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FIFA Financial Watchdog Arrested For Corruption
If it surprises you to know that there's a FIFA financial watchdog group, you may find it less surprising to learn that one of the members of this group has been arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering....
Young Red Sox Fan Hands Foul Ball To Girl Behind Him, Is The Realest
This kid was the smoothest person in Fenway Park Friday night. The 12-year-old got a foul ball in the fourth inning of the Blue Jays-Red Sox game, and handed it back to the young girl behind him without any hesitation. She was pretty happy....
This Game Has Been No <em>Vacation</em> For Arkansas State
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A.J. McCarron Never Did This
Alabama is, predictably, crushing FAU—and Blake Sims is a big reason....
This Is What Happens When Punters Try To Tackle
(CMU is still, at the moment, beating Purdue.)...
How To Make Creamy Polenta, Which Puts The "Gruel" Back In "Grueling"
There's no way around it: Making real, from-scratch creamy polenta is a pain in the ass. Right from the jump: You have to find the right kind of cornmeal, and it's annoying; then you have to cook it for a long time, and that is also annoying; and god, what if you fuck it up, after all that, won't...
Today's College Football Viewing Schedule
The rest of the college football world was good enough to get out of the way of Stanford vs. USC at 3:30, and that was very nice of them. The only exceptions were a handful of Ohio and Kentucky schools who just had to make 3:30 today the time when all Ohio vs. Kentucky football beefs were settled....
Watch Two Milers Vie For Dumbest In-Race Decision
Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 1500-meters, already lost one race this year by celebrating too early. That didn't stop him for going for the repeat in the final Diamond League 1500m of the year in Brussels on Friday, giving away his advantage in the final straight...
You Will Never Be As Cool As Brock Hekking
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Mystery Woman Linked To Jerry Jones Scandal Tells Her Side Of The Story
Earlier today, we received a press release from an attorney representing Jana Weckerly, a woman who has previously been linked to those gross photos of Jerry Jones and some strippers. Until now, we didn't know for sure how Weckerly was, if at all, involved in the saga. After speaking to Weckerly's...
Jim Harbaugh Says Ray McDonald Will Play On Sunday
Niners DT Ray McDonald will start on Sunday, exactly one week after he arrested on suspicion of domestic violence after an incident with his pregnant fiancée....
The Most Popular Fantasy Team Names
Slate's done the dirty work here, identifying the 30 most common fantasy football team names, as well as the most popular by NFL team....
Florida Man Allegedly Attacks Men In His Golf Group With Broken Putter
One Labor Day golf foursome in Florida turned into a nightmare when a 38-year-old man in the group lost his temper, hit another member with a putter, and threatened the others with the then-broken putter....
Adam Schefter Was Once Pranked Into "Reporting" John Elway's Nipple Ring
In a SportsJournalists.com message board thread on this week's excellent Adam Schefter profile in the Washington Post, one long-memoried poster recalled a wonderful story from Schefter's days on the Broncos beat, one of the better and meaner sports media pranks of all time....
What Playing Football Does To Your Body
The paperback version of Nate Jackson's Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile is now on sale. It's got new material, and we'll have some of that on the site next week. Below is an adapted excerpt from the book we ran last year. It's still painfully timely....
Tell Us Your Horrifying Animal Tales
Today in Deadspin's staff chatroom, a discussion of bad encounters with animals led to Gawker Art Director Jim Cooke sharing a truly horrifying animal story. The transcript is below. Please be warned that it is approximately 500 times more upsetting than when the little dinosaur chases the mom-s...
Latest "Redskins Fact" Is Actually Pretty Critical Of The Team Name
So let's see what's being promoted into our Twitter timelines today......
Old Cardinals Fan: Porn-y Fast Food Ad Made Stan Musial Cry In Heaven
A gentleman by the name of Steve Rupp has penned a letter to the editors of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and it is a wonderful letter that you should go read. It is a letter that could have only been written by a very old man who is also a Cardinals fan....