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Buffalo NBC Station Uses Photos Of Singer Seal To Report On Actor Michael Clarke Duncan's Death
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan died Monday from complications of a heart attack, and his death was reported in the A block of most East Coast 11pm newscasts....
Mike Tyson: Evander Holyfield's Barbecue Sauce Is Ear-Licking Good
A while back, Holyfield and Tyson began using twitter to spread the word about Holyfield's "Real Deal" BBQ sauce. It was all good-natured, Holyfield even said "Love ya, bro!" after mentioning how his BBQ sauce would make you want to chew on an ear. Oh yeah, Tyson, to refresh your memory, once bit E...
CEO Of MLB Advanced Media Is Worried About The Napster Effect
Bob Bowman sat down with Mike Ozanian from Forbes and YES Network's Forbes SportsMoney to discuss major league baseball's streaming product and the depths of its awesomeness. If you feel like ending it all, feel free to watch that video up there....
In Defense Of The Blundering Red Sox
Well. What else is there to say about the Red Sox that has not already been said? They started the year banning beer from the clubhouse to put an end to those chicken and beer stories. Bobby Valentine then began the season publicly questioning one of the team's better players. They were compared to ...
College Football Open Thread
Let's yak it up down below for some college football action. I'm told these teams are both from the south and that is basically all we need to know. Yakspin!...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Got That Work
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I'm tapping out, Sean's tapping in. Happy Labor Day, and remember to watch "Last Exit to Springfield" in honor of, I don't know, collective bargaining and stuff....
Deadspin Classic, Labor Day Edition: The Asshole Boss Digest With The Boss Who Expected An Employee To Clean Up His Poop
Originally published March 8, 2010. For other dispatches from the wide world of horrible bosses, revisit our Asshole Boss Digest series....
Bob Bryan Pulled Off A Perfect Between-The-Legs Shot During A Second Set Tiebreak At The U.S. Open
Some trickery! Not only did Bob Bryan nonchalantly whip out the between-the-legs move that's apparently in his arsenal, he did so down a set, during a tiebreak, and hammered a winner to follow it up. The Bryan twins went on to win the tiebreak, and controlled the third set 6-3 to give them the mat...
Oscar Pistorius Lost The 200m Final At The Paralympics, And Everyone's Giving The Side-Eye To The Guy Who Won
Here's Oscar Pistorius, who seemed well on his way to an overwhelming victory in the men's 200m at the Paralympics, losing to Brazil's Alan Oliveira. Oliveira finished the race in 21.45 seconds, .07 seconds faster than Pistorius. The video above is worth watching if only for the deafening silence ...
What The Hell Does CSN Baseball Analyst Shooty Babitt Think "Gay" Means?
Shooty Babitt was a baseball player. He scouted. He's worked on both coasts, for teams and in the media. And yet, when his co-anchor gives him a lead-in to praise Oakland A's manager Bob Melvin for downplaying his team's recent success, Babitt says Melvin is "feeling a little too gay, talking about,...
Brent Musburger Said Piss, And Kirk Herbstreit Couldn't Keep His Shit Together
On Saturday night, we all speculated about what Brent Musburger could have said that was bad enough that ABC felt the need to cut off the audio while he and Kirk Herbstreit pulled themselves together. Today, we have the unedited version: piss. He said "piss," instead of "pick." ...
Deadspin Classic, Labor Day Edition: Intern Horrors With Barry Bonds
Originally published June 7, 2010. For other dispatches from the wide world of unpaid and lightly paid white collar labor, revisit our Intern Horrors series....
Deadspin Up All Night: A Terrible Cat's After Me
Hey, thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. It's been a grand half-weekend, we hope it was for you, too. Isaac and I will be around tomorrow. Maybe others, too?...
Undercover Cops Fucking Love Wearing Old NFL Jerseys
We've received two dispatches from reader Al G. concerning the undercover police presence at Electric Zoo. Electric Zoo, by the way is a festival for music made by computers or something....
Alfredo Aceves Had A Weird Day
Not really sure what was going on with Alfredo Aceves yesterday, but he was acting like a bigger basket case than usual. He and Dustin Pedroia got into an argument in the dugout—probably because Aceves threw over to second, like, 17 times and Pedroia seemed ill-prepared for each successive toss—an...
Jason Bay Hit A Grand Slam, So Naturally Twitter Brought Out The Knives
Jason Bay has been having a bit of a rough go of it lately...this season...since he was diagnosed with that reverse-aging disease since joining the Mets. Mets fans can be tough crowd to please, too, so when Jason Bay hit a spirit-lifting grand slam during today's game to put the Mets up five on the ...
This Is What Lance Armstrong's Fall From Grace Sounds Like To Consumers
Things are bad for Lance Armstrong these days. Marketing wizards have been trying to find out just how bad and the answer is "extremely."...
Dwight Howard Thanks Orlando With Pictures Of Dwight Howard And Dwight Howard's Name Blaring In All Caps. Dwight Howard.
He also said some nice stuff about the city of Orlando and its residents that may or may not have been ripped off from the theme to Titanic....
Brent Musburger Bleeped By ESPN Censors After Saying Something Naughty
We're not sure exactly what Brent Musburger is saying here, because we're officially out of the business of reading lips. But his comments during tonight's Michigan-Alabama blowout were something that necessitated censors using the seven-second delay, and ones Musburger later remarked were "a Freu...
Beer And Game Pairing: Hell Or High Watermelon With Bowling Green At Florida
Fruit and beer have an uneasy relationship, much like Gators fans and Florida sucking. Yet here we are, in 2012, and just as I'm watching this unsteady SEC power flail against some team called Bowling Green, I'm also enjoying the seasonal release Hell or High Watermelon by the San Francisco brewery ...