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Deadspin NBA Shit List: Dwight Howard, The Superman Of Unfunny
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
"Anal Charles," "Python Manning": What Happens When An SI.com Article Gets Mangled By Spellcheck
Reader Colin alerted us to this SI.com fantasy football advice column, published yesterday afternoon, and offered a theory. It was composed totally on an iPhone, and autocorrect had its way with the player names. That's not a terrible guess....
A Bloodied Christian Tiffert Got The Last Laugh As Seattle Stole Victory In Salt Lake
One of the best-supported squads in American soccer finally won a playoff series last night, as Seattle Sounders beat Real Salt Lake 1-0 on a rocket one-timer by Mario Martínez in the 81st minute....
Profane Rant By D-III Christian College's Golf Coach Is A Thing To Behold
You could forward through the first 1:55 of this clip to get to the yelling and the screaming and the oh-so-many bad words. You could. But you shouldn't, because the buildup is what makes the explosion so great. Calm, helpful strategy gives way to praise for the one player who shot a decent round,...
Deadspin Up All Night: Do You Think You Could Try?
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The PM crew is here, and they will not let you go gentle into that good night....
Kobe's Not Mad At Mike Brown Or His New Offense. He's Mad At The Guys Who Can't Run It.
Things are not well in Lakerland. They're 1-4, last in the Pacific, and toward the end of last night's loss to Utah, Kobe Bryant gave coach Mike Brown what can only be described as the look. Kobe doesn't hide it when he's angry....
Rob Gronkowski To Astronaut In Space: "Are You Floating Right Now?"
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams Skyped with Patriots punter Zoltan Mesko and 6-foot-6 second-grader Rob Gronkowski earlier today. Guess who asked Williams, "Are you floating right now?" and "Aren't your suits way heavier than ours?" just before he makes the same pensive face as a middle-schooler try...
Nick Saban Cutout Stolen From Gas Station, Returned To Gas Station; Nation Exhales
We can barely keep up with all the breaking Nick-Saban-cutout news. We were just processing the horrible reports—wondering how to tell the children, really—that a life-size cutout of the Alabama coach was stolen from a Tuscaloosa gas station early this morning. We were roughly two-thirds through Küb...
Mark McGwire Has No Idea "Why Anybody Would Even Think About" Using PEDs Today
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Mac says MLB's got the problem under control....
What We Learned From Joe Buck's Deadspin Chat
Joe Buck came by today for a lively and entertaining chat. After deciphering his Joycean prose style, here's what we learned about Joe:...
Other Than That, How Was The Movie? <em>Lincoln</em>, Reviewed.
1. The opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln will probably ring false to you and confirm your preconceptions of a sweeping, soft-focus, John Williams-scored Steven Spielberg film about Abraham Lincoln. It features Lincoln, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, visiting troops right before a fierce Civil...
An Angry Lakers Fan Reportedly Pepper-Sprayed A Jazz Fan
At some point during last night's Lakers-Jazz game, two Jazz fans and two Lakers fans were involved a confrontation that went from trash talking and threats to someone reportedly getting pepper-sprayed outside the arena....
Your KHL Update: Importing the Enforcer
While the NHL and the NHLPA may or may not be making significant progress toward saving the season, hockey rages on abroad. Hopefully I'll have reason to stop doing these posts soon, but in the meantime, here's your second weekly KHL fix....
Let The Gruden-To-Philadelphia Rumors Commence
It was only a matter of time before the discussion shifted from "Will the Eagles fire Andy Reid?" to "Who will the Eagles hire after the Eagles fire Andy Reid?" But everything seems to have exploded today, and all it took was the injection of one potential replacement that would satisfy Philadelphia...
There's A New Bleacher Report Clone Out There, And It Costs Only $50 To Write For It
Say hello to Fancloud.com, a sports website in the Yardbarker Network that wants you to pay $50 in exchange for the opportunity to write for it. The three dipshits in the video above are the site's founders, and they can explain everything to you, but if you're not in the mood to have some wannabe...
USC Fires Student Manager Who Supposedly Tampered With Game Balls
This was the entirety of the statement the school issued last night:...
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MLS Couldn't Dig Itself Out Of The Snow Or Its Own Ass [UPDATE]
The weather had already shafted DC United. The higher seed, they lost homefield advantage when MLS switched the legs of their home-and-home with the Red Bulls because the New York area was still cleaning up after Hurricane Sandy. It wasn't fair, and United fans were pissed, but it's hard to see that...
Editor Of <em>ESPN The Magazine</em> Asks Staff To Vote In Meaningless Online Poll So They Can Beat <em>Sports Illustrated</em> For Meaningless Bragging Rights
Times are tough in magazine land! Ad pages are dropping, magazines are folding, Newsweek is just a pile of bones and vitamin cover stories bleaching in the noonday sun, etc. You know the drill. So there's a little practice that's become very popular in magazine land over the last couple of years tha...
Joey Barton Finally Arrived For Marseille With A Direct Corner Kick Goal
The last time we checked in on Joey Barton, he was playing his part in the most exciting day in Premiership history with a fantastic red card meltdown. It all helped him earn a season-long ticket out of London and into Marseille, where he's thus far been quiet....