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American Relay Runner Broke His Leg, Still Finished His Run
Manteo Mitchell is an American hero and a man's man. Running the opening leg of today's 4x400 qualifying heat, Mitchell felt something go in his leg. Pain? You bet. Enough pain to let down his teammates and his country? Fuck and no....
Hop On Back Of The Bobby Petrino Apology Tour, Which Begins Today
It's been just under four months since Arkansas fired Bobby Petrino for hiring his young girlfriend to an athletics department position, paying her extra under the table, and lying about it. Four months is barely enough time to break in a new hairstyle, but, naturally, Petrino has found the time to ...
How NBC Could Make An Olympics That People Wouldn't Hate
Another day of action in London, another day of inaction by NBC. At 3:55 Eastern time today, Usain Bolt will run the men's 200-meter final. Five or six or seven hours later, NBC will get around to letting television viewers in the United States see what Bolt has done....
Kenny Britt Posted The Fine He Got From The Titans On Instagram
Titans receiver Kenny Britt has had eight run-ins with the law since being drafted three years ago. He just met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday to discuss a DUI he recently got somehow at a military installation, and the Titans' patience with him appears to be wearing thin. Britt has h...
Sporting KC Wins U.S. Open Cup In Shootout Described As "More Dramatic Than Tyler Perry Or Shakespeare"
That GolTV still exists is a miracle in itself; the soccer cable net recently lost its cash cow Spanish Liga contract to Al-Jazeera's new beIN Sports channel. It also lost popular analyst Ray Hudson, he of the orgasmic goal calls, which means GolTV's George D. Metellus served in the color commenta...
Oscar Pistorius And South African Relay Team Crash Out Of Heats, Appeal Their Way Back Into Finals
The baton never even made it into Oscar Pistorius's handicapable hand. He was waiting to run the third leg for South Africa, and could only watch as the runner ahead of him collided with a rival, both going down injured. Everyone, most of all Pistorius, believed his Olympics were over without even g...
![This Reds Media Guy <em>Really </em> Wanted To Kick Someone's Ass After Today's Loss [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17ve01kr00h86jpg.jpg)
This Reds Media Guy <em>Really </em> Wanted To Kick Someone's Ass After Today's Loss [UPDATE]
Jamie Ramsey is the Reds' assistant director of media relations, and he's very protective of his team, like any good p.r. person. However, Cincinnati has had kind of a rough week and was on its way to losing its fourth straight game. That's when Ramsey started getting into it on Twitter with some Re...
Tony Hibbert's First Career Goal Leads To An All-Out Celebration Riot
Defender Tony Hibbert was born in Merseyside, home to Everton FC, in 1981. He won a championship with Everton's youth club in 1998 and has played with the English Premier League team since 2001. But the most critical thing you have to know about Tony Hibbert is that he had never scored a goal. Eve...
Muhammad Ali Called Michael Phelps The Greatest
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: Phelps says he started relaxing after losing his first race....
John Sterling Can't Stop Walking Around The Hotel Lobby In His Bathrobe
The Yankees are staying at the Westin in downtown Detroit for their four-game series with the Tigers, and one guest was kind enough to send along this photo of radio announcer John Sterling strolling the immaculate Westin lobby in sneakers and a robe. He's "been doing this for 2 days in a row so it'...
The Conspiracy To Kill A Great Movie Franchise. <em>The Bourne Legacy</em>, Reviewed.
1. The first three Jason Bourne films had an intensity, a vitality to them that made them feel urgent and relevant, grounded in the messy real world of global capitalism and a U.S. government that was alternately confused, corrupt, and terrified. The movies didn't have a specific politics other than...
Bristolmetrics: What Does <i>SportsCenter</i> Do When They Don't Have Olympic TV Rights? Tebow, Tebow, Tebow!
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
Wait, Did John Feinstein <em>Really</em> Delay A Basketball Game Five Hours For His Book About Selfless Student Athletes?
Tuesday morning, we flagged an article in The Millions called "The Problem with Sportswriting." In it, the author, Sebastian Stockman, having dived 544 pages deep into John Feinstein's navel, resurfaces with a great head-slapper. Stockman writes:...
Field Hockey Player Ends Up Bloody After Getting Whacked On The Head With A Stick
Field hockey players might wear skirts, but that doesn't mean they aren't tough. Check out New Zealand striker Katie Glynn here. She tries to knock the ball away from her opponent, but instead gets bonked on the noggin. Listen to the crowd let out a collective "oohhh" as it happens, and again as i...
![Fan Of The Pittsburgh Pirates? Prove It By Paying Them Money To Join Their Stupid Fan Club. [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17vcoyx3elnpnjpg.jpg)
Fan Of The Pittsburgh Pirates? Prove It By Paying Them Money To Join Their Stupid Fan Club. [UPDATED]
The Pittsburgh Pirates are at last contenders again, but they're still the Pittsburgh Pirates. They finally have fans excited again because they're actually winning. But they're still not above showing some degree of contempt for those fans by offering them something they're calling the Fan Advisor ...
Red Sox Broadcasters Don Orsillo And Jerry Remy Cannot Figure Out How A Lightsaber Works
NESN's Red Sox broadcast team of Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy show up often in these parts, usually due to their inability to hold themselves together due to some wacky fans in the stands. Today's meltdown was self-imposed, as a toy lightsaber that found its way to the broadcast booth (owing to yet...
North Korea And Australia Are Now At War: Foreign Olympics News NBC Didn't Like Enough To Tape-Delay
Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
Even U.S. Troops Are Getting Screwed By NBC's Olympic Tape Delay
If you're stationed in Europe or in Afghanistan as a U.S. military member, you get one advantage when watching these Olympics: The time difference is smaller. But of course they're screwed, too....
Columnist Who Says Canadian Soccer Should Stop Whining Admits He Turned Off The Game After 35 Minutes
Tuesday's Olympic semifinal between the U.S. and Canada was one of the most thrilling, dramatic games you'll ever see. It also had some damn curious refereeing....
Synchronized Swimmers In Wolf Bathing Suits? Synchronized Swimmers In Wolf Bathing Suits
Meet Isabel Delgado Plancarte and Nuria Diosdado Garcia. They are a pair of Olympic synchronized swimmers from Mexico, and they both have rad wolves on their bathing suits because wolves are totally rad and fucking bad ass....