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Famous People Trying To Be Funny. <em>The Watch</em>, Reviewed.
The Watch is The Avengers of comic superstar movies, if the Avengers decided they didn't really want to work together and looked sorta annoyed occupying the same story. The movie stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill, and it's rare to see a film in which so many big names seem to be operat...
Woman Says Youth Coach And USA Swimming Member Sexually Abused Her As A Child, Bought Her Silence
Just in time for the Olympics, USA Swimming has had to schedule an emergency hearing after a 43-year-old woman came forward to accuse a longtime member and youth coach of sexually abusing her nearly 30 years ago....
Guy Sues Cris Carter Because Cris Carter Allegedly Took A Bunch Of His Money And Didn't Record The Rap Song He Was Promised
The market's not what it once was. Back in the 90s and 2000s, we were promised pain-free growth. Stick that money in Sun, son, and watch it inflate. Now the times are hard. One must turn to unconventional investment opportunities. "Emerging markets," as they say in the business. Markets such as rap ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2012: Seattle Seahawks
Some people are fans of the Seattle Seahawks. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Seattle Seahawks. This 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here....
Olympics Memory: Beijing's Many Mascots Get An Un-Friendly Welcome
As the London Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, greet visitors with their expressionless, chilling, cyclopean stares, we remember the controversial unveiling of the previous Summer Olympics mascots. In this excerpt from Tom Scocca's Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Futu...
Big Ten Network's New College Football Analyst Moonlights As A Faith Healer
J Leman starred at linebacker for the University of Illinois and followed his college career up with a forgettable one of years spent between NFL practice squads and the UFL. His experiences as a player and student-athlete certainly made him of interest to networks broadcasting football, and sure ...
Why Would An Olympic Basketball Player Not Want To Lead His Team In Scoring? To Avoid Drug Testing.
Thanks to Grant Hill, another interesting piece of Olympic basketball lore has risen to the surface. Yesterday, Hill went on the Dan Patrick Show, and talked about how nobody on the 1996 Olympic basketball team wanted to be the team's leading scorer, because that person would automatically have to ...
Bob Kraft's Girlfriend Didn't Get The Part In That Movie, Despite Her Weird Bikini Audition
It's important to remind everyone that Ricki Lander's audition for The Internship did not require a bikini, nor playing off a 71-year-old man, but she thought it would better her chances to include both. All for naught, as the part of Marielena went to someone else, an actual professional actress...
How Penn State Could Have Fought The NCAA And Won
The NCAA dropped those "unprecedented" punishments on Penn State on Monday, and they're mighty. There's the usual—scholarship cuts, probation, bowl bans, vacated wins, a fine—but amplified to heretofore unseen levels....
This Photo Of Team USA Sleeping On An Airplane Is The Best Thing Today
Kevin Love surreptitiously snapped this and posted it to Instagram, as Team USA flew from Barcelona to London last night. From right to left, front to back, that's LeBron James, Chris Paul, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Deron Williams, Anthony Davis, and even Mike Kryzyzewski, back in business cl...
We Will Go On Believing That The Olympians Crashed Grindr, Despite What Grindr Says
A couple of days ago, the gay cruising app Grindr crashed in London around the same time Olympians arrived. This is an entirely plausible cause-and-effect that admits no other explanation strictly on account of its sheer gay awesomeness....
Bears CB D.J. Moore Needed A TV At Training Camp, So He Had Some Fan On Twitter Bring Him One
No, really. That's exactly what happened. Here's how the entire saga played out for all to see:...
Olympic Swimmers Already Humping, Or Possibly Preparing To Hump, Australian Newspapers Report
The Hot Sexxxy Olympics of Sex don't officially begin until tomorrow, with all the hot sexy athlete sex, but some Olympians aren't even waiting for the opening ceremony to start sexing at the Sexlympics. ALLEGEDLY MAYBE....
Matt Barkley Did A Reddit AMA, And Had A Strong Opinion On Impermissible Benefits
For two hours yesterday afternoon, USC quarterback Matt Barkley dropped in on the college football subReddit, and held forth on every subject under the Southern California sun. He seems like a personable, down-to-earth sort of guy, and while much of the Q&A wasn't groundbreaking (His favorite In-N-O...
Ohio Was Founded By Christopher Columbus In 1812, According To Golf Channel
Luke List is a Web.com tour golfer from Florida, and Golf Channel enlisted him for one of their regular "facts about the community" bumps for coverage of this weekend's Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational at Ohio State's Scarlet Course in Columbus. Unfortunately, Golf Channel supplied Luke...
Why Your Team Sucks 2012: St. Louis Rams
Some people are fans of the St. Louis Rams. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the St. Louis Rams. This 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here....
ESPN Reports 23-Year-Old Cowboys Back Played In NFL From 1994-2002
Even though he didn't! Darrell Scott was five in 1994, not catching 46 passes for the Bengals....
Well, Lah-Di-Dah, <em>New York Times</em>
"In the Olympic travel lane on the way to gymnastics, breezing by bumper-to-bumper traffic. Sorry, London commuters!" [Romenesko]...
Osi Umenyiora Thinks RG3 Should Be Called Plain Old "Bob Griffin"
Osi Umenyiora is no stranger to antagonizing his NFC East foes. But yesterday on WFAN, he shifted his aim further down I-95, to a certain can't-miss superstar quarterback:...
Jerry Sandusky's Alleged Penn State Shower Victim Has Been Identified, Lawyers Say
One the great mysteries surrounding the Jerry Sandusky case involved the boy known as Victim 2, the one former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary says he witnessed Sandusky abusing in a Penn State football building shower on Feb. 9, 2001. It was, of course, McQueary's eyewitness account that e...