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NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 16 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 16 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these game, and add info for Steelers-Packers, which hasn't opened yet....

Get Hourly Updates On Which NBA Team Is Tanking The Best
For fans of shitty NBA teams, the 2013 season is about little more than which team can manage to suck the hardest for a chance to draft Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker. Thankfully for those fans, TankingForWiggins.com exists....

Was Sammy Sosa Really All That Great?
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...

Here Is A Lie
Raymond James Stadium will host the 2017 college football national championship game. Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan has a highly scientific prediction that it'll be the single greatest thing that's ever happened to Tampa's economy:...

What Is History's Greatest Toy?
Hey, I'm on vacation next week, so there won't be a Funbag on Christmas Eve. You'll just have to spend your day with your family, which is awful. I apologize in advance....

Gift Guide Roundup: Gifts For People Who Like To Read
Last week, we asked you to recommend some books for people who do the whole gift-giving thing. Here's what you came up with....

This Cycling Video Is Chock-Full Of Mind-Blowing Tricks
This video is amazing, but it may also depress you. Now you have to go through life knowing that you will never be as good at anything as these guys are at doing awesome things with bikes....

Justin Tucker Won This Guy A Fantasy Football Championship
Say it with me: "No one cares about your fantasy team." But we can at least devote a moment to Shea, who sent along this video of him celebrating a championship, thanks to Justin Tucker's fantasy-swinging 61-yard winner....

A Syracuse Blog Is Sending Hundreds Of Underprivileged Kids To A Bowl
Who wants to travel from Syracuse all the way to Houston to watch the Orange take on Minnesota in the Texas Bowl? Not many people. So 'Cuse blog Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician presented its readership with an idea: Fans donate money, and kids from local youth groups will attend the game in their...

The Most Impressive/Awful Video Christmas Card You'll See This Year
If you are planning a video Christmas card, you will not make one as good as this. You also will not make one nearly as horrifying. This is impressive in the way that certain elaborate mass murders are impressive. ...

Who Are The Best And Worst NFL Announcers?
Over at Sports on Earth, Aaron Gordon watched two NFL games called by each announcing crew in an attempt to quantify the best and worst broadcasters in the business. There were few surprises....

75 Years Ago NFL Players Looked Like This
"Pro football is almost a different game from college football," LIFE magazine helpfully informed its readers in October 1938. In those years, the biggest pro sports in America were baseball, boxing and horse racing; professional football barely registered on most fans' radar. But pro ball was makin...

Justin Tucker, Kicker, Conqueror
It's a morning to unreservedly celebrate Justin Tucker, because how often do we get the chance? How rarely is the kicker the one proudly jogging off the field with his helmet held high? Tucker—who appears to have wrestled the "Legatron" nickname away from Greg Zuerlein—accounted for all of the Raven...

Here's How Close The Lions Came To Winning
The Ravens pulled out a thrilling win over the the Lions 18-16 on this 61-yard field goal from Justin Tucker with 43 seconds left. Tucker hit six field goals on the night, provided all of the Ravens offense. Tucker has now made 33 field goals in a row....

Caps Fan Takes Puck To Face, Waits Until After OT To Get Stitches
Meet the face that launched a thousand fans-just-as-tough-as-the-players quips. Alicia Drummond took a puck to the face during yesterday's Flyers-Caps game and rather than get the medical attention she needed to sew up her head, she stuck it out and watched the rest of the game....

Deadspin Up All Night: We Thought Disco Was Fucking Dead
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Deadspin 2013: All The Stuff You Didn't Have Time To Read
Here are the best longish stories we published this year. You probably didn't have time to read them the first time around, so take a a few moments now to dive into some of our best stuff....

Bootsy Collins Made A Christmas Song About Peyton Manning
We have Sports Illustrated Kids to thank for this, which is fairly ironic seeing as how it's very unlikely that any kids who see it are going to know who the hell Bootsy Collins is. ...

Completely Operational. <em>Her</em>, Reviewed.
1. "Don't knock masturbation," says Woody Allen's Alvy Singer in Annie Hall. "It's sex with someone I love." Her is many things, but at its heart, it's a clear-minded, alternately romantic and fatalist look at what, precisely, we are falling in love with when we are "falling in love." Falling in lov...

Mario Balotelli Wears Thing
White cleats are usually a conservative choice on the pitch, so it took seeing this close-up before noticing that, like most things in his life, these too are testament to Mario Balotelli's own awesomeness....