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How Much Should You Tip Your Bartender? More Than You're Tipping Now
A friend recently asked Twitter if she should tip the guy who painted a room in her house. I told her painters are creeps and criminals and hers could be counted upon to gratuitize himself via her sock and silverware drawers, because I resort to stereotyping when I'm scared and confused, and I don't...

Joe Johnson's Pass Nails A Moving Fan Right In The Head
Joe Johnson gets a 10/10 for accuracy, and our poor victim gets a 8/10 for playing it pretty cool. Great job all around, guys....

The English Adventures Of The Nets And Hawks
What do you get when you mix NBA players, EPL players, London, and a sporting nation fairly unaccustomed to professional basketball? Culture clash!...


Facebook Fandom Maps Show Who America Is Rooting For This Sunday
Once again, we've got maps that break down the proportion of Facebook fans of each of Sunday's conference championship teams to a county level. Now you know if you'll have to give your fellow sports bar patrons the side-eye....

<em>Jeopardy!</em> Hall Of Fame Answer Goes Horribly Wrong
354 wins did not overcome the controversy as this ex-Red Sox pitcher didn't make the Hall of Fame cut in 2013. Who is Mark McGwire? (Trebek snorts mockingly.)...

Confessions Of A Tonya Harding Apologist
I was 5 years old when I fell in love with Tonya Harding. The year was 1988, and I had just taken up figure skating. My favorite aunt, Julie, had recently moved from my Maryland neighborhood to Portland, Ore., and I was determined to find something to like about the state. Tonya, a scrappy Oregonian...

Watch Drake And Jimmy Fallon Play Beer Hockey
Finally, we get to see what beer hockey—the drinking game that was recently invented by an unidentified Canadian—looks like in action. And it's all thanks to Jimmy Fallon and Drake. ...
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Roundup: Your Best Clark The Cub Photoshop Contest Submissions [NSFW]
Clark the Cub may very well go down as the best Photoshop contest subject in Deadspin history. We asked you to do horrible things to him, and you came through. Here now is your best work....


Witness: Kellen Winslow Was Jerkin' It In His Car Before Pot Arrest
New York Jets tight end Kellen Winslow was arrested for alleged marijuana possession in a parking lot last November, but a newly released police report from the incident reveals that smoking weed may not have been the only thing Winslow was up to that day. He may have also been masturbating in his c...

An Oral History of Kurtis Blows' "Basketball"
Dumb fun from SB Nation. ...

Buy Jim Harbaugh's Used Khakis
They aren't $8 Walmart khakis, so that totally makes it reasonable to want Jim Harbaugh's game-worn khakis. (The pants are priced at $500, according to Lindsey.)...

Mark Cuban Wants One More NBA Fine Before David Stern Retires
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and NBA commissioner David Stern have a deep, expensive history. Cuban's publicly voiced his criticism of the league and its officials, and in turn, Stern has made him pay. With Stern retiring in a couple of weeks, Cuban's mulling one more pricy splash....

Woman On Top: Tonya Harding Knew Everything, Says Jeff Gillooly
Tonight, ESPN's "30 for 30" series airs The Price of Gold, a look at the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan saga that features rare present-day interviews with Harding, still proclaiming her innocence. Not appearing in the documentary? Jeff Gillooly, the mastermind behind the plot....

Old Video: Christian Laettner Gets His Head Slammed Into The Floor
Here's a nice little throwback for all the Dook haters out there. That's Rod Sellers doing the head-slamming, by the way....


This Is The Best Thing Seahawks And 49ers Fans Have Ever Done
Seahawks fans! 49ers fans! Here is a way for you to one-up and trash-talk each other, without annoying the crap out of the rest of us: See which fan base can donate more money to a worthy cause in each other's city....

Ken Pomeroy has kicked off his 2014 player of the year watch list, a quantitative ranking based on a "player's value to his team in combination with his team's strength." Doug McDermott (Creighton) holds the top spot for now, followed by Lamar Patterson (Pittsburgh), and Nick Johnson (Arizona). [Ken...

How Many Ads Are In Your College Sports Broadcast?
In O'Bannon vs. NCAA, the defendants made a stunning claim. Collegiate athletes cannot be paid for appearing in televised games, the NCAA argued, because those games—like, say, the Vizio BCS National Championship—are First Amendment-protected news programs, and not commercial broadcasts....