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The Imaginary Murderer Who Helps Me Fall Asleep
What do you do when you can’t sleep? Some people count sheep, but that sounds boring. One coworker, whom I now hate more than ever, revealed that he just lies there and thinks “about how chill and generally good [his] life is.” This does not apply to most of us. Another coworker says she thinks “abo...
Why Things Have Gone Sour Between Dwyane Wade And The Heat
With NBA free agency nearly a week old, the most intriguing wild card remaining is Dwyane Wade. Although everybody assumed him returning to the Heat was merely a formality, contract negotiations have dragged on, and according to Miami Herald Heat columnist Ethan Skolnick, the relationship between Wa...
The Atlanta Braves Borrowed Their Parking Scam From Dan Snyder
Last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Braves had quietly asked for and received new traffic ordinances from Cobb County lawmakers. The Accessory Special Event Parking rule, which is among those edicts, bans all privately owned parking lots near the team’s new stadium from ope...
Giancarlo Stanton Has All The Dingers You Need
How do you like your dingers? Do you like watching the strong man with a bat drive a low hard one that just clears the fence and puts a dang dent in the stadium? Or do you prefer it when the slugger bonks a dong so high into the night sky that it threatens to make contact with alien life? Whatever y...
Barry Bonds Says Ichiro Could Win The Home Run Derby If He Wanted To
Here’s a Barry Bonds interview from a few weeks ago that aligns eerily well with the baseball sensibilities of a few Deadspin staffers. There have been tales of Ichiro’s monster batting practice dingers for a few years, and Bonds here confirms that Ichiro can still slap ‘em all around the yard....
Russian Players Punished For Allegedly Spending €250K On Champagne After Euros Loss
The video you see above—in which an unending stream of bartenders at a Monaco nightclub lug bucket after bucket after bucket of Armand de Brignac champagne (about €500 per bottle, times the reported 500 bottles in circulation, equalling a €250,000 bar tab—not counting tip and sparkler fees) to the t...
How To Plan Your Lunches And Learn To Love Savory Rhubarb<em></em>
Before this week, I had never eaten rhubarb. This is because I am of the firm belief that any dessert without chocolate is not worth my time and—even though rhubarb is a vegetable and pie is almost universally not worth the effort—people insist on serving rhubarb in pie form. Maybe it’s got somethin...
It Takes Just A Second To Wreck A Dozen Cars At Daytona
If NASCAR is racing at Daytona, then one car can ruin a lot of people’s day—as happened on the 90th lap tonight when Jamie McMurray’s #1 got just a bit too much into Jimmie Johnson’s way, leading to The Big One. Kevin Harvick’s car didn’t look so great afterward:...
On The First Day, The Tour De France Featured These Two Crashes<em></em>
The opening stage of the Tour de France was a wild one. The feared crosswinds of northern France did not split up the race and produce time gaps between general classification contenders like they did last year. Heavy winds can make it impossible for riders that come unmoored from the peloton to fig...
The Indians Set A New Franchise Win Streak Record In The Most Difficult Way Possible
For the first time in franchise history, the Cleveland Indians have won 14 consecutive games. And it only took them 19 innings against the Blue Jays to lock down lucky number 14. ...
The CBA's Distorting Effects Caused Today's NBA Free Agency Bonanza<em></em>
“Wait, how much money is that basketball jamoke getting?” is probably a question you’ve asked yourself over the past 24 hours, as all sorts of NBA players sign contracts for absurd amounts of money. DeMar DeRozan for $145 million. Dick-punching Nic Batum for $120 million. “Not good enough to get off...
Sweet Mother Of God, Radja Nainggolan Kicked This Ball So Hard
If you want to see what a perfectly struck shot from distance looks like, Radja Nainggolan’s deep jackhammer goal he just scored for Belgium against Wales is it:...
Against Ballhawking
Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about Zack Hample, who had complained about being bumped by a fan, causing him to lose a home run ball at Yankee Stadium. Hample, by his own count, got 11 other baseballs at that game, bringing his career total to 9,079—but he was unhappy about what would have been No....
Nobody Can Beat The Indians Because Nobody Can Hit Them
The Cleveland Indians are on one hell of a hot streak. They went 22-6 in the month of June, and tied a franchise record 13-game winning streak with last night’s victory over the Blue Jays. They beat the Jays the way they’ve been beating a lot of teams lately, by sending most of the batters who come ...
Watch This Old Video Of Triple H Beating The Shit Out Of A Fan Who Jumped In The Ring
One of the scariest moments for a wrestler is the rare occasion when a fan decides to get involved. You never know what they’re going to do—just last month one woman pulled a gun on a heel at a small indy show in Georgia—and the wrestler’s response is universal: subdue them by any means necessary....
Yoenis Cespedes Sacrificed A Baseball To The Sky Gods
Yoenis Cespedes went all astronomical this evening against John Lackey. I am convinced this baseball was headed up out of the ballpark to join the Sky Gods in baseball heaven (this is where stars come from, FYI), but sadly, they rejected Cespedes’ offering and sent it to the third deck....
French Cyclist Will Miss The Tour De France After Punching Out Rude Drunks Who Tried To Fight Him
Most professional cyclists are—by the standards of the alpha sportsman—not particularly intimidating. Descriptors you could use to describe pro cyclists range from “waif-thin insect person” to “cut, scrawny, and sunburnt.” However, French sprinter Nacer Bouhanni defies this, even if he’s 5-foot-9, 1...
The Writing Men Want You To Know They've Been Very, Very Bad Boys
As you know, men be writin’....
When Is It Time To Break Up With Negative Friends?
Ask An Adequate Woman is a space where readers can ask the questions they can’t—or maybe just won’t!—pose to their friends about relationships, fashion, family dramas, dating, existential crises, weird sex stuff, and everything else. The Women of Deadspin (and some of our clever friends) are here to...
Virginia Judge Bans 10-Year-Old "Prodigy" From Golf In Custody Battle
Earlier this month, Judge Jeanette Irby of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Va. entered her ruling in the case of Michael Vechery vs. Florence Cottet-Moine, a dispute over custody of their 10-year-old daughter....