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![The Greatest Trick Dewayne Wise Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World He Caught This Ball [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17r17aparlxnxjpg.jpg)
The Greatest Trick Dewayne Wise Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World He Caught This Ball [UPDATE]
Outfielder Dewayne Wise is used to making athletic catches. He saved Mark Buehrle's perfect game once upon a time. But it turns out he's also pretty good at selling an obvious drop on a sensational effort. He fooled YES announcer Michael Kay, he fooled the tens of thousands of other fans who didn't...
Olympics Field Guide: Ryan Lochte, The Bro Who Beat Michael Phelps
Name: Ryan Lochte...
Dwight Howard Inadvertently Caused All Sorts Of Trouble In Portland
On a January night in Portland, Quincy Wynn pulled up to a crosswalk He was waiting for pedestrians to cross the street so he could make a right turn on red, but he thought one of them was moving too slowly. He yelled at Josiah Kuehl, a 15-year-old high school student walking home from a wrestling t...
Someone's Trying To Stop The Tim Tebow-Brady Quinn Catfight
Way back in February, when we were still wiping the effluvia of Tebowmania off our jorts, GQ published an oral history of the then-Broncos QB's unlikely season. It was well done, but as so often happens with these things, an entire magazine article was sieved through to find the one hint of controve...
!["Why Don't You Go Fuck Josh," Said Somebody (Maybe Pam Shriver) On ESPN's Wimbledon Broadcast [CORRECTED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
"Why Don't You Go Fuck Josh," Said Somebody (Maybe Pam Shriver) On ESPN's Wimbledon Broadcast [CORRECTED]
Reader Brian let us know about this oddity during match point of today's opening-round match at Wimbledon today between Kim Clijsters and Jelena Jankovic, in which a voice on ESPN asks "Why don't you go fuck Josh out there?" in hushed tones....
Olympics Field Guide: Race Imboden, The New Face Of American Fencing
Name: Race Imboden...
Venus Williams Crashes In First Round At Wimbledon
Grass is Venus Williams's favorite surface. Even if she's been fading everywhere else for some time—she hasn't been to a final of a non-Wimbledon Grand Slam in nine years—she would reliably muster up a respectable (and sometimes dominant!) performance in England....
Chinese Man Died Of Exhaustion Trying To Watch All Of Euro 2012
A Chinese man has reportedly died after staying up for 11 straight nights (because of the time difference) to watch every match of Euro 2012....
The Mets Bought A Chicken For Frank Francisco, Not Ritually Killing It
Before the beginning of this year's second edition of the "Subway Series" between the New York Yankees and New York Mets, Mets closer Frank Francisco called the Yankees chickens. Because the Yankees complain about everything. Anyway, it was much ado about nothing and everyone downplayed the quote. ...
Jamie Moyer Is Becoming Baseball's Very Own Willy Loman
Moyer, if you'll recall, started the season with the Colorado Rockies and was soon designated for assignment after going 2-5. He then signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles. A clause in that contract required the Orioles to either promote Moyer to the big league club or release him a...
After Blown Save Jonathan Papelbon Promises $5K For A Walk-Off Homerun, Jim Thome Cashes In
Jim Thome hit his 13th game-winning home run yesterday, good enough for a weird Major League record only the folks at Elias think about. It was also good enough for $5,000, according to Jonathan Papelbon. Paps came in to a 6-4 Phillies lead over the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth inning and promptly g...
Musical Donations For The World's Poor: Oklahoma City Thunder Edition
Usually when a team loses a championship game, the joke is that all those "Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champions!" shirts get donated to some poor country since they are essentially worthless, but still technically clothing. That's becoming a bit clichéd if you ask me. Recently, we've seen our fair s...
Torii Hunter Interviews An Astronaut In Space, Asks How He Poops
Yesterday Torii Hunter spent about 15 minutes interviewing astronaut Joe Acaba while he was in the middle of a four-month-long mission in the International Space Station. It was actually a funny, goofy little segment between the two. Hunter asked if he could see Mark Trumbo's home runs from space, ...
Chipper Jones, Your Ass Makes Women Go Crazy
A little moment of levity to break up all the dark vibes floating around would be nice, yes? Well, you can thank this woman sitting in the front row at Shithole Fenway Park watching Chipper take some hacks in the on-deck circle. Chipper is in the middle of his goodbye tour and it appears one fan w...
Meet Timur Bekmambetov, The Loony Madman Behind <em>Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter</em>
Timur Bekmambetov, the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, might be insane. I don't mean that as an insult. The man behind Night Watch, Day Watch, and Wanted isn't interested in nuance or character or plot or basic human emotions. Watching his movies, you get the sense that he doesn't spend...
You'll Never Guess How Police Identified This Shooting Suspect With A Yankees Logo Tattooed On His Forehead
An argument escalated into a man getting shot in Mesa, Ariz., and while the victim told police he didn't know his attacker, he did notice a Yankees logo tattooed between the man's eyebrows. It wasn't super hard to track him down from that. [Phoenix New Times, h/t ClueHeywood]...
Report: Prosecutors Have More Victims Ready To Come Forward If Jerry Sandusky Is Acquitted
Another day, another round of potential allegations of child sex abuse against Jerry Sandusky. Last night, NBC's Rock Center aired a report in which 30-year-old Travis Weaver said Sandusky began abusing him when he was 10, and that the molestation even took place during a trip to California for Penn...
The Time An Old Canadian Wrestler Threw LeRoy Neiman To The Ground
The great LeRoy Neiman died yesterday. His paintings were ballsy and so was he....
Things Get Testy At Mets' All-Time Team Presentation As Tom Seaver Asks Darryl Strawberry If He's Wearing Handcuffs
Sunday night's Mets All-Time Team gala turned awkward when Tom Seaver made reference to Darryl Strawberry's criminal past by asking, "You don't have any handcuffs on your wrists, do you?"...
Carlos Santana Was Out By Six Feet, Except That Umpire Jim Wolf Is Legally Blind
Most of the time, umpiring is really easy, like this play from last night's Reds-Indians game. Joey Votto scoops up the grounder on the first base side and throws it to shortstop Zach Cozart, who's covering second. Carlos Santana basically gives up on sliding into the base, because he recognizes, b...