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The city of Las Vegas publicly declared that taxpayers would be on the hook for 41 percent of a proposed soccer stadium for a potential MLS team. Then the Las Vegas Review-Journal obtained the term sheet, and surprise! Turns out taxpayers would contribute more than 75 percent of the cost....

ESPN Was Dumb, But Michael Sam's Showering Habits Do Matter

The player didn't want to shower with his team. He was from the wrong side of the culture, and while he could share a field and a depth chart with his teammates, the locker-room shower was too intimate and thus too fraught a space. ...

Pack Your Lunch in Style, Upgrade to 4K, Save 33% on iTunes [Deals]

If you ever take your lunch to work, Rubbermaid's interlocking Lunch Blox system is a great space saver. Several Lunch Blox kits are on sale from Amazon, today only, along with a couple of carrying bags, and even a few shaker bottles. [Up to 40% off Rubbermaid Products]...

Shannon Sharpe: "Josh Gordon Is A Marijuana Junkie"

Shannon Sharpe was a guest co-host on this morning's episode of First Take and he had some weird things to say about Josh Gordon's year-long suspension from the NFL....

Here's Your 2014-2015 Champions League Draw

The Champions League group stage draw was today after the tournament's playoff stage wrapped up yesterday. This is what we have to look forward to....

August Sucks—The NBA Or NHL Playoffs Should Move There

In non-Olympic years, there's no wider chasm of utter sports emptiness than late July and August. NBA and NHL free agency have pretty much wrapped up, and most NFL "news" involves players describing the best shape of their lives. Thankfully, football and European soccer are just about back, but for ...

Founders All Day: Because Session IPAs Are Perfect For Football Season

Do you ever deal with Journalist Twitter? It is possibly the very most self-important subgenre of social media, though Aggrieved-Teacher Facebook gives it a run for its money. (Not that they're in it for the money, which we believed the first 50,000 times they mentioned it this morning, which they...

Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Detroit Lions

Some people are fans of the Detroit Lions. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Detroit Lions. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....

The Best And Worst 2014 Summer Movies: A Grierson And Leitch Report

If you ask the bean-counters, this was a disappointing summer: Almost every major sequel underperformed (Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Expendables 3, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 were all the lowest-grossing entries in their respective series), and there were some truly ugly flops, most n...

Gregg Popovich Is Endearingly Mean To Kids, Too

This is an old video, but we've never seen it before and there's never really a bad time to laugh at Gregg Popovich doing his curmudgeon routine, especially when it's kids who are on the receiving end. ...

Dan Snyder Wants A New Stadium Because FedEx Field "Is 17 Years Old Now"

Dan Snyder wants a new stadium, and it's the perfect storm of one of sports' most odious owners taking his turn at one of sports' biggest scams. ...

Andrelton Simmons Is Even Better In Person

Andrelton Simmons made an incredible defensive play last night, which isn't really news at this point, but this one in particular is notable because it just so happened to be a game-saving play....

Does Hockey Need A Warning Track?

A large number of hockey's spinal-cord injuries occur when a player goes head-first into the boards. Now, a partially paralyzed former player wants to outfit rinks with a "Look-Up Line," which he says would give them a visual warning. [USA Today]...

Josh Shaw's Lawyer Confirms Balcony Fall

There's a whole lot of confusion on what actually happened to USC DB Josh Shaw, who sprained both ankles in some sort of incident on Saturday. Well, here's one piece of the puzzle, filled in....

That Pass At 1:40

Report: Tom Brady "Very Upset" By Logan Mankins Trade

Everyone's still a little shocked by the Patriots' trade of six-time Pro-Bowl guard Logan Mankins to the Buccaneers in exchange for TE Tim Wright and a fourth-round draft pick. But if you were taken aback, imagine how the guy who's been protected by Mankins for the past nine seasons must feel....

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Yankees Catcher Gets Hit In The Dick, YES Thinks It Was His Collarbone

Francisco Cervelli took a foul ball to the dick in the fifth inning of Wednesday's game against the Tigers. In real time, it was hard to tell where he actually got hit and when the trainer came out to check him out it looked like he was grabbing Cervelli's shoulder area. That led YES analyst Ken S...

Centerplate Will Make Dog-Abusing CEO Volunteer At Dog Shelter

Stadium caterer Centerplate announced that it is forcing Desmond Hague to donate $100,000 to form a charity called the Sade Foundation "in honor of the dog he mistreated in the elevator." The company is also requiring that he serve 1,000 hours of community service working with "an organization that ...

UNC Suspends Four Players After Report Of Alleged Hazing Investigation

North Carolina has suspended four players—starting cornerbacks Desmond Lawrence and Brian Walker and backups M.J. Stewart and Donnie Miles—after it was revealed the school is investigating an alleged hazing incident that left walk-on freshman wideout Jackson Boyer with a concussion. ...