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Brady Going to Tampa? Hopkins Shipped For A Bag of Balls? NFL Players Losing Their Minds Over Flurry of Moves
NFL players have been shook by the start of this free agency period. ...
This is Horse$#&!: Nick Foles is Just Some More Chicago Bears Patchwork
For most of their fans, watching the Bears in the offseason is a lot like watching Martin Landau’s Bela Lugosi in the lake with the octopus in “Ed Wood.” Not only does he have to thrash about wildly, but he has to additionally do the thrashing about for the inanimate and unwieldy beast he’s wrestlin...
Bill O’Brien’s Alleged Comments to DeAndre Hopkins Highlight How The Term ‘Baby Mama’ Has Been Associated With Only One Race
Sometimes it’s less about what is said and more about what is implied....
The World Might Be Coming To An End, But Here Are The Places You Can Still Bet On Sports
You might have noticed that there is a lot going on in the world. Even though everything has been cancelled....
You Can Cut Off Its Head, But The U.S. Soccer Federation - And The Dudes Running It - Are Still A Bunch Of Snakes
It wasn’t quite a Friday night news dump, but coming in the wake of a pandemic and the world’s first mass-sports suspension, it still made for tidy cover for something slimy to slither out the side door without anyone noticing. Last night, after all North American pro sports leagues were suspending ...
Baseball's Unwritten Rules Are A National Plague Unto Themselves
Since retaliation has always been allowed whenever one of baseball’s unwritten rules are broken, the Houston Astros should be bracing themselves for whatever punishment opposing teams decide to hand out this season....
Good News! Deadspin Is Publishing Again. Bad News For Those Unhappy With That? None Of Us Have The Coronavirus Yet.
As you can see, Deadspin is posting new stories again. Our original plan had been to begin publishing on Monday, March 16, but the news cycle — and the rapidly changing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic — wouldn’t wait for such plans. So we are starting a little smaller than we had hop...
Dumbass Doping Defense To Drugs Trafficking Charge Gets Dutch Sprinter Stiff Prison Sentence
How dumbass are you if you are an Olympic athlete and your defense to narcotics trafficking charges is that you thought you were transporting performance-enhancing drugs?...
Browns Even Suck At Cutting A Player Who Threatened To Kill Their Fans
The Cleveland Browns were unbelievably bad in their 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos. Worse than Jets losing to Dolphins bad. Coverage sucked. Play call sucked. Clock management sucked. And not for the first time this season. Or even the second time. With 3:23 remaining on the clock, down five poin...
Uluru Climbers Thwarted by Strong Winds and Changing Rules
Climbers can no longer scale Uluru, the monolithic rock in central Australia once known as Ayers Rock, that is scared to the Anangu people....
A Collection of Stuffed Animals, Hollow Shells Of Once Vibrant Beings
Please enjoy these people walking amongst one man’s macabre collection of taxidermy animals. More than 200 animal heads line his walls, artifacts of lives lived....
A Bear Friday For The Road
I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the secret to bear blogging is getting out of the way and letting the bears work their magic....
With Trust Between Collaborators, Anything Is Possible, Even Golfing Blind
With the aid of his caddy, Sue Carpenter, blind golfer Graham Coulton is able to play....
My Life As A Minor League Baseball Clown
Social media has Hoovered the best years out of my life. The last thing I remember, I was a college freshman whose cosplay enthusiast girlfriend signed us both up for a website called “The Face Book.” Now, I’m middle-aged and drive an electric car. As if this wasn’t already evident, at no point betw...
David Arquette Has Unfinished Business In The Wrestling Ring
On December 8, 2018, David Arquette was standing in front of a table in the 2300 Arena, formerly the ECW Arena. He was wrestling later that night but was at that moment signing autographs and taking pictures. A fan approached the table to tell Arquette that he was his favorite World Championship Wre...
Seattle Sounders Advance To MLS Cup, Rewarding Fans Who Stood Up To Those In Power
After a season of fighting MLS’s draconian Code of Conduct, Seattle Sounders fans can celebrate a berth in the MLS Cup. Following Seattle’s 3-1 victory over LAFC, the Iron Front flag will surely find its way into the league’s final match of the year, much to the chagrin of those who desired profits ...
There Are Only Two Acceptable Wedding Dress Codes
Yesterday, I was having a nice coffee outside with a friend who was telling me about an upcoming trip. He and his girlfriend were going to a wedding in Austin. I, a famous lover a good wedding, wanted details. There’s a moment when you ask people who wear dresses about weddings that never comes up w...
Arsenal Are Imploding
What should’ve been, and what almost was, a desperately needed victory instead became more reason for acrimony and turmoil. A floundering Arsenal hosted Crystal Palace on Sunday, and after jumping out to a 2–0 lead early on, the Gunners threw away their advantage and wound up settling for a draw. Fr...
German Sunday League Player Knocks Referee Out Cold After Receiving Red Card
It’s not clear what this unidentified player did to earn a red card in a German amateur soccer match between FSV Münster and TV Smend, but he definitely deserved a red and even more for his reaction to the card, which was to punch the referee’s lights out:...
Sergiño Dest Announces He Will Play For USMNT
The USMNT is currently looking like wet slop, Gregg Berhalter seems like a bad coach, and, until last weekend, Christian Pulisic was not earning as much playing time as he wanted over at Chelsea. It has been a bad month all told, especially with the future of the program’s best dual national suddenl...