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Report: Marlins Attempting To Seize Property From Former Season-Ticket Holder

Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria is reportedly suing a Marlins fan for possession of the fan’s commercial building to recoup funds the Marlins say they lost when the fan decided not to continue paying for his season tickets to see his trainwreck of a favorite team. ...

Lightning Take The Cowards' Way Out On Tampa Confederate Monument

There are two schools of thought on asking sports teams to weigh in on political issues. On the one hand, who cares: They’re just sports teams. But on the other hand, it’s really not that hard to give a bit of public support for basic decency. That’s why the Tampa Bay Lightning come off looking pret...

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Watch Large Silly Galoot Alexander Ovechkin Do Some Shirtless Cavorting

Here is a video of a shirtless Alex Ovechkin being a big happy goober while music plays:...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Future

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David Griffin Rejects The Knicks, Who Are Completely Doomed

Here is a not-all-that-shocking bit of news, in the grand scheme of an NBA offseason:...

Everything Is A Work

Markelle Fultz Leaves Game With Ankle Injury [Update]

The NBA’s #1 overall draft pick left tonight’s game with an ankle injury after the Sixers’ Markelle Fultz found his foot rolling while sliding past teammate Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot—who himself left the game with a busted and profusely bleeding lip....

James Harden Signs NBA Record Supermax Extension With The Rockets

James Harden today signed the richest contract extension in NBA history, a Designated Player Veteran Extension with Houston worth $170 million over four years. Harden’s current deal runs out in the summer of 2019, so this deal will run through the 2022-2023 season, when Harden will be 33 years old. ...

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Cricket Bowler Taken To Hospital After Line Drive To The Skull

Nottinghamshire bowler Luke Fletcher suffered what the British press would call a “horror injury” after Birmingham’s Sam Hain drilled him in the skull on his first delivery of the match....

Look At This Fucking Shit [UPDATES]

I’m just minding my business watching the biggest sporting event of the day—Peñarol vs. Defensor in the Uruguayan Primera Division, of course—and on comes this ad for a Miami-based company that promises to improve your child’s soccer abilities through DNA sequencing of his or her genome....

Nick Young, On Passing: "That's The Point Guard's Job"

Recent Golden State signee Nick Young met with the press Friday night. Among other things, the issue of Golden State’s constant-movement, pass-first offense came up. Here’s Swaggy P:...

Byron Buxton Scored From First Base On A Single Because He Is Superhuman

Here is a video of Minnesota’s Byron Buxton, who is ridiculously fast, scoring from first on a sharply hit grounder that never even made it to the gap in left center:...

Dak Prescott Embroiled In Football Trading Card Autograph Scandal In 2017

At least 167 real human people actually still collect football cards, according to this ESPN report, which also mentions that some number of those people received autographed Dak Prescott football cards that “may not be authentic.”...

Club Friendly Suspended As Ajax's Abdelhak Nouri Collapses On Pitch [UPDATES]

Officials suspended a club friendly in Austria between German team Werder Bremen and Dutch side Ajax after 20-year-old Abdelhak Nouri collapsed on the pitch midway through the second half....

It's Not A Dong, It's An "Arrow"

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Fox Sports' Pivot To Video Killed Its Advertising Deal With <i>Sports Illustrated </i>

In the wake of Fox Sports’ recent decision to lay off most of its writers and editors, and this week’s firing of Jamie Horowitz amid a sexual harassment investigation, there remain a whole lot of unknowns. We know that the grand plan in getting rid of writers was to “pivot to video,” and that even t...

Andy Murray Survives Fabio Fognini, The Sleepy Pirate

What is there to know about Fabio Fognini? He is the languid, deviant pirate of tennis. With a skull headband wrapped around his dome, he does a stout little swagger around the court. He does not swing his racket very dramatically, but very dramatic things happen to the ball after it leaves his rack...