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Jacksonville PD's Homicide Unit Is At Florida-Georgia, Where They Pulled A Man Out Of A Pond Next To EverBank Field [UPDATE: Video]

A brawl broke out this afternoon adjacent to the ongoing football game between the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs, leaving one man with serious injuries at the hospital and another in police custody. Georgia is technically hosting the game at EverBank Field, the home of the Jaguars, where...

Report: OKC Has Traded James Harden To Houston

Everyone's favorite out-of-town NBA team just got approximately 40 percent less cool if Y! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski's reporting is accurate:...

Beer Of The Week: Cerveza Cucapa's Chupacabras Pale Ale

The weather is dimming, the days shrinking, and the bottle of Mexican-made English-style pale ale starts looking more seductive. It's called Chupacabras, by a craft brewer in Baja California called Cerveza Cucapa. (Twitter bio: "The only Mexican Beer that Doesn't need a lime to taste better, The Bes...

World Series Open Thread: The On-In-The-Background-At-A-Halloween-Party Classic

That's what they'll call this one, one day, when everyone tells their grandkids about it. Detroit needs to win to make it a series, so everyone who enjoys baseball and isn't a Giants fan cross your candy-coated fingers for that. Picture of one of the worst baseball jerseys of all time courtesy of C...

USC's Marqise Lee Has Shattered The PAC-12 Single-Game Receiving Record [UPDATE]

There have been some great quarterbacks, great receivers and great passing offenses in the history of the Pac-12. Until today, no one had racked up more single-game receiving yards than Oregon State's Mike Hass, who careened for 293 on 12 catches against Boise State in 2004....

Deadspin Up All Night: Take What's Yours

Gracias por su continued support of Deadspin. We'll have the World Series open thread up shortly, and will be flipping back and forth between that and whichever college football game proves most interesting. Tomorrow, Sean and Tim and all your old favorites. Enjoy your Saturday, hang out in the op...

For Just $255, This Could Be Your View Of The Knicks-Nets Season Opener At The Barclays Center

Picture courtesy of A View From My Seat, which lets users upload photos of the sightlines at various arenas. If the $255 tickets selling on StubHub for section 225 (pictured above) strike you as a bit steep, why not move slightly to the left, over to the cozy confines of section 226, and pay only $2...

James Harden said "no thanks" to a 4-year, $52 million extension. He and OKC only have until Wednesday to make a deal....

This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse

For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....

OSU at PSU, 5:30 p.m. (ESPN), Notre Dame at OU, 8 p.m. (ABC), Miss. St. at Alabama, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN). Yak here....

Hey, Tennessee Fans, Cheer Up: Jon Gruden Watched That Loss On A Flight To Phoenix

Is Jon Gruden going to be the next University of Tennessee football coach? Derek Dooley isn't all that popular in Knoxville right now, and as Clay Travis wrote recently, Gruden is a logical replacement: Gruden's first job out of college was as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee, his...

De'Anthony Thomas's Punt Return TD Against Colorado Is Obscene

We all speculated what kind of brutality the Oregon Ducks would unleash upon the hapless Colorado Buffaloes, and early in the second quarter we learned the answer would be "obscene." Obscene to the degree of a 49-0 Oregon 20 minutes into the game, capped by this marvelous De'Anthony Thomas punt re...

London Gets Gronked As Rob Gronkowski Spikes His Microphone At A Trafalgar Square Press Conference

London's a Patriots town now, folks. The fans at a Trafalgar Square press conference before the Pats' overseas game against the Rams got way more than the discomfiting noises we're used to back home. First, Brady got heckled:...

"World Series Shits To Detroit" Declares <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, Fox News, Et Al

Gather ‘round, my little dreamlets. Grandpa's going to sing of the days before every baboon with a wireless connection could vomit up a website and call it news. In those long-forgotten times, human beings would staff publications—magazines and newspapers, chiefly. But as audience habits and adverti...

Here's Former Wide Receiver Ed McCaffrey's Super Cheesy Motivational Speaker Video, Featuring Ed's Thoughts On 9/11

It would be a slight exaggeration to say McCaffrey compares breaking his leg to 9/11 (see about 3:45 in), but he does say the two events are "forever linked together," which—correct us if we're wrong, anyone out there who immediately thinks of Ed McCaffrey's 9/10 broken leg on Monday Night Footbal...

How To Eat Halloween Candy: A Guide And A Power Ranking For Sad Adults

That the Snickers bar is the best of all candy bars is a point so obvious and unassailable that it needn't be argued here. What's odd and paradoxical-seeming, and thus noteworthy, is that its superiority is the precise reason why the Snickers is not the best candy bar for Halloween. That is to say, ...

South Carolina Running Back Marcus Lattimore's Knee Exploded In A Gruesome Injury

Just a year after losing his 2011 season to a knee ligament injury, South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore suffered another leg injury that will make you wonder if the Gamecocks star will ever play football again....

Overhyped Northeast Media Shitstorms Converge As Analysts Predict Hurricane Sandy Will Somehow Lead To More Tim Tebow

The great thing about the northeastern part of the United States—the only part of the United States—is the way the region and its residents amplify the most of middling of things (think quarterbacks and weather events) into the only things in the world for a brief (long) period of time, thereby ass...

"Notre Dame Is Probably Going To Lose": Your Roundup Of The Best Signs Behind The College Gameday Crew

That sign is a better analyst than Ryan Lochte....

Your College Football Open Thread

Boy, not much at noon today, no? This may be the first time in nine weeks that there isn't really much of game in the early afternoon. UT at South Carolina might be amusing? Just sleep late, I don't know. Late afternoon, at various times: Texas Tech goes to Kansas State, the Gators go into Georgia...