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How To Sear Some White Fish, Now That You "Care" About Your "Health"
A recurring rite of adulthood, for the harried and haggard and sad, is feeling ugh so terrible all the time, I'm like a sweaty, gross walrus, it hurts when I do things and my chest makes sounds like a dehumidifier, bluhhhhhh, and making a half-assed resolution to start doin' the right things, damm...

Blackhawks Fans Love Some Good Face Licking
Apparently these fans like getting their face licking on at Blackhawks games, and it seems quite enjoyable judging by the man's orgasmic reaction. This seems like the appropriate time to remind all sports fans that you never know when the camera will be trained on you, so be cautious about doing wei...

"Gary's Wife Complains About Fatigue Too": Your College GameDay Signs
Baylor's making its case for selection to the college football "playoff" today as College GameDay's in Waco. Here's the best signs we spotted on today's broadcast:...

High Schoolers Don't Realize Blocked FG Is Live, Lose State Semifinal
Last night Monacan High School's football team found out that defeat is even more agonizing when it is self-imposed. They took on regional powerhouse Lake Taylor High School away for the Virginia 4A South Region title, with the winner advancing to the state championship game....

Is Competitiveness Poor Sportsmanship?
Thanks to social media, sportsmanship has taken on proportions well beyond the usual no-cutting-the-course, no-tripping no-brainers. Recently, the brand of sportsmanship that's garnered attention—and been called "inspiring"—includes stopping mid-race to help a fallen competitor, at the cost of perso...

Deadspin Up All Night: This Well's Gone Dry
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Rajon Rondo's Free Throw Shooting Is Historically Awful So Far
Rajon Rondo has never been a great free-throw shooter. Coming into the 2014-15 season his career average was 62.1 percent—substandard for a point guard—but so far this season, Rondo has been a calamity. He's shot a horrendous 9-30 (30.0 percent) clip from the "charity stripe" in his 15 games played....

Clueless Soccer Owner Tacks On More Racism In Apology For Earlier Racism
Dave Whelan, the septuagenarian owner of former Premier League club Wigan, is having some trouble keeping his foot out of his mouth. Of course, when words like "chink," "chingaling," and phrases like "Jewish people chase money more than everybody else" seem like acceptable fodder for public statemen...

A Day At The Track For The World's Biggest And Strangest Horse Race
TOKYO — One of the most-watched and best-attended sporting events in the world took place in Tokyo last Sunday. More than 100,000 people, thousands of whom slept outside overnight, streamed into Tokyo Racecourse for the $5 million-plus Japan Cup. But as the Cup's 18 runners entered the walking rin...

Youtube Will Probably Never Host A More Dramatic Video Than This
In the course of debating these very bad rankings, my brain instinctively went back to 2004's "Battle At Kruger," eight minutes of breathless, unmatchable animal-kingdom struggle featuring a wounded buffalo calf, a crocodile, a pack of hungry lions, and dozens of courageous and pissed-off Cape buffa...


Goat Wants To Be Club's New Goalkeeper; Mean Greeks Cut Short His Tryout
Look, maybe trying out for the team mid-match shows some bad timing on the goat’s part, but let my man at least try to make a couple saves. His positioning looks impeccable, and forwards are going to think twice before challenging for balls in the air knowing horns like that are aimed at their ribca...

The St. Louis Rams Have Nothing To Be Sorry For
You don't call Mike Francesa's radio show unless you are upset, and probably also otherwise damaged in some way. A person who is doing fine, thanks, does not run some avant-garde hear-me-out-Mike trade—Nothing crazy, just Eli Manning for a couple of first-round picks and a couple of second-round p...
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Bears Fans Stabbed After Game [Update]
A fight between two Bears fans and four Cowboys fans last night outside Soldier Field ended with the Bears fans sent to the hospital with stab wounds. [Update: see below.]...

Why Does The Flu Vaccine Suck This Year?
Did you get your flu shot? I didn't really want to (I hate needles) but as an infectious disease physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, it would be exceedingly poor form if I opted out. My job requires it, and I recommend the vaccine to just about every patient, every day. The shot doesn't actu...

Magic: The Gathering, That Old Nerd Favorite, Is The New Poker
When we reached the last stop on the MAX Yellow Line light rail, a large group of Magic: The Gathering pros loped off the train toward the Portland Expo Center right alongside me. Tall Paul Rietzl, with his square jaw and blonde crew cut … rail-thin David Ochoa, with his owlish glasses … handsome ...

Argentine Woman Says She Was Brutally Beaten For Wearing Soccer Jersey
Above is a picture of Lorena Sabio and her daughter, wearing a River Plate shirt ahead of the club's match against archrivals Boca Juniors last Thursday. Sometime later that evening, she was in the hospital undergoing a total of 14 operations to deal with the savage beating she claims she endured at...

Arizona Police Postpone "Run From The Cops" Charity Race
The Tempe Police Department is postponing its "Run From The Cops 5K" charity race scheduled for Saturday, because, well, that's kinda obvious, right?...

Columbia Football Coach Resigns Following Abuse Allegations
According to a press release from Columbia's university president, head football coach Pete Mangurian, who has led the Columbia football team to 21 straight losses and was recently accused of ignoring concussion diagnoses and being physically abusive by 25 of his players, has resigned. ...

Jayson Werth Gets 10 Days In Jail For Doing 50 MPH Over The Limit
Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth was found guilty of reckless driving today, five months after his Porsche 911 was clocked driving 105 mph in a 55 mph zone on the Beltway in Virginia. He loses his driver's license, and was sentenced to serve 10 days in jail, with the remaining 170 days suspended....