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This Video Of Hull City Getting Promoted To The Premiership Is Epic
Well, this is heartwarming. On the final day of the npower Championship regular season, second-place Hull City was playing Cardiff City, who had already won the league and promotion to the English Premier League. The way the Championship works is the top two teams are automatically promoted, while t...
Utah Soccer Referee Punched By Teenage Player, Dies A Week Later
Richard Portillo, a 46-year-old soccer referee from Salt Lake City, was officiating a game on April 27 when a player punched him in the head after Portillo gave him a yellow card. Portillo slipped into a coma and died Saturday night, exactly one week after the incident....
Boston Bruins Honor Marathon Bombing Victim Before Game 2
Last you saw Jeff Bauman, he was mangled, with a complexion reminiscent of Beetlejuice. Pushing Bauman's stretcher was a man in a cowboy hat who had shredded a sweater to make tourniquets for what remained of Bauman's legs....
Deadspin Up All Night: Show You That I'm Real
Thank you for continued support of Deadspin. There's playoff basketball tonight, and tequila. We'll be back on tomorrow sans Sean, who will be running/celebrating/recovering from his half marathon. Wish the guy luck, if you can spare it. ...
MLB Network's Heidi Watney: Surprisingly Good At Golf
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Sure, Why Not, Give Blind Boy Some Credit For Ryan Howard's Homer
We can’t say with certainty that Ryan Howard a home run Friday for a little boy who is blind. What we can say for sure is a little boy named A.J., who is 7 years old and who is blind, asked Ryan Howard before the game to hit a home run and that Ryan Howard clobbered the first strike Ricky Nolasco pr...
Orb Is Your 2013 Kentucky Derby Winner
Just before the start of the race, it was announced that Orb and Revolutionary were co-favorites at 6-1 odds. Orb and jockey Joel Rosario made good on those odds moving up from 15h to win with a time of 2:02.89....
Derrick Rose Is Not Willis Reed (Neither Was Willis Reed)
Derrick Rose won't be playing tonight in Game 7 against the Nets. Can you believe it? What's this guy's deal, anyway?...
LeBron's Fourth MVP Is Pushing Him Into Ludicrous Territory
Reports are swarming that LeBron James will be named the NBA’s MVP for the fourth time in the past five seasons. Somehow this makes Derrick Rose’s 2011 MVP — the only blemish in that stretch for LeBron — seem all the more impressive, if all the more anomalous. Only four other players (Kareem Abdul-J...
Mike Green's OT Goal Lifts Capitals Over Rangers In NHL Playoffs
Washington Capitals defenseman Mike Green scored a power play goal against the New York Rangers with 12 minutes left in overtime to win the game and put the Caps up 2-0 in the NHL's Stanley Cup conference quarterfinals. ...
Soccer Fans Storm Field To Celebrate Mediocrity, Melancholy Ensues
Today was the last day of the season in England's npower Championship league, and relegation candidates Huddersfield Town and Barnsley were playing each other. Both teams were dangling dangerously above the drop zone, and a loss would've likely sent one of the teams down to League One....
Joey Crawford Crawfords The Joey Crawfords At Crawford Arena
Chris Paul was ejected last night in what could be his final game for the L.A. Clippers. Shortly thereafter Zack Randolph was tossed. The man responsible for both was human-refereeing-highlight reel Joey Crawford....
Terrell Owens Is A Semi-Professional Bowler Now, Apparently
It goes without saying that Terrell Owens, at 39 years old, probably isn't going to be catching any footballs anytime soon. Still, a man's got to find an outlet for all that aggression and adrenaline and competitive spirit. So...bowling? Bowling....
For a competing theory as to why Comcast SportsNews Chicago fired Susannah Collins, we turn to Paul M. Banks: "I don't think Comcast is as much to blame here. I think it's the Blackhawks." [ChicagoNow] And a letter obtained by the Chicago Tribune from the Blackhawks chairman appears to bolster that ...
When There Are Too Many High Fives, There Are No High Fives
This is from an April 7th game between the Capitals and the Tampa Bay Lightning but it is tremendous and we are sharing it....
Your Last-Minute Crowdsourced Kentucky Derby Betting Guide
In the only Kentucky Derby I covered, as a 19-year-old intern for the Lexington Herald-Leader, I got lucky on a $3 exacta bet that paid 33-1. The feeling of sprinting up the stairs to the press box to trade a $1 bill for five twenties (yes, that would be from the dedicated betting booth in the Churc...
Theo Walcott Just Scored The Fastest Goal Of The Premier League Season
Arsenal is playing Queens Park Rangers this afternoon in an important match for the Gunners. Just before kickoff, bitter rivals Spurs pulled ahead of Arsenal thanks to a late winner from the Premier League player of the year, Gareth Bale. Bale's goal made Arsenal's match against QPR a must-win conte...
But Seriously, Gareth Bale Scores Whenever The Hell He Wants
Today, Tottenham were four short minutes from a disastrous draw or even a loss against Southampton when Spurs star Gareth Bale decided, as he's done a few times this season, that he would probably rather win. So he went and scored....
How To Make Crab Cakes That Actually Taste Like Crab
The first step is preheating your oven. Yes, that's right: not your deep-fryer, not your skillet, but your oven. Because you are going to bake your crab cakes....