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Olympics Fans Are Fat And Tired: Foreign Olympics News For The 6.7 Billion People Not Watching NBC

Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...

Guy Adams Returns To Twitter After NBC Backs Down

Here he is. Guy Adams suddenly has access to his Twitter account again....

U.S. Women Win Team Gymnastics Gold

Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Alex Raisman, Kyla Ross, and Jordyn Wieber left little doubt during the team gymnastics competition, winning three of the four events to propel to U.S. to an easy victory over Russia and Romania, which took silver and bronze, respectively. It's the first gymnastics te...

Team USA Is A 54-Point Favorite Against Tunisia Tonight

Hot off the presses, from online sportsbook Bovada (formerly Bodog): the men's basketball team is favored by a whopping 54 points tonight. Poor Tunisia....

NBC: We Are Giving You An Awesome Olympics, And We Don't Care If You Don't Like It

For the first time since the Olympics began, an NBC executive has decided to talk. And, yup, he really likes the way NBC has rolled out coverage....

Joakim Noah Tells Everyone To Back Off Of Patrick Kane, Hilariously

Have you ever wondered who Joakim Noah's three favorite Chicago athletes are? Well, thanks to the video above (fast forward to 1:00 in), we now know that his top three shakes out like this:...

I'd Rather Go Through NFL Two-A-Days Or Make Myself Puke In The Pool Than Do What Michael Phelps Does

NFL training camp is back underway, and all of your favorite players are being reminded once again: Football practice sucks. That's well documented. The pain. The violence. The hot sun. But you know what sucks worse? Swim practice....

Your MLB TRADE FUCKING DEADLINE Open Thread

How exciting is baseball? Wait. Don't answer that, at least not in the general case. But! The flurry of moves before the 4 p.m. deadline every July 31 usually fascinates. So we'll be here with you, talking about what's going on while it goes on. So far, we've seen Shane Victorino head to L.A. and Hu...

Cubs Fan's Scoreboard Marriage Proposal Runs While His Girlfriend's In The Bathroom [Non-Pooping Update]

Poor Greg. All that money, time and emotional torture that went in to taking out a scoreboard message at yesterday's Cubs game asking his girlfriend to marry him. And then, after a half-hour long bottom of the fifth, just as the proposal was set to run, the girlfriend leaves her seat. (Perhaps she w...

NBC's censors won't quit: They've now worked their way (sorta) to men's diving....

Ryan Sweeney Punched A Door, And The Door Won

The Red Sox are healthy for the first time all year. The braintrust, including Bobby Valentine, Larry Lucchino and Ben Cherington, held a lengthy meeting and apparently decided not to trade Josh Beckett or Jacoby Ellsbury, but rather to go for it—after all, they're just four games out of a wild card...

The Controversial Olympic Fencing Semifinal, Recreated Using Legos

Yesterday, we showed you the bizarre aftermath of the women's individual épée semifinal, which was won by Germany's Britta Heidemann after a timing error put another second on the clock and allowed Heidemann to score a decisive touch on South Korea's Shin A Lam. Shin then proceeded to remain on the ...

Your Viewing Guide To Today's Women's Gymnastics Team Medal Round

As the women's gymnastics teams enter today's medal round, the United States team—as nearly every article about gymnastics has mentioned—is heavily favored to win the gold. It would be the first for America since the Magnificent Seven did it in Atlanta in 1996. This squad already has its own moniker...

Where Are They Still Making Kobe Bryant Rape Jokes? <em>WWE Raw</em>

With all the debate surrounding whether rape jokes are appropriate, we're kind of amazed this made it to air. Here's a segment from last night's WWE Raw in which Abraham Washington—manager to Titus O'Neil—lauds the strength of his wrestler by claiming "He's like Kobe Bryant in a hotel in Colorado....

Here Is Some Weird-Ass Shit Broadcast During Last Night's Rays-A's Game

Last night's Rays-A's game from Oakland went 15 innings before finally being decided on a Jemile Weeks sacrifice fly, and its length taxed certain east coast viewers who needed to be up early for Olympics coverage. But for those who stuck around, there was a treat: whatever the fuck this is. We deb...

NBC Says It Was Twitter's Idea To Kick That NBC-Critical Journalist Off Twitter

Yesterday we were introduced to Guy Adams, the journalist whose Twitter account was suspended after he tweeted out the—already quite public and now very, very public—email address of an NBC exec. Adams was also using Twitter to shred NBC's coverage of the Olympics. ...

The Braves Won Their First Monday Game In Nearly A Year

Looks like Garfield and Carl Crawford's heckler aren't the only ones who hate Mondays. The Braves had put together a mystifying, 0-16 streak in Monday games going back to last August. What's more, it hasn't been close: Atlanta only had three one-run losses over that span, all to the Marlins....

70,000 Penn State Fans "Like" This Facebook Post Demanding An Apology From ESPN For "Dragging Joe Pa Through The Mud"

Every time we publish one of those "look at all these crazy Penn State fans" posts, Nittany Lions fans pour in with the complaints that the Paterno defenders and child rape-enabler deniers are a small but vocal faction and that the majority of the PSU community doesn't think that way. We're incline...

ESPN Finally Covered The NHL, Thanks To The Olympics

These are dark days for ESPN, with NBC stealing the nation's collective sports eyes and talent evacuating Bristol like a Chris Berman barbecue dinner. Desperate to reclaim public attention, the WWL is going after that untapped market of Columbus Blue Jackets fans, albeit in a strange way. By random...

Your Daily Olympic Schedule: July 31 - Day 5

In effort to save you the time that it takes to both find and decipher the NBC Olympics schedule while trying to figure out which events are even worth watching, we've created our own (better) daily schedule of Olympic events. All events are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (no math) at the time tha...