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An Interview With A Good Boy
The 142nd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show goes down today and tomorrow in New York City. In lieu of a preview, Deadspin arranged an exclusive sit-down with a 5-year-old black Labrador retriever named Zeal—one of the favorites in the obedience competition—and his owner, Petra Ford....
Sorry, But Russia Is Awesome: An Olympic Men's Hockey Preview
The Olympics are when the greatest athletes from all over the world gather to compete in their respective sports. Except for men’s hockey this year....
Some Ridiculous Winds Couldn't Keep Jamie Anderson From Another Slopestyle Gold
The snowboarding women’s slopestyle final at this Olympics was a frustrating, unfair event, marked by high winds that cancelled the qualifying round and screwed with pretty much every competitor in the final. Still, despite the awful conditions that even cut down on the number of runs each woman cou...
Welcome To The Adam Rippon Show
American figure skater Adam Rippon, whose butt is real and whose whole vibe is spectacular, made his Olympic debut at age 28 last night. He’s a star now....
Bobby Portis Plays Role In Derrick Rose-To-Wizards Conspiracy To Perfection
Saturday night, with the Bulls hosting the Wizards, teammate puncher Bobby Portis sent not one but both available Wizards point guards to the locker room with bloody head wounds. Clearly, clearly, this is part of the grand conspiracy to bring Derrick Rose to the Washington Wizards. ...
NBC Apologizes for Calling Japan An "Example" To Koreans
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, from 1910 until 1945, was characterized by executions, forced labor, systematic rape of so-called “comfort women,” and other human rights atrocities. Japan’s whitewashing of this time period in their history books today is a c...
We Got A Minor-League Hockey Goalie Fight
The Walleye no longer play at the Toledo Sports Arena, but the ECHL action tonight brought back memories of that smoke-filled brawlatorium as tonight’s game against the Kansas City Mavericks got feisty in the third period:...
Report: Free Agent Yu Darvish Signs $150 Million Deal With Chicago Cubs
Hey, would you look at that! A good baseball player has signed a free agent contract with a good baseball team! So it’s not impossible!...
Answer For Your Awful Basketbloggers, Warriors Fans
What the hell am I even reading right now?...
Bring Back Speed Skiing
Everybody knows the downhill is the best Winter Olympics event. The speed! The danger! The mind-boggling athleticism of the participants! The weird cowbell! I love it so much. If there were a downhill skiing network in my cable package, I would watch it for hours every day. I cannot get enough of th...
Okay, About The Cold At The Olympic Opening Ceremony
Here is how excited everyone in Pyeongchang was about how cold it was going to be at the Opening Ceremony: The press conference put on by the Korea Meteorological Administration was the hottest ticket at the Media Press Centre this past week. On one of the shuttle buses, a photographer who had atten...
USOC Will Not Make Personnel Changes Until After Independent Investigation Into Their Handling Of Larry Nassar
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—Hours before the opening ceremony, United States Olympic Committee board of directors chairman Larry Probst opened the organization’s first press conference of the Pyeongchang Olympics with an acknowledgement. “I want to address upfront what many of you came here rightly to...
More Than 40 Russian Athletes Lose Appeal, Will Not Compete In Pyeongchang
A group of 47 Russian athletes and coaches who challenged the International Olympic Committee’s decision to bar them from participating in this year’s games has been shut down by an appeals court....
Of Course The Israeli Skater Performed To "Hava Nagila"
Alexei Bychenko, a figure skater representing Israel, competed today in the team event. He did very well, putting out one of the few clean programs of the men’s competition. After the ten men skated, he found himself in second place behind Shoma Uno of Japan. This was a very unexpected, positive res...
Nathan Chen Struggles In Olympic Debut
Figure skater Nathan Chen, one of the most hyped American athletes heading into the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, made his Olympic debut tonight, and unfortunately, his performance was a major disappointment....
Anyway, Here's Paul Anka's Jazzy Cover Of "Wonderwall" Used In A Figure Skating Routine
This is the first Winter Olympics in which single figure skaters can perform to music with lyrics, allowing for some wonderful creative freedom. Germany’s Paul Fentz has chosen to use it to treat the world to Paul Anka’s swing jazz cover of “Wonderwall.” ...
Predictions For Every Winter Olympic Gold Medal<em></em>
No major sporting event has less betting surrounding it than the Olympics. I’m not sure why that is, but trust me, it’s true. You haven’t hit rock bottom until you’ve spent 30 minutes unsuccessfully scouring the internet trying to place a bet on a massive bobsled underdog....
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Fox News VP Bemoans Diverse U.S. Olympic Team: "Darker, Gayer, Different" [UPDATE] <em></em>
The Olympics start tomorrow. Figure skating! Bobsleigh! International politics! Russian doping! A chance to tell everyone about how the Olympics is a global con that leaves host cities in crippling debt! Whatever your hobby horse, there’s plenty to get excited about right now. With that in mind, let...
Curling Fans Want You To Know Curling Isn't As Easy As It Looks
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — It’s about 36 hours before the Opening Ceremony and in a stadium in the coastal city of Gangneung, there’s a packed house for the first event of the 2018 Olympics: mixed doubles curling. I assumed everyone in attendance would be there to extrapolate geopolitical tensions f...
Paul George Is Everything The Thunder Need Him To Be
Last night, the Thunder traveled to Oakland and were the best version of themselves, a team that overwhelms and antagonizes the opponent while producing bushels of cool-ass highlights. If you’re into Warriors schadenfreude then you probably relished Draymond Green getting ejected for yelling a whol...