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ACC Officials Reassure Schools That ESPN Is Still Giving Them Their Own Network
In the wake of the highly publicized layoffs taking place at ESPN, officials within the ACC have spent the past week assuaging the concerns of conference members, reassuring them that the network still plans to move forward with the ACC Network....
Report: Racing Greyhounds In Florida Tested Positive For Cocaine
A trainer in Florida has had his license permanently suspended after several of his greyhounds reportedly tested positive for cocaine metabolites. Coke dogs!...
Klay Thompson's Autopilot System Failed In The Middle Of An Interview
Sometimes you’re just digging around in your bag of platitudes, and you come up empty-handed....
Aaron Judge Is So Much More Than Magnificent Dingers
Aaron Judge hit the dick off the baseball again last night:...
CNBC Interview With Derek Jeter And Alex Rodriguez Was Awkward From The Start
Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez sat down with CNBC’s Bob Pisani at a charity event on Tuesday to talk about their good works and show people how much they care, but Pisani wanted to get to the good stuff—namely, the state of the once-contentious relationship between the former players, A-Rod dating...
This Shit? I'm Still Sick Of It.
Remember that shit from the first round of the playoffs? That shit is still going on, and I still hate it....
What Is Wrong With The English
The nightmare you see above is the birthday dinner of choice not for a random insane person, but for 42-year-old multimillionaire global celebrity sports icon David Beckham, who could have virtually anything in the world to eat. He chose this. Beans, some kind of sad approximation of fries, ham, not...
![Tony Parker Carried Off The Court After Nasty-Looking Knee Injury [Update: He's Done For The Playoffs]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/f5tta2uyrl3cztrpyis8.jpg)
Tony Parker Carried Off The Court After Nasty-Looking Knee Injury [Update: He's Done For The Playoffs]
During the fourth quarter of the Spurs’ game against the Rockets, Spurs point guard Tony Parker came down funny after shooting a teardrop and immediately crumpled to the floor. It initially appeared that he hurt his right knee, but it now seems that he hurt his left leg while taking off for the floa...
Nonsensical Ejection Caps Off Red Sox-Orioles Beef In Dumbest Way Possible
The Red Sox and Orioles have engaged in quite the skirmish over the past week and change, repeatedly throwing baseballs at each other and glowering just enough to get Rob Manfred to step in and tell them to cool it. By the time the commissioner gets involved in a confrontation like this, it’s usuall...
Joe Namath Yakked About North Korea With Karl Rove On Fox News For Some Reason
As the United States faces escalating international tensions, who better to soothe the country than a septuagenarian chiefly famous for throwing the football and once shaving his mustache on TV?...
Adrian Wojnarowski Finally Won His War Against ESPN
ESPN laid off 100 employees last week, mostly on-air personnel and online reporters. At least six of those let go reported on the NBA: Henry Abbott, Marc Stein, Chad Ford, Ethan Sherwood Strauss, Justin Verrier, and Calvin Watkins. But while no area of ESPN’s coverage was spared from the bloodbath, ...
Oilers Eliminate Women's Bathrooms To Improve Experience Of Male Fans
It is entirely possible that there are simply not enough toilets at the Edmonton Oilers’ arena to accommodate playoff-sized crowds. Bathroom lines are an unfortunate, although not outrageous, side effect of popular sporting events, or really any large gathering of people downing beers. But the Oile...
Report: N.J. High School Under State Investigation For Treatment Of International Basketball Players
New Jersey state investigators are reportedly looking into a scandal at Eastside High School in Paterson, which enrolled male and female international basketball players who endured poor living conditions while staying with coaches or other guardians in what one expert said sounded like a human-tra...
Reports: Brandon Roy Shot Outside His Grandmother's House Near Los Angeles
Multiple outlets are reporting that former Blazers star Brandon Roy was shot in California over the weekend....
Isaiah Thomas Will Beat You And Then Embarrass You
This isn’t meant to denigrate Isaiah Thomas, who fucked the Wizards all the way up last night and is proving himself to be the True Superstar nobody thought the Celtics had, but oh my God, can you imagine how aggravating it must be to get 53 points dropped on you by a guy who is about the size of To...
Some Basketball Stuff Bradley Beal Did Last Night
The Boston Celtics won a game in which they trailed for pretty much all but a few moments of regulation, to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Washington Wizards. Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas was unstoppable in the fourth quarter and overtime, scori...
In Praise Of A Perfect Helper
The Rangers’s 4-1 pummeling of the Senators in Game 3 was maybe the most expected thing in the world. New York is almost certainly the better team to begin with in this series, and has played like the better team for long stretches of it. Here’s a stat: Still down 2-1 after last night’s win, the Ran...
Herschel Walker Doesn’t Tap Out
This article was originally published in the December 2011 issue of Playboy and is featured in Oney’s new anthology, A Man’s World. It appears here with the author’s permission. ...
Yankees' Aaron Judge Sows Destruction During Batting Practice
Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge, who may not know his own strength, is accidentally breaking stuff. Today during batting practice, in the major league equivalent of a kid breaking a window while playing in the front yard, Judge blasted a tater into a terrace at Yankee Stadium and destroyed a TV....
![USF Football Player LaDarrius Jackson Arrested On Sexual Battery And False Imprisonment Charges [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/qymjldnmwlfx5rfj3rcq.jpg)
USF Football Player LaDarrius Jackson Arrested On Sexual Battery And False Imprisonment Charges [UPDATE]
USF defensive end LaDarrius Jackson was arrested Monday night and charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment of a fellow student, according to police. ...