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Big Baby Davis To Austin Rivers: "You're A Fucking Bum Who's Been Given The World"
Time to catch up on an amusing, low-grade NBA beef....
Report: Kevin Durant Willing To Take Less Money Because The NBA Is Broken
ESPN is reporting that Kevin Durant, who may well be the most valuable player in the NBA given his age and ability, is thinking about taking a pay cut this offseason in order to allow the Warriors to keep their core together for the next few seasons....
Hell Is Empty And All the Hedge Fund Managers Are At The Bellagio
Blue blazers. Blue checked shirts. Collar open. No tie. Brown shoes. Black shoes. Or Nike shoes. New, new, all new. Soft leather satchels with bold brass zippers. Good cufflinks. Good watches. Better than you know. Hundred dollar haircuts. Straight razored shaves. Shaped cuticles. Manicured nails. C...
Welcome To The Jason La Canfora Orioles Minute
Over the last few seasons, NFL reporter Jason La Canfora has emerged on Twitter as a particularly outspoken Baltimore Orioles fan. The Jason La Canfora Orioles Minute is an irregularly recurring feature in which we check in with La Canfora on the O’s....
Evgeni Malkin And P.K. Subban Had A Sad Fight
Lost at the end of a wild Game 2 and hidden in a commercial break, was a pretty unlikely scrap between the Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin and the Predators’ P.K. Subban....
Beans, Ranked<em></em>
As you know, this site supposedly exists for the sake of juicy sports news and gossip, but what we REALLY do instead is rank random bullshit and start flame wars with those rankings. This week, that means we’re ranking beans. And I don’t mean bean dishes. I’m talking about the actual beans themselve...
What Happened To Pekka Rinne?
The Penguins are surely doing lots of good things to be up 2-0 in the Stanley Cup Final after last night’s 4-1 win. They were the league’s highest-scoring team this year, and for brief explosions in both games in which they were generally outworked, they’ve been able to solve the Predators’ elite de...
Mets Apologize After Mr. Met Gets Caught Flipping The Bird At A Fan
The Mets lost to the Brewers tonight by six runs. Aside from Eric Thames’s big dinger, what happened on the field was not particularly notable (the Mets lose all the time). However, right next to the field, Mr. Met provided the highlight of the night when he flipped off a fan who was videotaping the...
The Penguins Crushed The Predators In One Terrifying Three-Minute Stretch
The Penguins and Predators were knotted in an ugly and contentious Game 2 for two periods, until a stunning flurry of goals turned the once-dramatic game into a blowout within a matter of minutes. Jake Guentzel scored on Pekka Rinne just 10 seconds into the third period after Rinne deflected a shot ...
Steve Kerr Might Return During The Finals
Warriors coach Steve Kerr only coached two games of the Warriors’ playoff run before complications from his 2015 back surgery forced him to leave the team and seek treatment. Mike Brown took over and the Warriors have yet to drop a game in the playoffs, but Kerr has been hurting. He went to Duke Med...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Thinks LaVar Ball Will Chill Out After The NBA Draft
NBA commissioner Adam Silver joined Mike and his friend Mike on ESPN’s Mike & Mike this morning, where he spoke about the forthcoming NBA Finals, competitive balance in the league, and, of course, the basketball world’s slide magnate du jour, LaVar Ball. His son Lonzo will likely be a top-two pick i...
Deadspin Up All Night: The Worst Thing In 1954 Was The Bikini
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The Astros Keep Jacking
The Astros swept the Twins in Minnesota this afternoon, hitting six home runs in the process....
Before He Brought Down Nixon, Carl Bernstein Was A Far-Out Rock And Roll Writer
Watergate and the Beatles are multimedia evergreens....
Badass Referee Ducks Disgruntled Player's Punch, Squares Up And Starts Swinging
We’ve seen too many instances of helpless referees getting punched, smacked, kicked, jumped, stomped out, and even killed by bad soccer men mad over some call or other. So it’s a nice change of pace seeing this referee, overseeing a match in Argentina’s Copa Santa Fe, fighting back for once....
Rome's Fall Left Britain A Violent, Cityless Hellscape
In the year 350 AD, to paraphrase the historian Robin Fleming, Britain was as Roman a place as anywhere in the Empire. It had a dense network of roads and ports, luxurious villas with mosaic floors and private bathhouses, a profusion of small, prosperous towns that served as markets for regional tra...
Tonight's Stanley Cup Final Game 2, Simulated In NHL '94 For Sega Genesis<em></em>
Our simulation of tonight’s Stanley Cup Final matchup between Nashville and Pittsburgh is LIVE. NHL ‘94 on Sega Genesis, CPU vs CPU, with some help from NHL ‘94 expert Naples39....
Rafael Nadal's Second-Round Opponent Didn't Stand A Chance
Robin Haase, a Dutch professional tennis player ranked No. 46 in the world, drew Rafael Nadal in the second round of the French Open on Tuesday, ending things at 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. He was 30....
Enough With The Boob-Throwing Celebration, Djokovic
Last year, the great though recently slumping Novak Djokovic started doing a unique post-match celebration: He beckons the ball kids to his side, turns to the crowd, and then, in sync, they all do a shoveling motion which has been repeatedly and aptly described as throwing their boobs into the stand...
Charges Dropped Against Catfish-Throwing Predators Fan
Pittsburgh cops are turning the arrest of Jake Waddell into a catch and release....