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Rajai Davis Struggles Defensively
Rajai Davis took on the role of a one-man defensive disaster in the second inning of his team’s game against the Mets today. Here’s the Cleveland outfielder’s struggles with the sun, as called wonderfully by Mets Spanish-language announcers on WEPN radio. Baseball’s rules being what they are, neithe...

Secret Thermal Camera Footage Allegedly Shows Seven Pro Cyclists Using Illegal Motors In Bikes
Rumors that elite professional cyclists have been riding with small, illegal motors tucked away in their bikes have swirled around the pro peloton ever since this infamous truther’s video presented evidence against Fabian Cancellara in 2010. Despite more suspicious evidence occasionally floating to ...

Watch These Cricketers Achieve 'Absolute Brilliance' With Their Diving Relay Catch
Yo, got your Indian Premier League cricket highlights right here. Delhi Daredevils against Royal Challengers Bangalore, happening thousands of miles away today. Already epic, I know. The Daredevils’ Shreyas Iyer clocks what looks to be a possible 4 until, at a dead sprint in the field, RCB’s Shane W...

Ian Kinsler Creates One Of The Strangest & Most Brilliant Groundouts You'll See
Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler dropped a pop fly on purpose in the fifth inning of today’s game in Houston, purely to replace a speedy baserunner with a slower one. It worked perfectly....

Mike Muchlinski Is Having A Bad Day
Umpire Mike Muchlinski is starting his third season in full-time MLB service, and today he got a reminder that the job isn’t always a dream. Here, in the fifth inning in New York, he caught a foul ball in a very unkind place....


UFC Fighter Charged With Pistol-Whipping Strip Club Employee
Cops charged Diego Brandão with battery and assault charges Friday after the UFC featherweight allegedly hit an Albuquerque strip club employee in the face with a handgun....

The Padres Made A Highlight
The Padres, they didn’t get out to a great start this year. They needed 31 innings before they scored their first run of the season. And they’re still at the bottom of the NL West ... but now in a tie, at least, with the Diamondbacks, who make great company for misery....

Golfer Named "Beef" Can't Wait To Go Home And "Get Hammered" After First Tour Win
Andrew “Beef” Johnston claimed his first European Tour trophy with a win today at the Spanish Open, and the north Londoner can’t wait to get home from Andalusia so he can see his folks and “get hammered,” as he told press following his victory:...

Syracuse Football Players Stabbed; Former Player Arrested
Police charged former Syracuse defensive back Naesean Howard with two counts of assault after stabbings landed two current Orange players in the hospital....

Christian Pulisic Scores First Bundesliga Goal
American teen Christian Pulisic scored his first Bundesliga goal today, putting his Borussia Dortmund team up 1-0 on Hamburg with a strike late in the first half....

Stars Take 1-0 Lead On Bizarre Goal
Despite vehement Minnesota Wild objections, replay officials declared this crazy play a good goal for Dallas, giving the Stars a 1-0 lead in the second game of their playoff series and awarding Antoine Roussel credit for scoring it....

Spring Game Coverage Is The Saddest College Football Coverage
Most major college football programs run through a goofball annual rite in which they hold a scrimmage that counts for jack shit and yet warrants its own title. At the spring game, the intrasquad “teams,” usually named with all the imagination you’d apply to ordering a sweatshirt, play under almost ...

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Dwight Howard Drops Mic
Dwight Howard ended his presser after Houston’s 104-78 thrashing at the hands of the Warriors by dropping the mic. He didn’t pick it back up....

Deadspin Up All Night: What's A Boy To Do?
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The Cardinals Lost Their Fifth Game
Adam Wainwright allowed ten hits and seven earned runs as the St. Louis Cardinals fell today at home to the Reds, 9-8....

Red Star Belgrade Played Partizan Today, Which Means There Were Violent Riots
Another edition of the Eternal Derby kicked off today in Belgrade, as bitter foes Red Star and Partizan resumed one of the most violent rivalries in club soccer. Local media provides us with stunning photos and video of the warfare, which started mere moments into the match:...

The Pacers Beat Toronto In Game 1, Where The Raptors Always Go To Die
The Indiana Pacers, the seventh-best team in the NBA’s Eastern Conference during the regular season, just rolled into Toronto and stole Game 1 from the Raptors, the second-best team in the East. They were able to do this because the Toronto Raptors have a streak to keep alive: Having never won a Gam...

Frenchman Ecstatic Over Eagle
Michael Lorenzo-Vera leads this weekend’s Euro Tour Spanish Open at Valderrama after he eagled the par-5 17th with this outstanding shot. Even more outstanding: the Frenchman’s reaction....