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An Account Of The Horrific Hazing That Robert Champion And Other Florida A&M Band Members Endured

Next Monday, Nov. 19, will mark one year since Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion was beaten to death while being hazed by members of the university's famed marching band, the Marching 100. Yesterday, Ben Montgomery of the Tampa Bay Times published a very thorough account of the incident that l...

The Washington State Fan Chugging Fireball Whisky At Saturday's Game Deserves Our Acclaim

Fireball is a so-called "cinnamon whisky." You can tell it comes from Canada because the word whisky is missing an "e" and they don't adulterate their whisky in Scotland....

Christian Ponder Jokes About His ESPN Girlfriend, Is A Pretty Cool Guy

We like Vikings QB Christian Ponder a lot, and not just because his name is a complete sentence. He seems like a nice, normal guy, who waited all of a month to announce to the world that he was dating ESPN's Samantha Steele. That's still admirable restraint—we would have taken out a full-page ad in ...

ESPN Is Worth $40 Billion

How big a piece of the Disney kingdom has ESPN grown to be? We've know it was vital to the company in general terms, as a corporate "breadwinner" or "revenue driver", but now Forbes has come up with a credible guesstimate about what the numbers are. They are big, big numbers. The Worldwide Leader is...

Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend We Unforgot The '72 Dolphins

Go Home, Everybody: We Found The Most Ridiculous Fan In The World | He was at the Dolphins game. They lost by 34. To the Titans. Unforgotten isn't a word. Is that a bowling tattoo on the right side of his torso? Read »...

Jerry Jones Spoke To Reporters In Front Of A Big Naked Cowboy Ass

Jerry Jones likes to do his media scrum in the middle of the Cowboys' locker room—That's why he was so furious last week when he was locked out. But things went better yesterday, both on the field (a 38-23 win in Philadelphia) and with the press. Except for that little matter of an unidentified pl...

Did A Camera Operator Just Pass Out Live On <em>SportsCenter</em>? [UPDATE: He's OK]

Amidst the breathless reporting of Chris Broussard's "sources" on the Mike D'Antoni hiring, ESPN managed to squeeze in a cognition-degrading segment hosted by short tie advocate Merril Hoge....

A Crimson Tide Fan Watches Alabama Lose And Melts Down In His <i>Modern Warfare 3</i> Game

Online multiplayer is great for exposing you to a wide swath of humanity. Most of that swath is 13-year-old boys hurling slurs, but there's other stuff too. Like this, from a game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, played Saturday evening just as Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M were finishing up thei...

Until A Few Minutes Ago, Duke's Official Site Featured A Women's Lacrosse Player Wearing Blackface

The picture you see above is a screenshot from an article on GoDuke.com, the official site for Duke University athletics. In the photo are members of the women's lacrosse team, dressed up like the Little Rascals for Halloween. And wouldn't you know it, the one who dressed up as Buckwheat decided to...

The Lakers Found A New Coach In Seven Seconds Or Less: Mike D'Antoni

ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Marc Stein are reporting that the Los Angeles Lakers have settled on Mike D'Antoni as the team's replacement for Mike Brown. This move is surprising for a few reasons, first among them the fact that D'Antoni is still recovering from knee surgery, and as recently as last ...

Dallas Has A Crack Problem

Fumble pileups in the NFL are usually the scene for football's ugliest moves; fortunately (or unfortunately) viewers are usually spared the worst of what happens after a ball hits the turf. Sometimes, though, it happens out in the open, as Cowboys safety Eric Frampton learned while trying to recove...

Brian Urlacher Congratulates The Texans On Picking Off Jay Cutler: Sunday Night Football, In One GIF

Houston 13, Chicago 6: It was wet and miserable tonight at Soldier Field, and the score reflected it. The game wasn't altogether boring—the Bears had a chance to tie or win on their last possession—but they did not. Six turnovers later (four the Bears, two for the Texans) and what this game will be...

Larry Brown—you know, the misanthropic NBA coach—won his first game at SMU. Fans chanted, "Larry Brown, Larry Brown."...

Deadspin Up All Night: Those Meddling Kids

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll be checking in with you throughout the evening as necessary. Have a good one....

Before The Eagles Lost To The Cowboys A Car Was Ablaze In The Parking Lot [UPDATE]

Marissa Magnatta, who produces a Philadelphia radio show, tweeted the picture you see above from the parking lot at Lincoln Financial Field. The tweet came moments before the kickoff and said the fire was in Lot E. Another tweeter showed a picture of a car on fire. Speculation on Twitter was, of co...

Awesome DeMarcus Cousins Suspended Two Games For Trash-Talking Terrible Sean Elliott

It started as two players—DeMarcus Cousins and Tim Duncan—battling it out in the trenches, but Sean Elliott, now a color commentator for the Spurs and obviously an objective analyst to the bitter end, jumped in to defend his beleaguered teammate. After scoring on Duncan twice and drawing a foul on a...

Jeff Gordon Crashed Out Clint Bowyer, And It Led To A Massive Brawl

Today's AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix was nearly unwatchable in its boringness until late in the race, when all hell broke loose. After Clint Bowyer made contact with Jeff Gordon, Gordon retaliated just before the end of the penultimate lap, wrecking both himself and Bowyer and sparking a brawl between ...

Bill Belichick Cares Not For Your Lousy Officiating: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]

We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from Bill Belichick emphatically challenging the officials to A.J. Green exploiting New York's defensive holes. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...

Edmonton QB Matt Nichols Suffered A Horrific Injury During Today's CFL Playoff Game Against Toronto

Toronto took care of Edmonton easily today to march one step closer to the Grey Cup in the CFL playoffs, but the season-ending insult to the Big E was minor compared to the injury felt by Eskimos quarterback Matt Nichols, who was forced out of the game in the third quarter after suffering a grotes...

Go Home, Everybody: We Found The Most Ridiculous Fan In The World

He was at the Dolphins game. They lost by 34. To the Titans. Unforgotten isn't a word. Is that a bowling tattoo on the right side of his torso?...