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The Padres Almost Scored A Run This Season
The early days of the baseball season are fun ones, because the smallest streak projects out to historical greatness. Rockies rookie Trevor Story is the first player in baseball history to homer in his first three games, and will surely finish his year with 216 dingers. Starlin Castro now owns the r...
Here Is Sam Hinkie's Full 13-Page Letter Of Resignation To The Sixers (UPDATES)
Earlier tonight, we asked you to give up the full 13-page letter that Sam Hinkie sent to the Philadelphia 76ers as he resigned. None of you did, but ESPN’s Marc Stein thankfully just posted it in its entirety....
Hey, James Harden Made A Good Defensive Play!
We often clown on James Harden for his agnostic indifference to defense. It’s jarring to watch him imitate a statue or pick the absolute worst time to ask his buddy about something in an NBA game full of NBA players. I’m sure he also makes plenty of good defensive plays (Basketball Reference is tell...
Jerry Sloan Says He Has Dementia And Parkinson's Disease
Longtime Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan opened up to the Salt Lake Tribune today and revealed that he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, a form of the disease that effects the body’s neurological system. The Sloans said that Jerry was diagnosed last fall:...
Charles Barkley: "I'm Supposed To Stand Up For The People Who Can't Stand Up For Themselves"
North Carolina passed a pretty hateful anti-LGBT law a few weeks ago that repealed a wave of tolerance-based legislation across the state, much of which began in Charlotte. The 2017 NBA All-Star Game is scheduled to take place in Charlotte, but the league has warned that the new law runs counter to ...
Do You Have Sam Hinkie's Stupid 13-Page Resignation Letter? Give It.
Philadelphia 76ers GM Sam Hinkie resigned this evening, after 76ers ownership attempted to reduce his role even further and bring in additional front office executives....
Report: Sam Hinkie Has Left The Sixers (UPDATES)
Per ESPN’s Marc Stein, Sam Hinkie has stepped down as the general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers (unless he in fact had some different post with “Philadelphial”?)....
The Mariners Just Can't Stop Slappin' Dingers
The Mariners opened the season with a rather odd little loss to the Texas Rangers. Since then, however, they have managed to humiliate a presumptive AL playoff team to the tune of 19 runs in their next two games....
Deadspin Up All Night: I Ain't Never Ran From Nothin' But The Police
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I hope your minivan doesn’t catch fire. ...
OHL Suspends Owner Of The Flint Firebirds For Five Years, Fines Him $250,000
The commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League brought down the hammer on the Flint Firebirds today, finding that owner Rolf Nilsen “has on several occasions violated an agreement he signed ... between himself and the OHL.” While commissioner David Branch’s statement didn’t lay out Nilsen’s violation...
Elated Idiot On The Field Expresses The World's Feelings On Real Madrid's Loss
Sometimes, when watching a sporting event that breaks exactly the way you wished for but in no way could’ve realistically expected, the only response is to cruise around the living room/bar/office you’re watching it in, arms aloft, with a big dumb grin on your face, ecstatic at your good fortune. Fo...
RIP Merle Haggard, The Only Man Who Could Live Up To The Name
Ah, Christ, Merle Haggard died, shit. On his 79th birthday. He was one of the greats. You know this for two reasons. First off, objectively, he just was, an acerbic and jovially iconoclastic teller of hard truths and winsome lies, a prickly charmer and actual outlaw (he once attended a Johnny Cash c...
No Losing Team Is As Fun Or As Intriguing As The Timberwolves
It would be an overreaction to last night’s overtime victory over the Warriors to proclaim that it heralds the Timberwolves’ arrival. It was just one game, after all, and the team is still just 26-52, the fifth-worst record in the NBA. It also remains to be seen how they deal with the organizational...
Trevor Story Is Young And Strong And Keeps Hitting Dingers
The Rockies don’t have Troy Tulowitzki anymore. They do have Trevor Story, a 23-year-old rookie shortstop who just became the first player in MLB history to hit a homer in each his first three career games. He went deep twice in his first game, making him the only player in history to mash four tate...
What Is The Best Non-Meat Sandwich Filling?
We had sandwiches for lunch at the office today, and they were all really delicious, except for the vegetarian options, which were frankly kind of weak and unsatisfying. Which got us to thinking—briefly—how to best construct a sandwich without meat....
I Just Learned About A New MLB Rule That's As Trivial As It Is Wonderful
It makes me a total hypocrite to criticize the NFL’s byzantine rulebook and yet value baseball in large part for its own wholly opaque regulations. (Seriously. Try explaining a balk to an alien or to a small child, or, hell, to me. You can’t do it.) I don’t care. I love the fact that baseball has pl...
Manchester City Gift-Wrap Game-Tying Goal For PSG
“So far so good for City,” the commentator remarks before the screen cuts to a replay of the goal that put Manchester City 1-0 up on Paris Saint-Germain just minutes earlier. As Kevin De Bruyne’s shot is shown hitting the back of the net again, the Parisian crowd roars. Not because of the replay, bu...
Dog Hockey Is The Best Hockey
There are no Canadian hockey teams in this year’s NHL playoffs, and I’m sure a lot of Canadian hockey fans are very sad about that. The good news is that I have a special message for my bummed-out friends in the north:...
The Minnesota Wild, Who Backed Into The Playoffs, Don't Want To Hear That They Backed Into The Playoffs
The Minnesota Wild lost their fourth straight game on Tuesday, but clinched a playoff spot anyway. Because the Colorado Avalanche also lost last night, their fourth in a row, they were eliminated from contention, and so Minnesota stumbled through the tape into their fourth straight postseason appear...
Peanut Butter Is Your Salvation In a Jar
“This advice can be fatal,” wrote Dr. Henry J. Heimlich to the New York Times in 1981, protesting their suggestion to pregame with peanut butter to curb overeating. “We have records of persons choking to death after eating peanut butter off a spoon. The problem is that the thick substance becomes lo...