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Little League Coach Sues Own Player For Dumb, Dumb Reason
Alan Beck, a chiropractor/little league coach in Lakeside, Calif., is suing a 14-year-old player for tossing his helmet in celebration after scoring a game-winning run. That helmet struck Beck and tore his Achilles tendon. ...
Clayton Kershaw Just Got All The Money
ESPN Los Angeles' Ramona Shelburne reports that the Dodgers and ace pitcher Clayton Kershaw have agreed to a seven-year, $215 million contract. That's the biggest contract ever for a pitcher, surpassing Justin Verlander's seven-year, $180 million deal with the Tigers. ...
Hoop Dreams 20 Years Later
Head on over to The Dissolve and check out their oral history on Hoop Dreams. ...
Photo Evidence Of Jim Harbaugh Buying Walmart Khakis
Earlier today, we found out that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has a pleated khaki addiction, to the point where he bought khakis at Walmart during the NFL Combine after his wife threw his pairs out. After that story surfaced, someone on Twitter shared photos of Harbaugh at a Walmart in Indianapolis, whe...
Your Grierson & Leitch Oscar Nomination Predictions
Thursday morning, the Oscar nominations come out. To mentally prepare you, here are our predictions for the eight major categories....
What Every NFL Logo Would Look Like If It Were A Hipster
The man who has brought us so much joy by doing ridiculous, hilarious things to the logos of NFL teams has struck again. Today, artist David Rappoccio unveiled his latest collection: each NFL logo re-imagined as a hipster. Smug hipster jaguar is particularly inspired, but there are many more good on...
Jim Harbaugh Wears $8 Walmart Khakis
San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh loves his gameday khakis, probably because NFL coaches are functional lunatics who cling devoutly to certain habits lest they come completely unmoored from reality, and also because khakis offer loose-fitting comfort at a reasonable price. ...
Sometimes, LeBron Wishes He Could Take All The Shots
The two best players in the NBA are frustratingly polished when it comes to the media, so there's rarely any hint of a real rivalry between them. This will have to do: LeBron James says he's "jealous" that Kevin Durant gets to shoot so much....
Arkansas Upsets Kentucky With Overtime Tip-Slam Buzzer Beater
After allowing a three-pointer to tie the game in regulation and another to tie it late in overtime, Arkansas bounced back when Michael Qualls tip-slammed the winning basket with 0.2 seconds remaining....
Old Man Asked To Stop Shooting Icicles On His House
How do you knock down icicles on your house? A shovel? A stick? Your hands? Those are all common and effective methods. One old man in Illinois went with his gun instead....
Deadspin Up All Night: Castles Made Of Sand
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Even President Obama Knows That Everyone Hates Mario Chalmers
You laugh, but there's a strong possibility that Mario really was about to get screamed at for standing in the wrong place or something....
Players Are Fainting, Puking, And Hallucinating At The Australian Open
It is fucking hot in Melbourne. Temperatures soared to 108 degrees today, weather unfit for human existence, let alone playing world-class tennis. A short compilation of bad things to happen to tennis players so far at the first Grand Slam event of the year:...
Video Evidence That Americans Don't Know Anything About Soccer
We're at a strange junction in American soccer fandom. The sport is more popular and visible here than ever, but is still pretty niche. So when this guy decided to ask some college kids fairly basic soccer questions, the results were wildly inconsistent....
Dear Humans: Do Not Eat Pizza With Utensils
Hey, homo sapiens! Let us embark upon an expedition of the mind. A mindspedition! ...
What It's Like To Cover Screwed-Up, Despotic NFL Franchises
We're joined by the Washington Post's Redskins reporter Kent Babb. He also authored "Arrowhead Anxiety," which blew the lid off the Chiefs' front-office dysfunction, so he's uniquely equipped to discuss directionless football teams. Ask him anything you want in the comments below, and he'll try to a...
Sean Payton Fesses Up: Marques Colston's Lateral Was A Designed Play
Marques Colston's very forward pass was one of the odder endings to a football game, and at first glance, one of the dumbest. But the Saints stayed strangely silent on the question of whether Colston was ad-libbing. Now we know: It was a designed play....
Deadspin Up All Night: Nobody's Dirty Business
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