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Patrick Kane's Lawyer Is Arguing With People On Facebook
Patrick Kane’s attorney Paul Cambria felt compelled today to reply to a Facebook post about the news that an off-duty Buffalo cop served as Patrick Kane’s driver the night he allegedly raped a woman at his home. The thread’s on the private Facebook page of Buffalo-based blogger Alan Bedenko; a reade...
Percy Harvin Explains Why He Beat Up Two Seahawks Teammates
The Buffalo News has a mini-profile of new Bills receiver Percy Harvin, the point of which is to show Harvin as a man at a crossroads. Will he go on being an alleged locker-room cancer, or will a fresh start in Buffalo be what he needs to finally reach his potential? That’s all worth considering, bu...
Golf Is In A Very Good Place
We have to resist the hype and hyperbole, because we’ve given in so many times before and been burned: but 2015 really does feel like the year golf moved beyond Tiger Woods....
Bubba Watson Tried To Lawyerball Some Ants
On 5 yesterday, Bubba Watson’s ball came to rest against an anthill. That led to a genial discussion with a rules official over whether Watson was allowed to take a drop. The official classified the anthill as a “loose impediment”; Watson countered that ants, technically, are “burrowing animals.” Bo...
Bad Bullfighter Gored Again
A few months back we covered torero Jiménez Fortes, who suffered a gruesome and grave wound after being gored in the neck. Fortes returned to the ring this weekend in Vitigudino and once again ended up in the hospital after being, that’s right, gored in the neck....
Jason Day Wins PGA Championship, Is Probably Still Crying
Jason Day held off Jordan Spieth to win this weekend’s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, seizing his first major after finishing three times as a runner-up—and doing it in record-setting fashion....
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Report: Off-Duty Cop Chauffeured Patrick Kane On Night Of Alleged Rape
According to a report from The Buffalo News, Thomas English—a police lieutenant with the city of Buffalo—drove Patrick Kane, his alleged rape victim, and two other people from SkyBar in downtown Buffalo out to Kane’s home in Hamburg early on August 2, the night of the alleged rape. The News also rep...
San José Opens Supercopa Scoring With Strike From Midfield
Athletic Bilbao took a surprising 1-0 lead on Barcelona in today’s first leg of the Spanish Supercopa with San José catching Marc-Andre ter Stegen off his line after an attempted clearance and launching a strike from inside the center circle....
We Might Have The Goal Of The Year Already In This Filthy Scorpion Kick
Take a bow, Carsten Kammlott. This is some piece of work. Here’s the full video:...
Wiffle Ball Player Invents New Way To Rob A Home Run
Here’s some shit you might not know: serious wiffle ball players are secretly America’s greatest athletes. If you don’t believe me, just go ahead and start the video above....
Women Harassed By Ex-Minnesota AD Come Forward, Call His Behavior "Frightening"
The two women who notified the University of Minnesota about Norwood Teague’s sexual harassment, including all those gross text messages he sent them, released a joint statement. Ann Aronson and Erin Dady say in the statement that they had intended to keep their names confidential and the university...
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: 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 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Mike Scioscia Called "Bush League" For Trying To Freeze Opposing Pitcher
White Sox closer David Robertson accused Angels manager Mike Scioscia of intentionally blocking the plate during an argument with umpires so Robertson couldn’t stay warm, a charge Scioscia denied....
Anthony Rizzo Climbs Onto Tarp To Make Phenomenal Catch
For the second night in a row a wannabe-Spiderman baseball player climbed on top of field equipment in a daring attempt to catch a foul pop-up. Tonight it was Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, and after clambering on top of the field tarp and falling into the stands, he made the catch. ...
Anderson Silva Says The Steroids Found In His System Are From Penis Drugs
For a time, Brazilian mixed martial artist Anderson Silva was the greatest fighter on Earth. He might be the greatest fighter of all time. But all things, even or especially the best things, come to an end, and Silva got knocked out by Chris Weidman, and then broke his leg in the rematch, and now we...
Tom Brady Looks Like He's Melting In His Courtroom Sketch
Judge Richard Berman held a hearing in New York Federal Court today for Tom Brady’s civil case against Roger Goodell and the NFL, and Berman did his best to move the process along as both sides’ legal teams took shots at each other, but the best part of the whole event was the courtroom sketch of Br...
Sean Price, RIP: In Praise Of The Brokest Rapper You Know
If Sean Price’s rap career had ended in 1996—if his only contribution to the genre was that year’s ingenious Nocturnal, the debut album from his duo Heltah Skeltah—he would still be worthy of the respect, admiration, and mourning that has poured forth since the announcement of his sudden death this ...
I Don't See Any Way The Raiders Stay In Oakland
The NFL’s Los Angeles tarantella has felt interminable, but it has finally reached a critical stage. With three teams seeking to move, and the league hell-bent on relocating one or two of them, everything comes down to the battle between St. Louis, San Diego, and Oakland to tender their respective t...