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The Real Reason Arsenal Crapped Out
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Milwaukee's Tailgaters Highly Evolved In All Things Toilet-Related
Where have you publicly evacuated when confronted with an overactive beer-filled bladder and nary a port-o-potty in site to relieve yourself during tailgating? Some duck behind cars and unleash right on the asphalt; others use their empty beer bottles as rudimentary urine containers....

Soccer? Gay? Whaaaaat?
Leave it up to a foreigner to figure out why Americans are so down on soccer. This snippet culled from an editorial on football.uk.com written by Marty Mercado maps out all the reasons the U.S. ignores the sport: overcommercialization, not enough scoring, too multicultural, and, of course, because i...

David Beckham Is Allegedly Back In The MLS
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Duke Takes One Last Flop For The Road
Watch as Duke's Gerald Henderson runs over to clobber the Mountaineers' Cam Thoroughman from behind. Thoroughman (6-foot-7, 215) doesn't take to that too well, and ... whoa! Did you see that, ref? Air shove!...

Arsenal Gets Its Bear Stearns On
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Drogba Blows Kisses, Hirshey Blows
Didier Drogba and Chelsea just finished off Arsenal at the Bridge 2-1, moving the home team in to second on the table. Drogba scored two goals in the second half to bring the Blues back from a one goal deficit. Chelsea now stands just five points shy of Manchester, and speaking of them......

It Can Be Told: Spitzer Dribbled Before He Shot
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

To Kinsale With Love
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer...

Win One For The Gimper
Is there anything more gratifying than having people take action after reading something you've written? God dictated the Ten Commandments to Moses and we've been breaking them ever since. Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door and kicked off the Protestant Reformation. And I wrote a li...

A Test Of One's Intestinal Fortitude
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Arsenal's Limpness, And Rationalization
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Remembering ManU, Then And Now
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

David Beckham, Maradona And The Stomping Of Scorpions
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Ashley Cole Is A Charmer
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....

Mourning An Arsenal Defeat
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....

All Hail The Loathsome Ronaldo
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

One Man's Very Special 25th Birthday
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Your Requisite Boxing Post!
While last night offered up two very respectable televised nights of boxing, the real show of the year's opening weekend comes tonight when Paulie Malignaggi puts his 140 lb IBF belt on the line against a very game Herman Ngoudjo on Showtime. Paulie is never going to be a knockout threat but he's wi...

ManU's Very High Ankle Sprains
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer. This column would have run Monday, but no one was reading the site on Monday....