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Fearless Jackrabbit Dances In End Zone After Invading CFL Game
The Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders played a football game Monday, but who cares about that. Check out the jackrabbit that jumped on the field while Edmonton’s Kendial Lawrence returned a kick....
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Here Are The Details From The Derrick Rose Rape Lawsuit [UPDATED]
The lawsuit filed against Derrick Rose, accusing him of drugging and gang raping an ex-girlfriend, provides more details about what the woman says happened that night in Los Angeles. The complaint actually names 13 defendants—Rose and his friends Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen, and 10 unnamed “John ...
Michael Jordan Gets $8.9 Million In Steak Lawsuit
Michael Jordan, the man from the crying meme, was awarded $8.9 million by a federal court in Chicago yesterday after he won his lawsuit against Dominick’s, a now-defunct grocery store that used his image in an advertisement for steak in 2009. The ad ran in a commemorative issue of Sports Illustrated...
Rob Ryan Is Suing Some People Because His House Is Sinking
The Wolfman Rob Ryan is a lot of things—a brewski stacker, a dancer, a saunterer, a bon vivant—but he is not a man who can abide shoddy craftsmanship. This is why he has filed a lawsuit against the people who built his house, because Ryan’s palace is, apparently, sinking into the ground....
Tom Brady's Lawsuit Will Be Heard In New York, Like The NFL Wanted
Yesterday, the NFLPA filed its suit on behalf of Tom Brady, claiming the NFL contravened and exceeded its own CBA-granted disciplinary powers in suspending him four games for Ballghazi. The suit was, as expected, filed in Minnesota, where the union has won a series of favorable judgments. It was so ...
Laundry School: Everything Is Stained, And Everything Smells
Welcome back to Laundry School—here comes THE BIG ONE. Today we’re taking on stains and smells....
Fuck Fabric Softener
Welcome back to Laundry School! This week, as promised, I’m taking your questions about the products that we use in our laundry, with a focus today more on dryer and drying-related products than last week’s lesson, which was more washer-focused, centering on detergents and boosters. ...
An Adult’s Guide To Learning To Ride A Bicycle
The Anna Karenina principle of biking is this: Everyone who learned how to ride a bicycle did so in roughly the same boring way; anyone who made it to adulthood without learning required a unique series of roadblocks, failures, negligence, and procrastination. If you fall into the latter group, cong...
Cleancast: You've Got Armpit Woes, I've Got Solutions
My guest this week on the official Ask a Clean Person podcast is Deadspin’s own Greg Howard, who joined me to talk about how our editor in chief, Tim Marchman, is so deeply wrong about air conditioning. We also talked about pit stains! Okay, fine, we mostly talked about pit stains, but damn if it wa...
Woman Alleges Permanent Neck Injury Due To Marlins' Shark Attack
A lawsuit filed last month in Miami-Dade County court alleges a woman suffered serious and permanent injuries after being attacked by a fake shark during a 2013 Miami Marlins game. The Marlins, like most shitty (and a few good) teams, hold a mascot race between innings in a futile attempt to distrac...
Kevin Johnson Sues Sacramento, Hides Behind Group That Hates Him
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is suing his own city and a local reporter to prevent the release of his emails. But officials of a mayoral group that the former NBA star and controversy magnet claims to be representing in his lawsuit say they’re not on his side....
Suit: Second Former St. Joseph's Softball Player Says She Was Hazed
A second former softball player has sued St. Joseph’s University and its softball team coach, Terri Adams, saying she was forced to endure hazing and was threatened when members of the team believed she was the source of a media report about it. The lawsuit was filed earlier this month in federal co...
Judge Finds Saints Owner Tom Benson To Be Mentally Competent
The estranged heirs of New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson are going to have a much harder time working their way back into the 87-year-old’s will, as a judge has just ruled that Benson is competent enough to continue managing his own affairs....
It Appears Clinton Portis Owes A Lot Of People A Lot Of Money
Court filings unearthed this week reveal that banks, the IRS, and a casino are lining up to collect from former star NFL running back Clinton Portis. Even worse, it looks like the bank is trying to foreclose on the house Portis bought for his mother in 2004....
Bunny Surfs Avalanche
Via animal-video repository The Awl, here’s video of a snowboard guy and an avalanche and then a dumb, dumb hare dashes directly into the snowfall’s path. Be sure to watch the slow-motion beginning at 0:14—that little motherfucker runs on top of the churning snow before making one flailing leap for ...
Astros, Rockets Suing Comcast Over Failed CSN Houston Network
In 2010, MLB’s Houston Astros and the NBA’s Rockets held $550 million in equity of their then-flagship network, Comcast SportsNet Houston. Four years later, DirecTV bought the network’s assets for a mere $1,000. Those four disastrous years have now resulted in a massive lawsuit brought by the profes...
Rugby Player Catches Dog Catching Rabbit
This is like a month old, but you’ll forgive me for not keeping up on New Zealand’s regional rugby union leagues....
Lawsuit: Softball Hazing Drove Player To Suicidal Thoughts
A former softball player at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia has sued the school in federal court, alleging that she was forced to drink, simulate sex, and was mocked for her sexual orientation as part the team’s hazing. The former player, who filed Monday as Jane Doe, says in her complaint s...
A Perfect Picnic Beer For Fruit Realists
The Fruits of the Field are the very finest family of solid foodstuff, preferable even to the glorious Meats, Cheeses, and Processed Grains, and eons better than the mere Vegetables, Candies, and Gelatins. This is because fruits are generally attractive (even the meatiest among us will admit that a ...