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Chase Headley Takes A Fastball To The Chin

Yankees designated hitter Chase Headley took a fastball to the chin from Rays reliever Jake McGee in the ninth inning of tonight's game....

Giancarlo Stanton Removed On Stretcher After Fastball To The Face

Giancarlo Stanton left tonight's Marlins-Brewers game in the fifth inning after a Mike Fiers fastball hit him square in the face. A stretcher and cart was necessary to get the Miami slugger off the field....

Deadspin Up All Night: Shit Just Kinda Feels Nice

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Skateboarding: A Great Way To Ruin Your Testicles

LeSean McCoy Says His 20-Cent Tip Was "Kind Of A Statement"

The Saga of LeSean McCoy's 20-Cent Tip continues to be a thing, and now McCoy has finally spoken on the issue. McCoy says that he's not the dick in this story, and that the people who work at the restaurant are the dicks. Everyone is accusing everyone else of being a dick!...

The Deadspin -51*: The Most Useless Thinkers, Doers, And Dreamers

Last week, Politico, a Washington, DC-based native advertising shop, produced the Politico 50, a list of "the thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."...

Give Your TV a Brain, Fix Your Car, Walk While You Work [Deals]

If any of your TVs still aren't smart, here are a few cheap streaming box options. The Roku 1 has a hardware remote and can run thousands of Roku apps, but the Chromecast makes it much easier to stream content directly from your phone or computer. You can't go wrong either way....

For winning the Europa League, Sevilla's players, coaches, and management received their weight in beer....

Deadspin Up All Night: And Then A Man Called

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Lawsuit: Soccer Team's Hazing Incident Led To Permanent Brain Injuries

Haley Ellen Hunt, a former Clemson soccer player, has sued players, coaches, and members of the university's administration. The suit alleges she suffered severe injuries when, during a hazing ritual, she was blindfolded, told to blindly sprint as fast as she could, and crashed head-first into a b...

Lil Baby Bear Has Itself A Good-Ass Time On A Golf Course

This bear is both cool and good. This bear is just hanging out on a golf green when it suddenly notices the flag pin. Oh. Oh damn. What's going on with this flag thing over here? ...

Here Are The Questions The NFL Should Answer

Earlier today, as part of our ongoing reporting of the Ray Rice story, we sent a list of questions to an NFL official. Some of them were raised by the league's investigation of Rice, others by league commissioner Roger Goodell's lawyerly performance in an interview with CBS yesterday....

Lalalala, The Ginger Hammer Can't Hear You!

Here is a story in three tweets....

Come Correct To P.K. Subban About His Corsi Or Don't Come At All

The NHL is holding its annual player tour, in which it drags many of its top stars to New York for days of interviews and appearances. ESPN's Craig Custance took advantage of the opportunity (Insider link) to ask players what they thought of their own unconventional analytics, aka fancystats. ...

Bud Light Apple-Ahhh-Rita Is Bullshit; Drink Cider Instead

A couple of summers ago, Anheuser-Busch introduced the abominable Bud Light Lime-a-Rita, sweet fake-citrus bullshit intended to capitalize on the niche market of people who have spent their entire lives not knowing what an actual lime tastes like. Those sad bastards are still none the wiser, which h...

Report: The Hawks Front Office Is Eating Itself

Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski has done some fantastic reporting that gives a much clearer look at just what the hell is going on with the Atlanta Hawks, a team that's seen owner Bruce Levenson ousted after sending a racist email, and minority owner Michael Gearon rat out GM Danny Ferry for getting raci...

Soccer's Faulty New Money Rule Hurts The Clubs It Was Meant To Protect

Queens Park Rangers are the latest victim of Financial Fair Play, the laudably-aimed yet poorly calibrated rules which are in theory meant to keep teams solvent but in practice keep them from sensibly spending to improve their position, or even from spending money they actually have. Yesterday, Engl...

Angry Michigan Fan Calls Radio Station, Loses His Damn Mind

Michigan got the shit kicked out of it by Notre Dame last weekend, to the tune of a 31-0 blowout. This did not sit well with one Michigan fan in Toledo, who called into Ann Arbor radio station WTKA and let loose a tidal wave of impotent rage....

Kitchen Upgrades, Black Light Flash Light, Radar Detector [Deals]

If you like tooling around the kitchen, there are several great deals to check out today. That Emeril pan is basically the made in China version of All-Clad, which is the gold standard of cookware. There are certainly virtues to buying American, but that price is tough to beat....

Parents In Leo Messi's Hometown Can No Longer Name Their Kids "Messi"

In reaction to one Argentine man christening his son "Messi Varela," Mundo Deportivo reports that the city of Rosario has decided to nip any potential trend in the bud by passing a law that prohibits use of the name "Messi" as a first name....