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The Curse Of Ben Affleck's Birth Strikes Red Sox Again
By now, you may be tangentially aware that a Ben Affleck Birthday curse exists for the Boston Red Sox. It goes like this: since Good Will Hunting debuted in 1997, the Red Sox have never won a game on August 15th, Ben Affleck's birthday. Why Good Will Hunting? Probably because no one saw Chasing ...
This Child Is So Amped For Jaguars Preseason Football
Chad Henne? Toby Gerhart? Field goals? This tyke is all for it. Give him that preseason Jaguars sweetness; he can't get enough....
Arian Foster Continues To Troll The Media
After Arian Foster gave the exact same answer 11 times in a 90-second interview, he got a letter from the NFL threatening a fine if he didn't start being more cooperative with the media. So Foster agreed to an interview with reporters after yesterday's practice, and he added a few twists to his old ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Kansas City Chiefs
Some people are fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....
Steve Smith Details Exactly How He'd Bully You At Lunch
Steve Smith has long been one of the best interviews in the NFL, and his move to the Baltimore Ravens doesn't seem to have done much to change that fact....
Gerry Austin, What Are You Doing?
This is Gerry Austin, ESPN's version of Mike Pereira, quickly leaving the booth at the end of the Bears-Jaguars game tonight. This is also Gerry Austin quickly re-entering the booth moments later. We don't know what he's doing tiptoeing around like a cartoon villain, but it's preseason for the refer...
Sammy Watkins Is Out Here Embarrassing Dudes
The Sammy Watkins low-res highlight reel keeps on picking up clips. This latest one is from Steelers beat writer Mark Kaboly, taken during a joint practice with the Bills this afternoon. Watkins completely turns around Steelers cornerback Lew Toller and just blows past him. It's the ankle-breaking c...
The Jets Took Fireman Ed Out To Lunch And Tried To Woo Him Back
Jets superfan Fireman Ed retired from the superfan game a few years ago, so now he's just Fireman Ed. Actually, he's retired from firefighting, too, so he's just Ed Anzalone. Anyway, the New York Jets are so desperate for that superfan-led J-E-T-S chant that they tried to wine and dine Ed back into ...
Ribeyes, Helicopter Rides, And Booze: How San Antonio Wooed The Raiders
Would you like a $2,005 dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse? A corner room at the Grand Hyatt? Do you want someone else to pay for all this? Of course! All you need is to own an NFL team. Any team will do, even the Raiders. ...
What Happens To Golf After Tiger?
By the time Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy won the 96th PGA Championship on Sunday, his second major in as many months and fourth overall, the man whose mantle he seems poised to assume had long since left the property. In 36 holes at Valhalla Golf Club, near Louisville, an ailing Tiger Woods scarc...
<em>Safe</em> Is The Best Jason Statham Movie
You can learn a lot about someone from his or her favorite Jason Statham movie. For instance, if your pick is Crank (or, fucking hell, Crank 2), I know you don't really like Jason Statham movies that much. Those are built on a fun concept, and they have a few great ideas, but they're Mountain Dew co...
Chip Kelly Is Basically The Eagles' Life Coach
We've figured out by now that Eagles head coach Chip Kelly is a guy who likes to let his work speak for him, but in Seth Wickersham's feature, for which Kelly declined to talk, we get details of how far Kelly's influence seeps into his players' minds....
Why Your Team Sucks 2014: San Diego Chargers
Some people are fans of the San Diego Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the San Diego Chargers. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....
Did You Buy Terry Glenn's Old Playbook? Can We See It?
Former NFL player Terry Glenn had the contents of his delinquent storage unit auctioned off this week. Items for sale included the kinds of things you usually find in the possession of an athlete who used to have a lot of disposable income—arcade machines, mountains of memorabilia, an air-soft gun!—...
NFL Considering Increased Penalties For Domestic Violence
Hearing the backlash to the Ray Rice suspension, the NFL has reportedly had internal discussions about increasing the penalties for future cases of domestic violence. According to the Washington Post, the league has discussed a suspension of four to six game for a first offense and a potential year-...
Thirsty-Ass Browns Rookie Gets His Thirst Quenched With Dick Pics
Here's a story about a Browns rookie, a reader's lovely wife, and the thirst. Use this as a teaching moment....
Why Your Team Sucks 2014: New Orleans Saints
Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....
Cowboys And Raiders Brawl At Joint Practice
The Cowboys and Raiders held a joint practice today in Oxnard, California. They did so in front of a significant police presence because Oxnard's two largest gangs—Colonia Chiques and the Southside Chiques—wear the colors of the Cowboys and Raiders, respectively. It wasn't the gangs that broke t...
Roger Goodell Dumps Ice Water On Head For ALS Awareness, Is Clueless
In an effort to make people hate Roger Goodell less, the person in charge of Roger Goodell's Twitter account posted a video of the commissioner doing the Ice Bucket Challenge today....
Orlando Scandrick Got Boned By The NFL's Stupid Drug Testing Policy
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick has been suspended for the first four games of the season after testing positive for PEDs. This is dumb, because while Scandrick did have drugs in his system when he was tested, if his version of events is true, there's no way that the drugs he took should...