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Police: Glen Rice Jr. Shot In Leg, Arrested For Carrying Half A Pound Of Weed
According to police, former Washington Wizard Glen Rice Jr. was shot in the leg after getting into an argument at an Atlanta restaurant. After the shooting, he was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana after police say they found a bag containing 240 grams of weed and Rice Jr.’s passport...
Science Says A Hot Dog Can Give You Cancer
A World Health Organization group has found that red meat and processed meats probably cause cancer. That basically implicates all the good stuff: ham, bacon, hot dogs, and delicious, delicious hamburgers. Your cookouts are about to get really sad. ...
Kevin Garnett Walked Out Of Practice To Sit In Flip Saunders's Parking Spot
Flip Saunders helped Kevin Garnett as he turned into a dominant NBA player. Their reign on the Timberwolves was the most successful in the team’s short history, and Garnett waived his no-trade clause in February to reunite with Saunders and help the new, young foundation in Minnesota. When Saunders ...
Q&A: The Lucas Bros. On Their Animated Series, '90s Humor, And Ta-Nehisi Coates
Kenny and Keith Lucas, better known as the comedic duo the Lucas Bros., have a reputation as laid-back stoners. Which is only half-true: In truth, they’re the smartest and hardest-working stoners you’ll ever meet. They’ve shown up on Arrested Development and in 22 Jump Street, and anchored TruTv’s s...
ESPN's <i>College Football Final</i> Gets Live Sex Soundtrack
Beagle-eared and possibly insomniac reader Steve caught this moment on ESPN’s College Football Final around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, in which sex sounds mysteriously pop up into the broadcast. In ESPN’s defense, Stanford’s offense makes me horny too. ...
Adrian Peterson's "Injury" Was Swallowing His Chewing Tobacco
Players get shuffled around NFL injury reports all the time. Whether or not someone will play is of major interest to fans and fantasy football players, so injury reports are scrutinized. Last night, Adrian Peterson got downgraded to questionable in the Vikings injury report due to a mysterious illn...
The Abyss Looks Back: Your Guide To Ignoring Football Today
Gah. Another high school kid died from a football injury this week—the seventh of this football season. What the hell....
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Four Dead After Car Runs Into A Crowd At Oklahoma State's Homecoming Parade [UPDATING]
According to News On 6 out of Stillwater, Oklahoma, at least two people died this morning after a car ran into a crowd gathered to watch the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade. Several other people are reportedly injured. The incident occurred towards the end of the route, at Hall Of Fame and Main Str...
Bearded Royals Fan Robs Homer, Umpires Uphold It
It’s getting to be about Steve Bartman time in the MLB playoffs. That infamous robbery happened in Game 6 of the NLCS, and in tonight’s ALCS Game 6, another home run theft took place. This time, the culprit was 19-year-old Caleb Humphreys. Mike Moustakas sent this dinger just barely over the wall in...
NXT Is Lapping WWE Right Now
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month or so of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us....
<i>Return Of The Jedi</i> Was Great, You Ewok-Slandering Fools
Earlier this week, the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer came out, and our own Albert Burneko took a moment to express a bit of perfectly warranted skepticism about its prospects. HOWEVER, Bert’s post was essentially a Trojan Horse for a lengthy revisionist diatribe on Return of the Jedi. ...
Bud Crawford Is An Anomaly
The race to identify boxing’s next pay-per-view superstar started up just last week, when middleweight Gennady Golovkin and flyweight Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez both delivered brutal knockouts at Madison Square Garden. While both men were hefty favorites, they won like good favorites should, solid...
Kings' Tyler Toffoli Punks Sharks Goalie
For hockey fans who want a highlight in the non-McDavid, non-Eichel category, check out Kings center Tyler Toffoli working around Sharks goalie Martin Jones for a goal in Thursday’s game. That looked much easier than it actually was....
Three Friends Take A Selfie
Look, we have a fun new picture. It’s of our friend, Sergio Agüero. And his friend, UK Prime Minister David Cameron. And their other friend, Chinese President Xi Jinping. Big smiles all around....
Kristaps Porzingis Had Cornrows
When he was just a Latvian tyke playing basketball, Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis had cornrows....
The Skins Are Still One Long Ongoing Con Job
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
Olympic Skier Gus Kenworthy Comes Out As Gay
Skier Gus Kenworthy, who won a silver medal at the Sochi Olympics and also saved all the puppies, announced today that he is gay....
Don Mattingly And The Dodgers Have Reportedly Parted Ways
CBS Sports’ Jon Heyman is reporting that the Los Angeles Dodgers and manager Don Mattingly have come to a mutual agreement to part ways....