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Former Racehorse Retires To A Quiet Life Of Painting
Metro was once a racehorse who won more than $300,000 in prize money at tracks like Saratoga and Belmont. These days, having retired with bad knees, Metro spends his days hanging around a stable in Rocky Ridge, Md., eating hay and dabbling in abstract painting....
The Texans Will Build The NFL's Two Largest Video Screens
Houston is mighty proud of its stadiums. When the Astrodome, the world's first domed multipurpose stadium became obsolete, they built Reliant Stadium, which just completely dwarfed it. But Reliant, somehow, remains the only field in the NFL without a digital scoreboard. And up in Arlington, Jerry Jo...
The 15 Best Peter Gammons Tweets Of 2012
Longtime baseball analyst Peter Gammons also shares his insight and knowledge via his Twitter account. Even when the season is over, Gammons will offer up his aperçus about baseball and life in general. Here are his best tweets from 2012....
Infographic: Watch More Coaches Climb Up Football's Hierarchies
Last week, after Cincinnati snagged Tommy Tuberville away from Texas Tech, we took a look at some of the longest chains of football-coach hirings in recent memory. Since then, this chain grew one link longer, as Texas Tech hired Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury to fill its vacant posi...
Last Night's Xavier-Cincinnati Game Started In A Remarkably Different Manner Than Last Year's Ended
Cincinnati continued its undefeated run to start the 2012-2013 college basketball season with a 60-45 win last night over Xavier in the Crosstown Rivalry. Of greater interest than the final score, though, is that the game happened at all—and in such cordial fashion. Last year's UC-X game, of course...
Report: Jets Will Look To Trade Mark Sanchez After This Season
As Manish Mehta of the Daily News is reporting, Mark Sanchez's days with the Jets may be coming to their inevitable end. As Mehta's sources indicate, the Jets will be looking to trade Sanchez after this season, the clear indication being that there would be some other team in the NFL that would be w...
Someone Threw A Sock Full Of Shit At A Woman In Chicago
The headline basically sums it up, but here's the disgusting rundown: A woman riding on a local transit train in Chicago was just minding her own business when a man, unprovoked, hurled a sock full of human feces at her and ran away. And you think your commute is crappy....
Jim Boeheim Sticks To His Guns On Gun Control
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: The Syracuse coach says this country's thought process is all screwed up....
Creaks And Reeks. Judd Apatow's <em>This Is 40</em>, Reviewed.
In recent years, critics have pegged writer-director Judd Apatow as the next James L. Brooks. That's meant to be high praise. Brooks—the director of movies like Broadcast News who, like Apatow, transitioned from television to film—managed to create sophisticated romantic comedies that mixed humor an...
Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Jason Garrett Or Mike Smith?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...
Lionel Messi Named The Third-Best Argentine Athlete Of 2012
How was your calendar year, Messi? Oh, not too bad, only the greatest of all time. (I know. He scores too many in the box. He needed more games than Müller. You could net 20 getting fed by Xavi and Iniesta. Whatever, it was amazing and he's amazing.) But great enough to be named the country's best a...
Phil Mickelson Won't Be A Padres Owner, Doesn't Have The Money Time
When the Padres were sold for $800 million, the new ownership group consisted of the family of former Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley, local businessman Ron Fowler, and, among others, hometown hero Phil Mickelson. Except, a weird thing happened. When the deal actually closed, Mickelson's name wasn't on...
James Naismith's Original Rules Of Basket Ball, Ranked
13. "6. A foul is striking at the ball with the fist, violation of Rules 3, 4, and such as described in Rule 5."...
Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Leslie Frazier Or Bill Belichick?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...
Tim Tebow And The Girl He Was Not Humping Are No Longer Not Humping Each Other
This hasn't been the best week for Tim Tebow. His Jets team was eliminated from playoff contention after suffering a humiliating loss on Monday Night Football, he was leapfrogged on the depth chart by third-stringer Greg McElroy, and now he has reportedly split from girlfriend Camilla Belle. Us Wee...
Constitutional Amendments, Ranked
1. Fourteenth 2. Fifth 3. Fourth 4. (tie) Thirteenth 4. (tie) Fifteenth 4. (tie) Nineteenth 7. Ninth 8. First 9. Sixth 10. Eighth 11. Seventh 12. Sixteenth 13. Twenty-fourth 14. Seventeenth 15. Twenty-third 16. Twenty-sixth 17. Twenty-fifth 18. Twenty-seventh 19. (tie) Third 19. (tie) Twentieth 21. ...
Alex Smith Has A Good Shot At Setting An NFL Passing Record This Season
It's been more than a month since Colin Kaepernick became the man in San Francisco. The Niners were 6-2, and Alex Smith's numbers were sparkling—not just for his supposed game-manager image, but up there with anyone in the league. And then Smith took a couple of hard hits in the first half of a game...
More People Watched A Rerun Of <i>NCIS</i> Than Lakers-Knicks: Last Week's TV Ratings, In Context
A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen, Sports Business Journal's John Ourand and @TVSportsRTGS. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all household...
Is Intentionally Missing A Free Throw With A Two-Point Lead And One Second Remaining A Good Idea?
Last night's Boston City League high school rivalry game between East Boston and Madison Park had the unlikeliest of finishes: With the score tied at 40, Madison Park's Johnny Bowden was fouled while attempting a three-pointer with one second remaining. Bowden was awarded three fouls shots, and he ...
The 10 Best Sports Infographics Of 2012
For those who don't really enjoy scrolling through Baseball Reference spreadsheets, there are some great artists and analysts out there constantly developing new ways to elegantly present the data of sports. Below are the 10 best sports infographics/data visualizations from 2012, in approximate orde...