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High School Basketball Players Charged With Aggravated Assault, Rape In Hazing Incident
Tennessee police have charged three high school basketball players with aggravated rape and assault after they hazed a 15-year-old freshman teammate while the team was at a tournament in Gatlinburg. The three unnamed boys, from Ooltewah High School, are currently at a juvenile facility, according to...
Remembering Paul Gallico, The Sportswriter Who Hated Women But Was Okay With Nazis
For all her occasional beauty and unquestioned courage, there has always been something faintly ridiculous about the big-time lady athletes.—Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport, 1937...
Rams Defensive End William Hayes Is A Dinosaur Truther
ESPN’s Nick Wagoner has a fun story about Rams defensive end William Hayes, who is presented as the team’s resident merry prankster. The highlight of the story is when Hayes shares his thoughts on dinosaurs:...
Deadspin's Favorite Vines Of 2015
The Deadspin staff picked their favorite Vines from 2015, and you won’t be surprised to learn that many of them include maniacal dogs. Please enjoy. ...
A Courtside View Of Gregg Popovich Screaming At A Referee
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was ejected from last night’s game against the Timberwolves when he went storming down the baseline to scream at a referee for not calling a foul. Here’s how that tirade looked and sounded on the court:...
Mike Tyson Falls Off A Hoverboard Like An Asshole
Mike Tyson was giggling and having the time of his life on a hoverboard, but his joy quickly ended as his ass met the floor....
Joe Mixon's First Meeting With Reporters Was A Joke
Oklahoma Sooners running back Joe Mixon met with reporters today, marking the first time he’s spoken to the media since being suspended for one year after allegedly punching a woman in the face. From the outset, the university tried to prevent reporters from asking about the alleged assault....
Legendary Fighter Kazushi Sakuraba Brutalized In Depressing Spectacle
Fighting is too young a sport for a descriptor like “legend” to mean all that much, but so far as it does, Kazushi Sakuraba is one of the few people who deserve it. His incredible career has been too strange and interesting to easily summarize, but, briefly, after starting out as a pro wrestler, he ...
Al Jazeera Reporter Defends Peyton Manning HGH Report On <i>Today Show</i>
Al Jazeera’s Deborah Davies went on the Today Show this morning to defend her publication’s reporting of Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning’s alleged connection to HGH shipments. The meat of the interview is above, and you’ll see Davies deftly turn away the hosts’ attempts to poke holes in Al Jazeer...
Bills Fan Boots, Gets Back To Business
Watch in awe at this display of resilience by a Bills fan. His team may have underachieved and missed the playoffs, but he won’t keep the bile and regret in his stomach. Away with it, his body cries....
Eric Weddle And The Chargers Seem To Be Done With Each Other
Eric Weddle has spent all nine seasons of his pro career with the Chargers, and after he didn’t receive a contract extension before the season, it seemed likely that he’d sign with another team when he became a free agent. Now, the prospect of Weddle leaving the Chargers is a virtual certainty. And ...
Kobe Tried To Rip Jeremy Lin's Head Off!
You know that uncomfortable moment when you discover that what you’d thought was all fun and games was actually deadly serious for one guy, and all of a sudden shit’s all weird and fraught? Kobe Bryant is that guy. Last night he turned a silly little tug-of-war over a two-for-one opportunity into th...
Mike Pettine Doesn't Have Much To Say About Latest Video Of Johnny Manziel Partying
Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel is apparently incapable of going more than a few weeks without a video of him drinking and rapping along to a Future song appearing on the internet....
Are Email Disclaimers Meaningless?
Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, where I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below. Today’s query:...
How Did Brandon McManus Shank That Kick So Badly?
It’s a good thing Broncos kicker Brandon McManus got the chance the redeem himself with a 37-yard winner in overtime, because if his last appearance on the field had been the incomprehensibly shanked attempt that would have won the game at the end of regulation, he’d probably be locked in Peyton Man...
Omri Casspi And Steph Curry Traded Threes In A Wildly Entertaining Shootout
The Warriors were probably always going to beat the Sacramento Kings at home, and their 122-103 victory Monday night became a foregone conclusion after DeMarcus Cousins was ejected early in the third quarter. But before then, when the Kings were still hanging tough and even leading, there was an ama...
¡NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
We love Álvaro Martín and Raúl Allegre’s Monday Night Football announcing on ESPN Deportes, and the value of watching football en Español was no more apparent than on the failed Denver Broncos field goal attempt at the end of regulation tonight. ¡NOOOOOOOO!...
The Replay Booth Probably Did Not Assist Ed Hochuli On Late Facemask Call
For a moment during the third quarter of tonight’s Monday Night Football contest, it seemed that we had yet another refereeing controversy on our hands. As Broncos DE Malik Jackson sacked Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron, he grabbed McCarron’s facemask. But despite McCarron pleading for the call as h...
Lemmy Fucking Ruled
I don’t have anything all that insightful to say about Lemmy, who died tonight, or about Motörhead, the band he lorded over and which lorded over rock and roll longer than I’ve been alive, but they were god damn madmen and you should have loved them if you didn’t....