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Charles Barkley Has The Most Accurate Playoff Picks
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Guy Fieri Flips Out On His Hairdresser, Which Makes Good Sense
Presumably in the immediate aftermath of his first visit to an optometrist in more than a decade, anthropomorphized Lime-A-Rita Guy Fieri and his hairdresser had a bit of a tiff in broad public view, leading to crying and shouting and embarrassment, not unlike what happens when you spend more than t...

How Many NBA Name Drops Can You Pick Out In This Song?
Here is "Jumpin' Out The Gym," a song from Migos, Riff Raff, and Trinidad James. Not only does the new video (which you can watch here, it's not embeddable) feature tons of NBA highlights, the song itself is littered with NBA name drops. See how many you can pick out!...

Adventures Of The Cardinals' Six-Hour Plane Delay
The St. Louis Cardinals' trip to Boston today for tomorrow's World Series game hit a snag after a mechanical delay kept their plane on the runway for six hours. A few players chronicled their experience through tweets. Pizza played a key role....

Deadspin Up All Night: I Want To Start A New Life
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Samer's on deck....

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 9
Here is your early betting info for Week 9 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these 12 games and add Eagles-Raiders (this line opened late). Two small tweaks from last week: Each team's actual record is included, and the games are once again ordered by start time...

Jerry Ferrara Wants Kevin Durant To Be In The <em>Entourage</em> Movie
Ugh, of course he does. And what amazing role has Ferrara dreamed up for Durant? "I could see like, Kevin Durant, giving my character like free throw help. Or just like jump shooting help for his pickup basketball game." Sounds awesome....

How Would Mike Francesa Have Discussed The Civil War?
After his successful Revolutionary War commentary, time-traveling Mike Francesa is back, this time in the run-up to the Battle of Antietam. The best moment comes around the 2:32 mark, when a caller—Dred, from Scottsville (groan)—asks for Mike's take on Harriet Tubman. Mike responds as if she's Al ...

Let's Talk About What Should Constitute Male Rights
Did you know that there is a such a thing as mens' rights activism? It's true! According to this article, there is a small (three inches?) group of HARDCORE BROS who have had it up to here with the ongoing vaginization of America, and they're not gonna take it lying down (unless they got a chick o...

Illinois QB's Father Banned From Campus After Arrest
Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has been banned from campus for a year after being involved in a drunken fight at Saturday's game. ...

The New Browns Facility's Walls Are Full Of Fake Quotes
This past August, the Cleveland Browns unveiled their newly renovated training facility to the local press. The four-month, $5 million project to transform the Browns' home into a mid-grade, mid-2000s, middle-management expo featured, among other things, a series of inspirational quotations on the w...

Unspinning The Mythical Gyroball, The Demon Miracle Pitch That Wasn't
Once feared, now largely forgotten, the gyroball retains a stubborn hold on the baseball imagination. Perhaps Red Sox closer Koji Uehara can put the pitch to rest:...

San Diego State Baseball Team Plays Game In Halloween Costumes
This is a yearly tradition at San Diego State, and it's evidence that baseball games would get much higher ratings if they were always played by people in costume. I mean, what game wouldn't be improved by the inclusion of a shortstop wearing a giant cardboard box?...

Random Football Rap Lyric Of The Day
In honor of Ghostface's first record, released on this date in 1996....

Your Chinese Street-Food Was Probably Cooked In Poop Oil
Well, this is horrifying. Street vendors in China have taken to using something called "gutter oil"—quite literally the oil gathered from gutter runoff, dumpster sludge, garbage juice, and untreated fucking sewage fuck fuck fuck—to cook food for human consumption. And then unwitting humans are con...

Do Fat People Make Better Restaurant Recommendations?
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Brandon Saad Set Up Patrick Kane With A Sweet Spin-O-Rama
So Brandon Saad is stealing Patrick Kane's moves now—and by that we do not mean Saad went on a weekend bender at the Tau Kap house, though one can always hope. Rather, Saad busted out the Spin-O-Rama—which Kaner had learned from Denis Savard—during last night's win over the Wild....


NBA Stat Guru Kevin Pelton On Greg Oden, The Fraudulent Knicks, And More
Kevin Pelton is one of the smartest guys covering the NBA, and his SCHOENE projection system is one of the best predictive tools in NBA analytics. He was nice enough to answer a few questions about the upcoming NBA season....
