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Deadspin's Favorite Vines Of 2015
The Deadspin staff picked their favorite Vines from 2015, and you won’t be surprised to learn that many of them include maniacal dogs. Please enjoy. ...
You Could Probably Start For The Yankees, But Their Bullpen Is Absolutely Terrifying
The New York Yankees have acquired Aroldis Chapman, the hardest-throwing pitcher in baseball, from the Cincinnati Reds for a package of four mostly unheralded minor leaguers....
Deadspin's Best Long Stories Of 2015
We wrote a lot of long stories this year that you probably didn’t have time to read. Now is your chance to get caught up....
CNN's Poppy Harlow Passes Out Live On-Air
Poppy Harlow’s Monday isn’t going so well; the CNN anchor passed out live on the air, returning after several minutes with the explanation that “I got a little hot and I passed out for a moment”:...
Bill Belichick Had A Plan, It Just Backfired Completely
By now we know that the Patriots’ decision to kick off to start overtime wasn’t a mistake—or at least, not the one it appeared to be at the time. New England never touched the ball in their 26-20 OT loss to the Jets, and while the outcome wasn’t by design, the strategy was. Whether or not it was a w...
Seven Or So On One Or So
This, from AP shooter Andy Clayton-King, is a hell of a photo (as noted by ESPN’s ESPN on NFL Twitter account)....
Patriots Lose After Screwing Up Overtime Coin Toss [UPDATE]
Eric Decker hauled in a game-winning touchdown catch after the Jets were gifted the ball in overtime thanks to a colossal screwup by the New England Patriots....
Falcons End Panthers Undefeated Season
The Carolina Panthers’ bid to become the third 15-0 team in NFL history went down in Atlanta this afternoon as the Atlanta Falcons took them down 20-13. MVP-favorite Cam Newton threw for a paltry 142 yards, but he rushed for 46 yards and a touchdown. Julio Jones carried the Falcons with 178 yards an...
Cam Newton Turned This Into A First Down, Somehow
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Here Is The Full Documentary That Accuses Peyton Manning And Others Of Doping [UPDATE]
Al-Jazeera America dropped the full The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers documentary on YouTube before its scheduled airing this evening, finally allowing us a look at the allegations HGH was shipped to Peyton Manning’s house along with numerous other claims connecting professional athletes w...
Tom Cleverley's Long Header Beats Newcastle On Final Touch Of The Match
Everton downed Newcastle today 1-0 thanks to a 93rd-minute long-range header by Tom Cleverley that proved to be the final touch of the match....
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
It’s Christmas Day, and you know what that means: time to plumb the depths of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits. We’re looking for the weirdest, least explicable, and most awkward objects that America has shoved inside its various holes. God bless us, ev...
Enjoy Some Of The Most Ridiculous Christmas Wish Lists Ever Written
If you got what you wanted for Christmas, that’s probably in part because you didn’t ask for, say, “A little thing that can turn into anything at anytime.” This would set you apart from the authors of the lists below, some of whom got some of what they wanted, some of whom just couldn’t possibly hav...
The 100 Most Popular Deadspin Posts Of 2015
Time to take a look back at our most popular posts of 2015. We have our own thoughts about what our best posts were, but these are the ones that brought in the most readers....
The Worst American Sportswriting Of 2015
As we’ve noted before, sportswriting tends to follow what you might call the Anna Karenina Principle. The good stuff—the stuff that makes year-end lists like Longreads’s and Richard Deitsch’s—is all, on a certain level, the same, similarly structured long profile after similarly structured long prof...
The Year In Bills Fans
The Buffalo Bills may have disappointed this season, but their fans did not. The Zubaz-clad faithful went through tables, chugged beers in unconventional ways, and committed all sorts of debauchery in and around Ralph Wilson Stadium. To recap the year, we’ve put together a non-exhaustive compilation...
Police Want To Talk To These Women About The Theft Of $750K In Jewelry From Derrick Williams
NYPD released this surveillance video today, of two women wanted for questioning in the Dec. 19 theft of three-quarters of a million dollars in jewelry from the apartment of Knicks forward Derrick Williams....
Kristaps Porzingis Got The Hell Out Of LeBron's Way
Kristaps Porzingis still has a lot to learn in this league, but he’s got one of the more important aspects of self-preservation down pat: when LeBron James has a head of steam, make sure you’re not in his path....
Odell Beckham's Suspension Upheld
After his appeal hearing this afternoon, Giants WR Odell Beckham’s one-game suspension for basically assaulting Josh Norman was upheld. He’ll miss Sunday night’s game against the Vikings....
The Best Things We Watched In 2015
Here, now, are our favorite films, TV shows, and pieces of internet ephemera of the year. Thank you for your time....