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Athletes To Trump: What Kind Of Locker Room Are You Spending Time In?

It doesn’t take a locker room to make shitty men talk like shitty men amongst themselves, but at last night’s debate, Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that his 2005 comments that he used his wealthy status to sexually assault women by grabbing them by the pussy were “just locker room talk.” He...

Alana Beard Hits Buzzer-Beater To Give Sparks Game 1 Win In WNBA Finals

Today’s WNBA Finals Game 1 between the L.A. Sparks and Minnesota Lynx ended with a buzzer-beater from guard Alana Beard to give Los Angeles a 78-76 win and 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series....

D.C. City Council Owns Self

“What have you done for us, D.C. City Council?” asked the Nationals fan. “Well,” said the City Council, “we’ve ponied up over $700 million dollars to buy a stadium for a billionaire.”...

Soccer Player Gets His Finger All Gnarled To Hell In Freak Accident [WARNING: GRAPHIC]

This is a story of love, of toughness, and a horribly, disgustingly mangled finger. Proceed at your own caution....

Blake Griffin Picked Up A Cool New Skill In The Offseason (Throwing Shoes At People)

They say the summer is a time to refine your game, learn new skills, and hone your craft. Blake Griffin took that to heart, apparently, and his new skill is cool as hell. It’s throwing shoes at opponents. Cory Joseph probably thought he was not going to catch Jamal Crawford’s size 17 to the mouth to...

Down A Skipper, Western Bulldogs Capture First AFL Premiership In 62 Years

Were it not for Leicester City, the Western Bulldogs would have an easy claim to the most heartwarming underdog story of 2016....

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Landon Donovan And I Would Like To Announce Our Availability For The USMNT

In some ways, Landon Donovan and I are very different people. He is an internationally famous and widely beloved MLS legend who just recently decided to unretire from the sport he was born to play and rejoin the L.A. Galaxy. I am a largely anonymous yet widely loathed MLS hater who never played prof...

Rams Lose Lawsuits To PSL Holders They Left Behind In St. Louis

The Los Angeles Rams will have to offer some former St. Louis personal seat license holders the opportunity to buy season tickets in their new L.A. stadium, as well as refund the deposit for other former personal seat license holders, a federal judge ruled yesterday....

Las Vegas's Play For The Raiders Keeps Getting Shadier

With the public wising up to the con of taxpayer-financed stadiums, the group invested in moving the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas is doing all it can to remove the public from the process. And Roger Goodell and the NFL are loving it....

Carson Wentz Sure Looks Legit

Carson Wentz won the second straight start of his professional career over the Bears tonight, 29-14. The Bears are no great foe (Pro Football Focus had their secondary as the second-worst in football), but Wentz led his offense this evening with rare composure for a neophyte. He threw for 190 yards,...

Deadspin 25: Long Live Central Florida, Our College Football Overlords 

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, ...

Blind Brazilian Soccer Man Scores A Couple Bangers In The Paralympics

Meet Jefinho, the blind soccer five-a-side player who’s been called the “Paralympic Pelé.” In the semifinals of a Paralympics against China, Jefinho demonstrated how he earned such a lofty moniker by dusting the entire Chinese defense before cracking in a shot from distance—twice....

There's Actual Hardcore Porn Hiding In iOS 10 [NSFW]

Last night, we discovered that typing the word “butt” into iOS 10's new, baked-in GIF search leads you to a certain My Little Pony in a fairly compromised position. Apple’s already corrected that particular oversight, but they’re not done yet—because the new Messages app is also hiding actual, very ...

Finance Dudes Stroking It To Finance Jargon

A new startup has launched that offers a new way for savvy investors to loan you a little money and get a lot more money back from you in return. Or, to put it another way......

Big Shock: RGIII Is All Fucked Up Again

Robert Griffin III is essentially a human Jenga tower, and so anytime he gets on the field the question to ask is not “Hey, is RGIII gonna be good again?” but rather “So, how long is this going to last?” If yesterday’s season opener against the Eagles is any indication, the answer is “Not long!”...

Big, Stupid Falcons Stadium To Feature Big, Stupid Bird Statue

The Atlanta Falcons appear to be very committed to building the most batshit insane football stadium in American history. They already went and approved a design that will make the stadium resemble a robot’s anus, and now they are going to grace the grounds with what is purported to be the largest b...

Jabari Ruffin Suspended One Half For Crushing Alabama Player's Balls

USC linebacker Jabari Ruffin will miss the first half of the Trojans’ game against Utah State after being busted for stomping on Alabama cornerback Minkah Fitzpatrick’s balls....

ESPN's Paul Finebaum: "This Country Is Not Oppressing Black People"

The most commonly-espoused criticism of Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has centered on his method of protest rather than the injustices he takes issue with. Paul Finebaum does not count himself among this crowd....

Fox Football Announcers Shamelessly Stump For New Publicly Financed Stadium

During yesterday’s preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and Minnesota Vikings, Fox announcers Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch decided to shill on behalf of the people trying to steal $350 million from taxpayers so that they can build a new football stadium in San Diego. ...