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I Was Tony Gwynn's Bat Boy
The baseball-card collection I had as a teen—145,000 cards in all when I last bothered to count, 800-count box after 800-count box, all of them occupying a dusty bookcase in my bedroom—was sold years ago. Some random stranger now owns that collection of 400 Tom Glavine rookie cards I bought on specu...
Your Brazil-Mexico Open Thread
It's time for Brazil-Mexico, a rematch of the Olympics final a couple years ago. Talk about it here....
World Cup: The Better You Are, The Less You Run
This year's World Cup players (minus goalkeepers) will average around seven miles of running each game, and as many as 10. But the amount you run has more to do with skill than it does with overall fitness, and not in the way you might think....
Kevin Durant Continues To Be Bad At Internet Feuds
Poor Kevin Durant is just so dang bad at the internet and feuds, mostly because he seems to have a gift for doing and or saying completely innocuous things that he later has to back down from because the internet is stupid....
Mexico Talks Shit About Brazil: What Other Countries Are Saying
At the end of today, all 32 participating nations will have played a World Cup game. The interactive map below has a roundup of interesting coverage from some of these nations; mouseover the red countries to read their reports....
Brazil-Mexico: Your Live Streaming Links
The highly-anticipated Brazil vs Mexico match is upon us. Here's how to watch it....
Celebrating Kings Fans Took Down A Drone
On Friday, after winning the Stanley Cup, Kings fans celebrated outside the Staples Center under the watchful eye of a quadcopter-mounted camera. In the most L.A. move ever, they brought it out of the sky with a commemorative T-shirt, whacked it with a skateboard on its way down, and chanted "We Got...
Deals: Nest Protect Smoke Alarm, Polarized Sunglasses, Fitbit One
After a brief recall, the Nest Protect carbon monoxide and smoke detector is once again available for sale, this time at a $30 discount. It's still more than your garden variety smoke detector, but boy is it awesome. [Nest Protect, $99]...
The Career Of Neymar, As Told Through His Glorious Hairstyles
Neymar has been a superstar-in-the-making for over five years now, mostly due to his preternatural talent that manifested itself at a young age and never stopped growing. But it's also because of the flair and passion with which he plays the game, an emotional vulnerability that always lies just ben...
We Have A New Contender For Coziest World Cup Viewing Party
Move aside, Berlin's sofa-filled pitch. A snug little room with soccer ball beanbags at São Paulo's airport may have you beat for the comfiest place to take in some soccer. (The Iran-Nigeria game on at the time was an excellent soporific.) ...
How Baseball Batting Stats Have Changed In Every Era, In One Chart
Baseball loves to talk about itself in reference to specific eras, so it's probably useful to have a way to look at how offense has changed, all in one place. Analyze1.com mapped runs, home runs, RBI, batting average, and stolen bases in Major League Baseball dating back to 1880. ...
Gore Vidal Has Been Dead For Two Years—So Where Are His Remains?
The opening scenes of The United States of Amnesia, the new Gore Vidal documentary, find the protagonist, back when he was still somewhat vital, hanging out in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington D.C., resting place of Supreme Court justices and ambassadors and various other worthies. At one point, ...
Where Belgium's Stacked Roster Came From
When Belgium fell to Brazil in the Round of 16 at the 2002 World Cup, it marked the beginning of a long hiatus from the world stage. On that night in Kobe, Japan, Brazil advanced to the quarterfinals en route to a fifth championship, while Belgium has not returned to a major tournament since. That d...
Beef Vs. Pork: WHO YA GOT?!
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering mucus, decapitation, suicide by sledgehammer, and more. ...
Mario Balotelli Has A Better Idea For Italy's Lineup
The collecting craze at this World Cup is not trading cards, but stickers. Panini's World Cup album is once again a hot seller, with collectors buying sticker packs in the hopes of completing an entire national side—or even the whole album. Mario Balotelli is his own sort of completist....
Unfortunately, Iran And Nigeria Stopped The Party
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Live Streaming Links: Belgium vs. Algeria
Here are your links for streaming today's Belgium-Algeria match on domestic or international TV....
How The World Tweeted USA Vs. Ghana
Over at CartoDB, Twitter has created a rolling heat map for yesterday's World Cup match, highlight USA- and Ghana-centric geotagged tweets over the nailbiting 90 minutes. It's interesting to see what cities provided the most chatter; it's fun to see America go up in flames after goals....
The U.S. Stole Three Points. Now The Hard Work Begins.
The United States played Ghana yesterday in the World Cup. Somehow, the United States won. And this morning, after a night's rest, the drunken euphoria has worn off, the flag shorts are discarded in the hamper, and enough time has passed to take stock of our injuries and standing in this tournament'...