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Braves Fans Attack Umpires With Garbage After Worst Infield Fly Call Ever
Havoc broke loose in the eighth inning of tonight's Cardinals-Braves wild card game after a late—and terrible—infield fly call on a popup to left field that St. Louis couldn't corral. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Rhiannon
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Have a good time watching all the sports this weekend. It's going to be a good one!...
Bennifer No More: Ben Affleck's Amazing Comeback
The Academy Awards aren't until February, but as far as Roger Ebert is concerned, we already know who's going to take home the big prize. "The winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture will be Ben Affleck's tense new thriller Argo," he wrote on September 10, not because he thinks it's the best mo...
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Mountain Fastness
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...
The NFL Is Pissed At The Titans' Defensive Coordinator For Talking Like A Coach
On Thursday, Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Jerry Gray made the following comments to The Tenneseean:...
The Rosters For The Wild-Card Deathmatch Games Are Pretty Wacky
Big baseball games coming your way: Cardinals-Braves right now, and Rangers-Orioles at 8:37 p.m. Both air on TBS, if they're not preempted by whatever Tyler Perry show was originally scheduled. These games will, if all goes according to plan, excite you. But they may also be wacky and long!...
Jason Heyward Fought The Sun To Make A Spectacular Home Run-Robbing Catch
The MLB postseason is here! Our first of the two goofy-ass Wild Card games is underway, and it's already forcing us to spin up the highlight reel. Here's Jason Heyward working against the sun to rob Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina of a home run, and keeping the St. Louis-Atlanta game scoreless early...
Your MLB Wild-Card Deathmatch Open Thread
Hey everyone, the playoffs start tonight! We've got two do-or-die games to watch: The Cardinals are taking on the Braves at 5:07 p.m. EDT, and the Orioles are squaring off against the Rangers at 8:37 p.m. EDT. That's like, seven straight hours of baseball....
Dead Letters: "Your Website Is Turning Into A Flaming Pile Of Shit"
Let’s start off with an important message regarding something that appeared in last week’s Dead Letters:...
Cockblocked In The Big Easy!
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....
Here Is Your Rasheed Wallace Being Hilarious At Knicks Camp Update: "Get In, Girl!"
Training camp continued today for the New York Knicks, which means that Rasheed Wallace had another opportunity to be crazy and hilarious....
T.I. Saving Scott Stapp's Life Through Shared Admiration For Alabama Football? T.I. Saving Scott Stapp's Life Through Shared Admiration For Alabama Football.
This paragraph will be the most important thing you read all day. It came out of Creed frontman Scott Stapp's mouth, in an interview with VH1. He's talking about T.I.:...
Come Chat With The <em>SF Weekly's</em> Joe Eskenazi, Author Of That Terrific Story About Bleacher Report
Earlier this week, the SF Weekly published a lengthy story by Joe Eskenazi about the rise and inner workings of Bleacher Report, purveyors of flavorless, pre-fabricated, market-based sports news. We thought the piece was great. Others thought the piece was not so great....
<em>The B.S. Report</em> Report: "Whaaaaaat?"
Julia Alvidrez, Gawker Media's operations manager, is an unabashed fan of Bill Simmons and everything Grantland. She is also an occasional reader of Deadspin. Every week, she will recap Simmons's podcast, The B.S. Report, for us....
Here's Michael Phelps Sinking A 150-Foot Putt At A Scottish Pro-Am
Olympic legend Michael Phelps has picked up golf, taking on Hank Haney as an instructor and managing to register as a 24 handicap. He's playing with Paul Casey at the Dunhill Links Championship pro-am today in Scotland, and he managed to land a putt measured by the Daily Mail as a 50-yarder. The p...
Wisconsin Football Coach Didn't Know The President Of The United States Was On His Campus
On Thursday, Barack Obama gave a speech at the University of Wisconsin. As is the case when any sitting president visits a college campus, a lot of attention was paid to the event. More than 30,000 people reportedly came to watch the President speak....
USC's Robert Woods Couldn't Keep His Balance After A Helmet-To-Helmet Hit, Missed One Play
Above, the uncanny floundering of USC wide receiver and All-American Robert Woods after he got spun around on a helmet-to-helmet hit. The spin itself might have made him dizzy—Woods does a full 180 after the hit—but as Jesse Palmer noted during the aftermath, it was pretty obvious Woods had his "b...
Tom Green Appeared On Arkansas TV To Deliver A Crazed Motivational Speech To The Razorbacks
Nothing can keep Tom Green down—not cancer, retirement, or performing in front of college students who were in kindergarten when his career peaked. The comic is on campus at Arkansas this week, and during a studio hit on KFTA in Fayetteville took it upon himself to apply his resilient attitude to ...
Wait, Lance Armstrong Owns A Coffee Shop Called Juan Pelota?
Lance Armstrong recently did an odd interview with Texas Monthly, the first he's given since being stripped of his Tour De France titles by the United States Anti Doping Agency....
Source Of Robinson Cano PED Rumor Says He's Sorry, TV Station Makes On-Air Apology
Charlotte reporter Dan Tordjman offered a Twitter apology yesterday and his employer, ABC affiliate WSOC, issued an on-air mea culpa in the aftermath of his spreading a false rumor about Robinson Cano being busted for performance-enhancing drugs by MLB....