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John Klingberg Scores Knuckling Goal From The Neutral Zone
The Dallas Stars defenseman scored this thunderous goal to take a 1-0 lead over the Oilers in the first period tonight. If you look closely at about 27 seconds, you can see that the puck is actually on its side when Klingberg slaps it. This leads the puck to move much like a knuckleball would, and f...
High School Team's Game-Winning Drive Kept Alive By Immaculate Reception
This happened last Friday in a playoff game between Louisville Central and Corbin High in Louisville, Ky. Louisville Central beat Corbin 36-33 thanks to two fourth-quarter touchdowns, the second of which was precipitated by this insanely fortunate catch. This may not quite live up to the original Im...
Help! My Cat Wants A Handjob!
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering presidents, sun bears, blocking the box, and more....
Players' Tribune Boss Says Tiger Woods Isn't Being Defensive, <em>You</em> Are
Last week, we and many other people made fun of Tiger Woods for revealing himself to be a hollow replicant by "writing" what he imagined to be a scathing takedown of Dan Jenkins's satirical and clearly fake interview with Woods. Now, the editorial director of The Players' Tribune, Gary Hoenig, is ou...
Never Mind That Last-Minute $37M Doha Paid To Win The IAAF Championships
Last week, Doha, Qatar was named the host city for the 2019 IAAF Track and Field World Championships, beating out Eugene, Oregon, and Barcelona, Spain. Now it emerges that the Doha bid offered up about $37 million in "incentives" in the minutes before the vote, and the IAAF wants everyone to know th...
Killer Mike's St. Louis Blues: Live From Tuesday's Run The Jewels Show
Fires, gas masks, rocks, riot gear, gunfire, smoke pouring out of the smashed windows of an Advance Auto Parts ... everyone saw last night's news, and many St. Louisans were wary of becoming part of it. But following a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for t...
Let's Laugh At The Sixers Playing Completely Hapless Defense
I've been watching this on loop for a good 10 minutes, and I just now noticed that while Damian Lillard is just hanging out, probably trying to figure out if he's somehow gained the ability to freeze time, Wes Matthews is also wide fucking open in the corner. Lillard could have said, "No, this w...
Matt Kalil Is Sorry About Totally Owning That Heckler
Vikings tackle Matt Kalil, who played poorly on Sunday and then just owned a heckler so damn hard after the game, wants everyone to know that he is sorry about all the ownage....
Russell Westbrook And Kevin Durant Are Coming To Save The Day
Russell Westbrook could return to the Thunder lineup as soon as Friday, with Kevin Durant rejoining the team not long after that, and it's none too soon for 3-12 OKC....
Watch Killer Mike's Pre-Show Speech About Ferguson
Run The Jewels played in St. Louis, Mo., last night, just after it was announced that Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the killing of unarmed teenager Mike Brown. Killer Mike, who has eloquently written and spoken about the events in Ferguson before, started the show off with an impassioned s...
Video: Bad Things Happening To TV Reporters In Ferguson
Television reporters who braved live coverage last night from Ferguson faced attacks from police (with tear gas) and protestors (with rocks and other objects). Here are some examples we witnessed last night....
Multiple Idiots Interrupt Jets-Bills Game In Detroit
Tonight's relocated blowout in Detroit between the Jets and Bills came to a brief stop in the third quarter as a pair of Idiots ran onto the field while being chased by hapless security personnel....
"We Now Know Your Name: Ladell Beckham Jr."
According to CBS' Solomon Wilcots, after his stunning catch last night Odell Beckham Jr. apparently went to the local courthouse and changed his name!...
UNC Players Spray Painted The Visiting Locker Room After Beating Duke
After whooping Duke 45-20 last week, North Carolina began the traditional spray painting of the victory bell on the field. They then wheeled it into the locker room to continue the job, and that's where things got out of hand....
Kobe Bryant Is Not Even Pretending To Respect His Teammates Anymore
This moment, from yesterday's game between the Lakers and Denver Nuggets, is just perfect representation of Kobe Bryant's current relationship with his teammates....
These Catches Were Roughly As Good As Odell Beckham Jr.'s
I'm not gonna say they were definitely better than Beckham's catch, or definitely not as good, but they're all really great....
Trainer Picks Worst Time To Claim His Fighter Will KO Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao beat the hell out of Chris Algieri on his way to retaining his welterweight world title this weekend. Pacquiao won a unanimous decision, thanks in large part to the fact that he knocked Algieri down six times in 12 rounds. One of those knockdowns was accompanied by some ill-timed yet ...