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Report: Colts Plan To Chuck Pagano

Chuck Pagano will not be back as Indianapolis Colts head coach next year, according to a report from Mike Wells of ESPN. Pagano has led the team to a 7-8 record thus far this season....

LeBron James Doesn't Owe You Shit

Thirteen months ago in Cleveland, Ohio, a 12-year-old black boy named Tamir Rice was playing with a BB gun in a park when he was ambushed by two Cleveland police officers who drove up to the gazebo where the boy was relaxing. One officer, Timothy Loehmann, shot Rice in the chest before their police ...

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We’re also just “working” today for appearance’s sake, so let’s talk about whatever’s on your mind. ...

“I’ve sat for months on end waiting for any assignment while I watched other Fox reporters working almost daily throughout the last year. It feels punitive, as if I did something wrong. I didn’t.” Colleen Dominguez writes about her age and gender discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports. [San Diego...

Even Disney Jr. Can't Escape The College Football Playoff Cross-Branding

We noted last night that ESPN corporate parent Disney shoved a bunch of hilariously bad references to the college football playoff games on New Year’s Eve into yesterday’s episode of General Hospital. Commenter JortReform noted that even Disney Jr. had been running tie-in promos, and we caught one o...

Ball-Snatching Memphis Player Autographs His Prize, Instagrams It, Gets Dismissed

The Memphis Tigers lost to Auburn in the Birmingham Bowl yesterday, but safety Reggis Ball wanted a souvenir to commemorate his two interceptions in the game. So, he wrestled an equipment staffer for a game ball and ran. The school dismissed the redshirt senior from the team a few hours after the in...

Confusing Reports: After Loss, Memphis Player Steals Game Ball, Flips Off Auburn, Flees [UPDATE]

Auburn just put the finishing touches on a 31-10 victory over Memphis in the Birmingham Bowl, but according to some dispatches from reporters on the scene, the real drama started after the game. Get ready for some good drama!...

Wow, It's The Most Difficult "Can You Find The Panda?" Puzzle Yet

Over the course of the last week or so, you may have noticed some version of this puzzle popping up in one of your social media feeds:...

2015: The Year In Cursing

2015 was a banner year for the world’s profanity practitioners, as motherfuckers with filthy mouths talked shit on TV, to referees, and to fans around the world. Here’s the best fucking curse words we highlighted on Deadspin’s pages in 2015:...

Peter King: "I Am Obviously A Rube"

He’s probably talking about the Chip Kelly firing, but may be talking about Skyline chili. Seems accurate either way....

God Damn It, Kings

Two nights ago, all that stood between the Sacramento Kings and a virtual spot in the playoffs was a home game against the Portland Trail Blazers. It was as much a gimme as you’ll see this side of Philadelphia. Portland was missing Damian Lillard and playing on the second night of a back-to-back; th...

High School Basketball Players Charged With Aggravated Assault, Rape In Hazing Incident

Tennessee police have charged three high school basketball players with aggravated rape and assault after they hazed a 15-year-old freshman teammate while the team was at a tournament in Gatlinburg. The three unnamed boys, from Ooltewah High School, are currently at a juvenile facility, according to...

Legendary Fighter Kazushi Sakuraba Brutalized In Depressing Spectacle

Fighting is too young a sport for a descriptor like “legend” to mean all that much, but so far as it does, Kazushi Sakuraba is one of the few people who deserve it. His incredible career has been too strange and interesting to easily summarize, but, briefly, after starting out as a pro wrestler, he ...

Al Jazeera Reporter Defends Peyton Manning HGH Report On <i>Today Show</i>

Al Jazeera’s Deborah Davies went on the Today Show this morning to defend her publication’s reporting of Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning’s alleged connection to HGH shipments. The meat of the interview is above, and you’ll see Davies deftly turn away the hosts’ attempts to poke holes in Al Jazeer...

How Did Brandon McManus Shank That Kick So Badly?

It’s a good thing Broncos kicker Brandon McManus got the chance the redeem himself with a 37-yard winner in overtime, because if his last appearance on the field had been the incomprehensibly shanked attempt that would have won the game at the end of regulation, he’d probably be locked in Peyton Man...

¡NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

We love Álvaro Martín and Raúl Allegre’s Monday Night Football announcing on ESPN Deportes, and the value of watching football en Español was no more apparent than on the failed Denver Broncos field goal attempt at the end of regulation tonight. ¡NOOOOOOOO!...

The Replay Booth Probably Did Not Assist Ed Hochuli On Late Facemask Call

For a moment during the third quarter of tonight’s Monday Night Football contest, it seemed that we had yet another refereeing controversy on our hands. As Broncos DE Malik Jackson sacked Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron, he grabbed McCarron’s facemask. But despite McCarron pleading for the call as h...

Lemmy Fucking Ruled

I don’t have anything all that insightful to say about Lemmy, who died tonight, or about Motörhead, the band he lorded over and which lorded over rock and roll longer than I’ve been alive, but they were god damn madmen and you should have loved them if you didn’t....

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?

Ah, the penis. That most comical and vulnerable of body parts. It was a bad year for all of us, but for the approximately 1.2 billionth year in a row since the emergence of sexual differentiation, it was a particularly rough year for groins. This selection of real, horrible injuries proves that Murp...

The PEDs Debate Is Over

By the time Al-Jazeera America’s The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers finally aired last night, it felt like an afterthought. That’s partly because The Huffington Post’s Saturday report on the documentary’s claims—most notably, that Peyton Manning has been an illicit consumer of human growth ...