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Ah Jeez, The Video Of UCF's Locker Room After Losing To Duke Is Heartbreaking
UCF was so, so close to upsetting Duke in Sunday’s second-round game, but the Knights fell, 77-76, and were instantly, visibly crushed by how they lost. (As Aubrey Dawkins’s putback attempt rimmed out and time expired, you can see Terrell Allen, No. 2, put his hands on his head as he falls to the fl...

The Blue Jackets Should Either Relax Or Panic<em></em>
This is a now-or-never final stretch for Artemi Panarin’s Columbus Blue Jackets, with at least a few of their key players on the way out after this season, and right now the team is seated on the “never” side of affairs. The Blue Jackets lost to the lowly Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night, which, co...

Papa John's Hires New Papa: Shaq
If you’re a company whose business is making and selling pizza—really if you’re any kind of company, in any kind of business—it’s not beneficial to be most famous for your infamous erstwhile CEO. If you’re Papa John’s, and that CEO—an egotistical nightmare who just last month staged a coup to try an...

Disgraced Former Michigan State President John Engler Gets Courtside Seats For School's Basketball Games
John Engler, Michigan State’s former interim president who had to resign in disgrace because he was so repulsive and incompetent at filling in for his repulsive and incompetent predecessor Lou Anna Simon (who had also resigned in disgrace), still somehow isn’t toxic enough to not get courtside treat...

CFL Flameout Signs AAF Contract
Johnny Manziel, who has been exiled from two football leagues in two different countries, will be joining the Memphis Express in the Alliance of American Football, the league announced on Friday night....

Atlanta's Trae Young-John Collins Duo Is Going To Be Very Fun, Very Soon
The Hawks handily smushed the visiting Memphis Grizzlies Wednesday evening, by the score of 132–111. Because the Hawks haven’t been officially eliminated from the playoff race, and because their young players are doing cool things and steadily developing into useful NBA players, every time they win ...

An Embarrassing Collapse And A Bad Whistle Might Keep Clemson Out Of The NCAA Tournament
Two NCAA Tournament candidates right on the fringe of the field of 68 faced each other on Tuesday afternoon in a second-round ACC Tournament match-up that possibly doubled as a play-in game, and it was NC State who came away victorious. Markell Johnson made a pair of free throws with 2.6 seconds rem...

Report: The Lakers Actually Wanted Good Players Instead Of The Bad Players They Signed
LeBron James’s first campaign with the Los Angeles Lakers has been an unmitigated disaster. Now that the team has nothing left to do but pack it in and wait for next season to start, it’s time for those within the organization to start assigning some blame in an effort to save their own skin....

Report: The Lakers May Have Leaked The Trade Offer Details That Nuked Their Own Team Chemistry
The whole Anthony Davis trade deadline saga was twisted up and poisoned by posturing and strategic leaking and all the passive-aggressive indirect communication that could be crammed into a day, each day, for a solid two weeks. But Brian Windhorst’s delicious scoop—that the Pelicans conducted trade ...

SafeSport Says It Found Culture Of "Grooming And Abuse" In Figure Skating
The U.S. Center for SafeSport declared on Monday to USA Today that it had uncovered “a culture in figure skating that allowed grooming and abuse to go unchecked for too long” while it was investigating sexual misconduct allegations against national pairs champion John Coughlin, among other cases....

UFC Class Clown Johnny Walker Wrecked His Opponent Then Wrecked Himself Doing The Worm
The last time we saw UFC court jester Johnny Walker in the octagon a month ago, he pretended to strip while getting prepped for his fight, knocked out Justin Ledet in 15 seconds with an outlandish combo, and then celebrated with a solid minute of gyration. Thankfully, he sustained zero damage in tha...

UFC Class Clown Johnny Walker Wrecked His Opponent Then Wrecked Himself Doing The Worm
The last time we saw UFC court jester Johnny Walker in the octagon a month ago, he pretended to strip while getting prepped for his fight, knocked out Justin Ledet in 15 seconds with an outlandish combo, and then celebrated with a solid minute of gyration. Thankfully, he sustained zero damage in tha...

The NFL Combine Is The Super Bowl Of Idiot Questions
The NFL Combine: Where large men run fast, where hands are breathlessly measured to an eighth of an inch, and where everyone involved is haunted by a tiny voice insisting that the whole thing is a big waste of time, that future athletic success can’t be quantified with a stopwatch or measuring tape ...

Islanders Fans Treat John Tavares To "Asshole" Chants, Hail Of Plastic Snakes In Return To New York
John Tavares is playing his first game in Nassau Coliseum as a member of the visiting team Thursday night, after he signed a seven-year, $77 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on the first day of free agency back in July. Islanders fans, you can probably guess, have saved up quite a lot o...

Islanders Fans Treat John Tavares To "Asshole" Chants, Hail Of Plastic Snakes In Return To New York
John Tavares is playing his first game in Nassau Coliseum as a member of the visiting team Thursday night, after he signed a seven-year, $77 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on the first day of free agency back in July. Islanders fans, you can probably guess, have saved up quite a lot o...
![Either Johnny Manziel's Wife Is The Fastest Runner In Recorded History Or She Cheated At A Half Marathon [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/nevupxkripfkicxaewwn.jpg)
Either Johnny Manziel's Wife Is The Fastest Runner In Recorded History Or She Cheated At A Half Marathon [Update]
Two weeks ago, Bre Tiesi-Manziel—fitness Instagrammer, model, and wife of former CFLer Johnny Manziel—ran what she says was her first half marathon, in what she says was less than two hours. Tiesi-Manziel and her friend Khloe Terae, a model for Playboy and Maxim, came in at 1:58:22 in the Run Like A...
![Either Johnny Manziel's Wife Is The Fastest Runner In Recorded History Or She Cheated At A Half Marathon [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/nevupxkripfkicxaewwn.jpg)
Either Johnny Manziel's Wife Is The Fastest Runner In Recorded History Or She Cheated At A Half Marathon [Update]
Two weeks ago, Bre Tiesi-Manziel—fitness Instagrammer, model, and wife of former CFLer Johnny Manziel—ran what she says was her first half marathon, in what she says was less than two hours. Tiesi-Manziel and her friend Khloe Terae, a model for Playboy and Maxim, came in at 1:58:22 in the Run Like A...

Something Happened With Johnny Manziel And They're Not Saying What
Johnny Manziel was released by the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes this afternoon after eight games with the club. Manziel also can’t just go get another job with a different Canadian team, since the league forced the Alouettes to cut him, then banned him from the entire CFL. ...

Jilted Islanders Fans Have Harsh Words For John Tavares In Extremely Long Island Video
Thursday is a very special day in Nassau County. John Tavares returns to the Coliseum (where the Islanders are playing half their home dates, because that Brooklyn thing really isn’t working out) for the first time since leaving the Isles after nine seasons and signing with the Maple Leafs. But it’s...

Jilted Islanders Fans Have Harsh Words For John Tavares In Extremely Long Island Video
Thursday is a very special day in Nassau County. John Tavares returns to the Coliseum (where the Islanders are playing half their home dates, because that Brooklyn thing really isn’t working out) for the first time since leaving the Isles after nine seasons and signing with the Maple Leafs. But it’s...