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What's Hunter Strickland's Deal?
It’s not a hard and fast rule, but you can usually tell just how selfish and stupid a pitcher’s decision to throw at a batter is by looking at his catcher. Go back to yesterday’s boxing match between Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland, and notice how Buster Posey had no desire to step out from behin...
What On Earth Was That?
Let’s stipulate that that’s not going to happen again. The Penguins aren’t going to shoot 41.6 percent, as they did in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, because hockey teams don’t just shoot 41.6 percent. At the other end, the Predators aren’t going to again allow four goals on 11 shots (before an em...
Penguins Take Game 1, But Frédérick Gaudreau's First Career Goal Is The Better Story<em></em>
Jake Guentzel’s goal with three minutes left handed Pittsburgh a Game 1 win tonight in the Stanley Cup Final, and that goal wiped out what had been a hard-fought Nashville comeback after the Predators found themselves down 3-0 at the end of the first period. (The Penguins added an empty-netter to ma...
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NBC Suddenly Reminded Why Seven-Second Delays Exist
It’s times like this you wonder if the Blue Jackets were in the Final how many f-bombs John Tortorella could sneak onto live television. At least four more than Peter Laviolette did, we think....
Mike Trout Is Headed To The DL For The First Time In His Career
Mike Trout left Sunday’s game against the Marlins after he appeared to sprain his thumb on a headfirst slide. The extent of the injury was unclear at the time, but an MRI today showed that the Angels outfielder has a torn ligament in his left thumb. The 25-year-old will go to the disabled list for t...
Multiple Ejections After Massive Brawl Between Giants And Nationals
Hunter Strickland drilled Bryce Harper with an eighth-inning pitch that sparked a brouhaha between the Giants and Nationals today in San Francisco....
Tonight's Stanley Cup Final Game 1, Simulated In NHL '94 For Sega Genesis
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....
Iconic Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78
Frank Deford, the legendary sports writer who worked for Sports Illustrated and NPR for decades, died yesterday in his home in Key West. Deford wrote some of Sports Illustrated’s most celebrated profiles, and he began to work as a correspondent for NPR’s Morning Edition in 1980. He retired from the ...
<i>Denver Post</i> Columnist Fired After Racist Tweet About Indy 500 Winner
A hail-mary apology couldn’t save former ESPN and, now, former Denver Post columnist Terry Frei after the seven-time state sportswriter of the year tweeted his disapproval of Japanese driver Takuma Sato winning yesterday’s Indy 500....
Deadspin Up All Night: Struttin' With Some Barbecue
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Tom Dumoulin Defied Everyone And Became A Champion
Tom Dumoulin was not supposed to be here. The 2017 Giro d’Italia was supposed to host a fierce battle between the world’s best climbers, a large group of whom chose not to target the Tour de France this year in order to give perennial winner Chris Froome a wide berth. Previous champions Nairo Quinta...
Jay Howard, Scott Dixon Walk Away From Massive, Devastating Wreck
A wreck so destructive it led to a red flag for repairs to the catch fence claimed the cars of Indy 500 pole sitter Scott Dixon and Jay Howard 53 laps into today’s race in Indianapolis....
The "Yard Of Bricks" At The Indy 500 Start/Finish Line Has A Message For Mike Pence
The fabled, original “Yard of Bricks” marks the start/finish line at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and plays host to one of the most recognizable traditions in motorsports. One of the bricks, though, has been thoughtfully graffitied today with “FUCK MIKE PENCE.”...
The Mets Bullpen Is A Confusing Wasteland
As the Mets rotation has increasingly become a desperate bunch of relatively interchangeable substitute scraps, their bullpen hasn’t fared any better. Over the past month, the team’s relief corps has been the worst in baseball—below replacement level as a unit, actively costing wins rather than doin...
Devastating Punch Leaves Fighter Stumbling Around "Like A Freshly Born Horse"
Serbian Bojan Velickovic took a third-round win by TKO when his counterpunch left Sweden’s Nico Musoke so brain-scrambled that he stumbled around the ring for several moments at today’s UFC event in Stockholm. (Velickovic later landed a punch straight to Musoke’s forehead before referee Kevin Sataki...
Attempt To Run Across Track At Indy 500 Goes Poorly
This individual who urgently needed to cross pit road ahead of Mike Pence’s motorcade had a bad time of it....
World No. 1 Angelique Kerber Upset In First Round Of French Open By Ekaterina Makarova
Angelique Kerber became the first women’s No. 1 ever to lose on the first day of the French Open, falling to unseeded Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-2....
Deadspin Up All Night: I Wanna Play Where You Play With The Angels
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I love this song so much and cannot conceive of a point ever again where I will want to listen to anything else. ...