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Lance Armstrong Sees A Lot Of Bill Clinton In Himself
Lance Armstrong is still talking about Lance Armstrong and all that now entails, including shame, forgiveness and heroes....
Deadspin Up All Night: I'll Take You Out Boy
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The floor is yours. ...
Enjoy David Villa's Goal From Yesterday's Barça-Milan Game, As It Was Seen From The Stands
Fan-made clips of big sports moments are always a raucous delight. This one, shot during yesterday's Champions League match between Barcelona and AC Milan, is no exception. Come for the high-quality camera work, stay for the screaming Spaniards. ...
With No Tickets, Turkish Soccer Fans Try Burrowing Into Stadium
For Tuesday's sold-out Champions League match at Schalke, a group of Galatasaray supporters came up with an ingenious idea. Just before the match began, they attempted to dig through frozen ground, underneath a fence, to sneak into the Veltins-Arena. By "ingenious" we of course mean "stupid."...
Broncos Sign Wes Welker
It's being reported by just about everybody on Twitter that Wes Welker, after six seasons in New England, has signed a two-year deal to join the Broncos. He'll join a receiving corps that includes Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas, which, jesus....
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>Chuggington</i>
A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. GIF by Jim Cooke....
College Lacrosse Player Simply Cannot Be Stopped
Palm Beach Atlantic beat Western Washington by a single point on Tuesday. Not this goal, specifically—OK, it was all about this goal. PBA junior Dominic Scalzo, No. 13 in white, played the part of the human pinball, shaking, dekeing, and trucking anyone in his way en route to an "easy" score....
How The 3-4-3 Beat Milan And Rethroned Barcelona As The World's Most Dangerous Team
Well, this is awkward. Just two weeks ago many outlets, us sheepishly included, were shoveling dirt on top of Barça's reign as the world's best team. But following a string of terrible results—three losses in 11 days, once to Italian upstarts AC Milan and twice to bitter rivals Real Madrid—Barcelona...
A Little League Raffles Off An Assault Rifle To Raise Money
The Atwood-Hammond Little League in east-central Illinois needs money to replace its crappy old equipment. In past years, the league has tried traditional fundraisers like auctioning off donated gift cards. But those efforts weren't always successful: Last year's hog roast, according to league commi...
One Of Our Favorite Sports Columnists, Sally Jenkins, Is Here To Take Your Questions
Sally Jenkins is an award-winning sportswriter for the Washington Post, but don't hold that against her. She's one of the sharpest columnists in the country. She's also written a bunch of books, including It's Not About The Bike, the No. 1 New York Times bestseller she co-authored with Lance Armstro...
Blake Geoffrion Retires From Hockey At Age 25, Four Months After Suffering Brain Injury (Update)
Blake Geoffrion waited out the lockout in the AHL. In a November game, played before a sold-out crowd at the Bell Centre, the young center got caught watching the puck. Hit by Syracuse's J.P. Cote, Geoffrion went flying, his neck snapping back, his head striking Cote's skate. It was a clean hit, and...
Watch An Italian TV Presenter Lose His Mind Over Milan's Loss To Barcelona
Tiziano Crudeli is a cult figure for his demonstrative commentary, and he's also a huge AC Milan fan. So naturally, an Italian TV station had a camera on him as he watched Milan squander a two-goal aggregate lead, falling to Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League tie yesterday....
One Of The Best Goals You'll Ever See Came Tonight In The CONCACAF Champions League
Djimi Traore performs amazing things for Seattle Sounders in tonight's CONCACAF Champions League match against Tigres....
Tuesday Night Fights: Greetings From Fremont Street
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Las Vegas Fight Hilarious." Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: A Russian concrete pile-driver.)...
Spring Breakers Arrested On Camera For Being Spring Breakers: "Roll Tide!"
This just might might be the most unintentionally hilarious important newscast of the year. It was the top story this morning on WJHG, the NBC affiliate in Panama City, Fla., and it's easy to see why: The arrest of "dozens" of people for the dastardly crimes of being young underage drinking and havi...
Deadspin Up All Night: Gone
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There's a decent slate of NBA games on tonight, so hang out here and talk about those, or anything else that strikes your fancy....
The Kind Of Trash You Love: <em>Spring Breakers</em>, Reviewed.
1. Spring Breakers is trashy: I'm not telling you something you don't know here. It's self-consciously trashy, but not in any sort of wry, ironic, removed way. It dives headfirst into its trash, wallowing in it, wringing it for every last drop of slime. This is a nothing movie about nothing people d...
Why Is Everyone Eulogizing The Big East Tournament? It's Not Going Anywhere.
Here we go again. This week's Big East tournament, we're being told, will be the last of its kind. The league is being torn asunder in this new, mutable world of college athletics in which money, suddenly, is a priority. It's a shame and a sin, the eulogies say, with the wistful, shattered air of a ...
Piggy Poop Balls Has Been Doxxed (Photo NSFW Because Pig Has Giant Poop-Smeared Balls)
Buzzfeed weighs in with the biggest story of the day (not even joking). Katie Notopoulos has uncovered the identity of Piggy Poop Balls, internet porkmeme and Deadspin mascot and hall-of-fame nominee. Spoiler alert: he's a pig with giant balls and he pooped on his giant balls....