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Sources: ESPN Laying Off Hundreds [UPDATE]
ESPN is laying off a portion of its staff today, a network spokesman confirms to us. How many? ESPN won't say. A tipster told us earlier today that it would be more than 400 staffers. A source at ESPN said that number is a little high, but it appears to be in the hundreds. ...
Joakim Noah Dances To "Pump Up The Jam" With Some Bros And Ladies
This video comes to us from a reader who spent some time partying with Joakim Noah this weekend. It's a short clip, but we like it a lot, mostly because Noah is clearly leading the party through a spirited rendition of "Pump Up The Jam." ...
Damien Brunner Cheats At Keepy-Uppy
Via Guyism, this gif of Red Wings forwards Damien Brunner and Gustav Nyquist getting loose before last night's Game 3. That's not nice....
Get Smart
Andrew Marcus sold me his broken-down Intellivision system when we were in 5th grade for $20....
Daft Punk's New Record Is Out; Now Let's Allow The Robots To Umpire
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Alex Sanabia Spit On The Ball. That Doesn't Mean He Threw A Spitball.
Alex Sanabia spit on the baseball. Just hocked a stringy, viscous loogie all over it. You can't get more blatantly illegal than that. Still: this isn't cheating....
Sweet Dreams
From Carlo Rotella's collection of essays and stories Playing in Time, check this out:...
A Brutal No-Goal Call, And The Blackhawks Are On The Ropes
Hockey's never been much for the sanctity of seeds. No one blinked last year when the eight-seeded Kings blew through the competition on the way to a Cup. So it's not any sort of mathematical upset that the Red Wings took a 2-1 lead in their series with the top-seeded Blackhawks last night—but they ...
Tie Domi's Son Pulls Off Between-The-Legs Saucer Pass
This nifty bit of stick handling came during the second period of MasterCard Memorial Cup round robin action between the Portland Winterhawks and London Knights on Monday night. Max Domi floated the puck over the defenders stick and it landed neatly on Bo Horvat's—in mid-air—before being redirected...
University Of Minnesota Lost Money Selling Beer To College Kids
Gentle people of Minnesota, you may want to rethink shelling out for that Golden Gophers diploma. ...
Man Breaks Record For Most Backflips On A Pogo Stick
We throw the word "hero" around a lot on the internet, but sometimes there is simply no other word for doing more backflips on a pogo stick than any other person in the history of human-and-pogo-stick coexistence. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Wisdom's A Gift, But You'd Trade It For Youth
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Sean will join you shortly to talk about the baseball and hockey. Gab away....
Jerry Colangelo Says He Punched A Bulls Fan During The '93 NBA Finals
The man in charge of USA Basketball once owned the Suns and the Diamondbacks, the WNBA's Mercury, and the arena league's Rattlers. He was also responsible for bringing the NHL to Phoenix. But if you were to say something nasty to his mom, Jerry Colangelo wasn't always above behaving like some beer-s...
Metta World Peace Did The Weather Report Again
This is becoming an annual tradition: the Lakers get eliminated, and Metta World Peace does a local weather report....
Listen To The Evolution Of Rappers Referencing Alonzo Mourning
OK, so this is just brilliant, and I can't believe that nobody has thought to do this before. A rapper who goes by the name Young Braised created a track that contains every instance of former NBA star Alonzo Mourning getting name dropped in a rap song, running in chronological order from 1993-2012....