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Sweet Life: A Van Man Shows You How To Dude It
Stephan Shay has de rigueur facial hair. He can be found in Southern California coffee shops, sometimes wearing a beanie. He’s tan. He’s fit. He wakes up to the sound of waves playing on southern California sand, and takes road trips up and down the coast....

Bob Ryan Just Fuckin' Tweets All His Shit At Once
NBA sage Bob Ryan is just going for it today. Hours after calling ex-Warriors coach Mark Jackson a “Bible-pounding phony,” Ryan—who has never been adept at Twitter—sent a flood of tweets in just a couple of minutes....

How To Move In With Your Significant Other
Forget your list of righteous resolutions for the new year—the best self-improvement commitment you can make is to take the plunge and finally move in with your girlfriend or boyfriend. If you do this right, you’ll achieve a transcendental state of domesticated bliss, where every day is warm and cos...

Jack Sock, Good Sport
Australian Lleyton Hewitt had a little help during his Hopman Cup match at Perth Arena Tuesday from an unexpected source: his opponent, Jack Sock....

Dirk Nowitzki Gets Rejected By The Rim, Has A Funny Excuse
Dirk Nowitzki is old as hell. He’s still great, mind you, but he’s very, very old. So old, in fact, that he’s out here getting stuffed by rim despite being seven feet tall....

Former NFL Player Shaun Smith Has A Message For Trolls: Look At This Gun
Shaun Smith, a defensive lineman who last played for the Chiefs, rattled off a couple of thoughts today about Kansas City’s upcoming playoff game against the Texans. When he faced some pushback, Smith tweeted a photo of a gun....

I Lost Almost 50 Pounds, But Not My Inhibitions
So I’m standing in line at Taco Bell sometime in the early 2000s, and up at the counter they’ve got a TV showing us security-camera footage of ourselves, and that’s how I catch sight of the hulking, disheveled, terrifying man looming directly behind me. He is the size of 3.5 normal people, even in t...

Pro-Domino's Pizza Tweets From Adam Schefter & Chris Mortensen Were—You Guessed It—Ads
Remember that pair of strange recent tweets from Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen suggesting that the two ESPN NFL insiders would be staying in on New Year’s Eve to watch the college football playoff and eat Domino’s Pizza? They were, indeed, part of an ad campaign....

Dylan Larkin Turns Cory Schneider Into A Flounder
Red Wings Dylan Larkin transformed Devils goalie Cory Schneider into a fish out of water Monday night. Larkin kicked up his leg, faked a shot on Schneider’s stick side, and went back around. The goal was Larkin’s 14th of the season. This rookie’s pretty good....

Report: Nobody Told Rafa BenĂtez He'd Been Fired
In this new media environment, where sensitive information can be transmitted around the world and back mere seconds after it’s first released, many organizations struggle with how best to break the bad news to employees they plan to fire. The one rule of thumb should always be to first and foremost...

Rafa Benitez Couldn't Make Real Madrid What They Want To Be, So Now He's No More
It’s a pity that the wildly entertaining, back-and-forth, wide open 2-2 draw between Real Madrid and Valencia this weekend will be remembered more as Rafa BenĂtez’s Waterloo than as the thrilling spectacle it was in its own right. Real dominated the match for large stretches and, with a couple favor...

Dan Haren Opens Up About Pitching, Bowel Movements, And All Those Dingers
Dan Haren, the now-retired MLB pitcher who overcame his inability to throw a pitch over 90 mph in his later seasons, reflected back on his career today with candor. Most of the times he remembered were moments where he was trying not to give up a home run. Also, Haren said he used Imodium, a lot....

The Scandinavian Crime Fiction Starter KitÂ
So you stayed up all night to finally read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and now you’re hooked on Scandinavian noir. Welcome to the club—after ABBA and Lego bricks, crime novels are the region’s biggest cultural export. But while Girl and its sequels brought the genre onto the global stage, Stieg...
![Football Cat: A Mystery Of Our Time [UPDATE: Mystery Solved!]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/nntjojqxtx0zml1fyhgj.png)
Football Cat: A Mystery Of Our Time [UPDATE: Mystery Solved!]
Yesterday, some dude in a Packers jersey was caught holding a cat while watching the Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium. ...

Report: Rafa BenĂtez Fired, Zinedine Zidane In As Real Madrid Manager
According to Marca, the rumors that have been swirling all day about Real Madrid manager Rafa BenĂtez’s job status were justified, as he indeed has been fired. Taking his place will be Real’s legendary player and heretofore coach of the reserve team, Zinedine Zidane....

Jaguars Beat Writer And Chris Clemons Finish The Season With An Argument
The Jacksonville Jaguars got walloped by the Houston Texans today to end their season at 5-11. The team lost their playoff chances a few weeks ago, and understandably, people are going to be frustrated. Apparently, some tensions were aired out today. What follows is a six-tweet exchange between Ryan...
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Bucs Fullback Jorvorskie Lane Carted Off With Broken Leg [Warning: Graphic]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers fullback Jorvorskie Lane broke his leg in the first quarter of today’s game after teammate Joe Hawley fell on it while Lane was blocking Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis. ...

Christian Hackenberg Thanks Everyone But His Coach While Declaring For NFL Draft
Penn State lost to Georgia in a bowl game this afternoon. It was an ugly game made uglier by star Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg leaving the game in the second quarter with an injury. His backup threw a cool touchdown, but other than that, nah....