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Yeah, Everyone Likes The Hornets More Than The Bobcats
This chart from the Wall Street Journal shows Cleveland, predictably, getting the biggest bump in Facebook likes this offseason after bringing LeBron home. But Charlotte was the only other team to have their likes increase by more than 10 percent, and that's because the Hornets are great, and the Bo...
I Can't Stop Watching James Harden's Dandruff Rock Fly In Slow Motion
I get dandruff sometimes, so I can sympathize with Harden a bit, but goddammit if this isn't one of the grossest things I've seen in a while....
Further Evidence Bill Simmons & Ellen DeGeneres Are The Same Person
Yesterday a commenter remarked on some similarities between ESPN word-jock Bill Simmons and entertainer Ellen DeGeneres. We conducted a detailed forensic analysis of their faces, and you can see the shocking results in the above video....
Jim Leyland Belts Out "Who's Your Daddy?"
Former Tigers manager Jim Leyland has a well-known love of singing, and it was a possible career path if that whole baseball thing hadn't worked out for him. A couple great moments of him singing have been captured on tape, like when he sang some of the Stylistics hit "Betcha by Golly, Wow" during a...
The Superhero Starter Kit: <em>Big Hero 6</em>, Reviewed
If you were trying to turn a kid onto action films for life, you could do a lot worse than starting him or her off with Big Hero 6. So fundamentally familiar that its alternate title might as well be My First Marvel Superhero Movie, it does just about everything you'd expect from an animated ad...
Blazers Fan's Half-Court Shot Is Confounding And Terrible
A lucky Blazers fan got to take a half-court shot at last night's game, and I'm sure he would have won some kind of sweet prize if he had made the shot. He did not win a prize, though, because he somehow managed to do this: ...
Vladimir Tarasenko Did It Again
This weave through the Devils defense, finished off with a bad-angle snipe, doesn't quite match the explosiveness of the similar move that Vladimir Tarasenko pulled off against the Rangers on Monday. Don't care. Still adopting Tarasenko as my new favorite toy this year. I hope he keeps it up, or he'...
Official Nuggets Twitter Account Does Some Solid Trolling Of The Cavs
The 1-3 Denver Nuggets host LeBron James and the 1-3 Cavaliers at home tonight, and whoever is in charge of the Nuggets' Twitter account spent last night making sure everyone in Denver is amped for the big game. The new Big Three are going to be in town!...
Adorable Kid Thinks Candy Corn Is A Candle, Tosses It In The Garbage
A YouTuber named Kyle Quinn gave some candy corn (which is garbage) to an outrageously cute sixth-grader in China. That sixth-grader thought it was a candle, and threw it in the trash. That sixth grader is the best sixth grader....
Disneyfied NFL Logos Are The 2014est Thing Of 2014
Here's some news from the Internet. [Designer] has reimagined all [30-some] logos of [powerful sporting league] teams to correspond to [popular culture trope or foreign sporting league]. Also, you'll notice that [particular sporting franchise] now has the look of [Disney princess whom online quiz sa...
Bengals Fan Is Having A Wonderful Time
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Deion Sanders On Whether People Choose To Be Gay: "Who Wouldn't?"
Deion Sanders, who really shouldn't be on TV to talk about anything other than football, is here seen on TV (the Internet? What is Ora?) giving his expert opinion on homosexuality, which he says "could be" a choice. In this interview, Larry King is asking Sanders about Michael Sam, whom Sanders re...
Tim Duncan Has All Of The Sads
It's been a rough night in Houston for the San Antonio Spurs, as the reigning NBA champions found themselves down big early and never had a chance to come back. Tim Duncan's stuck on the bench with a mandated night off, and it's clear he's not happy with what the Spurs scrubs are putting together....
Leah Still Reminds Us What A Bullshit Deal Childhood Cancer Is
The NFL Network (and, evidently, enormous caterpillars with human faces) have identified the sugary-awful emotional center of tonight's battle of Ohio: a 4-year-old named Leah Still, the daughter of Bengals defensive tackle Devon Still. She's attending the Browns-Bengals game tonight. It's t...
Andy Dalton Has No Use For Your Football "Rules"
You'll have to forgive Andy, it's his first day in Pop Warner and he's not quite clear on how to play football yet....
Boston Celtics To Wear New, Ugly Alternate Jerseys
We're often beaten over the head by basketball curmudgeons about Boston's deep respect for basketball history, but these new Boston Celtics jerseys look like something your well-meaning mother picked you up from the TJ Maxx discount rack and you wear only out of pity. ...
Ravens GM Testimony: Ray Rice Told Goodell He Hit Fiancée In Elevator
The NFLPA's push to reinstate Ray Rice could finally give us definitive answers on how royally Roger Goodell fucked up when handling Rice's domestic violence case. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Up Again Early
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Texas High School Nixes Football Team T-Shirt Featuring Rape Joke
A Texas high school forced its football team to get rid of T-shirts with the slogan, "Shhhhhhh[,] just let it happen," because we all know what the fuck they were implying....
Hey, Did You Know Bill Simmons And Ellen DeGeneres Have The Same Eyes?
From reader Kevin:...