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Larry Donnell Knocked Out Of Game With Concussion After Huge Hit
Early in the second quarter of tonight’s game against the Vikings, Giants tight end Larry Donnell was trying to pull around and block for Orleans Darkwa, when linebacker Anthony Barr came through the gap like a rocket and smashed into him, knocking him four yards back and straight into Darkwa. Darkw...
Joe Biden Annihilates Trump For Saying Soldiers With PTSD Aren't "Strong"<em></em>
While speaking at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Florida this evening, Joe Biden addressed Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding veterans and mental health. Trump said that military personnel who develop mental health issues after returning from war are not “strong” and “can’t handle it....
This Is The Pinnacle Of Human Rage
What’s the maddest you’ve ever been? Have you ever been angrier than this guy? Trick question; that’s impossible....
HBO's <i>Westworld</i> Is Violent, Philosophical, And Somehow Tons Of Fun
There’s this moment in the premiere of HBO’s Westworld, the network’s latest drama offering and one of its most expensive since Game Of Thrones, when two characters come across a robbery in progress. You’ve watched this scene play out in hundreds of Westerns; the white hat kills the black hats, sav...
Barry Bonds Reportedly Let Go By Marlins
The Marlins will not retain Barry Bonds next year, per a report from Jon Heyman. Bonds signed on as Miami’s hitting coach before the season started, and it was his first MLB job since his last season playing for the Giants in 2007. Some of Miami’s numbers did improve during this injury-plagued seaso...
Deadspin Up All Night: Oh No, They Found Me
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. What a lovely day....
The Jets Have Bigger Problems Than Ryan Fitzpatrick
This is not what the Jets envisioned when they finally ended their very long and very weak standoff with Ryan Fitzpatrick. All they needed was a competent quarterback who could score a few points and let the defense win games, and Fitzpatrick seemed to fit the bill. The best-case scenario for the 2...
Penn State Kicker Opens Up About Eating Disorder
Having laid out both Kent State’s Kavious Price and Michigan’s Jourdan Lewis, Penn State kicker Joey Julius has commanded his fair share of attention this season. Monday, the kicker used his new heightened public profile talk about how an undiagnosed eating disorder recently affected him, encouragin...
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Supreme Court Denies Petitions To Hear <i>NCAA vs. O'Bannon </i>[Updated]
Monday morning, the Supreme Court denied requests to hear two appeals brought forth from the O’Bannon vs. NCAA case, in which the Ninth Circuit found college athletics’ ruling institution was again guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. The case had a small chance of being heard by the eight...
A Complete-ish History of Donald Trump's Obsession With His Ideal Woman, His Own Daughter
Earlier today, the Associated Press published a report detailing accusations that, in the course of making The Apprentice, Donald Trump had serially demeaned, belittled, and harassed women involved in the making of the show. The anecdotes were creepy and familiar—rating “female contestants by the si...
Stan Wawrinka Says He Had An Anxiety Attack Before The U.S. Open Final
To watch Stan Wawrinka dispatch Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last month was to see the physical toll the sport can take. Both men looked dazed and drenched in the heat of late-summer New York City, and Djokovic cramped severely and took an injury timeout for a blistered, bloodied toe. But t...
Dead Letters: Cardinal Numbers Edition
Despite winning 86 games, the St. Louis Cardinals will not play in the MLB postseason this year. It’s the first time the club has missed the playoffs since 2010. Deadspin covered the Redbirds’ performance throughout the 2016 season in a series called “Cardinal Numbers,” and a few Cardinals fans chos...
<i>Sports Illustrated</i> Formally Announces Retweeting Agreement With Fox Sports, Or Something
Many of you, our readers, are smart, your decision to visit Deadspin notwithstanding. See what you can get out of this blog post by Sports Illustrated managing editor Chris Stone and “Time Inc. Sports Group digital editor” Mark McClusky, hailing the ailing magazine’s, uh, “transformational digital p...
Jim Harbaugh And Urban Meyer Reach Dumb Twitter Milestone With Fake Followers
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer became the first college football coach with one million Twitter followers yesterday, a feat he and the university celebrated:...
Todd Gurley Has Nowhere To Run
Remember how excited you were for a full season of Todd Gurley, one of the few running backs in the NFL with the necessary combination of youth, ability, and a team with no pesky passing game, to emerge as one of the NFL’s last true feature backs? Well, the goddamn Rams don’t want you to have nice t...
Root For The Red Sox In The Playoffs
The Red Sox have barreled their way into yet another postseason after finishing last in the AL East in the two seasons since they last won the World Series. The Sox crashed their way to the third seed in the AL on the strength of an 11-game September winning streak, involving three straight series s...
The Cardinals Won Their 86th Game
The St. Louis Cardinals scored six runs in the seventh inning Sunday as they hammered the Pittsburgh Pirates, 10-4....
NBC Made Michele Tafoya Talk About Memes
Sunday night’s Chiefs-Steelers game lost all semblance of competitiveness by the second quarter, but if you stuck around for the dregs of the fourth quarter, you heard NBC sideline reporter Michele Tafoya talk about the memes of the week....