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High School Hockey Tourney Game Ends On Sudden Death Spin-O-Rama
No sport is better than playoff hockey, and that includes high school playoff hockey. Tonights’ Minnesota 4AA section final ended on an overtime spin-o-rama by Noah Cates, who helped his Stillwater team down Hill-Murray with the game’s only goal:...
It's 2016 And You Can Still Watch Steve Yzerman Score On Patrick Roy
Ciccarelli. Ysebaert. Lidstrom. Primeau. Cheveldae. Growing up in northwest Ohio and well within the night-time range of Detroit’s WJR-AM, these Detroit Red Wings players were my earliest hockey heroes. The opportunity to see some of them skate again no doubt drives the NHL’s Alumni series, which th...
Why FIFA's Unambitious New President Might Be Good News For Reform
To my mind, the most telling thing to come from this entire, interminable Extraordinary FIFA Congress wasn’t the election itself—in which Gianni Infantino, previously the general secretary of UEFA, became the new president of soccer’s powerful and scandal-ravaged governing body—nor was it the indivi...
This Pass From Isaiah Whitehead Is Extremely Good And Cool
Okay, so it’s not as good as Isaiah Thomas’s dime, which I still can’t wrap my head around, but this is still pretty cool. ...
Report: Brooklyn Nets Tickets Will Be Cheaper Next Season Because Nobody Wants To Pay To See That Garbage
The Brooklyn Nets have realized that fielding a roster of chumps and Brook Lopez doesn’t put butts in seats, so they’re solving half of the problem by making it cheaper to watch their dull team....
How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story
Last week, Vox Media’s SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a 12,000-word profile of a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who this winter was tried for raping 13 black women while on duty; convicted on 18 of 36 charges of rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and burgla...
Dope Scenes Ben Affleck Probably Added To The <i>Batman v Superman</i> Script
US Weekly reports that Ben Affleck, star of the upcoming film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, spent some time during the shooting of the film making last-minute edits to the script. Here, now, is an exclusive preview of these new scenes....
Fast-Food Smackdown: Burger King's Jalapeño Chicken Fries Vs. Taco Bell's Quesalupa
Life, being pain, will sometimes trap even the most careful fast-foodie in the burgerless hellscape of a bullshit “real” restaurant that offers six total options: beef, chicken, this kind of fish, that kind of fish, some mushroom-pasta thing, and a wild card that is probably duck or beans. The meat-...
James Harden Saved The Day
Time zones are weird. Here on the East Coast, the Houston Rockets had a really, really lousy February 25th, and it was all James Harden’s fault; on the West Coast, it turned out okay, all thanks to James Harden....
Rockets CEO Denies That His Team Is A Big Fucking Mess
Despite getting a nice win over the Blazers and a superstar performance out of James Harden last night, the 29-29 Houston Rockets are still in a bad place. They failed to trade Dwight Howard, the one deadline deal they did pull off fell apart because of a failed physical, and now it’s been reported ...
Duke's Most Hateable Player Trips Another Opponent
Surely there is a facility in some shadowy corner of the Research Triangle where they produce these monsters, and Grayson Allen is just the latest in a long line of Blue Devils seemingly designed to make you angry. The Duke guard is very, very good, of course, leading the team in scoring with so man...
Michal Neuvirth Makes Miraculous, Impossible To Believe Game-Winning Save
When Charlie Coyle unleashed a potential game-tying shot with just three second left, everybody on the Minnesota Wild was convinced it had gone in. Just look at them all raise their sticks in unison. I mean, how could that shot have possibly not gone in?...
Reports: Colin Kaepernick's Agents Request Permission From 49ers To Seek A Trade
The San Francisco 49ers have been quite insistent lately that quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who took them to the Super Bowl in 2013 but lost his job last season amidst anemic play, injuries, and a devolving relationship with the team, is still in their long-term plans. At the NFL Scouting Combine, G...
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Women's Lacrosse Player Repeatedly Bashes Her Opponent In The Head With Her Stick [Update]
An Oregon Ducks women’s lacrosse player was caught on video smacking her opponent in the head with her stick three separate times during the team’s game against Detroit Mercy on Feb. 21....
The Warriors Are The Best Team Ever, And They Can Eat Shit
Earlier today in Deadspin’s staff chat room, our editor Tim Marchman and I floated the idea of a “Fuck The Warriors” post, which would fully acknowledge everything great and fun and astonishing about these Golden State Warriors but also air out the completely irrational hatred he and I both feel tow...
The Opt-Out Wins Again
About this time yesterday, it looked like free-agent outfielder Dexter Fowler was going to be a Baltimore Oriole:...
Nets Release Joe Johnson, Who Can Still Help A Lot Of Teams
The Brooklyn Nets are a sad, burned-out husk of a team with no clear direction. Today, they did what a bad team with a bloated payroll does and bought out seven-time All-Star Joe Johnson....
High School Students Storm Court, Attack Mascot To Defend Other Mascot's Honor
The rivalry between two Idaho high schools required police to step in when Madison High School students shoved Highland High School’s mascot to the floor at a boys basketball game in Rexburg Tuesday night....
MLB Kills The Neighborhood Play, And That’s Bad News For Player Safety
MLB announced its rule changes for the upcoming season, and the big ones have to do with pace of play and dangerous slides, two issues that have grabbed a lot of attention over the past few years....
Kobe Bryant Makes Another Fan Look Like An Awkward Schmuck
Kobe Bryant has been a kindler and gentler version of himself during his farewell season, and it’s been a little hard to understand how Kobe could suddenly stop being a vicious, hypercompetitive maniac. I’ve developed a groundbreaking new theory, though, that explains how Kobe’s been able to maintai...