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The Time A Dog Pooped In The Middle Of An Agility Contest
This video is from 2012 at Crufts, the world's largest dog show, and shows Libby the mixed breed attempting to complete an obstacle course. She does not. Just ahead of the weave poles, Libby pops a squat....
1960s Astros Programs Were Weird
Here, just an incredible find from @uniformcritic, a wonderful Twitter follow chronicling baseball history and fashion. It's a Houston Astros gameday program from the 1960s:...
Goran Dragic Just Hosed The Suns
The NBA trade deadline is coming up fast—tomorrow, at 3 p.m. EST—and we've now got one very big name to watch: Goran Dragic, who reportedly told the Suns he won't be re-signing with Phoenix this summer. That means if suddenly screwed GM Ryan McDonough wants to get anything for the star point guard, ...
Middle School Basketball Team Loses In Heartbreaking Fashion
These eighth-graders learned a very important lesson yesterday: life isn't remotely fair. If you lose a game because of missing a game-winning shot, okay, but losing because the ball gets stuck on the rim, triggering a jump ball with 0.0 seconds left? That's just cruel. The kid lying on the floor ...
Report: Patriots Locker Room Attendant Gave Official "Unapproved" Ball
According to ESPN's Outside the Lines, a Patriots locker room attendant attempted to introduce an "unapproved" football into the AFC Championship game against the Colts:...
Report: Colts Are Probably Going To Void Trent Richardson's Contract
Trent Richardson didn't travel with the Colts to New England for the AFC Championship Game for what were termed "personal reasons" by multiple reporters at the time. Well, we now know what those personal reasons were. According to The Indianapolis Star, Richardson missed a morning walkthrough becaus...
Racist Chelsea Fans Stop Black Man From Boarding Train, Chant At Him
The video below was shot at the Richelieu-Drouot station of the Paris Métro today, according to The Guardian, before Chelsea took on Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League clash at the Parc Des Princes. You can see a black man attempt to board a car that has a bunch of singing Chelsea fans in it,...
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Dude Nearly Chokes On Fake Tooth While Filming Himself Play Video Games
I don't totally understand why gamers seem to be so into filming themselves while they play video games these days, but after coming across this wonderful moment in human history, I am very glad that they do so....
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Penn State Fans Are Passing The Hat To Pay The Basketball Coach's Fine
The Big Ten Conference announced today that they fined Penn State men's basketball coach Pat Chambers $10,000 for remarks he made after the team's loss to Maryland Saturday. Now, some Penn State students are trying to crowdfund the fine for him. Please don't do that....
20 Years Ago Today, Sparky Anderson Said No To Scab Players
After calling off the 1994 World Series because of a work stoppage, and failing to reach an agreement over the winter, MLB owners were determined not to lose another season of profits—even if they had to bring in the strikebreakers. A handful of managers, and even one owner, spoke out against the us...
Let's Cast The ESPN Movie!
Yesterday, James Andrew Miller, one of the co-authors of the ESPN oral history Those Guys Have All The Fun, announced on Twitter that a movie of the book is currently in the works, and that he's writing the script. We're hoping the script features some suit telling Keith Olbermann to turn in his b...
Three Defenders Combine For Game's Nicest Move To Put Chelsea Up On PSG
After a cagey start to today's Champions League headliner—Paris Saint-Germain vs. Chelsea—the Londoners dusted off some of the silky skills they've shown all season. One Blues player collected the ball out wide, sent a peach of a cross into the box, where a teammate deftly flipped it over the defens...
Please Don’t Post Open-Casket Photos On Facebook
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're fouling out, sleeping in, talking jarred fetuses, and more....
Pablo Sandoval Remains Pablo-Sandoval-Shaped
This photo comes from Boston.com's Steve Silva, and shows new Red Sox third baseman (signed through 2019) Pablo Sandoval on his first day in camp. OK, so maybe he's a little robusto. He just got $100 million guaranteed. That's not really his problem anymore....
Are "Maximalist" Running Shoes The Next Big Con? No One Knows!
Today, The New York Times has a piece out on the maximalist running shoe, a trend now old enough to warrant an article written with characteristically Times-ian remove from rigorous examination of its subject. The thing about these shoes, though, is that even if the Times had wanted to conduct a mor...