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Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Seattle Seahawks<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Seattle Seahawks. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Seattle Seahawks. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
Las Vegas NHL Team Is Going To Choose Some Bland-As-Hell Name
It’s probably time to accept that the name of the Las Vegas expansion NHL team will not be good. It will be boring, which at least is not actively bad, and then, within a few decades (if the team is still there), it will have the power of inertia behind it and you won’t even think about it anymore. ...
Cute Little Spanish Kids Console Distraught Little Japanese Kids After Wrecking Them At Soccer<em></em>
The baby-faced assassins of Barcelona’s youth team won an international U12 tournament this weekend, beating the tots of Japanese club Omiya Ardija in the final. The Omiya Ardija kids were absolutely destroyed by the loss, which led to this adorable moment of sportsmanship as the winners tried to co...
High School Player Scores Insane Front-Flip Goal, But It Doesn't Count<em></em>
A key part of the majesty of sports is watching the human body confront unique problems and, within the confines of the sport’s rules and the constraints of what is physically possible, solve them on the fly with a feat of athletic genius. This is what makes Columbine high schooler Dylan Prichett-Et...
Whatever Your History Teacher Said, The Goths Crushed Rome Because Rome Had It Coming
The fall of the Roman Empire is one of the central events in human history, and chances are good that at some point in your education, you were forced to sit through a godawful lecture or two filled with weird-ass names—seriously, Gundobad? Stilicho?—and dates that you forgot as soon as the test was...
Deadspin Up All Night: Watch Things On VCRs
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Drake Makes Terrible Little League Pun, Throws Loyalties Into Question
Noted Canadian Drake has come out in support of Team United States in the Little League World Series....
Branden Oliver Carted Off With Possible Torn Achilles
Branden Oliver missed much of last season on injured reserve, and the Chargers running back may be in danger of missing the 2016 season too after an injury suffered during today’s preseason game against Minnesota, one that video replay appears to reveal as an exploding Achilles tendon....
What's Going On With Blake Rutherford?
Saturday night, the Yankees’ rookie league affiliate, the Pulaski Yankees, tweeted rather cryptically about Blake Rutherford, the team’s first-round pick in this year’s MLB draft. Less than two hours later, they deleted the tweet, elevating the cryptic factor....
Deadspin Up All Night: Not Going Back Into Rags
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People Who Got Rich In America Should Stop Criticizing It
The reaction to learning 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is making a political statement by refusing to stand for the national anthem has raised myriad opinions today, but none more unified than the belief that those who became millionaires in this country are in no position to angrily criticize ...
Arsenal Finally Woke Up And Signed Some Very Good Reinforcements
Arsenal spent most of the summer transfer window swinging and missing at a series of targets. They went at Jamie Vardy, but he stayed with Leicester. They then made a serious effort to dislodge Alexandre Lacazatte from Lyon, but his club tried to extract an increasingly inflated amount of money from...
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(Update: A Trump staffer has deleted the tweet, and replaced it with one where Wade’s name is spelled correctly—because, to the Trump campaign, that’s what was wrong with the tweet.)...
Things Said By Donald Trump's Nutjob Doctor, Ranked By How Insane They Are
Today NBC News released details of an interview with Donald Trump’s possibly non-HIPAA-compliant personal doctor Harold Bornstein. Bornstein issued a statement praising Trump’s health back in December, and today we learned that statement was drafted in all of five minutes. We learned a lot more abou...
Deadspin Up All Night: Took A Chance And Ran
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Chicharito's Hand Is All Kinds Of Messed Up
Javier Hernández is out of Bayer Leverkusen’s season opener this weekend with a hand injury he says—and would you look at that, people seem to actually believe him!—he sustained while falling down a flight of stairs at home. Taking a page from that thin volume known as Good Athlete Tweets, Chicharit...
Marshawn Lynch Signs Patriots Shirt "Beast Mode U Bitch"
Marshawn Lynch is in Sydney, Australia, supporting his alma mater Cal for their season opener against Hawaii tonight. He’s doing lots of fun things like practicing with a rugby league team and signing things for fans. ...
Hillary Clinton Speaks Truth to Pepe
Yesterday, Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton stood on a stage with cameras trained on her and warned the nation that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for memes—specifically, the toxic, white-nationalist memes being spewed out by what’s now being called the “alt-right.” Don’t align ...
We Are The Deadspin Staff, So Let's Chat!
There are only a couple of hours left before the weekend. Until then, let’s chat! ...