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Beans, Ranked<em></em>

As you know, this site supposedly exists for the sake of juicy sports news and gossip, but what we REALLY do instead is rank random bullshit and start flame wars with those rankings. This week, that means we’re ranking beans. And I don’t mean bean dishes. I’m talking about the actual beans themselve...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Worst Thing In 1954 Was The Bikini

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Content, content, content. Content? Content! Content; content....

Before He Brought Down Nixon, Carl Bernstein Was A Far-Out Rock And Roll Writer

Watergate and the Beatles are multimedia evergreens....

Badass Referee Ducks Disgruntled Player's Punch, Squares Up And Starts Swinging

We’ve seen too many instances of helpless referees getting punched, smacked, kicked, jumped, stomped out, and even killed by bad soccer men mad over some call or other. So it’s a nice change of pace seeing this referee, overseeing a match in Argentina’s Copa Santa Fe, fighting back for once....

Wolfsburg Make John Brooks The Most Expensive American Player In History

This summer’s transfer window isn’t even officially open yet and we’re already seeing some crazy, record-breaking fees being thrown about. Like Paul Pogba a year ago, the source of the (arguably) biggest, most (relatively) eye-popping fee that (not quite) everyone is talking about is the record-smas...

Proposed Trump Budget Would Cripple The Overworked Office Enforcing Title IX

The federal office that investigates universities accused of discriminating against female students—including reports that schools are intentionally ignoring or downplaying allegations of sexual violence—is poised to lose 46 full-time employees under the proposed Trump administration budget, or 8 pe...

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Minor Leaguer Escalates Rowdy Brawl By Whipping A Baseball At Opponent [Update]

For a while, this basebrawl was suitably wild without exceeding the bounds of a typical melee. During a Sunday game between the West Michigan Whitecaps and the Dayton Dragons of the Class-A Midwest League, Whitecaps shortstop Daniel Pinero stepped on Jose Siri’s ankle after he stole second. Siri and...

Deadspin Up All Night: Back To The Lab<em></em>

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What Kind Of Club Do Arsenal Want To Be?

Fresh off their worst league season in two decades, a disappointing Champions League campaign that, as it always seems to these days, ended with Bayern Munich pantsing them in front of the entire world, and coming off the most fervent instances of fan unrest due to the club’s sustained and arguably ...

<i>Mike & Mike</i>'s Mike: Mike And Mike Are "Fine"<em></em><em></em>

Is the Mike situation toxic? Not so, if you believe Mike....

Blue Jays Idiot On The Field Runs Out In Middle Of Live Play

An Idiot On The Field during the eighth inning of tonight’s Reds-Blue Jays blowout executed his invasion in the middle of a play, leading Toronto fielders to simultaneously negotiate fielding a pop fly and avoiding the hoser scrambling to avoid security forces....

Penguins Take Game 1, But Frédérick Gaudreau's First Career Goal Is The Better Story<em></em>

Jake Guentzel’s goal with three minutes left handed Pittsburgh a Game 1 win tonight in the Stanley Cup Final, and that goal wiped out what had been a hard-fought Nashville comeback after the Predators found themselves down 3-0 at the end of the first period. (The Penguins added an empty-netter to ma...

Iconic Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Frank Deford, the legendary sports writer who worked for Sports Illustrated and NPR for decades, died yesterday in his home in Key West. Deford wrote some of Sports Illustrated’s most celebrated profiles, and he began to work as a correspondent for NPR’s Morning Edition in 1980. He retired from the ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Struttin' With Some Barbecue

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Scott Boras: Actually, Jake Arrieta Is Still Elite

Jake Arrieta began 2016 with several starts that fit perfectly with the precedent established by his über-dominant, Cy Young-winning 2015. But those stopped a few months into the season, and he’s looked like a different pitcher since. From last year’s All-Star break to his most recent outing this we...

Arena Football Play So Bad, You'll Forget How Many Teams Are Left In Arena Football

You may have missed this news. There are only five teams remaining in the Arena Football League, and two of them didn’t exist until this season. With that kind of success, we’re shocked that a play full of such failure could be executed—if you can use that word—on the field, but here you are. One of...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Wanna Play Where You Play With The Angels

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I love this song so much and cannot conceive of a point ever again where I will want to listen to anything else. ...

Rachel Daly Collapses, Is Taken Off On Stretcher At End Of Match

Houston Dash and English national team forward Rachel Daly collapsed just after taking a shot on goal in the final minute of her team’s match today against Seattle....

Pair Of Golazos Leave Copa Del Rey Final Knotted 1-1

An outstanding display of Barça teamwork was met three minutes later by a golazo free kick by Theo in the first half of today’s Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Alavés....