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CBS Sports Promo Features Georgetown Fan Flipping The Bird
CBS ran this promo for a CBS Sports Network broadcast of Elon-Georgetown leading into the halftime show during Arizona-Michigan. As you can see, right there in the middle is a backwards-hatted Georgetown fan emphatically giving someone the two-for-Tuesday salute (and providing some lip-reading mat...

Michael Bay Remakes <i>Miracle</i> With Skating Helicopter
[Michael Bay walks into Jerry Bruckheimer's office] ...

The Main Ingredient: Mom's Orange Tree
In 1974, when I was three years old, my grandparents returned from a trip to Florida with a gift for my mother and my aunt. They carried it in a box, a few small branches of an orange tree. My aunt planted hers and it died almost immediately but Mom, who has a way with plants and flowers, potted the...

Arsenal Did A Lot Of Fingering During 6-3 Loss To Man City
Losing is no fun and losing 6-3 like Arsenal did today, is even less fun. So what's a club to do? Finger the shit out of everyone. Fans, each other, whatever....

Nick Saban Will Not Be Replacing Mack Brown At Texas
Nick Saban and Alabama have agreed on a contract extension and Kirk Herbstreit broke the news. All that's known at this point is that it is a long-term extension and his base salary will be somewhere between $7 and $7.5 million per year. None of this means anything. ...

Never Let A Cop In Your House: The Will Graves Story
This story is so stupid, I feel bad making you read it, but it's a teachable moment. Former North Carolina guard, Will Graves, was cited last week for misdemeanor charges when cops searched his home and found eight marijuana seeds, three (!) blunts and two burnt blunts, all helpfully scare-quoted in...

Deadspin Up All Night: Got Our Energy Back
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We've got a holiday party to get to. Give the weekenders your full attention. ...

Your Jeans Are Filthy. You Should Clean Them! Or Don't.
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She’ll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....


MLB Investigates Yankees For Potential Tampering With Mike Trout
This seems like a whole lot of nothing, but we can stand behind anything to make baseball's silly season the sillier. Yesterday, Yankees president Randy Levine had this to say by way of explaining why the team was hesitant to give Robinson Cano too many years:...

Another Reason Frank Thomas Deserves Your Hall Of Fame Vote
When I advocated for Frank Thomas's Hall of Fame candidacy, I mentioned that the autograph I got from him on the day he kinda-sorta saved my life had faded completely from the ball it was on. It turns out Thomas read my post, and he was kind enough to send me a new autographed ball. Seriously, put t...

The 2013 Deadspin Bear Of The Year
Deadspin is pleased to announce our 2013 Bear of the Year. There were a great many bears to choose, but ultimately our decision was a simple one: Bicycle-Riding Bear Who Ate a Monkey. ...

GSP Is Being Honest; It's The Best Thing That Could Happen To Fighting
So UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre is disappearing from the fight game for an indefinite and unspecified period of time, relinquishing his title and taking time to rest from a career that's seen him spend more time fighting in the UFC than anyone else ever has. Whether or not he ever ret...

Mike D'Antoni Throws Some Major Shade At Pau Gasol
The Lakers are hanging in there, but Pau Gasol, who was supposed to be a dependable and veteran presence in the general absence of either, has put up career-lows (or nearly so) in almost every category. Gasol says he's being used wrong. Mike D'Antoni says Pau's just dogging it....


No One Anywhere Is Haunted By Richie Sexson
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...

The PGA Tour's Non-Profit Status Is A Big Joke
Paula Lavigne of Outside The Lines has conducted a thorough investigation into the PGA Tour's status as a non-profit organization, and has found that the tour's commitment to charity is not nearly as strong as the suits at the PGA would like everyone to believe....

Finding Gillooly: What Happened To Figure Skating's Infamous Villain?
"Twenty years," said Jeff Stone, standing at the door of his home in Clackamas, Ore. "Is that what it is?"...

Watch David Stern Choking In Slow Motion, Because It Is Fun
David Stern had a drinking problem last night while in attendance at last night's Clippers-Nets game in Brooklyn. He just so happened to choke while on TNT's camera, meaning we can exploit it for our own artistic/deviant purposes....

Florida State Is Historically Dominant: 125 FBS Teams, Ranked
Each week during college football season we put the conventional polls to shame by ranking every FBS team from 1-125, by whatever standard we see fit. As always, last week's rankings were not consulted....