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Paul Bissonnette Wants To Be Evgeni Malkin's Teammate; Malkin Says <em>Nyet</em>
During the lockout, Paul Bissonnette is playing for the Cardiff Devils. Meanwhile, Evgeni Malkin (Russia's most eligible bachelor!) is on the KHL's Metallurg Magnitogorsk, and presumably getting paid a lot more money. Biz Nasty texted Malkin to see if there was a job for him. Malkin replied in no un...
Mike Tyson Talks About The Time He Caught Brad Pitt Humping His Ex-Wife
Over the weekend, Mike Tyson sat down for an interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. Tyson talked about how he used to go visit his then-wife, Robin Givens, for some sex while the two were in the midst of getting a divorce. One day, though, when Tyson arrived at Givens's house, he found that s...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves In 2012? (Besides USC, Iowa, And The Tom Selleck Impersonator At Boston College)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
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Two Virginia Tech Players Charged With Building, Setting Off Explosive Device [Update]
Walk-ons Josh Trimble and Brian Rody haven't picked a major, but perhaps chemistry would suit them: the two were able to build some sort of explosive device, and set it off in an off-campus apartment last night. Unfortunately, both those things are against the law....
<em>Sports Illustrated</em>'s Peter King Says Goodbye To The Murdered Kasandra Perkins With A Haiku
Presented without comment: "The Adieu Haiku," by Peter King....
How Can They Play? Murder, Suicide, And The National Football League
This post, originally published by The Nation and reprinted here with permission, ran in advance of Sunday's Chiefs game. Consider it a counterpoint to Drew Magary's post that morning....
Bobby Hebert Is Convinced It Was "African-American" Falcons Fans Who Egged The Saints' Bus
When the Saints arrived in Atlanta for their Thursday night game, they were greeted by having their team bus egged by airport workers. Finally, Bobby Hebert had the guts to say what I'm sure everyone was thinking: it was black people, right?...
Alex Rodriguez To Undergo Surgery On His Other Hip, Miss A Large Chunk Of Next Season
It was just three years ago that Alex Rodriguez had surgery on his right hip to repair a torn labrum. Now, multiple media outlets are reporting that A-Rod is set to have the same procedure done on his left hip. He reportedly hurt his hip towards the end of last season, slogged through his dismal po...
AP: Upstart Regional School Has The Honor Of Playing Notre Dame For A National Title
Yes, there is no higher merriment in college football than making fun of Notre Dame. But let's not overlook the joys of taunting the other side of the BCS championship matchup. If only there had been a giant sphygmomanometer hooked up to the deep Confederacy last night, to record the mass blood-pres...
Weekend Roundup: Our Coverage Of The Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide, And More
Friend: Belcher "Was Dazed, Suffering From Short-Term Memory Loss" After Last Game; Alcohol, Painkillers, Domestic Tensions Played Role In Murder-Suicide | In a series of frank of revealing emails to Deadspin, a friend of Jovan Belcher described the late Chiefs linebacker as an "immature" young man...
"Man In Purple Sombrero" Arrested After Massive Brawl Outside Vikings-Packers Game
Green Bay cops are doing that thing where they won't officially say whether a fight involving 20-30 people outside Lambeau Field, which saw two arrested and one man hospitalized, had anything to do with the football game. I think we can probably read between the lines, though....
Cotto-Trout: The Sentimental Narrative Gets Its Lip Busted
Salvador Sanchez was a great Mexican featherweight boxer who ran up a 44-1 record and won a featherweight title shortly before dying in a car crash in 1982, at the age of 23. Salvador Sanchez II is a Mexican featherweight boxer. The meaningful resemblances end there. The superficial resemblances co...
Here Is Bob Costas's Sanctimonious, Horseshit Editorial On Jovan Belcher
Here's Bob Costas dialing the smarm up to 11 in this referendum on perspective and sports by way of the Kasandra Perkins/Jovan Belcher murder-suicide. "Please," Costas intones, "those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hop...
How Is The Nation's Best Offense Not Playing In A Bowl Game?
In 2012, Louisiana Tech averaged 51.5 points per game, the best in the country. Although they finished the season with two straight losses to Utah State and San Jose State, the Bulldogs still finished the year with a 9-3 record overall. Bowl games being something of a cottage industry of late, one ...
Your Sunday Night Football Open Thread
Philadelphia at Dallas (NBC): I think we are all hoping for an Eagles win here, just to stir up some shit, right? No? Alright then, here are some delusional Philadelphia pre-game notes....
Deadspin Up All Night: It's Too Late
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. There's still the Eagles and Cowboys coming up shortly so we'll be around....
Charlie Batch Takes Athlete-Speak To New And Dizzying Levels: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide
The beat goes on and we've got four more games to go before Philly and Dallas finish off the night. Let's get to it....
The Plot Thickens: Whoever Owns Nets.com Has Found A New Way To Mess With Mikhail Prokhorov
Someone out there—a company named Cyber Mesa, we think—is under the impression that touting Jay-Z will get on Mikhail Prokhorov's nerves enough to make him a buy a (presumably very expensive) domain name....
Rasheed Wallace Just Got Ejected After 85 Seconds Of Playing Time [Updated With Video]
And it was for the best reason. His first tech, naturally, was for shoving [UPDATE: More of a whack, really] Luis Scola. Goran Dragic went to the line to shoot his technical free throw. He missed. Sheed yelled, "Ball don't lie!", as he is wont to do. Tossed. He'd been in the game for 1:25. The cro...
Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
It has been strange and sad at times, but week 13 continues. Let's see what is going on around the league. ...