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Randy Foye Buzzer-Beater Sends Color Man Into Song
Here's a feather in your cap, Denver! The Nuggets came back to beat the L.A. Clippers on a deep, three-point buzzer-beater. Matt barnes actually put the Clippers up two on a three-pointer of his own with 6.2 seconds left, but Randy Foye ended it with this dagger which sent Scott Hastings into a Foy...
Sochi Hires Private Company To Murder Stray Dogs Ahead Of Olympics
Remember when Olympic officials said they weren't going to murder stray animals in Sochi? Well, turns out they are definitely murdering stray dogs now. ...
Jared Lorenzen, At 320 Pounds, Is Still Playing Quarterback
Holy shit! That, on the right there, is present-day Jared Lorenzen, formerly of Kentucky Wildcat and New York Giant fame. He was best known as Eli Manning's dump truck of a backup. Now he's a dump truck of a nose tackle, playing quarterback....
Richie Incognito And Jonathan Martin Texted About "Puss" A Lot
The Big Lead has obtained over 1,000 text messages sent between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin between October 2012 and November 2013. It reads like your basic text message chain between friends. Except these friends are semi-famous and wealthy athletes, so they talk about partying and hookers...
Deadspin Up All Night: Those Squinting Eyes
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How The Transfer Window Makes Us Joyless <em>Football Manager</em> Drones
If you're still irrationally hoping, praying that one or two of those impossibly tantalizing rumors—David Luiz to Barça? Cavani to Chelsea?—comes true to legitimize the hours you spent throughout the month mashing the refresh button on The Daily Mail's transfer gossip page just as soon as you had fu...
Let's All Watch Bob Costas Make Weird Faces For Two Minutes
Here's some fun video from the Saints-Broncos game in 2012. Bob Costas prepares to wrap up the Sunday Night Football broadcast, and apparently his face needs some warming up....
Michael Kay Takes "Classless" Shot At Mike Francesa
Today marked the debut of the YES Network's simulcast of Michael Kay's ESPN radio show—taking the spot of Mike Francesa, who parted ways with YES after 12 glorious years together. As they took the air, Kay and partner Don La Greca took a not-so-subtle shot at Francesa, dumping a bottle of Diet Coke ...
Here's Jimmy Howard's Olympic Mask
We now have the masks for all three of Team USA's Olympic goaltenders, after designer Ray Bishop posted photos of Jimmy Howard's on his company's Facebook page....
Drake Pays Homage To Johnny Manziel With Custom Shirt
On the right, we have the famous photo of Johnny Manziel partying with some ladies while on spring break. On the left, we have Drake hitting the town on Super Bowl Sunday in a shirt that everyone in College Station is now desperate for an opportunity to purchase....
Seahawks Fans Manage To Party Without Jaywalking
Here's an adorable little video from the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, showing fans waiting for the light to turn green before moving on with the rolling celebrations. Law-abiding street parties are the best ones....
Sochi-Bound Activist Jailed For Public Swearing
An environmental activist planning to present a report on Sochi's environmental impact, was taken into custody at a bus station and ordered jailed for 15 days, according to his lawyer. His crime? Swearing in public....
Who Was America Rooting For Last Night?
As it's done for the every round of the playoffs, Facebook put together a map showing where each Super Bowl team had more Facebook fans (above). The Broncos—an older, more centralized team with two NFL championships—had more national support, while Seahawks fandom was mostly contained to the Pacific...
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Tom Junod remembers Phillip Seymour Hoffman:...
Why The Super Bowl Transit Nightmare Happened
New Jersey Transit regularly handles sell-out football crowds heading to MetLife Stadium for Jets and Giants games, and even more for concerts. So how did Super Bowl Sunday turn into such a disaster, with tens of thousands of fans stuck for hours in a hot, crowded train station? Let's figure out wha...
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Philly Radio Host Gets All Homophobic In Email Fight With Listener [Updates]
Mike Missanelli is the host of a drive-time sports radio show on Philadelphia radio station 97.5 The Fanatic. His bio page is full of plaudits—"Mike's sports acumen, witty pop-cultural references and overall fun persona are just a few of the many factors that draw listeners to the show and helped hi...
The View From The Super Bowl Flyover
No Super Bowl is complete without a gaudy display of militarism, and Super Bowl XLVIII featured a nine-helicopter flyover. Here's what it looked like from above....
Fuck You, "You Sexy Thing"
There were a lot of shitty Super Bowl ads last night. Spending $4 million on an ad means that most companies and ad agencies are too scared to allow one person to have a single vision of what the ad should be, and thus you get a 30 second gangbang of styles of tones and terrible jokes and unwanted ...
Excellence, Not Ego: Remembering The Great Philip Seymour Hoffman
What surprised me the most when I heard the news of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death was that his passing ran so counter to the reputation he had earned over his 25 years as an actor. Dependable, intelligent, consistently remarkable: These are the qualities we had come to associate with Hoffman's...