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Deadspin Awards: Best Highlight
The Deadspin Awards are this month, and we need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to help us determine the answer to an important question: What was the best highlight?...
We Are The Deadspin Staff, Let's Chat!
We haven’t really been working today either, so let’s stop pretending. We’ll be hanging out down in the comments section for awhile, come yak!...
A Bear That Respects His Craft
Any dipshit bear can barge into an alleyway, knock a trash can over, rip open a bag, and pick a few scraps out of the resulting mess. Any asshole can splash paint on a canvas and call it high art, too. ...
What Is Your Earliest Sports Memory?
We did this earlier in the week, but with general huge news stories. Since this is nominally a sports website, let’s discuss: What is your earliest sports memory?...
Gilbert Arenas Goes To Nick Young's House And Acts Like An Asshole
Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas, who at this point will do anything for attention, showed up at Lakers guard Nick Young’s house last night and documented his visit on Snapchat....
UFC 200 Is Still The Best Card Of The Year
All the old knocks still apply. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a corrupt, exploitative brand in a corrupt, exploitative sport. It functions in large part to enrich the egos and bank accounts of people lacking for neither, and it does so belligerently. At the moment it’s a business that may or...
Carmelo Anthony Urges Athletes To Fight For Political Causes
Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony just posted a message to his Instagram page in which he asks his fellow professional athletes to become more politically active, instructing them to demand action from politicians and not to worry about losing endorsement deals....
Innovative Boy At Rangers Game Uses Sunglasses To Pick, Eat Boogers
FSN reporter Emily Jones spoke with Olympic fencer Gerek Meinhardt at Thursday’s Texas Rangers game, but let’s talk about what happened in the background of that interview. A boy in a camo shirt discovered how to be an innovator....
Ben Simmons Did Some Cool Passes Last Night
NBA Summer League isn’t a particularly useful venue for determining how good an NBA prospect will be (I remember when Donte Greene dropped 40 in the 2008 Summer League), but that doesn’t mean that these passes Ben Simmons threw last night aren’t dope....
How Big Of A Problem Is Matt Harvey's Injury?
Yesterday, the New York Mets announced that struggling pitcher Matt Harvey would be placed on the disabled list with thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), an ailment that can deaden a pitcher’s arm by compressing blood vessels between the collarbone and the first rib. Harvey could opt for a nerve-block in...
Tips For Getting Your First Credit Card As An Adult
If you’re an adult without a credit card, the barrier to entry can seem to loom a lot larger than it actually is. Somehow, during the inescapable progression of getting older, you missed a step in the far more deliberate process of growing up and now, not only do you not have a credit card, you don’...
Here's The Moment Daniel Cormier Learned The Jon Jones Fight Was Off
Wednesday night, we all learned that the UFC 200 main event, a light heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier, was off because Jones had failed a drug test. Less than an hour before the news broke widely, Cormier had to be told....
Anderson Silva Will Fight Daniel Cormier At UFC 200
Last night, Jon Jones got pulled out of this weekend’s UFC 200 for failing a drug test. Daniel Cormier was devastated, bemoaning his lost chance to get revenge on Jones for beating him in 2015. Dana White said that he was looking for last minute replacements instead of scrapping the fight, and it tu...
Cubs Fan Carted Off Wrigley Field After Falling Onto Warning Track During Rain Delay
During a rain delay before the Cubs-Braves game this evening, a fan fell over the right field bleachers and onto the warning track. He lay there immobilized for about five minutes, and medics in the stadium attended to him. The fan did not move until they stretchered him onto a cart and drove him of...
Study: The Rio Olympics Went $1.6 Billion Over Budget
The upcoming Olympics have been marred by the Zika crisis, body parts washing up on a prominent beach, a lack of security, disease-ridden shitwater, and a political meltdown. All these extra-normal maladies have made it somewhat easy to wash over the fact that Rio has created the same boring problem...
It's A Banner Evening For CFL Highlights
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Mayor, Congressman Disagree On Whether Or Not The NFL Draft Will Be In Philadelphia
The NFL Draft has been held in Chicago for the past two years. According to Congressman Bob Brady, who represents Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district, the event will be in Philadelphia next year. According to Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, no, it won’t. It’s not currently clear who’s right, wh...
U.S. Olympic Committee Tells Oiselle To Delete Social Media Posts, Ignores Others
The trouble started for Kate Grace, winner of the U.S. Olympic Trials 800 meters, and her sponsor, apparel company Oiselle, when Oiselle posted these photos on their Instagram account. ...