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Did You Buy Terry Glenn's Old Playbook? Can We See It?
Former NFL player Terry Glenn had the contents of his delinquent storage unit auctioned off this week. Items for sale included the kinds of things you usually find in the possession of an athlete who used to have a lot of disposable income—arcade machines, mountains of memorabilia, an air-soft gun!—...

White Sox Boned By Catcher-Blocking-The-Plate Rule, Ventura Loses It
It feels like we haven't had a manager freak out and start kicking dirt all over home plate in ages. We can at least thank the unnavigable abyss of Rule 7.13 for that. ...

Georgia Football Player Joins A Book Club With Some Very Nice Ladies
Here's a cute story get you through the shit tsunami that's been the last few days. Georgia receiver Malcolm Mitchell is a literature fiend who's joined a book club in Athens with a bunch of welcoming women....

<em>Fox & Friends</em> Host Has Annoying Question For Mo'ne Davis
Mo'ne Davis, the 13-year-old girl who led her baseball team to the Little League World Series by being awesome and striking fools out, was a guest on this morning's episode of Fox & Friends. Naturally, co-host Eric Bolling seized on the opportunity to be annoying....

Borussia Dortmund Player Scores Goal, Dons Spider-Man Mask
Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the DFL Supercup today, thanks in large part to a spectacular header from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the 61st minute. After he scored, Aubameyang yanked a Spider-Man mask out of his sock and put it on his head because, sure, why the hell not?...

Smackdown: Burger King's Extra Long BBQ Vs. McDonald's Jalapeño Double
At first glance, a horizontally oriented double cheeseburger doesn't seem very flashy: Mankind is well accustomed to taking our meals the long way. Cheesesteaks, ribs, roll-ups, Twinkies, wraps, corn, whatever the hell a hoagie is: All these and more have been served to us on the landscape setting...

Dude Wins $15 Million In Poker, Does Not Seem All That Jazzed About It
Daniel Colman won the final table of the The Big One for One Drop—the same poker tournament that featured this gut-punch of a bad beat—and he came away with more than $15 million in prize money. Despite this, Colman did not seem all that excited about his victory!...

Why Your Team Sucks 2014: New Orleans Saints
Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....

Investigators Have A Second Video Of Tony Stewart Hitting Kevin Ward Jr.
The obvious question is whether criminal charges should or will be brought against Tony Stewart for his role in the death of Kevin Ward Jr during a sprint car race on Saturday. We won't know that for a while, but we do now know that police have video from a second angle of Stewart's car fatally stri...

Report: NBA Offered To Drop Tampering Fine If Raptors Dropped Drake
There's a lot going on in this Cathal Kelly column on the $25,000 tampering fine the NBA levied on the Raptors for some Kevin Durant comments made by "global ambassador" Drake at a concert, but I'd like to draw your attention to this item:...

Anchor Name-Drops 22 Robin Williams Movies In His Sportscast
On Monday night, Zach Klein of WSB-TV in Atlanta paid his own little tribute to Robin Williams by slipping the titles of a whole bunch of the late actor's movies into his 150-second sportscast:...

The Fittish Guide To Drinking
You drink a variety of things on any given day. Water, sure. Coffee, oh yes. And in the evening, you'll probably have a few beers or shots or what-have-you. Behold, Fittish's guide to everything you're drinking, and how to do it better....

That Isn't Richard Sherman, Sir
A brief dramatization of the events leading up to this photo of some dude and Not Richard Sherman:...

Cowboys And Raiders Brawl At Joint Practice
The Cowboys and Raiders held a joint practice today in Oxnard, California. They did so in front of a significant police presence because Oxnard's two largest gangs—Colonia Chiques and the Southside Chiques—wear the colors of the Cowboys and Raiders, respectively. It wasn't the gangs that broke t...

Iranian Wrestler Pulls Off Flip For Crazy-Ass Takedown
Iran's Iman Sadeghikoukandeh executed quite the feat against Russia's Rashidov Gadzhimurad in the semifinals of the FILA Junior World Championships....

Do You Know Why Iowa Got Rid Of Its Field Hockey Coach? Let Us Know
When Iowa fired field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum last week, they did it in the style of a place that didn't want to talk about it. Officials announced the news during Iowa's football media day. They didn't say why she was fired beyond needing "a change in leadership." And more than a week later,...

Roger Goodell Dumps Ice Water On Head For ALS Awareness, Is Clueless
In an effort to make people hate Roger Goodell less, the person in charge of Roger Goodell's Twitter account posted a video of the commissioner doing the Ice Bucket Challenge today....

ESPN Insider: Suspensions Creating "Minefield" For Shout Show Hosts
Education reformers often cite reducing suspensions in our nation's schools as a top priority. Lots of recent studies show that this form of punishment does more harm than good. ...

Michigan Wide Receiver Knocks Guy Out With Vicious Sucker Punch
Michigan wide receiver Csont'e York was suspended indefinitely after news broke that he was allegedly involved in an assault that took place on July 18. Now, the Ann Arbor police department has released video of York destroying a guy with a sucker punch outside of an Ann Arbor bar....