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Get A Load Of This Absolutely Nutso Tornado Kick Knockout
Romanian kickboxer Eduard Gafencu is only 10 fights into his young professional career, but he already has a career-defining knockout. Gafencu defended his Colosseum Tournament 81-kg belt against poor Thomas Doeve today in Bucharest, Romania, and even though Doeve is thrice as experienced as Gafencu...
Tiger Woods Advances In Match Play Championship After Holing Out From 82 Yards Away
Tiger Woods needed to come up clutch at the end of his final group stage game at the World Golf Championship match play event in Austin to stave off early elimination. He trailed Patrick Cantley from the sixth through tenth holes this afternoon, and seemed headed for his second straight match play ...
The woefully overmatched basketball player who was tasked with guarding 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall in a high school game spoke to the Washington Post about his moment, immortalized on the internet and resurfaced when UCF played Duke. “Just know I made sure he didn’t score on me or dunk on me,” Nyquel Alexa...
Read All The Snippy Emails The Ricketts Family Sent Each Other While Trying To Buy The Cubs
Earlier today we published a (very long) story that provided a detailed insider’s view of the Ricketts family’s 2009 purchase of the Chicago Cubs. Included in that story are a bunch of emails revealing that a significant amount of intra-family squabbling took place during the sale process. In the in...
Why Are Mets Fans Mets Fans?
The freezing rain that was forecast for later in the day of the Queens Baseball Convention never really materialized. It was still unpleasant out, but this was winter in New York City. It was at least near to the end of the worst part of winter—before pitchers and catchers were even obliged to get t...
Giannis Antetokounmpo<em></em> Made A Little Girl Cry Because He Loved Her Artwork So Much
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the few people in sports who manages to strike the seemingly impossible balance between being a highly competitive, elite professional athlete—who does extremely rude dunks—and being a genuinely good guy....
Roger Federer Booted Up The Wii Tennis
To kick off their Miami Open quarterfinal Thursday night, Roger Federer handed Kevin Anderson a bagel. It was one of just six sets the big-serving Anderson has ever lost 6-0 in a 12-year ATP career, and his first-ever bagel in an opening set. Here’s how Federer chose to cut it up:...
Texas Tech Drained Michigan Of Its Will To Live
Texas Tech sucked the life out of Michigan in the most brutal of ways on Thursday night, riding adequate offense and criminally exasperating defense to a 63-44 win and a trip to the Elite Eight. For all 40 minutes, the two-seeded Wolverines didn’t look like they even belonged on the same court as th...
The Inside Story Of How The Ricketts Family Schemed And Feuded Their Way To Owning The Chicago Cubs
On October 27, 2009, the Ricketts family officially purchased a 95 percent ownership stake in the Chicago Cubs from the Tribune Company, bringing an end to a long, arduous, and complex sale process. Now, thanks to a cache of emails and documents obtained by Deadspin, more details from that process c...
Vile Cardinals Thwarted By Lorenzo Cain's Game-Ending Dong-Robbery
Opening Day, baby! Many good teams—the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Astros, the A’s—looked impressive; certain lousy teams—looking straight at you, Orioles—looked inept in a way that is possible to find charming in the very first game of the year. But wherever your team fell in all of thi...
Robert Kraft Has A Whole New Argument For Keeping His Massage Parlor Video Out Of The Public Record<em></em>
Robert Kraft really doesn’t want you seeing the tape of him recorded by authorities inside the Orchids of Asia Day Spa where, according to Jupiter police, he twice received sexual acts in return for money. Last week, his legal team tried arguing there were pieces of the state’s public record law tha...
Reports: A $15 Candle, Purchased As A Prank, Is What Got Jordan Bell Suspended
The uncommonly complex saga of the one-game suspension of Warriors second-year center Jordan Bell took another twist Thursday. To recap: Bell was suspended from Wednesday’s game in Memphis because he reportedly charged a purchase at the team hotel to the bill of assistant coach Mike Brown. Initial r...
Greg Schiano Abruptly Resigns From Patriots To "Spend More Time On My Faith And Family"
The Patriots will not be turned into Schiano Men. Former Buccaneers and Ohio State coach Greg Schiano, who had just been tabbed as New England’s defensive coordinator in February, announced his resignation today. The team hadn’t yet officially announced his hire, but he’s already gone....
Devin Booker Goes For 50 Again, The Suns Still Lose, And Everything Is Right In The World<em></em>
Devin Booker has scored 109 total points in his last two games. Let that sink in. The 22-year-old guard became just the seventh player since the NBA-ABA merger to score 50-plus points in back-to-back games, joining a list that includes James Harden, Michael Jordan, and Allen Iverson. He shot over 60...
What Swear Word Did Eli Manning Have To Look Up?
The putative news from Eli Manning’s appearance Wednesday on a panel discussion about brain injuries is that the Giants QB declared Odell Beckham Jr. to be the most talented player he’s ever played with. This is not “news,” as such, because: no duh. It also wasn’t the most interesting thing Manning ...
Recently Owned Jeff Green Pays It Forward To Harmless, Helpless Dragan Bender
Tuesday night Jeff Green was on the very wrong end of a highlight when he stumbled brutally in isolation defense while guarding Lance Stephenson in a Wizards loss to the Lakers. Green may have been unfairly victimized by Stephenson accidentally stepping on his toes mid-sequence, but that will not m...
Even American Soccer Fandom Is Plagued By Pay-To-Play
If you had to point out a single factor that most contributes to the U.S.’s stunted development as a soccer nation, you could make a good case for pay-to-play as the culprit. Pay-to-play is the system that sections off the best youth coaching and competition and reserves it only for those who can af...
How Is Nikola Jokic Like This?
Nikola Jokic looks and acts like he has a bad head cold, moves like he’s in pajamas with a nightcap on and a candlestick in his left hand, and still can pull off a Rondo ball-fake at quarter-speed to clear the way for an off-the-backboard alley-oop. That’s what he did in the Nuggets’ 95-92 win over ...
Australian Shopping Center Terrorized By A Pair Of Hellion Nine-Year-Olds
Two extremely, ah, feisty(?) nine-year-old girls went on an absolute fucking rampage at the Helensvale Shopping Centre in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia yesterday. And by “absolute fucking rampage” I mean that they abused an old lady, spat on, punched, and kicked a security guard, and danced on a...
The Best Way To See America Is To Visit Every Last Minor League Ballpark
Not long after the 2017 World Series ended in a dogpile of happy Houston Astros, Bart Wilhelm began planning his first big trip of the 2018 season. For more than half a decade, Wilhelm has been “chasing” Minor League ballparks, with the goal of attending a game in all 159 of them. Wilhelm began the ...