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Karim Benzema's Explanation For Role In Sex Tape Blackmail Plot Sounds Like Total Bullshit
When we last checked in on the most insane scandal going on in sports, the big news was that a transcript of a phone call between Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema and a good friend of his strongly suggested 1) that the good friend was trying to blackmail Lyon midfielder Mathieu Valbuena over a sex ...
A Goodbye From Grierson & Leitch
It’s a sad day here at Grierson & Leitch: After nearly four years of confusing you with movie reviews featuring seemingly arbitrary letter grades and inexplicable paragraph numbering, today is our last day at Deadspin. In two weeks, you can find us at our new home at The New Republic. But we want to...
Don't Use Your Child As A Business Opportunity
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan did not write a letter to their daughter yesterday. They issued a press release, and called it a letter. I can point at my cat and call it a dog, but guess what, it’s still a cat. One of the richest entrepreneurs in the country took their daughter’s birth announcem...
How To Say Goodbye To City Life
There may come a time in your life when, through choice or necessity, you will find yourself abandoning the metropolis you’ve called home for however many years. The bars you’ve been kicked out of, the parks you’ve surreptitiously pissed in, the various former workplaces where you once spent so much...
The Greatest Baller Of All: This Woman In A Wedding Dress At A Minnesota Wild Game
Have you ever balled as hard as these newlyweds at Saturday’s Minnesota Wild game? Specifically, have you ever balled as hard as this woman in a wedding dress eating a burger at a Minnesota Wild game?...
Bruh, What?
No idea what this guy in a random Colombian game was trying to do, and yet I think I’m impressed all the same....
The First Three <i>Rocky</i> Movies Were Nothing But White Wish Fulfillment
This piece originally appeared in the August, 1982 issue of Film Comment. It is reprinted here with permission. ...
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Why Did Navy QB Keenan Reynolds Disappear From ESPN's Heisman Fan Vote? [Update]
Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds has been crucial to the program’s success this season. The 9-2 team’s spread option offense relies on his abilities to pass and run. When Nissan and ESPN partnered up to allow the fans to determine one Heisman vote, Reynolds received a lot of support. But, for some r...
I'm Alan Sepinwall, Author of <i>The Revolution Was Televised.</i> Let's Chat!
We’re now joined by Alan Sepinwall, author of The Revolution Was Televised, a fantastic book about the origins of The Sopranos, The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, and other dramas that laid the ground for the current golden age of television. It’s now out in a new edition, featuring new material on how...
Now There's More Video Of Jahlil Okafor Fighting People In Boston
TMZ published a video of 76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor getting into a fight with some hecklers outside of a Boston nightclub the night before Thanksgiving, and now they have more video from the same altercation....
Jim Gaffigan Explains How The Heck He Travels With Five Kids
Comedian Jim Gaffigan and his wife Jeannie live in a two-bedroom New York City apartment with their five freaking kids. If that sounds like too much for you, wait until you hear that they regularly take the whole brood on the road. They once spent a summer together in a bus for Dad’s cross-country s...
Bill Belichick Is Extra Grumpy This Morning
The Patriots are notoriously cagey when it comes to talking publicly about player injuries, which is why it was kind of weird to see the team release an official statement about Rob Gronkowski’s knee injury. At this morning’s press conference, head coach Bill Belichick was asked why the team decided...
At Least Kobe Bryant Has A Sense Of Humor About All Of This
The NBA has never really seen anything like what Kobe Bryant is doing right now. After shooting 7-for-26 in a loss to the godawful Sixers last night (he shot 4-of-17 from three, for chrissakes!), Kobe’s season statistics are just about the grimmest thing you’ll ever see. He’s currently shooting 30 p...
Is David Price Worth It?
It feels like the old days, with the Red Sox dropping a knee-buckling amount of money to snatch a superstar in his prime. So much for Boston’s brief experiment with (relative) fiscal restraint. But consecutive last-place finishes have a way of trying an owner’s patience, and an elite, durable lefty ...
Fake NBA Team Beats Fake NBA Team For Sad First Win
The Los Angeles Lakers’ 2-14 unstoppable suck came up against the Philadelphia 76ers’ 0-18 unmovable wall of shit in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Something had to give, and on this night it was the Lakers, who despite the better record are probably the worse team, and lost 103-91....
Most Of The Venezuelan National Soccer Team Threatens To Quit
Fifteen members of Venezuela’s national team threatened to stop playing for their country unless top Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) officials resign, according to a letter team captain Tomás Rincón published on Twitter yesterday....