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Little League World Series Participant Has The Best Pregame Ritual

Trey is really doing it right, you guys. We should all try to be more like Trey....

Which NBA Teams Have The Hardest And Easiest Schedules?

Yesterday, the NBA released its schedule, and everyone rushed to talk about when the big games are happening (Christmas) and where (Miami). But who got the easiest rides, and who got screwed? ...

College Playoff Selection Committee Makes Complex Process More Complex

Lost in the avalanche of legal battles against the NCAA is that the first college football playoff is coming this year! The 2014 season's champion will be settled based on a four-team playoff, with the bracket selected by the aptly-titled College Football Playoff Selection Committee. ...

Lil Wayne Freestyles Over The <em>SportsCenter</em> Theme, For Some Reason

Today was Lil Wayne Day on SportsCenter, or something, which means the rapper was on set all day to do zany things and promote his upcoming album. It also meant that he had to freestyle over the SportsCenter theme, which, given how that song goes, was a pretty raw deal for Lil Wayne....

Ribeyes, Helicopter Rides, And Booze: How San Antonio Wooed The Raiders

Would you like a $2,005 dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse? A corner room at the Grand Hyatt? Do you want someone else to pay for all this? Of course! All you need is to own an NFL team. Any team will do, even the Raiders. ...

What Happens To Golf After Tiger?

By the time Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy won the 96th PGA Championship on Sunday, his second major in as many months and fourth overall, the man whose mantle he seems poised to assume had long since left the property. In 36 holes at Valhalla Golf Club, near Louisville, an ailing Tiger Woods scarc...

Javelin Thrower Impales 75-Meter Sign; Judges Struggle To Remove It

This throw at the European Athletics Championships by Sweden's Kim Amb would be impressive if the point of javelin throwing was accuracy instead of distance. (Also, if Amb had intentionally aimed at the marker.) Amb didn't, though, so no points for him....

<em>Safe</em> Is The Best Jason Statham Movie

You can learn a lot about someone from his or her favorite Jason Statham movie. For instance, if your pick is Crank (or, fucking hell, Crank 2), I know you don't really like Jason Statham movies that much. Those are built on a fun concept, and they have a few great ideas, but they're Mountain Dew co...

Angry Soccer Coach Tries To Kick Ball, Falls Right On His Ass

Here is your latest reminder that you should never, ever try to kick something while you are angry. Because when you are angry you tend to forget things—like the fact that you are wearing very expensive dress shoes and standing on a slick floor, and that even though you are so damn mad and that ball...

Actually, Here Is A Good Ranking Of The Fruits

Many internet web sites like to rank the fruits. You can see right away that these rankings are wrong and bad, both because their results are stupid, and for the reason those results are stupid, which is that they were assembled using a lousy-ass amateurish methodology. Amateur bush-league-ass...

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Keep Your Beer Perpetually Cold, Ditch Your Headphone Cord [Deals]

One of the best cures for a hot summer day is an ice cold beer, and these Corkcicles can keep a standard longneck at just the right temperature. $20 gets you two. [Corkcicle Chillsner 2-Pack, $20]...

Fox Sports 1: Be A Cool Bro And Ignore Your Nagging Bitch Wife With Us

In case you had any doubt about the Fox Sports 1 worldview, they dropped this turd on us this week....

New Yorkers! Be sure to swing by tonight's Varsity Letters reading series, presented by Gelf Magazine. Gus Garcia-Roberts, author of Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era, will be there, and he will be joined by EIC of Vice Sports Tomas Rios, and former...

Chip Kelly Is Basically The Eagles' Life Coach

We've figured out by now that Eagles head coach Chip Kelly is a guy who likes to let his work speak for him, but in Seth Wickersham's feature, for which Kelly declined to talk, we get details of how far Kelly's influence seeps into his players' minds....

Robin Williams's Terminal Condition: On <em>The World According to Garp</em>

In 1982, Robin Williams went on a Dallas-area talk show to discuss his title role in the film adaptation of John Irving's novel The World According to Garp. The show's host—a cheerful, robotic woman named Bobbie Wygant—asks her questions, and Williams provides his answers....

How To Fix The Baseball Hall Of Fame Elections

Admission into the Baseball Hall of Fame has been called baseball's highest honor. Lately, it's also been baseball's most controversial....

<em>The Expendables 3</em>: An Actor-By-Actor Breakdown

No film series in recent memory relies more on the sheer mass of its cast than the Expendables movies. I've seen the assembled talent referred to as the Traveling Wilburys of '80s Action Stars, but there were only five of those guys. This more resembles the cast of a '70s disaster movie, in which ...

Why Your Team Sucks 2014: San Diego Chargers

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

Joe Nathan Tells The Home Crowd How He Really Feels

The Detroit Tigers are in a miserable tailspin right now, having lost seven of their last nine games and the division lead going into last night's contest against the Pirates. The Tigers won that game 8-4, but not before struggling closer Joe Nathan heard it from the home crowd. Nathan, it seems, ...