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There Was A Ghost On The Pitch At The German Cup Final
All jokes aside, this is a real ghost....
Russell Westbrook To Kevin Durant: "Wake Up"
What we have here (via CJ Fogler) is an excellent opportunity for projection. A fairly innocuous exhortation from one frustrated player to another after a defensive lapse, but in the context of the Spurs' blowout, their 2-0 series lead, and Kevin Durant's and Russell Westbrook's shitty shooting nigh...
Giants Pitcher Santiago Casilla Hurts Himself On Meaningless Groundout
The Giants had a four-run lead in the top of the ninth, which makes it all the more frustrating that reliever Santiago Casilla hurt himself while trying to get a useless infield single....
Alex Guerrero Could Miss Up To Five Weeks From Miguel Olivo's Ear Bite
Last night, Miguel Olivo bit teammate Alex Guerrero's ear during a dugout fight at an Albuquerque Isotopes game. Olivo has been removed from the roster while the Dodgers investigate the incident. Meanwhile, Guerrero may miss some significant time....
Fan At Fenway Catches Ground-Rule Double In The Most Casual Way
One fan in a Hartford Whalers T-shirt didn't do anything but close his hand to earn a game ball from Tuesday night's Blue Jays-Red Sox game....
Death Of The Astrodome, World's First Indoor Stadium
[When it first opened in 1965, Houston's Astrodome was called the "Eight Wonder of the World." It was the world's first domed, indoor stadium and boasted air conditioning for Astros and Oilers games. Closed in 1996, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places earlier this year, though i...
Deadspin Up All Night: South America Is Coming Into Style
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Survivor finale tonight! I've got Spencer....
Amateur MMA Fighter Taps Out Against Opponent He Was Beating Handily
An amateur MMA fight put on by the Prison City Fight League (uh, what?) ended strangely when flyweight Mike Pantangco tapped out while in the midst of laying a beating on opponent Jeremy Rasner. ...
Why Is ESPN Letting Darren Rovell Turn Ad Campaigns Into Articles?
Here is a headline from a recent Darren Rovell article (?) that appeared on ESPN.com earlier this week: "Deal forbids Brees from motorcycle." ...
Attractive Teenage Girl Appears On TV; Sports Press Declares Its Lust
A remarkable thing happened at last night’s NBA Draft Lottery. The Bucks were represented by Mallory Edens, daughter of team owner Wes Edens, and the internet rose up as one to declare, “We would like to have sex with this 18-year-old girl.” ...
The Time Travel Of <em>Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure</em>, Visualized
Over on FlipFlopFlyin', Craig Robinson has put together a graphic summarizing all the time travel in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. The film leaves some of the exact dates open to interpretation—did they hang out with Genghis Khan in 1209 or 1269?—but these details are well handled here, and we...
Kyle Turley Says He Had Teammates Who Took 30 Vicodin A Day
Former NFL offensive lineman Kyle Turley was a guest on Colin Cowherd's show today, and the two had a semi-heated discussion about the recent lawsuit that was filed against the NFL by eight former players. The suit alleges, among other things, that team doctors willfully and negligently urged player...
Boston Barely Honors Bet, Flies World's Tiniest Habs Flag At City Hall
Before the Canadiens-Bruins series, the mayors of Montreal and Boston made a friendly wager: The flag of the winning team would fly over the losing town's city hall. You know how that series went, so today, Boston paid up. The bare minimum, anyway. ...
Cheap and Easy Ice Balls, Inexpensive Dashcam, GoPro, Kegerator
If you're making a fancy cocktail, the best way to avoid diluting the drink with melted ice is to use a giant ice sphere. With this $9 kit, you can make them at home with ease. [Silicone Ice Ball Maker, $9]...
Dude Gets Crossed Up By Hot Sauce, Then Demolished By An Alley-Oop
Hot Sauce, cult hero of the And1 Mixtapes and so forth, has played his way back into the public eye and this website after completely murdering this one defender in a recent clip. Seriously, the defender might be dead. ...
<em>The Americans</em> Should Let The Russians Win
There's plenty at stake on tonight's season-two finale of FX's The Americans. If you're the gambling sort, take the over on body count (2.5), goofy wigs (7.5), shocking betrayals of one's country (1.5), and sparingly deployed and thus even more badass '80s-pop-classic montages (0.5; last year's fina...
HIV, Hepatitis C, And More: New York's Amateur MMA Scene Is A Disaster
Things get bloody not long after the fight goes from technical battle to all-out brawl, and the former Hofstra wrestler and the kickboxer from Brooklyn up the tempo, mixing thudding kicks to the thigh with straight shots to the face. The venue—an event space in Chinatown called the Capitale—echoes w...