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Bret Bielema's Tiny Dogs Cannot Be Contained
I present to you now: Bret Bielema’s tiny dogs (who appear to be silky terriers). A quick bit of Instagram snooping reveals that they are football fans; Bret Bielema’s Twitter reveals that they care little for home cleanliness. ...

This Is How You Celebrate Catching A Foul Ball
Oh yeah baby, oh yeah! Someone give me a high-five!...

Vikings Announce That Teddy Bridgewater's Knee Is All Fucked Up
After Teddy Bridgewater crumpled to the ground with a non-contact injury this afternoon, reports out of Vikings camp were grisly yet unspecific. Everyone on the scene had players forming prayer circles, barfing, and crying, but word on a specific diagnosis didn’t come for a while longer. This evenin...

Do You Know the Second Verse to "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells"?
Playground folk culture is oddly, comfortingly consistent. Small children laugh themselves stupid over the same dumb material, then grow up and move on while their dumb jokes and rhymes stay behind, to be discovered by new generations. So my four-year-old came back from baseball day camp singing an ...

Three Minor Leaguers Arrested After Wild Bar Brawl
On Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ AAA affiliate Indianapolis Indians beat the Toledo Mud Hens, the Tigers’ AAA club, 6-2. After the game, several players from both clubs went to The Bronze Boar, a sports bar across the street from the Mud Hens’ stadium. Pirates prospects Gift Ngoepe and Dovyd...

Marco Rubio On Whether He’ll Do His Job: “No One Can Make That Commitment<em></em>”<em></em>
Marco Rubio, a former presidential candidate who got trounced in his own state and is best known for never showing up to work, wants to be your senator, kind of. Because while he almost certainly wants to get elected, he just can’t say that he’ll be around to actually do the job itself. ...

Australian Tennis Guy To Spectator: "I Will Put My Balls In Your Mouth"
Bernard Tomic is mad! How mad? Mad enough to tell a heckling spectator, in front of the on-court mics and everyone, to suck his balls. ...

Baylor Receiver Suspended Three Games For Beating Dog With Belt
Ishmael Zamora, the Baylor receiver caught on film whipping and stomping his Rottweiler, has been suspended three games by the university for animal abuse. ...

Deadspin 25: Put The Botched Punt On Loop, Because Michigan Is Going To Be Good As Hell
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

USC Linebacker Suspended Amid Two Separate Sexual Assault Allegations
Osa Masina, USC’s back-up weakside linebacker, has been suspended from this Saturday’s season-opener against Alabama for what the Trojans’s athletic department is deeming “a violation of team rules.” ...

Lawsuit: University Of Arkansas Tried To Wait to Expel Olympic Athlete Until He'd Graduated
A former tennis player at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville filed a lawsuit August 22 alleging the university mishandled a Title IX investigation and subsequent expulsion of a fellow student-athlete and one-time Olympian whom she says sexually assaulted her on campus in 2014. ...

Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Green Bay Packers<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
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It Looks Like Something Very Bad Just Happened To Teddy Bridgewater [Update]
Update: At a press conference this afternoon, the Vikings announced that Teddy Bridgewater suffered a “significant” knee injury, but that the full extent of the injury is still unknown. The team did not give a timetable for how long Bridgewater might be out....

Two Osprey Chicks Brilliantly Survive Bald Eagle Raid (One Does Not)
The Audubon Society has a livestream of an osprey nest in Hog Island, Maine, where this spring viewers were delighted to see the parents, Steve and Rachel, hatch three adorable osprey chicks. After a bald eagle attack earlier this month, they are down to two chicks, because nature could not give the...
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Rodney Harrison: "Colin Kaepernick, He's Not Black" [Update]
NBC football analyst Rodney Harrison was on a local sports radio show in Houston this morning, and he offered a truly bewildering take on the Colin Kaepernick situation....

Jamal Crawford Fakes Going Behind The Back
Jamal Crawford has been in the league forever, but he’s still got some new tricks. Playing in the Seattle Pro-Am league final on Sunday, Crawford cleared some space with a nifty move I can’t even name....

San Francisco Police Union To Colin Kaepernick: What About Black-On-Black Crime?
These days, no storm of takes is complete until the president of a police union—a position often occupied by a screeching dipshit—has weighed in on the hot-button issue of the day. So obviously Martin Halloran, the president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, had to write a letter to ...

How To Measure Your Kid's Dick
Don’t. What the fuck is wrong with you?...

Derek Carr Throws A Behind-The-Back Spiral
I’m unreasonably impressed by this clip, of Raiders QB Derek Carr messing around in practice and hitting Connor Cook in stride with a behind-the-back pass that features a better spiral than anything Ryan Fitzpatrick could muster the regular way....
