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A Regular Person’s Guide To Apple’s New Phones (And Other Useless Shit)<em></em>
Well, well, well. Apple, Inc., a cash-hoarding operation that occasionally does online strip shows, announced a new line of consumer electronics today. There are places to revel in the minutia of every last tech spec, but I promise that you are not interested in processors and megapixels nearly as m...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Was On My Way To Be With You Today
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Every day can be Taco Tuesday if you want it to be. ...
The PS4 Slim Is The Perfect Console For Me, A Video Game Idiot
As Kotaku writer and unfortunate New York Jets fan Jason Schreier exposed to the world a few weeks ago, I’ve been pestering him for about a month about whether or not I should buy a PlayStation 4. This morning Sony announced the PS4 Pro and the PS4 Slim, and Jason finally told me that the time had c...
Butterfly Ghost Gets Revenge; Andy Murray Loses To Kei Nishikori
Life is not easy for Andy Murray, who has spent most of his career laboring away under the long shadows of three all-time greats—Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic—without ever tasting the No. 1 ranking. But nor is life particularly precious to Andy Murray, who slew a butterfly on court during the fifth s...
Andy Murray Maimed (And Probably Killed) A Butterfly
Oh, you thought Andy Murray was just a cool down-to-Earth Scottish bloke who liked to swing his tennis racket in peace? You thought he wouldn’t commit lepidoptericide on the court? Wrong, he’s a monster....
If The NFL Is Worse Now, The Reason Why Is Obvious<em></em>
The examined hypothesis of Kevin Clark’s new article in The Ringer, about a belief within the NFL that the “on-field product” is becoming kinda shitty, is that the game is suffering because the league is getting drastically younger, which has led to players with underdeveloped skills and minds seein...
How Many Syllables Are In The Word "Wild"?
Help me out, here. I say it has one syllable. That is how I pronounce it: wīld. One vowel sound. The l is a consonant; it does not get a discrete uh to announce its arrival. The Oxford English Dictionary agrees with me....
Steve Jobs Loved The Headphone Jack
At approximately 1:00 p.m. today, in the year of our Lord 2016, Tim Cook defiled the memory of the late Steven “Steve” Paul Jobs with an abomination built of space-gray hubris. Today, Tim Cook discarded the iPhone headphone jack. And with that headphone jack, the soul of its creator went, too. ...
Deadspin 25: South Alabama Already Downed One SEC Team. Who's Next?<em></em>
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Show Us Your Fantasy Football Team
With the NFL season starting tomorrow, you have likely already drafted your fantasy team(s). Who did you take? We want to see it....
Arsène Wenger Disses José Mourinho In The Pettiest Way Possible
José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger do not like each other. José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger do not pass up on opportunities to make it clear, both to each other and the world at large, that they do not like each other. Today, Arsène Wenger did something—an incredibly petty thing, at that—to demonstrate ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Denver Broncos<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Denver Broncos. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Denver Broncos. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
Apple Just Fucked Over All the Tech Bloggers
You probably already knew that Apple was announcing a new iPhone today, but did you know that it was planning to livetweet its announcement? And that in doing so, it kind of accidentally fucked over every tech blogger in the country? It’s the best gift Apple could have ever given us. ...
John Harbaugh Used Player's Funeral As Chance To Complain To NFLPA Head About The CBA
The Ringer’s Kevin Clark has a good piece on what NFL rosters getting younger means for the league, and it includes an anecdote about the time that Ravens head coach John Harbaugh accosted NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith at a goddamn funeral:...
Roger Goodell On Colin Kaepernick: I Love The Troops!
Today, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem....
Report: Bruce Miller Was Kicked Out Of Restaurant For Sandwich Fight
San Francisco 49ers fullback Bruce Miller got booted from a restaurant for an argument over a sandwich hours before he was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 70-year-old man and his son at a San Francisco hotel, according to the San Francisco Chronicle....
John Tortorella Says He'll Bench Any Player Who Doesn't Stand For The National Anthem
John Tortorella, the Columbus Blue Jackets head coach who’s in charge of Team USA for the World Cup of Hockey, was asked about 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest during the national anthem. Take a stab at guessing the response from the biggest hardass in an extremely white sport....
Alejandro Bedoya And Eric Wynalda Face Off In Extremely Raw Twitter Beef
Last night, the U.S. men’s soccer team kicked the nuts clean off Trinidad and Tobago, setting them up well ahead of the next round of World Cup Qualifying, and, most promisingly, did so by featuring the prodigious talents of the wonderteen himself, Christian Pulisic. All should be happy in USMNT lan...
Witness Claims Ezekiel Elliott's Girlfriend Asked Her To Lie To Police
Yesterday, the Columbus prosecutor’s office announced that it would not be pursuing charges against Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, who was accused of committing domestic violence on five separate occasions by his girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson. Today, the prosecutor’s office released documents ...
Jared Goff Is Not Ready
The Rams broke the bank to trade up for Jared Goff. On Monday night, the franchise’s first game since moving back to Los Angeles, the starting quarterback will be...Case Keenum. But if Keenum gets hurt or is ineffective, the Rams will turn to...Sean Mannion. Hmmm, OK. ...