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Korean Announcers Provide Excellent Call On Hyun Soo Kim's Superb Dinger
In the top of the ninth inning this evening, Hyun Soo Kim came in the game for the Orioles as a pinch hitter, replacing Nolan Reimold. The Orioles were down by a run to the Blue Jays, and hadn’t managed to do much of anything on offense. But Kim turned everything around with a big, game-winning ding...
DraftKings Investigating Possible Collusion Scandal In Flagship Contest
DraftKings user papagates won first place in this weekend’s Fantasy Football Millionaire contest, DraftKings’ flagship contest. RotoGrinders has a breakdown of the strategy he used to take home the win, but DraftKings is currently investigating whether he used another illegal strategy to win by coll...
Derrick Rose's Lawyers Still Want To Bring Up Jane Doe's Past
Attorneys representing Derrick Rose and the woman accusing him of rape filed a flurry of motions yesterday and today, with several concerning whether the woman’s sexual history is relevant and can be brought up at trial....
ESPN Runs Memphis Grizzlies Puff Piece Written By Guy The Grizzlies Just Hired<em></em>
This morning, ESPN published a positive and forward-looking profile of new Memphis Grizzlies head David Fizdale, focusing on his first practice yesterday. It was written by veteran NBA writer and ESPNer Michael Wallace—an awfully strange choice considering that last week Wallace announced that he wa...
Trying To Teach Donald Trump To Debate Sounds Like Hell
According to an article in this morning’s New York Times, Donald Trump’s advisers are hoping to prepare him “more rigorously” for his next showdown with Hillary—or, more to the point, they’re going to try to prepare him. Apparently, teaching Donald Trump to debate as almost as hard as getting an ego...
Brandon Belt On His Friend D.J. LeMahieu: "He's A Nice Guy. I Still Want To Punch Him In The Face."
Giants first baseman Brandon Belt had three hits in his team’s 12-3 demolition of the Colorado Rockies last night, and he would have had four hits if not for the presence of Rockies second baseman D.J. LeMahieu:...
Aledmys Díaz Returns From José Fernández's Memorial, Smacks First Career Grand Slam
Cardinals shortstop Aledmys Díaz grew up on the same street as José Fernández in Santa Clara, Cuba, and the two players have been friends since their early childhoods. Fernández said that Diaz’s father and uncle helped get him started playing baseball, and their families are still close. The loss wa...
Some UFC Guy Tries To Diss Conor McGregor, Walks Straight Into Huge Burn
Nate Diaz came at Conor McGregor online this afternoon, and while we laud his utter disdain for the man and commitment to talk smack whenever we can, he still just did some tweets. At the UFC 205 press conference this afternoon, Some UFC Guy tried to diss McGregor to his face by claiming that he did...
Yankees Fan Proposes Live On Scoreboard, Loses Ring
Here’s a tip for you: If you’re going to do the extremely performative move of proposing to your spouse live on a jumbotron at a sporting event, don’t lose the ring!...
Tiger Woods Is Now Golf's Washed-Up Uncle
Tiger Woods is still too old and fucked up to play golf, but he is capable of serving as a vice captain for the United States’ Ryder Cup team. Somebody forgot to tell Tiger that vice captains aren’t allowed to be in the team photo:...
America's Beautiful Wonderteen, Christian Pulisic, Just Ran Through Real Madrid<em></em>
Borussia Dortmund, one of the world’s very best soccer teams, found themselves down against Real Madrid, the most famous sports team on the planet, in a Champions League match today. Looking to change the game, they turned to a goddamn American child, 18-year-old Christian Pulisic, to save the day. ...
Giannis Antetokounmpo Is Not So Great At Jokes
Giannis Antetokounmpo is a 21-year-old who just signed a $100 million contract, so you can imagine why he might have been feeling a little giddy heading into NBA media day. He was feeling so good, in fact, that he began his session with reporters by firing off a joke that would have made even the la...
Even Stormfront Thinks Hillary Clinton Won The Debate
Since being founded by a former Ku Klux Klan leader in 1996, Stormfront has been the internet’s premier destination for white nationalist and neo-Nazi keyboard warriors everywhere. And even they think Hillary Clinton won the debate tonight. ...
Welcome To Hell: It’s Deadspin’s 2016 Presidential Debate Liveblog <em></em>
Tonight at 9 p.m., a former Secretary of State will take on a bloviating game-show racist for the chance to be our president. And we’ll be liveblogging every goddamn minute of it....
Michelle Obama Did Not Lovingly Embrace George W. Bush
You may have seen the above photo of Michelle Obama apparently hugging George W. Bush at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture somewhere online this weekend. It was passed around as an image that was, in the words of MSNBC.com, “so moving.”...
I Think Nate Silver Is Broken, Maybe?
Here are a couple tweets from politics polling seer Nate Silver, founder of ESPN math website FiveThirtyEight....
What Will White People Say About How Trump Does In The Debate?
With hours to go before tonight’s presidential debate, one great defining question hangs over American politics: Will Donald Trump’s performance tonight allow white people to keep pretending he can possibly be president?...
Nerlens Noel Has No Idea How The 76ers Will Manage Their Logjam Either
Nerlens Noel is a center. Though he played some power forward last year in an attempt to accommodate Jahlil Okafor, center is the position he played his rookie year, and when Okafor was off the court, and it’s really the only position he fits because of his size and his lack of offensive game. ...
How Deep Does The Browns' Kicking Disaster Go?
As with all things Browns, failure is not enough by itself. It can never be simple. It must always be exquisite, and multipronged, and avoidable. The Cody Parkey saga, which saw Cleveland’s new kicker miss three field goals including a potential game-winner as time expired, is a great example....
These Wacky Sports Highlights Got Me Chuckling
Heads up, got some football-related goofs coming your way, courtesy of @SelzerFX....