i Page 5248 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Miami Dolphins
Some people are fans of the Miami Dolphins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Miami Dolphins. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
The Blue Jays Are Killing Everyone, And Why Wouldn't They Be?
One of the more frustrating things in baseball over the past few years has been watching the perpetually okay Toronto Blue Jays continue to be nothing more than just okay, because in a sports landscape populated by mountebanks who preach the virtues of losing, they’ve actively been trying to win, wh...
Dr. Dre's Spotty <i>Compton </i>Is The First Record To Show His Age
Dr. Dre has enjoyed one of the most remarkable careers in hip-hop history. In music’s most youth-dominant genre, not only has he managed to roll with the changing times, he has ranked among the most powerful forces steering the direction of the rap industry for a solid two decades. Which makes it a ...
Broke Italian Club Parma Resorts To Selling Off Trophies
This is about as sad a set of circumstances as you’ll see in soccer....
LeBron James's Foundation Will Pay College Tuition For 1,100 Kids
Buried in this ESPN article about how LeBron James really wants the Cavaliers to re-sign Tristan Thompson, is this legitimately cool thing:...
That's Unfortunate
Have something you think we should know? Email us at [email protected], or contact our writers directly, or use our SecureDrop system. You can also follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook....
<i>The Guest </i>Is Nasty, Violent, Thrilling, And Best Served Cold
A little while into the brutal 2014 indie The Guest, we get one of the most viscerally satisfying bully payback scenes in cinematic history. There’s this kid, this meek and quiet and doughy high school kid whose only friends are online. His family’s cool, ultra-capable, mysterious new adult friend s...
Wiffle Ball Player Invents New Way To Rob A Home Run
Here’s some shit you might not know: serious wiffle ball players are secretly America’s greatest athletes. If you don’t believe me, just go ahead and start the video above....
Why Not Let Kobe Play In One Last Olympics?
The USA Basketball apparatus gathered in Vegas this week for their annual confab, and most of the talk centered around which 12 players will be selected for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Like it’s been for both of the Olympics since the 2004 disaster in Athens, the roster is going to be stacked, and som...
The Packers Have A New Play-Caller
Preseason wins and losses don’t matter, but preseason games do. It’s a chance for players to get realtime experience with new systems and new coaches, and for a chance for coaches to get used to their new roles. Usually, the biggest changes happen on bad teams that have cleaned house, not teams that...
Aroldis Chapman Broke MLB's Statcast
Aroldis Chapman throws the baseball very fast. So fast, in fact, that he ruined MLB.com’s Statcast Leaderboard. That’s where MLB shows a glimpse of the data from its player-tracking technology, listing the leaders in a bunch of categories. One is fastest pitch, and the problem was that the 50 fastes...
Nike Exec: “I’m Gonna Fuckin’ Kill You”
On Wednesday, website LetsRun.com published a University of Oregon Police Department report of an incident on June 25 in a field just west of Hayward Field. It was around 7 p.m., toward the end of the first day of the USA Track and Field national championships, and coach Danny Mackey was sitting wit...
Report: Former Player Accuses Maryland Women's Basketball Coach Of Sexual Abuse
According to a report from the Washington Post’s Roman Stubbs, Maryland women’s assistant basketball coach Bryce McKey has been accused of sexual abuse by a player he coached while at Xavier, and had recruited since grade school. McKey is scheduled to be arraigned on a misdemeanor charge Friday morn...
Gabe Kapler's Advice To Baseball Players: Get A Nice Tan On Your Nuts
Former Major League Baseball player Gabe Kapler is now the Dodgers’ Director of Player Development, but on the side he also runs the blog Kap Lifestyle, which we’ve written about before. On Kap Lifestyle, Kapler and guests write about topics like nutrition, weightlifting, and working out. Today’s en...
Niles Paul Carted Off With Gruesome Ankle Injury (UPDATE)
The NFL preseason is a great time for unheralded players to make the case for playing time in the regular season and, unfortunately, for established players to risk injuries. The injury gods have claimed their first victim tonight, and it’s Washington starting tight end Niles Paul. Paul’s ankle bent...
Lamar Odom Rants At TMZ Cameraman: "Y'all Have Discredited Me, Beat Me Down"
To be completely honest, I’m not quite sure what to think about this video of a TMZ cameraman being talked at by Lamar Odom....
Deadspin Up All Night: Hush Now Child
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I gotta testify....
Nike Global Director Of Athletics Threatens To Kill A Brooks Coach
Read this LetsRun article about Nike global director of athletics John Capriotti, red-faced and trailing a retinue of Nike lackeys, threatening to kill Brooks coach Danny Mackey for unknown reasons, and toss lightly with this episode of Alberto Salazar, red-faced and trailing a retinue of Nike lacke...
This Is The Meanest Canada Has Ever Been To Anybody
After talking shit about Stan Wawrinka’s girlfriend last night, Nick Kyrgios took on John Isner in the third round of the Rogers Cup today. The crowd in Montreal was well aware of his comments, and booed him when he walked onto the court. Kyrgios lost to Isner in two sets, and fans gave an encore as...
Women Harassed By Ex-Minnesota AD Come Forward, Call His Behavior "Frightening"
The two women who notified the University of Minnesota about Norwood Teague’s sexual harassment, including all those gross text messages he sent them, released a joint statement. Ann Aronson and Erin Dady say in the statement that they had intended to keep their names confidential and the university...