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Giannis Antetokounmpo Is Doing Awesome Shit At The FIBA World Cup
So, you probably aren't paying all that much attention to the FIBA World Cup right now, because it's still summer and you've got better things to do than watch Sad Derrick Rose shoot 3-12 in 40 minutes of playing time. With that said, you should be aware of all the dope things Giannis Antetokounmpo,...

Dog-Kicking Centerplate CEO Removed From Job
Stadium catering company Centerplate will today announce the resignation of CEO Desmond Hague, 10 days after surveillance video emerged of Hague kicking and choking his dog in an elevator....

Texans Sign J.J. Watt To Record-Setting Contract
Late last night, the Houston Texans and defensive end J.J. Watt agreed to a massive contract extension that will make Watt the highest-paid defensive player in the game, and it's hard to find anyone arguing he doesn't deserve it. ...

This Guy Was Sharing The Hacked Celeb Nudes Weeks Before They Leaked
Last night, we brought you the story of the Deadspin reader whose girlfriend was approached on Aug. 19 with a strange request—a Facebook user going by the (presumably fake) name of Jason Killan offered her $5,000 for nude pictures or videos. Our reader—we'll call him David—messaged Killan to tel...

Cross Country Must Die So That Running Can Live
Even though the first day of fall isn't technically until the 23rd, students all over the U.S. are returning to school. Track season is a distant memory, and once again the national attention settles for cross country season. Cross country season must be stopped. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Time Is
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Dildo In Reporter's Ear Improves Sky Sports Transfer Day Report
To be fair to the miscreant, listening to someone extol the virtues of Tom Cleverley is a bit like taking a dildo to the ear, so we'll allow it....

Slightly Creepy Bart Simpson Joins Russian Soccer Club
In some kind of convoluted branding exercise, Russian soccer club Zenit St. Petersburg introduced a slightly off Bart Simpson as its new player today. Synergy!...

Mariners Suspend Jesus Montero For Ice Cream Incident With Scout
Last week we told you about an incident involving Mariners catcher Jesus Montero, a heckling team scout, and a hurled ice cream sandwich. In light of what happened, the Mariners have decided to suspend Montero for the rest of the season....

Justin Verlander And His Hacked Photos: A Partial Timeline
Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander made multiple appearances in the wave of celebrity nude pics that leaked Sunday. A big album of photos appear to have been taken from his iPhone, and some of them match up to his MLB schedule....

UTEP RB Crushes New Mexico, Who He Says Stood Him Up As A Recruit
Rushing for a career-high 237 yards and three touchdowns must have felt incredibly sweet for UTEP sophomore running back Aaron Jones. But add in the fact that this performance came against New Mexico, a school he says stood him up for a planned in-home recruiting visit, and Saturday just might have ...

Houston Astros Fire Manager Bo Porter
The reported rift between Astros manager Bo Porter and GM Jeff Luhnow meant one of the two would have to be more flexible or leave. Today, the team fired Porter after less than two seasons....

Who Hacked The Nudes? A Working Theory
Everyone likes a good mystery, and the best one around right now involves the leak of hundreds of celebrity nudes onto the internet. The prevailing theory is that some hacker cracked Apple's iCloud service and then uploaded the nudes to the image-based bulletin board 4chan. We suspect that's not wha...

California High School Gets Rid Of Its "Arab" Mascot, Belly Dancers
Back in November, we learned that a California high school was using an Arab as its mascot: a hook-nosed, keffiyeh-wearing stereotype that seemed like something out of a very out-of-date cartoon. That guy will be gone, as will the halftime belly dancers, but the "Arabs" nickname will remain, for now...

The South Comes In All Flavors
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Here Is Your Emergency Labor Day Menu
Look, anyone could forget about Labor Day. Right? This is what you tell yourself, rocketing homeward from the empty workplace it took you many long minutes to recognize is closed today and why—Oh god, is everybody coming over for a cookout? Did I tell them I'd host Labor Day? Oh god did I prom...

We Heard About The Nude Celeb Pics Hack Weeks Ago; Here's What We Know
We get many tips every day. (By the way, email us at [email protected]!) Some of these are dead ends; others are not. A few weeks ago, someone emailed us with a weird story involving pictures of nude celebrities that, without going into it in detail, sounded and sounds like total bullshit. But the...
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Justin Verlander And His Butt Appear In Celebrity Nude Pic Flood [NSFW]
A huge wave of nude celebrity photos hit the internet earlier today. Some, like Jennifer Lawrence's, were confirmed to be real; others were disputed and debunked as fake. Among them were a series of photos featuring two people who look an awful lot like—and almost certainly are, though for obvious...

The Chiefs Reportedly Gave Alex Smith A Buttload Of Money Up Front
Quarterback Alex Smith was set to be a free agent after this season, but the Chiefs locked him up today with a four-year extension that reportedly came with an enormous amount this year....

Baylor Line Breakdown Leads To Sprawled, Trampled Freshmen
Baylor's got a fancy new stadium, and they opened it tonight with the traditional Baylor Line—in which incoming freshmen rush the field like idiots and form a human tunnel for the football team. It didn't go so well tonight....