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Your Week 9 College Football Master Schedule
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Cincinnati Head Coach Butch Jones Iced Louisville's Kicker At The Exact Wrong Time, And The Bearcats Lost Because Of It
The football coach's obsession with icing the opposing team's kicker before important field goals embodies the two primary dispositions innate to football coaches: performative micromanaging and ignoring statistics. Last night, Cincinnati's Butch Jones indulged those compulsions at the worst possi...
Deadspin Up All Night: Ain't Got No...I've Got Life
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. You've got plenty of NFL and MLfuckingB action to keep you occupied this weekend, so enjoy that. The weekend crew will be here to enjoy it with you....
Dead Letters: We Have Found America's Most Insufferable Patriots Fan
Subject: Its Muzz from Woburn responding to your rant about me...
NBC Looks Like It Will Beat Out Fox and ESPN For The EPL After A Crazy Bid
So we now live in a world where not only Major League Baseball draws insane amounts of money from broadcasters (fresh off the lowest rated Game 2 of the World Series ever!) but now soccer too. Fox and ESPN are out of the bidding for the English Premier League and NBC is looking like a winner. Becau...
Mike Leach Is The Latest Coach To Prove He Doesn't Really Understand What Twitter Is
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: WSU has banned players from tweeting....
Peyton Manning Does His Part To Make Sure Papa John's Will Continue Haunting Your Sundays
Good news, everyone! America's favorite lipless pizza huckster is teaming up with America's favorite robustly foreheaded quarterback in order to bring as many annoying pizza commercials to your television as possible....
Do Not Touch Daddy's Electronics
When I was 6 years old, my dad was an avid collector of hi-fi equipment. He had an entire bookcase filled with all kinds of boxy hi-fi pieces, each one featuring hundreds of switches and knobs and dials and all kinds of crazy shit that helped you hear every possible sound inside a recording studio, ...
Poll: Lance Armstrong More Popular Than Obama Among America's Youth
In case you haven't been following the news, last week didn't go so hot for Lance Armstrong. He was stripped of 7 Tour de France titles, dropped by his sponsors, and accused of bribery. So how did his reputation stand up?...
Stephen A. Smith Says "Nigga, Please" On ESPN2, And Everyone Gets Stupid In Response
On Thursday morning's First Take, Stephen A. Smith expressed his disbelief that Kobe Bryant would miss time with an injury by saying "nigga, please." This was not a thing he should have said on TV, yet he did. It was barely noticeable, but at least one person noticed, uploaded the video, and cert...
Manchester United Decides It's Not Making Enough Money, Buys Back Kit Sponsorship Rights
Here is all you need to know about why ads on NBA jerseys are a matter of when, not if: Manchester United is currently making $16 million a year on the sponsorship rights to its practice uniforms, and are so sure it can make more that the club has bought out its contract....
Hugh Douglas Is Transitioning Nicely Into His Life As A Sports Pundit
You probably remember Hugh Douglas from his playing days with the Philadelphia Eagles and that one time he tried to beat up Terrell Owens. Now retired, Douglas is working as one of ESPN's many NFL analysts, and last night he went through one of the most sacred rites of passage in sports media: He a...
Deadspin Up All Night: Bitten By A Boar
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll have a Tigers-Giants open thread, and the nightfolk will be here to let you know what's up. So don't go out, or anything....
Greg LeMond Calls For Cycling's Leaders To Step Down
Greg LeMond—America's only Tour De France winner—has been outspoken about cycling's problems, before, during and after the downfall of Lance Armstrong. But his scorn has been reserved not for Armstrong or the cyclists who dope, but with the people running the whole shebang: the heads of the Internat...
New York Policeman Arrested On Charges That He Planned To Slow-Roast Some Ladies
Well, this is pretty much the grossest thing. It happened in neither Florida nor Ohio, though. Rather, it unfolded in the nation's greatest city. Reports The New York Times:...
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Email
Being lazy is a quality one should be proud of. And here to help the pro-lazy is the newly launched Outlook.com. Thanks to a bunch of smart features, Outlook.com makes it easier and quicker than ever to manage your incoming email so you can spend less time in your inbox and more time on important t...
See The Big East Get Much Bigger And Much Less Eastern With Conference Realignment Visualizations
Here are six of the BCS conference games you can watch this Saturday:...
Scott Fujita’s Noble Battle Against The NFL
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
Deadspin Up All Night: Oh, I've Been Waiting Desperately
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There's baseball on tonight, so there'll shortly be a place for you to talk about the games. Maybe the usual boys of the night will stop by, too. Until then, yak here....
Finally, Someone Built The New Sonics Arena Out Of 110 Pounds Of Butter
We should note that this is not actually the new Sodo arena, with which Seattle hopes to lure an NBA franchise; this is only a model. And not a strictly accurate one—unless I misunderstand the load-bearing properties of butter, I do not believe the inside is hollow and contains a little butter court...