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Here Are Three Minutes Of Overdramatic Voiceover From <i>All Access: Mayweather Vs. McGregor</i>
At its core, Showtime’s All Access series is designed to do one thing: Convince viewers to pony up the money for the pay-per-view. The latest season, which follows Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather before their August 26 fight, is doing a hard sell. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: It's Not 'Cause You're In Love
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<i>Game Of Thrones</i> Is Only Just Starting To Burn It All Down
There is a tension at the heart of both Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, a contradiction which threatens to swallow the world and our heroes whole if they don’t manage it properly: How do you save the world without breaking it in the process? If you burn everything down to win, what’s the...
Little League World Series Will Play Through Solar Eclipse, Hand Out Special Glasses
The Little League World Series, the most heartwarming competition in sports, kicks off next week in Williamsport, Pa. It runs from August 17-27, which, as astute observers of solar phenomena will note, covers the forthcoming total solar eclipse will darken American skies on August 21....
Is Gareth Bale Even Worth It?
Gareth Bale, once the assumed heir to Cristiano Ronaldo’s throne at Real Madrid, is now at risk of becoming an afterthought. Acquired from Tottenham in 2013 for a then-record transfer fee, Bale has only topped 30 La Liga appearances once in four seasons for Real Madrid. True, he has been as good as ...
Josh Rosen Gets Brutally Honest About The Tension Between College Football And School
UCLA QB Josh Rosen is expected to be a high pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The 20-year-old junior can be seen as a future NFL star and an ambitious guy whose eagerness to have a life outside of football somehow makes certain corners of the league’s intelligentsia skeptical. In today’s interview with B...
<i>Ready Player One </i>Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia
It’s not hard to fracture the internet with a movie adaptation of a popular bad book. They’re made into movies all the time. They read like screenplays because they skip complex language that defies being replaced with pictures, and producers can’t resist a baked-in audience, which creates a baked-i...
Gerard Deulofeu Might Be The Luckiest Bastard Alive
Yesterday, Barcelona played tragedy-stricken Brazilian club Chapecoense (you may remember them as the team involved in that awful plane crash last winter) in the Joan Gamper Trophy match. This match, hosted annually at Barcelona’s Camp Nou, is a friendly and thus doesn’t mean all that much in the gr...
Lamar Jackson Accuses Wake Forest Coach Of Anonymously <em></em>Trashing His NFL Dreams
Lamar Jackson, the 2016 Heisman winner who, for a while, appeared to be the Second Coming, is heading into the fall with the typical pressure being applied to college football’s reigning MVP—he’ll be tasked with somehow improving his draft stock, bettering a team that fell apart down the stretch, an...
Report: Malik McDowell's ATV Crash Could Cost Him His Entire Rookie Season
Seahawks second-round pick Malik McDowell hasn’t reported to training camp after he suffered “facial injuries” and a concussion in an ATV crash on July 30. McDowell said after the accident that his injuries weren’t life- or career-threatening, but his recovery will take a while, and could eat into h...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Cincinnati Bengals<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Minor-Leaguer Learns Painful Lesson About Gravity, Gets Hit In Head By Own Foul Ball
What goes up must come down to embarrass you by striking you on the head, as the old saying goes. This is a lesson that Clinton LumberKings designated hitter Nick Zammarelli learned all too well yesterday, when he fouled off a ball that hit the roof only to have it come back down and plunk him right...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Drank The Water And I Felt Alright
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Arrest Affidavit Details Domestic Violence Allegations Against Willie Reed
Miami police have released the arrest affidavit for new Los Angeles Clippers forward Willie Reed. In it, Reed’s wife says the ex-Heat player got upset Saturday afternoon when she said she wanted a divorce, leading to him “twist[ing] her arm causing her to kneel to the ground.” In response she says s...
Slaving, Terrorism-Supporting Country's Wildly Expensive PR Campaign Is Far From Over
Qatar is a tiny, obscenely wealthy country/U.S. military base in the Persian Gulf that has, justifiably so, become synonymous of late with dynastic oligarchism, shameless venality, modern-day slavery, and financial support for Islamist terrorism. This, it probably goes without saying, isn’t quite t...
Pirates GM Says Jung Ho Kang Probably Won't Be Coming Back To The States
Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang might never come back to Major League Baseball as he still can’t get a work visa after admitting guilt and receiving a deferred prison sentence for a 2016 DUI in South Korea, Pirates GM Neal Huntington told MLB.com Sunday. Kang has been charged with three DUIs in K...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Carolina Panthers<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
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Naked Idiot On The Field Is Very Pleased With Himself [NSFW]
The biggest thing to happen at the IAAF World Championships this weekend was Usain Bolt taking bronze in the final 100-meter race of his career. The second biggest thing to happen was a jolly streaker running the track and having a grand ol’ time. Watch him break right through a security guard’s arm...
Didier Drogba Scores Great Goal Against Scrubbiest Scrubs Imaginable
Technically, this is still a highlight because it’s Didier Drogba scoring an absolute scorcher of a free kick from way far out that probably would’ve flown into the net had he been back in a Chelsea shirt facing like Jordan Pickford or something. However, it’s also kind of a lowlight because it’s Di...
Darren Daulton Dead At 55
The 1993 Phillies opened the season 17-5 and led the NL East basically wire to wire. They upset the 104-win Braves in the NLCS and were a few outs from getting to Game 7 of the World Series when Joe Carter hit a walk-off homer to end the series. ...