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The Sub2 Project Takes Credit For Kenenisa Bekele's Near-World Record Marathon<em></em>
Ethiopian Almaz Ayana set a new world record of 29 minutes 17.45 seconds in the women’s 10,000 meters at the Rio Olympics. About a month later, fellow Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele sped through the streets of Berlin, covering 26.2 miles in 2:03:03. That’s just six seconds shy of the world record, and a ...
Ben Bishop Is Short A Few Teeth After Taking A Hard Shot To The Face
Hockey players tend to be dentally challenged, but goalies usually manage to retain most of their chompers. Not so much with Ben Bishop. The Tampa Bay Lightning goalie took a Peter Holland zinger to the face and lost his two front teeth this evening despite having a mask for protection....
Chris Hansen Offers To Build Seattle An NBA Arena Without Public Funding
On Thursday, the Sacramento Kings will play their first game in a new arena that the city chipped in $255 million to build. They scraped together that money in 2013 in order to win an arms race with billionaire Chris Hansen and the city of Seattle. Hansen’s offer to the Maloof family was $39 million...
You Can Now Buy Deadspin Shit If For Some Reason You Want To Do That
I don’t think I’d want to wear stuff branded by a website I like. But you don’t judge me for my weird, some-might-say deviant peccadilloes, so I’m not going to judge you for buying some swag from the all-new Deadspin Store....
Working At A University Is No Picnic
The Harvard dining hall worker strike is over. About time! In honor of this historic confluence of gilded academia and low-wage workers, let’s hear some true stories of what it’s like working a normal job at a nice college....
Brett Favre's Vikings Had A "Bounty" Program Too
This excerpt from Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre by Jeff Pearlman is reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Buy it here. ...
Randy Moss Could Probably Get A Kicking Job With The Cardinals Or Seahawks<em></em>
I mean, if he can do 28 yards in dress shoes, I’m sure he can double that in cleats, why not?...
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Washington Coach Pulls Out Dong, Pees Freely Before The Masses During Game [NSFW]
As several tipsters have notified us, a Washington football team assistant coach took a semi-covert piss into a cup during the team’s loss to Detroit yesterday. A fan took several photos of Ben Kotwica mid-piss—TMZ has the story— which has subsequently come to overshadow the team’s late loss to the ...
Idiots Who Run Harvard Are Flubbing This Strike Like We All Knew They Would
Almost three weeks ago, Harvard, the schmanciest and richest college in America, let its low-wage dining hall workers go on strike. This move, we boldly said at the time, was very stupid. So how’s it going? ...
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Mike Zimmer Staged A Stuffed Animal Massacre To Motivate The Vikings [Update]
What would we do without insane coaches?...
Let's Just Fix The Busted System Instead??
If your nation has a political system that is, by design, unfair for an enormous portion of your population, don’t bend yourself into pretzels trying to accommodate this bad system. Change the system, idiots! ...
Ryan Lochte Is Bad At Math Or Has A Magic Dog
Swimmer/tree stump Ryan Lochte is very, very good at one thing, and very, very bad at knowing how old his dog is....
Eli Manning Denies Calling "Trump" Audible
In the second quarter of the Giants’ 17-10 win over the Rams in London, on-field mics caught Eli Manning calling for an audible at the line of scrimmage. It sure as hell sounded like, “Trump Trump, Trump Trump.”...
Report: DraftKings And FanDuel Aren't Paying Vendors, Have Almost No Cash On Hand
Daily fantasy heavyweights DraftKings and FanDuel are in dire financial straits, months behind on payments to vendors and suffering from extreme cashflow problems, according to the New York Times....
Mavericks Surf Contest Begrudgingly Allows Women To Compete
For the first time in its history, one of the most prestigious surf contests in the country will include a women’s heat in its 2016-17 competition. But the addition to the Titans of Mavericks competition wasn’t done solely because Mavericks organizers felt like it. It was required by the California...
Dustin Hopkins Field Goal Attempt Bounces Off Top Of Upright
Detroit held onto its 3-0 second-quarter lead thanks to Washington kicker Dustin Hopkins achieving a dubious feat: missing a field goal due to the ball bouncing off the top of the upright. ...
Report: Curt Schilling To Pull Himself Up By His Bootstraps, Get A Job
Ex-MLB pitcher and former ESPN analyst Curt Schilling will take a job with Breitbart, according to Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine....
Moral Ineptitude: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
The extent of the NFL’s failure to learn any meaningful lessons from the several years’ worth of ass-kickings it’s absorbed over its handling of domestic violence is really something. ...
Todd Graham Confronts "Chickenshit" Mike Leach During Post-Game Handshake
The Pac-12 fined Washington State head coach Mike Leach $10,000 earlier this week for claiming Arizona State steals signals from opposing teams—something Sun Devils head coach Todd Graham admitted to last year. Graham wasn’t taking kindly to the allegations this time around, though, telling Leach du...
CBS's Brian Jones Rants Against Targeting Rule
Brian Jones failed out of the NFL due to injury—he even filed, and lost, a lawsuit over it—but don’t tell him that the sport of football needs rules to protect players’ long-term health. The CBS college football analyst alternately demanded players grow eyes in the back of their head or barked “KEEP...