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Brilliant Goalie Knocks Over Own Net Rather Than Face A 2-On-0
Thirty-year-old David Leggio has never made the big show—but you don't spend that long in the minor leagues without learning a few tricks. In a game yesterday, the netminder for the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers saw his team turn the puck over at center ice, so he immediately toppled his own net t...
Charlie Manson's Home On The Range
Over at the Daily Beast, I curated Gay Talese's 1970 Esquire story, "Charlie Manson's Home on the Range":...
Auburn Newspaper Defends Publishing Photo Of Laquon Treadwell's Injury
One of the most crucial and dramatic plays in college football this year also featured a season-ending injury that remains painful to look at. How do you weigh the import of the moment with sensitivity to the injured player? If you're one Alabama newspaper, you put it on the front page of the spor...
The Beast Of Brazil: A Savage Trip To The Dark Heart Of The World Cup
This feature appears in the new issue of Howler, an independent magazine about soccer produced in the United States. You can order a copy here....
Brand New Kitchen Gear on Sale, a Robot Mop, and Lots More Deals
KitchenAid is best known for their iconic stand mixers, but they make a ton of other items for the kitchen as well. Today on eBay, you can save an extra 20% on nearly 200 items (yes, including stand mixers) with code COOKA20. That's in addition to any listed discounts, so these prices are quite go...
Deadspin Up All Night: Don't Hurt Me
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Sorry about Nibbles acting up. We'll do better tomorrow....
Eagles Lineman Jason Peters Didn't Know Nick Foles Got Hurt
Eagles quarterback Nick Foles exited today's game in the first quarter with a collarbone injury after a tackle by Whitney Mercilus; former Jets hostage Mark Sanchez replaced him. Jason Peters, however, didn't immediately know about the switch, so he was in for a shock when he realized Foles didn't t...
DeSean Jackson Says Some Nice Things To A Vikings Fan
We're not sure about every word DeSean Jackson's chirping at the Vikings fan, but he seems to end the conversation with a "fuck you."...
All Hail Daren Bates, Who Committed A Truly Magnificent Offside Penalty
Never shame a man who tries his hardest, as the Rams' Daren Bates did today in attempting to block a 49ers field goal—and pulled the trigger just a bit too early....
Auburn Beats Ole Miss After Winning Touchdown Wiped Away By Injury
Fourth-ranked Ole Miss appeared to have scored the winning touchdown at home against Auburn tonight with 90 seconds remaining, when Laquon Treadwell crossed the goal line. Unfortunately, Treadwell fumbled the ball before he reached the end zone—and with good reason, as the Rebels wide receiver suffe...
Did <em>NBC Nightly News</em> Go Live To A Man Who Was Taking A Piss?
It sure looks like Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel was relieving himself when Lester Holt threw to him during his coverage of the storms in North Carolina. What else could he have been doing?...
Celta Takes 1-0 Lead At Camp Nou With Nifty Backheel
Nolito delivered a perfect backheel to Joaquin Larrivey that gave Celta an inexplicable 1-0 lead in the second half against Barça at Camp Nou. Neymar, Messi, and Suárez have thus far been unable to find the goal; can Celta pull off the upset?...
Gordie Howe Watches As Joe Louis Arena Gives Him A Standing Ovation
Gordie Howe is back resting at his daughter's home after suffering a stroke, and the Detroit Red Wings wanted to do something nice to help lift his spirits. Before In the middle of the first period of Friday night's game at Joe Louis Arena against the Los Angeles Kings, they got the crowd to sta...
How To Roast Mushrooms: A Guide For Reformed Fraidycats
An opinion common to the children of America is that mushrooms are bad. They express this viewpoint with crinkled little noses and furrowed brows, picking mushrooms out of their food with chubby little fingers. "I don't wike these," they say. "They'we gwoss."...
James Scores Highlight Reel Goal On The Volley, Puts Real Madrid Up 2-0
It's just another day in La Liga for Real Madrid, which is having an easy time against Granada. Here's a terrific goal from James Rodriguez, a volley over the keeper's head from about 15 yards out....
Wanyama Takes Advantage Of Awful Goalkeeping, Scores From 35 Yards
Still impressive, but that's some poor decision-making by the keeper....
Deadspin Up All Night: Before The Ghost Town
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Mischievous Lil' Pandas Refuse To Take Their Medicine
This is what happened when a zoo keeper in China—who has some pretty dope boots, by the way—tried to feed some medicine to two of the young pandas being held in the zoo. Dude's plan was to squirt the medicine into their mouths with a syringe; the pandas' plan was to fight this jabroni and get him th...
Bill Belichick Is Fed Up With All These Wrong-Ass Meteorologists
At today's press conference, somebody asked Patriots head coach Bill Belichick if he ever takes the weather forecast into account when game planning, and Belichick responded by going on a sustained grumble-rant about how shitty weather forecasters are at their jobs....