i Page 5558 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
2014 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Roger Goodell
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell showed his ass to everyone this year. The leak of surveillance footage showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiancée in an elevator led to Goodell, who'd spent years carefully cultivating a reputation for square-jawed competence, stan...
StubHub Dicks Another Guy Out Of Cheap Championship Tickets
If there's one thing you can almost guarantee any time a big sports contest is coming up, it's that some version of this story will play out: Man finds astoundingly cheap tickets for upcoming big sports contest on StubHub; man pounces on shockingly good deal; StubHub realizes that the tickets were m...
Rae Sremmurd Have A Dumb Name And The First Great Pop Album Of 2015
So Rae Sremmurd are two yelping, early-twentysomething, pop-rapping Mississippian brothers who've earned a ton of comparisons to the '90s tween sensations Kris Kross, all of them unwelcome. Which is understandable: These guys are nearly twice as old (and ribald), determined to stick around for way...
Larry Sanders Returns To Bucks, Doesn't Explain Much
Bucks center Larry Sanders, who had been away from the team since Dec. 26 due to "personal reasons" and was reportedly considering quitting basketball altogether, returned to the team last night and watched the Bucks' game against the Suns while sitting on the bench in street clothes. Sanders did sp...
Wait, The NCAA Can Pay Players' Parents Now?
The day before yesterday, if a school reached the Final Four or the College Football Playoff and anyone—the NCAA, the CFP, the school, a booster, President Obama, etc.—agreed to pay for a parent of one of the athletes to travel to the game, it was unethical conduct, an extra benefit, and punishabl...
Report: Jameis Winston Is Going Pro
After initially saying that his son was going to wait until after the national championship game to decide whether he was going pro, Jameis Winston's father has now told the media that Jameis will be entering the upcoming NFL Draft....
Mic'd-Up Matt Stafford Was Very Confused By That Reversed PI Call
Matt Stafford was mic'd up during last Sunday's playoff game against the Cowboys, and his reaction to the reversed pass interference call that helped bone the Lions out of a win aired on last night's episode of Inside the NFL. As you might imagine, Stafford was just as confused and exasperated by th...
How To Treat Your Vagina Before Your Next Race
If you're like me, you often wonder how exactly one cares for one's vagina the day before a race. What are potential pitfalls to avoid? What are some of the worst-case scenarios? Well, Runner's World's all-women's site Zelle is here to answer the age-old question....
<i>Times</i> Sending Knicks Beat Reporter Anywhere But Madison Square Garden
Being a sports reporter isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Fans think reporters have the ultimate dream job—"you get to watch sports all day long, man!"—so they have to pretend like they love every single second of it or get called jaded or ungrateful. And to be sure, most sports reporters (I t...
SVG On Playing Defense With 0.1 Seconds Left: "Form A Fucking Wall"
Stan Van Gundy coached his Pistons to a 105-104 win in San Antonio tonight over the Spurs, and a late inbound attempt with a tenth of a second remaining led him to advise Detroit players to "just form a fucking wall" around the rim. It was good advice!...
Giannis Antetokounmpo Basically Dunked A Freaking Skyhook
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar perfected the hook shot and made it unstoppable, releasing it so far from the basket and so high into the air that it was coined the skyhook. Or so we thought, until Giannis Antetokounmpo showed off the next phase of its evolution against the Suns tonight: the skydunk. Think abou...
Man Charged With Killing Adrian Peterson's Son Allegedly Violates Bond
Remember Joseph Patterson? He's the man who was charged with murder over a year ago for allegedly beating to death Tyrese Ruffin, Adrian Peterson's 2-year-old son. He somehow made it out on bond, and was subsequently accused of violating that in June when he went to the house of Ann Doohen—Ruffin's ...
A Good Woodcock
The practice of mixing Collective Soul's "Shine" with animal noises should continue....
World's Worst Referee Takes Phone Call In The Middle Of A Game
Today was the highly anticipated and (in the words of our tipster) "always heated" battle between North Whidbey Middle School and Oak Harbor Middle School in Oak Harbor, Washington. But despite the high stakes of the matchup, one of the referees spent a minute chilling on his phone! C'mon man, the...
Deadspin Up All Night: Moanin'
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Good night for a beer or several....
Jon Jones Is Checking Into Rehab After Testing Positive For Cocaine
Just three days after handling longtime rival Daniel Cormier, UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones is voluntarily checking into a drug treatment facility. ...
Phil Kessel Mad
Ron Wilson, a former Maple Leafs head coach replaced by Randy Carlyle—who was just fired today—went on the radio to call out Phil Kessel for being difficult to coach. A reporter later relayed this to Kessel. Kessel got angry....
Bets And Bullets: A Small-Time Gambler's Death By SWAT
It's been nine years since police in Fairfax County, Va., turned small-time bettor Sal Culosi into a bookie and then killed him, but Culosi's death has been forcibly dragged back into the news, and so has all the unaccountable power-drunkenness that led to it. His killers, we've been reminded, struc...
Train Station Invaded By Substance That Probably Came From Aliens
The picture above, via ABC 7's Ben Bradley, depicts some shit currently going down at Union Station in Chicago....
NFL Admits Officials Missed Another Crucial Cowboys Penalty
Poor Detroit. The NFL is just rubbing it in at this point....