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UK Tax Authorities Raid West Ham And Newcastle
Newcastle’s addiction to buying French players has finally caught up with the club. DeAndre Yedlin’s soon-to-be promoted club and Premier League club West Ham are both the subject of an investigation by the HM Revenue and Customs office, the UK’s tax authority, for alleged tax fraud. Newcastle boss ...
Florida's Go-To Stadium Economist Is A Hack, A Shill, And Also Not An Economist<em></em>
If you are even a casual Deadspin reader, you know a couple of truths: Stadiums and arenas provide little-to-no economic benefit to their communities, and studies written to support public funding for stadiums and arenas are almost universally bogus. Tampa CBS-affiliate WTSP found a frightening coll...
Wine Magnate Confesses To Defrauding Tim Duncan Out Of Millions
Charles Banks is a 49-year-old wine executive who runs Terroir Capital, an investment firm that’s put some $200 million into a variety of California wineries. Banks also invests in hotels and owns half of Mayacamas Winery, a 128-year-old winery in Napa, California. Banks met Tim Duncan in 1997 and D...
Nicki Minaj Is Out To Prove She's Better Than Remy Ma, And That Hip-Hop Is Dead
It’s a little sad that the latest high-profile edition of that classic, beloved hip-hop tradition—the rap beef—is yet more evidence of just how far the culture has fallen. Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma, two inarguably talented and entertaining rappers, have been going after each other on record for weeks,...
How Did Jorge Posada Become A First-Ballot Hall Of Fame Washout?
Amid the arguing over this year’s Hall of Fame, one of the weirder potential results involves no argument at all. Unless there’s a dramatic and unexpected late break in the voting, Jorge Posada—who as of this afternoon appeared on 10 of 239 known ballots in the ballot tracker—is going to miss the fi...
Missouri's Athletic Department Is Under NCAA Investigation For Alleged Academic Fraud
The University of Missouri Athletic Department is under investigation by the NCAA for alleged academic fraud after a former tutor revealed “widespread” cheating abetted by academic tutors. The school did not name any specific programs that were under scrutiny, but they announced that they were inves...
Did Robert Caruso Con The Washington Press—Or Is That What The Russians <i>Want </i>You To Think?
How hard is it to con people in Washington, D.C.? Easier than you might think, considering it’s the place where things like nuclear war get decided. The national-security circuit in particular, with its think tank fellowships and massive government contracts, is one of the juiciest rackets around....
Trump Supporter Arrested For Vote Fraud Claims Polls Are Rigged
An Iowa woman arrested on charges she voted twice for Donald Trump attempted to explain her behavior by stating that “the polls are rigged,” according to Iowa Public Radio....
Report: Kevin Johnson Beats Protestor To A "Bloody Pulp" At Farm-To-Table Event<em></em><em></em>
Kevin Johnson, disgraced soon-to-be former mayor of Sacramento, reportedly got violent with a protestor tonight at a farm-to-table event in Sacramento. According to the East Bay Express’ Nick Miller (an extremely reliable source on these sorts of things), the mayor got hit in the face with a pie, th...
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. ...
Kermit Washington Indicted, Arrested For Allegedly Running Charity Fraud Scheme
Former NBA player Kermit Washington—who had a 10-year career primarily with the Lakers and Trail Blazers but is best known for brutally punching Rudy Tomjanovich in the face—was arrested Tuesday night, after being indicted for allegedly running a charity fraud scheme. According to the Department of ...
Justin Bieber Is Still Trying To Convince Us He Can Ball
Justin Bieber just can’t help himself. The young pop star, in a breathtaking act of self-ownage, has already littered his Instagram account with videos of himself playing basketball in ways that range from the embarrassing to the downright fraudulent. And yet, here is, playing himself once again:...
Report: High School Basketball Star Actually A 29-Year-Old Man
The Catholic Central High School boys basketball team, located in Windsor, Ontario, has a pretty good player in Jonathan Nicola. The 6-foot-9 center is so good that his coach put together the workout video above, because, as he told the Windsor Star last year, Nicola had a shot at going pro. That dr...
Report: Panthers DE Kony Ealy Sued For Alleged Puppy Fraud
The Boerboel, a.k.a the South African Mastiff, is one of the biggest dog breeds in the world. Adults can top 200 pounds, and they were bred to guard farms and diamond mines down in South Africa. Look at this huge pup. His head’s the size of a dang Mini Cooper....
Eat Shit, Cardinals
By now, you know that the St. Louis Cardinals—the sports equivalent of the Duggar clan—are currently under investigation by the FBI for hacking into a Houston Astros database. (The FBI! That means they’re fucked.) And not only did they allegedly hack into another team’s system, but they allegedly di...
Former NBA All-Star Busted On "Massive Online Fraud" Charges
Police say Chris Gatling, whose 11-year NBA career saw him play for eight different teams, was the mastermind of a “massive online fraud” scheme that allegedly featured the 1997 All-Star stealing credit card numbers from people all over the country....
How To Fight A Debt-Collection Letter
At some point in this unblemished modern world of ours, you’re going to receive a letter claiming that you owe someone money. If it’s a real debt from a real bank or collections agency, then, yeah, unfortunately, you’re going to have to pay at least some of it somehow. But there’s also the likelihoo...
J.J. Watt Is A Goddamn Lying Clownfraud
"It's really minimalistic," he said. "There's no frills ... It's just an empty space and a log cabin and snow." You pictured a hovel on the taiga. A lean-to. Wind whistling between the rough-hewn and bark-clad logs. J.J. Watt waking, abundantly and ruggedly bearded, staggering outside in the pre...
44 Lies Roger Goodell Told In His Press Conference Today
"It has been a season of amazing competition, challenges and real progress."...
Ted Lilly Charged With Felony Insurance Fraud
Ted Lilly earned over $80 million in his baseball career, but that didn't stop him from trying to defraud Progressive Insurance out of $4,600, according to the California Department of Insurance. The Tribune in San Luis Obispo (Ca.) reports that Lilly was charged back in October with three felony co...