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The Olympic Swag Bags Are Pretty Sad
This picture of a stuffed bear, which really looks more like the corpse of a stuffed bear that has been shoved into a vacuum-sealed bag so as to save its meat for harvesting, is just one of the sad items that can be found in the goodie bags that are available to Olympic media in Sochi. The Toronto S...
Women's Downhill Skiing Halted Because Jump Was Too Big
Training for the women's downhill was delayed by more than an hour today, after the first three skiers down the course complained that one particular jump was way too intense, with one of them injuring both knees. Why wasn't this caught in testing? That's sort of embarrassing, actually....
Slopestyle Matryoshka Doll Lets 'Boarders 50/25/12.5/6.25/3.125 Grind
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Hey! The Olympics Have Started
Though the opening ceremony doesn't begin for another day, today has already seen the start of qualification in the men's and women's slopestyle snowboarding, and in a little bit, women's moguls and the first parts of the new team figure skating competition. ...
You Can't Wear Those Pants While Playing Hockey, Justin Bieber
Here's Justin Bieber wearing chains and harem pants as he skates with a club hockey team. Those stupid pants are why you almost slipped after receiving a perfect feed, you jabroni. And wear a visor!...
No, Pete Carroll Doesn't Have A "9/11" Tattoo On His Wrist
One photo taken immediately after Super Bowl XLVIII shows an unidentified Seattle Seahawk—with a "9/11" tattoo on his wrist—holding the Lombardi Trophy. One tipster asked if the ink belonged to head coach Pete Carroll, which would be interesting, considering his thoughts on the September 11th attack...
Deadspin Up All Night: We'll Sing All The Songs From Way Back When
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The Olympic Village Has An "Extreme Shortage" Of Pillows
There is a quiet war being waged between newly arrived Olympic athletes and members of the games support staff. At stake? The precious few pillows extant in Sochi....
The Legacy Of <em>The Decision</em>: Everyone Is Taking His Talents Somewhere
Aside from the alleged traitorousness, arrogance, callousness, short-sightedness, and all the other negative adjectives that have been largely forgotten or forgiven with LeBron James's recent success, the lasting aspect of The Decision will be a particularly clunky bit of phraseology that has noneth...
The Durant-LeBron Arms Race Is Real—And Statistically Unprecedented
We mentioned this back in November, but LeBron James and Kevin Durant—the two best basketball players in this galactic quadrant—are outdoing themselves in 2013-14. Here are some per game lines:...
Potemkin Toilet Discovered In Sochi
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Richie Incognito's Triumphant Return: A Four-Tweet Play
(Please note that the Nick Foles account is a fake.)...
Beautiful Maps Reveal Where People Run In 22 Major Cities
Over on FlowingData, Nathan Yau pulled public data from the tracking site RunKeeper.com to map out the common running routes of twenty major cities. The results are neat to look at, but it's also interesting to see the park systems, waterways, and urban grids of these cities come to come life....
A George Zimmerman-DMX Boxing Match Would Almost Certainly Be Fixed
The internet is all abuzz about the fact that child killer George Zimmerman has agreed to fight 43-year-old rapper DMX in a three-round boxing match on March 1. But before we enter into weeks of discussing how horrifying the idea of these people profiting off of Trayvon Martin's dead body is, one th...
Plimpton's Moscow Games
The latest installment of Michael MacCambridge's "Director's Cut" series over at Grantland gives George Plimpton writing about the 1980 Olympics:...
A User's Guide To The Bizarre Toilets Of Sochi
So you want to poop in Sochi. One of the unexpected highlights of the lead-up to the Olympics has been the discovery that many of the bathrooms in and around Sochi are, shall we say, Russian Unorthodox. If you or a loved one are heading to the Olympics, you may need a primer. Allow us to help....
What Winter Olympics Venues Would Look Like In Manhattan
In an inspired piece of goofy scaling, the NY Times graphics department has plopped several Winter Olympic venues into various parts of Manhattan, just to give you a better sense of how absolutely enormous they are. Pictured above is the ski jump course, towering over the New York Public Library and...
Shaun White Refuses To Ride Sochi's Dangerous Slopestyle Course
Here's another feather that we can take out of the Sochi Olympics' cap: After injuring his wrist while on a practice run on the slopestyle course yesterday, Shaun White has decided to pull out of the event altogether. This is the first time slopestyle has been included as an Olympic event, and it ju...
Lance Stephenson Leaves Game After Making Impressive But Dangerous Shot
Lance Stephenson's writhing layup probably wasn't worth the two points—and the foul—but it was fun to watch. You can't tell if the crowd is saying "Ohhh" for the shot or his fall. Thankfully, Stephenson didn't look to be seriously hurt....