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Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Jacksonville Jaguars

Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....

Bill Simmons To Host Weekly HBO Show Starting In 2016

So says New York Times media reporter John Koblin:...

Aaron Nola Gives Up First Career Home Run To Opposing Pitcher

The baseball season is 162 games long and every possible number is tracked, leading to quirky statistical anomalies. These aren’t particularly insightful or important but they’re fun, and part of what make baseball, baseball. ...

Brandon Phillips's Absurd Sliding Stop, Behind-The-Back Flip Ends Inning

Brandon Phillips is one of the better defensive players at his position, and plays like this are a big reason why: ...

No One Knows What ESPN Is Doing To Grantland

Two months ago, ESPN unexpectedly, unceremoniously dumped Bill Simmons, one of the network’s biggest and best-known personalities. When they did, Simmons was forced to abandon Grantland, the sports and pop culture website he created and edited; more specifically, he was forced to abandon dozens of w...

Ex-NFLer Will Allen Indicted For Role In Alleged Ponzi Scheme

Former NFL cornerback Will Allen—not to be confused with Steelers safety Will Allen—has been indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts for his role in an alleged Ponzi scheme, which prosecutors say he ran with a woman named Susan Daub. Allen and Daub each face 23 felony c...

Hey, You Don't Have To Read Harper Lee's New Book

So Go Set a Watchman, the second book about the main characters from the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, comes out today. That’s the safest way to write that sentence: It permits, I think, all the abundant uncertainty and controversy. This is a book, written by someone, about those characters, and...

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Police: Ryan O’Reilly Drunk Drove His 1951 Chevy Into A Tim Hortons

According to radio station CFPL and confirmed by Ontario Provincial Police, Buffalo Sabres forward Ryan O’Reilly was arrested last Thursday and charged with impaired driving in Lucan, Ont., as well as failing to remain at the scene of a traffic accident. In a very Canadian twist, police say O’Reilly...

NFL Coach Who Allegedly Hit A Kid May Go With The "It Was Dark" Defense

Bills offensive line coach Aaron Kromer, who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly punching a boy and then threatening to kill that boy’s family if he went to the cops, is going to have to come up with some kind of explanation for allegedly punching a kid. According to a source who spoke to Fox Sport...

Porn Star Calls Out NFL Player Who Slid Into Her DMs

Let this be a warning to anyone planning on on sliding into the DMs of porn star Mia Khalifa, as Bills safety Duke Williams recently did:...

It Won't Matter Who Starts At Quarterback For Ohio State

With Braxton Miller announcing his to return to Ohio State, the Buckeyes now have three of college football’s best-available quarterbacks—Miller, J.T. Barrett, and Cardale Jones—all with big-game experience and all finally healthy. Now, the question that has been looming since their national champio...

You're Never Safe When Billy Hamilton Is On Base

I’m not sure what compelled Billy Hamilton to make this ballsy play during Saturday’s game against the Marlins—maybe when you steal as many bases as he does, you get bored and and have to find new ways to challenge yourself—but I sure am glad that he went for it:...

Buffalo Bills Offensive Line Coach Aaron Kromer Arrested For Battery

Buffalo Bills offensive line coach Aaron Kromer was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery in Walton County, Florida early Sunday morning. ...

Troll Hit With Cruciatus Curse

Serena Williams Wins Sixth Wimbledon Title, Fourth Straight Grand Slam

Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon title Saturday, cruising past 21-year-old Garbine Muguruza in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. The win gives Williams her 21st Grand Slam title, second all-time only to Steffi Graf’s 22 in the Open era. ...

How Should You Feel About A Bear Using A Boulder To Break A Window?

As you’ve surely heard by now, a bear in a Minnesota zoo shattered a pane of glass with a boulder. That a wild animal would want to destroy a barrier keeping it within a confined habitat isn’t all that remarkable, but what is noteworthy is precisely how this bear went about breaking the glass....

Two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Braxton Miller told The Columbus Dispatch that he will return to play for Ohio State in the 2015-16 season. After going down last season with a preseason shoulder injury, Miller was succeeded by J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones—who he will battle this pres...

Bill Murray On Cardinals Fans: "Satan's Messengers On Earth"

Famous vagrant Bill Murray played golf in the John Deere Classic Pro-Am at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Ill. Wednesday, and had fun with fans as he traversed the course. Murray, a well-known Chicago Cubs fan, took as many shots as he could at the St. Louis Cardinals along the way....

Here Are The Documents Bill Cosby Didn't Want You To Read [Updated]

Today saw the unsealing of documents from the 2005 civil suit in which Andrea Constand said Bill Cosby drugged and raped her while she worked at Temple University. The unsealing followed a request from the Associated Press, which Cosby’s legal team fought it on the grounds that Cosby isn’t a “public...