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Audio: Waite Hoyt Telling Cool Old Babe Ruth Stories During Rain Delays
Here's an old record I picked up along the way. Thought you guys might dig it....
Vikings-Giants Was Punishment For Something You Did In A Past Life
During the offseason, an ESPN executive sat down with the Week 7 slate. After NBC snagged the obvious Denver-Indy game, the executive pointed to Vikings-Giants, and decided That's the game we want to show to a national audience. It seemed like a good idea at the time; the Vikings were a playoff team...
Kyrie Irving Crossed Up The Entire Planet Last Night
Once, and then again, and oh man the NBA season can't get here fast enough. ...
"Reach-Around": Beavis And Butthead Read The Sports
Here's Steve Levy and Scott Van Pelt hehehehe-ing their way through Giants-Vikings highlights. SVP describes Jared Allen "reaching around" the lineman to sack Eli Manning and Steve Levy apparently could not resist saying "reach-around." ...
Dolphins Alerted League To Personal Foul On Last-Second FG In Week 5
After a loss to the Ravens in which Caleb Sturgis missed a last-second 57-yard field goal that would have tied the game, the Dolphins noticed that Baltimore pulled the same maneuver the Patriots got busted for yesterday. Miami sent video of the play to the league and the league reportedly admitted t...
Every Tom Coughlin GIF, In One GIF
"And the Giants special teams continues to be very, very bad." - Mike Tirico, October 21, 2013...
Sean Taylor's Girlfriend Describes His Murder In Brutal Detail
The trial of Eric Rivera—charged with the fatal 2007 shooting of former Washington and University of Miami safety Sean Taylor—began Monday. Taylor's girlfriend, Jackie Garcia Haley, was the first witness called by the prosecution and gave a tearful and raw account of the night Taylor was killed....
The Giants Just Assume Passes Will Be Intercepted At This Point
Eli and Tom Coughlin had essentially the same reaction immediately after Vikings safety Andrew Sendejo dropped what looked like another interception for the Giants offense....
Man Buys Ticket To Game 1 Of World Series For $6 On StubHub
That's right, reader Erik went on StubHub today and purchased a ticket to Game 1 of the World Series at Fenway Park for $6. The seat, located in right field box 97, was listed at $3.00. Presumably the seller screwed up (at the very least) the decimal placement on the listing because the cheapest tic...
Deadspin Up All Night: Nobody Wants You
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. Wanna watch some terrible football with us? ...
Why Did The College Wrestling All-American Shoot The Duck?
This story is a couple of weeks old, but it somehow escaped the attention of our Ducks Desk. Ethen Lofthouse is a senior at Iowa who placed fifth at 184 pounds at last year's NCAA wrestling championships. One recent Friday afternoon, Lofthouse's neighbors noticed that he and his roommates were shoot...
76ers Head Coach Doubts Nerlens Noel Plays This Season
It's doubtful that Nerlens Noel—Philly's first round pick from this year's draft and the one-time presumed #1 overall pick—will play at all this year, according to Philadelphia head coach Brett Brown....
Mark Cuban Stars In The Official Photograph Of Rich White Men
Mike Fuentes of Bloomberg captured this perfectly timed photo of Mark Cuban on the courthouse steps last week, yukking it up minutes after being found not guilty cleared in an insider trading case brought by the SEC. Cuban loves it. His lawyers love it. Even the business and finance reporters love i...
"I Am Not Sure If You Are Actually An Asshole": Tales Of Parking In The City
Reader Jon shares this note, left on the windshield of his Ford Explorer Friday morning. It's from a neighbor who takes issue with Jon's park job....
One-Armed Basketball Player Commits To Florida
Zach Hodskins is a 6-foot-4, 200-pound high school senior from Milton, Ga. He played well enough on the AAU circuit last summer to get attention from several major college basketball programs. Saturday, Hodskins made a verbal commitment to play for Florida. He also was born with no left arm below t...
It's Too Soon To Say That Jermichael Finley Is "Going To Be Fine"
For the second time in the past month, Green Bay Packers tight end Jermichael Finley has sustained a serious head injury while playing football. And while he appears to be recovering movement following a temporary paralysis immediately after the injury, it's a stark reminder that the effects of head...
NFL Spreads, Visualized: <em>Monday Night Football</em> And Week 8
Based on your feedback from last Friday, we've made a few changes to our visual guide to NFL betting lines. Here's what's new:...
This GIF Of Andy Reid As The Kool-Aid Man Will Make You Happy
It's been a terrible day so far. So God bless LSUFreek for creating this gif, which will bring us all back from the precipice of despair. This is truly humanity at its best....