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Fantasy Football Loser Forced To Take Walk Of Shame
Reader Thomas sent along these photos, taken during Friday’s evening rush hour in Minneapolis. Without knowing anything else, I’d say someone finished last in their fantasy league last season....

Here Is The Trailer For That Will Smith Movie About The NFL And Concussions
Here’s the first trailer for Concussion, a very serious-looking movie about how Will Smith discovered CTE in the brains of football players and how the NFL tried to silence him with lots of mean stares....

Look Away From Dan Snyder's Mess, Nothing To See Here
If there’s one thing the Skins are good at (and there may be just the one), it’s leaking to the media. After an ESPN report had owner Dan Snyder clashing with his football people on the future of Robert Griffin III, it took mere hours for sources to run to both local and national reporters and insis...

Report: Dan Snyder Won't Allow Washington To Move On From RGIII
According to a report from ESPN’s Dianna Russini & Adam Schefter, the football operations people in charge of Washington want to get rid of Robert Griffin III. The only thing stopping them? Dan Snyder! Owners getting involved in day-to-day sports decisions almost always ends in disaster, especially ...

Frank Clark Keeps Punching People And This Time It's Philip Rivers
San Diego Chargers players are mad at Seattle Seahawks rookie Frank Clark today, after he punched Philip Rivers in a scrum during last night’s preseason game in San Diego. As you can see, Rivers holds onto Clark after the play, which looks like it angered him. King Dunlap emphatically pulled Clark o...

John Harbaugh Yells At Jay Gruden Then Bullies Sideline Reporter
John Harbaugh was not a very happy John last night. First, Washington linebacker Keenan Robinson sparked a brawl after pile driving Kamar Aiken down on his neck in the first quarter. Steve Smith and Chris Culliver were then ejected for doing some punches and Harbaugh’s blood also got to boiling, as ...

Montana Upsets Top-Ranked North Dakota State In Bonkers College Football Kickoff
Bob Stitt earned the Montana head coaching job by demonstrating an innovating offense at D-II Colorado School of Mines, and in his first game at the helm of the Grizzlies he managed the simple task of knocking off North Dakota State—NCAA Division I champions each of the past four seasons....

James Rockets In Free Kick Off The Woodwork
It’s no surprise that Real Madrid is managing things just fine today against Real Betis, but this free kick goal by James Rodríguez is anything but pedestrian. ...

What's Going On With Jay Gruden And RGIII?
Something shady is what. Last week, Robert Griffin III, the saddest man in the NFL, was left in a preseason game against the Lions for far too long behind an offensive line made up of cellophane and twigs and suffered a concussion that was initially diagnosed as a stinger....

Results Of Baylor Investigation: We Need Another Investigation
In reaction to one of its football players being convicted of sexually assaulting another student, Baylor announced it would investigate “the circumstances associated with this case.” Merely a week later, the university released results from the law professor-led investigation at 7 p.m. Central on a...

The NCAA Has Always Paid Players; Now It's Just Harder To Pretend They Don't
Contrary to popular belief, the NCAA has only ever truly enforced a nationwide prohibition on payments to athletes for three years—from 1948 to 1951. Prior to that, there was no NCAA-wide rule on scholarships at all, meaning that the full flowering of the popularity of college football prior to Worl...

Callum Wilson Overhead Kick Gives Bournemouth Lead On Leicester City
We noted here that AFC Bournemouth had the potential to be one of the Premiership’s most exciting clubs this season, and the Cherries haven’t let us down—with Callum Wilson’s acrobatic overhead kick putting his side up 1-0 in the first half today against Leicester City....

Twist-Ending Philly Bro Fight Is The Broiest Bro Fight Ever
Click for the drunken stumbling and the incredibly inaccurate flurry of fists, stick around for the heart-warming finale....

Wait, Floyd Mayweather Made <i>How Much </i>Money Last Year?
So a thing that’s been in the news recently is the ongoing exchange of sick burns between boxer “Fuckboy” Floyd Mayweather and mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey. This beef is verbal, with tension sparked and stoked by thickheaded, numbnutted clownmen who think that pitting an athlete of one sport ag...

Cool Old Movie Review: Pauline Kael On <i>Tequila Sunrise</i>
This review of Tequila Sunrise originally appeared in 1988 at The New Yorker and is reprinted here with permission from Pauline Kael’s daughter, Gina James....

Tim Beckman Fired For Forcing Players To Play Through Injury
The University of Illinois just announced the firing of head football coach Tim Beckman after an external review into the coach’s conduct revealed him to have put his players at risk....

Deadspin 25: Without Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin Is Just Whatever
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, ...

Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Carolina Panthers
Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

<i>Kickboxer </i>Is Even Sillier Than You Remember, And Even Better, Too
I’m pretty sure the first animated gif I ever saw was Jean-Claude Van Damme dancing in a Thai bar in Kickboxer. The image is the sort of thing that sticks with you: his khakis hiked up to a near-Urkel level, his spaghetti-strap tank top just barely managing to exist, his face contorted into what I g...
