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The Netherlands' First Ever World Cup Goal Is A Beauty
We told you the Netherlands were going to be fun....

Canada Win World Cup Opener Thanks To Stoppage Time Penalty
After an uneventful 90 minutes of thwarted Canadian attacks and shaky though effective Chinese defending, the host nation managed to avoid embarrassment by eking out a victory thanks to a penalty call. The call was perfectly fair, and the penalty taken with characteristic aplomb by Christine Sinclai...

Deadspin Up All Night: You Made Me Feel Like A Criminal
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Tonight we got the horsies, the footpass, and the hockeys, so don’t you even think about going outside....

Luis Suárez Puts Away Rebound For 2-1 Barcelona Lead
Just thirteen minutes after Álvaro Morata drew things level, Luis Suárez put away a Lionel Messi rebound to restore Barcelona’s 2-1 advantage. Juventus now has 10 minutes plus stoppage time to get a goal, or the Champions League trophy will go to the Nou Camp....

Álvaro Morata Goal Draws Juventus Level
Barcelona controlled the opening minutes of the second half and had a few gilt-edged chances, but weren’t able to bury them. Juventus took advantage of Barcelona’s profligacy to draw the game even, when Álvaro Morata put home a rebound off of Carlos Tevez’s shot. It should be a cracking final 30 min...

Barcelona Carve Up Juventus, Score First Goal Of Champions League Final
All that talk about Barcelona’s terrifying front three and it’s actually midfielders Andrés Iniesta and Ivan Rakitić who combine to score the opening goal of this Champions League final just four minutes in. (Though to be fair, Messi and Neymar made the two key passes to open everything up.)...

How To Make Chicken Liver Pâté, You Adventurer, You
Pâté is a fun word to say through your nose. Paaaaah-TAY. You should practice this often, as it will accompany the finished product well as a signal to the swells that you are one of them. ARE you enJOYing your paaaah-TAY....

Pat Venditte Makes Major League Debut, Gets Outs Using Both Arms
Switch-pitcher Pat Venditte made his big-league debut tonight at Fenway, and pitched a nearly perfect sixth inning—retiring Brock Holt with his left arm, seen above, and then after allowing a single inducing a Mike Napoli double play with his right (which you can watch below)....

Deadspin Up All Night: It Closed Every Door
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Mozgov Is Strongest
Timofey Mozgov is strongest man in NBA, and I am weak, wrong little boy. ...

IT'S REALLY TRUE, AMERICA WON FIFA, WE ARE THE BEST!
Right now I couldn’t care less if this was some pointless post-season friendly (and it really wasn’t, both on the USMNT’s end, who want to prove themselves against the world’s best, and for the Netherlands, who wanted to use this as a warmup for next week’s crucial Euro 2016 qualifier), and sure, th...

Skilled Bear Effortlessly Catches Bread With One Paw
This week’s Bear Friday entry is a sports bear wrangling in a piece of bread with one mitt like it’s no big deal. Check out those fundamentals. What a good bear....

Hell Yeah, Baby, Jim Harbaugh's Shirtless At Practice
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s holding a satellite camp in Alabama, and the boys must be getting rowdy, because the khaki master himself took off his shirt while running practice....

Women's World Cup Group D Preview: The Group Of Death Needs More Chill
Here is your Group D hub, where you can find everything you need to know about the Group of Death....

What Happens If The Nigerians Just Start Wrecking Shit? What Then?
Listen: No one is saying Nigeria are definitely going to descend into the Group of Death, do battle with three of the top 10 teams in the world, emerge on the other side unscathedish, demolish whatever knockout-stage horrors await them, and take a real shot at this thing. No one is saying that. But,...

This Is Sweden's Last Best Chance At World Cup Glory
Sweden are good—very good—and have been for some time. They have qualified for each and every World Cup; they rumbled all the way to the final in 2007; in 2011, they made history by being the first and only team to ever beat the United States in a World Cup group stage match en route to a third-plac...

After Years Of Climbing, Have Australia Finally Reached The Mountaintop?
There’s a narrative that national teams understandably try to claim for themselves during World Cup years. That narrative goes something like this: Since our inception, we have slowly climbed the mountain, making slow, sure strides toward the summit. There are hiccups and rockslides and detours and ...

If Anything, The USWNT Might Be <i>Too</i> Stacked
When the United States Women’s National Team takes the pitch, they’ll be tasked with navigating the largest and deepest World Cup field ever. Though the Olympic gold medal more or less belongs to the USWNT—remember this?—they have tended to come up short on the sport’s biggest stage. They’ve advance...

Steph Curry, Blake Griffin, And Other NBA Players Read Mean Tweets
Once again, Jimmy Kimmel rounded up an assorted cast of NBA players to read mean things about themselves. Highlights include Draymond Green, Zach Randolph, and Steph Curry, who unintentionally made fun of his coach Steve Kerr....
