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Ryan Fitzpatrick Signs With Jets, Ending The Offseason's Most Futile Contract Standoff
Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Jets have finally agreed to a deal, per multiple reports. The disgruntled quarterback will make $12 million on a one-year deal....

Sources: Securities Class-Action Firm Exploring Lawsuit Against ESPN Parent Company
Deadspin has learned that ESPN’s recent loss of three million cable subscribers, which was followed by a significant drop in its parent company’s share price, has attracted the attention of a high-powered law firm that specializes in bringing class-action lawsuits on behalf of defrauded investors. ...

How Chris Froome Dominated The Tour De France
The 2016 Tour de France ended similarly to the last four Tours: the eventual champion grabbed the yellow jersey early and smashed the field for the rest of the race, with the help of their dominant team. The yellow jersey hasn’t changed hands in the last week of the race since 2011, and—save Vincenz...

Minor League Teams Get Straight To The Fightin'
Yesterday’s game between the Corpus Christi Hooks and the Frisco RoughRiders—the Double A affiliates of the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers, respectively—got out of hand in a damn hurry. ...

Wet Roads Had Everyone Falling At The Tour De France
The last summit finish of the 2016 Tour de France came and went, with the general classification race shaken up by a series of crashes more than anything. Chris Froome’s overall lead looked unassailable even before he won yesterday’s time trial, but the rest of the top ten has been a jumbled mess. T...

Dumbass Bear Gets Head Stuck In Empty Cheese Poof Container
Every bear knows that the greatest threat its dignity is a container of food big enough to fit over a hungry bear’s head. And so any bear that wants to avoid being labeled as a big idiot dumbass has to follow just one simple rule: don’t stick your big bear head in large food containers....

A New Episode Of "Food on Franklin," A Cult Favorite Of The Podcast Set
Both existing fans and new listeners of the much-discussed podcast “Food on Franklin” will be pleased to learn that a new episode is now available online. ...


Meet Oleg Tinkov, The Most Insane Sports Owner You Haven't Heard Of
The hubris and planet-sized egos of lunatic sports owners is a core Deadspin beat, from Joe Lacob’s horniness for the Larry O’Brien trophy, to Stan Kroenke’s dead raccoon hair, to Dan Gilbert’s simpering evil. When the Panthers’ owner gets a dang statue of himself with two actual panthers built out ...

There Should Be Movie Theaters In Airports
I have a good idea that you can NOT steal, but which you may hear. Are you ready? Here it goes: ...

Ryan Fitzpatrick's Standoff With The Jets Is Getting Dire
The standoff between Ryan Fitzpatrick and the New York Jets was already messy four months ago, when the team reportedly offered Fitzpatrick “backup money,” despite him having just turned in the kind of solid quarterbacking season the Jets have been sorely lacking in recent years. If you’re like me, ...

Giants Lose On Walk-Off Balk
What’s the most embarrassing way to lose a baseball game? An extra-innings walk-off balk has certainly got to be up there, and that’s precisely how the Giants lost to the Padres last night, when Santiago Casilla stumbled about the mound trying to throw a pitch. ...

Tour De France Descends Into Chaos, Leader Forced To Run Up A Damn Mountain
Chris Froome appeared to have the Tour de France by the balls through most of this afternoon’s mountain stage up to Mount Ventoux, parrying away Nairo Quintana’s first attack and dropping everyone who posed a threat to his Tour on the final climb. While distancing Quintana and the rest of the genera...

Mississippi State Coach Dan Mullen Has Family Issues
Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen wanted to talk about family at SEC Media Days yesterday, particularly when questions turned to five-star recruit Jeffrey Simmons. The freshman defensive end was hit with a one-game suspension in June, after video of him beating a woman emerged online. ...

Pissing Tour de France Rider Calls Peeping Cameraman A "Fucking Wanker"<em></em>
Highlights are hard to come by at the Tour de France. Cameramen are always on the lookout for weird little moments, like Taylor Phinney playing one of those weird shell helmets like a drum or Alejandro Valverde reading the newspaper. However, sprint genius Mark Cavendish stopping for a pee break isn...

Stay Out Of Chris Froome's Way If You Don't Want To Get Punched
Heading into the first rest day of the Tour de France, Chris Froome holds the yellow jersey by a slim margin. Nairo Quintana, Adam Yates, and a few other plucky challengers are right there with him, but Froome and Team Sky have done what they do every year: wring the life out of every vaguely hilly ...

Cristiano Ronaldo Dominated The Euro 2016 Final Without Even Playing
Eventually, as the days become months and months become years after yesterday’s Euro 2016 final, where Portugal bested France in extra time, no one will remember that it was the poorly played—though passionate—conclusion to a tournament that itself was stuffed with teams that played like our endeari...

Sweet Little Portuguese Boy Consoles Crying French Fan
It’s going to be so sad when these two grow up and are beating the shit out of each other in Euro 2024....

Jake Peavy Catches Buster Posey's Throw Without Even Realizing It<em></em>
It is a testament to Buster Posey’s abilities that he didn’t nail Jake Peavy in the head on this throw during Saturday’s game....