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This Dunk Contest Is Extremely Good Shit
The thing about dunk contests is that they are always better when the participants are amateur ballers, because instead of worrying about things like defensive rotations and jump shooting, they can just sit around and think up awesome dunks all day. ...

Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Cincinnati<i> </i>Bengals
Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

Drake And Serena Williams Enjoy Themselves And Each Other At Fancy Cincinnati Restaurant
The Yelp page of Cincinnati Italian trattoria Sotto boasts that it’s a restaurant for “casual intimacy and communal romance,” so it makes sense that Drake and Serena Williams were spotted at a table essentially fucking with their clothes on....

No One Loves Anything More Than This Ballboy Loves His Soccer Team
Salutations, my savages. What we have here is a match between Wycombe and Dag & Red in England’s League Two. It finished 1-1, and appeared to have been a hard-fought, good and fun contest between two bad and earnest teams. But that’s not why we have gathered around this blog on this wonderful day....

How Do I Hit On Girls At The Gym?
Ask An Adequate Woman is a space where folks can ask the questions they can’t—or maybe just won’t!—pose to their friends about relationships, fashion, family dramas, dating, existential crises, weird sex stuff, and everything else. The Women of Deadspin (and some of our clever friends) are here to h...

A Good Ballboy
Being a ballboy or ballgirl is a high-risk proposition. The only way they’re getting on TV is if they do something really cool or really embarrassing, and considering that most of them aren’t pro athletes, the embarrassing outcomes are the most likely. Such is not the case for this ballboy, though:...

A Fan's Notes
Over at The Daily Beast, my pal Allen Barra writes about Frederick Exley and his muse, the late Frank Gifford: ...

Watch Cris Carter Tell NFL Rookies To “Get A Fall Guy” (UPDATE)
At the 2014 Rookie Symposium, Cris Carter and Warren Sapp instructed rookies to get a fall guy in case they got into any legal trouble. The above video was on NFL.com until this afternoon, when they deleted it....

Report: Jordy Nelson Tears ACL
The Russian roulette injury machine known as the NFL preseason has claimed its latest victim. Green Bay Packers star wide receiver Jordy Nelson went down in today’s exhibition and the initial diagnosis is an ACL tear, per Ian Rapoport: ...

Steve Sarkisian Apologizes For Getting Liquored Up And Talking Shit (UPDATE: There's Video)
At last night’s Salute To Troy, USC coach Steve Sarkisian reportedly got wasted and yelled a whole bunch of profanities before getting pulled off the stage by athletic director Pat Haden. He issued an apology this morning:...

Usain Bolt Is Back
Usain Bolt has always been talked about like he’s an elemental being, an athlete not bound to the laws of nature. When he set the world record in the 100 meters for the first time in Beijing, he visibly slowed and celebrated as he crossed the line, costing himself at least 0.1 seconds. He then set a...

Charlie Kimball Goes Airborne In Nasty Pocono Wreck
Officials delayed qualifying at Pocono for the upcoming IndyCar race after Charlie Kimball went airborne and tore out part of the catch fence in a devastating crash....

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...

Bayern Munich Concede Eight Seconds Into Match
Bayern Munich is one of the world’s top soccer clubs, but the record they broke today is one they’d rather forget as Hoffenheim’s Kevin Volland scored eight seconds into the match—the fastest in Bundesliga history. ...

Let's Check In On What Aaron Rodgers Is Up To
OK, well, this is... something:...

Reluctant Mascot Is Reluctant
We don’t blame you, kid. Nobody wants to shake a referee’s hand. ...

Travis Kelce's Crackback Block Attempt Didn't Go So Well
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Kim Little Finishes Hat Trick By Making Mincemeat Of Houston Defense
Kim Little had all three goals in tonight’s Seattle win over Houston, and her final one in the 90th minute was a Messian work of art as the Scot sliced and diced a tired Dash defense....

Little Leaguer Blasts Homer While Mom Is Doing Live ESPN Interview
South Carolina’s Terrence Gist hammered a ball way out of the park in his team’s Little League World Series game against Rhode Island today—just as ESPN was sitting down with his mom for a live interview. The pandering LLWS broadcasts can be awful at times, but maybe it’s worth it for moments like t...