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If Tiger Woods Can't Sell Bedding, No One Can
From India of all places comes this mattress ad, promising that a little destroyed career isn't anything you'll lose sleep over. To paraphrase the old 1-800-Mattress commercials, leave off the last "S" for sluts....
Christina Aguilera Is An Anti-American Slut, According To Pro-American Internet Commenters
"I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place," Aguilera has explained about last night's blunder. "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through." Sure, fair enough. Now let's check in with Real Ameri...
Cardiff’s Craig Bellamy Scores A Brilliant Goal
See, there is good football being played in the lower divisions. It's not only the Premier League that produces the best games and the best players....
A Comprehensive Guide To That NFL Commercial With All The TV Characters
One of the best ads on last night's broadcast was for the NFL itself, in which they digitally inserted jerseys and logos into TV clips of yore. But the cuts were too quick to fully appreciate. Here's an annotated guide to the fake people inside your television, and their allegiances....
Bob Kraft Still Doesn't Want To Talk About Spygate
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: some folks, like Roger Goodell, just won't let Spygate die....
Guns N' Peas Is Where The Trajectory Of Man Began Its Steady Decline
So the Black Eyed Peas covered "Sweet Child O Mine" at the Super Bowl last night, with Slash helping out on guitar. First of all, FUCK YOU SLASH. You just spent the last bit of goodwill you earned from NOT being Axl. Secondly, the journey to our eventual self-extinction has begun....
Counterpoint: But People Look Really Sad When They Can't Get Their Super Bowl Seats
This young cheesehead cried (video here, H/T reader Patrick) when he, along with 399 others, could not get into last night's Super Bowl. He cries for the others, young and old, left out in the Arlington cold. They will leave Super Bowl XLV with $2,400, tickets to next year's Super Bowl, and nothing...
Point: Those Fans Without Seats Are Being Whiny Babies
About 1250 fans ticketed for temporary seating areas found out before the game that, oops, the seats declared unsafe by the fire marshal. The NFL took good care of them though, to the point where the other 102,000 fans at the game ought to be jealous....
Professional Sports Leagues Spark Twitter Feud Over What Season It Is
Last night, minutes after the Green Bay Packers had won the XLVth Super Bowl, the MLB employed tweeter released a simple tweet into the universe: "Baseball." The NBA employed tweeter did not agree with this sentiment....
We Are All Dave McKenna IV
Here, once again, is Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we will be linking daily until Snyder's dumbass lawsuit gets tossed. Today's topics: vanilla ice cream, literalized metaphors, and Dan Snyder being a petulant shit....
Marquis Daniels Welcomes You To The 18-Game Football Season
Yesterday, while many of you were watching Bill O'Reilly interview Frank Caliendo impersonating Sam Elliott, a basketball game took place during which a scary thing happened to reserve Celtics guard Marquis Daniels. He's expected out for at least a month with a bruised spinal cord. Yikes. [Boston Gl...
Your Super Bowl XLV Morning After
There was a football game on yesterday; perhaps you watched it. Perhaps you didn't! We're not here to judge. But either way, there are some thing you're going to need to know for you to face the disapproving glares of your families and coworkers....
Welcome To The New Deadspin Redesign
Hi. Weird, RIGHT? Anyway, you were warned this was going to happen. So here it is. In all its splashy glory, so follow along with me and I'll attempt to guide you through this ordeal....
A-Rod Eats Popcorn In The Most A-Rod Way Possible
One of the first half highlight of Super Bowl XLV, besides Ben Roethlisberger throwing two picks, has been this random four-second cutaway to A-Rod and Cameron Diaz — just eatin' some popcorn in their luxury seats....
Your Super Bowl XLV Comment Party Is Happening Now
Oh, you're just gonna watch the game on the TEEVEE but enjoy socializing with random strangers on the internet instead of real, live humans? Then come on in, ladies and turds. The Second Annual Comment party begins now. Be nice to our guests from Jezebel, please....
We Are All Dave McKenna III
On the third day of linking to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder" until Snyder's dumbass lawsuit gets thrown out of court, let's tally the team's playoff accomplishments since his reign of ownership commenced....
Your Super Bowl XLV Pregame Show Open Thread
Four-and-a-half hours of pregame coverage is about to start on Fox. Water torture for the brain. So, here's a collection of Super Bowl XLV stories that have filtered in over the course of the past few days....
One Of Antonio Cromartie's Baby Mamas Is Writing A Tell-All To "Help Women"
After noting that New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie is known for "siring nine kids with eight women in six states," the New York Post gets right to the crux of ex-fiancée Rhonda Patterson's tell-all book's jacket cover....
A Russian Hockey Player Hits A Puck Harder Than Anyone In The NHL
At last weekend's NHL All-Star gala, Zdeno Chara of the Boston Bruins won his fourth consecutive hardest shot competition. He did so by hitting 105.9 mph. The Kontinental Hockey League held a similar affair last evening in St. Petersburg, Russia....
This Is What Happens When You Get Caught Stealing Someone's Shovel During A Blizzard (Video)
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. ...