy Tuberville left Texas Tech for Cincinnati this weekend, an odd occurrence that left the athletic department at Texas Tech "completely blindsided." Also blindsided by Tuberville's exit: The recruits with whom he was having dinner, when Tuberville left—to go to the bathroom? to take a phone call...