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The Cruelest Sport
If you don't already follow Longform I recommend it as a great place to find choice material. (Bookmark it already.)...

Fan Captures Lightning Strike Outside Giants Game
Grover Anderson was forced to endure last night's Giants game, a 7-0 whipping at the hands of the Red Sox. He calls this shot, from the fifth inning, "the only highlight."...

Kirk Cousins Injured; RGIII Still Not Cleared For Week 1
A string of words sure to strike fear in the hearts of even the stoutest Redskins fan: Washington's only healthy quarterback is Rex Grossman....

Three Oklahoma Teens Allegedly Murder Baseball Player Out Of Boredom
This is just insane. An Australian man playing baseball for East Central University in Oklahoma was shot and killed by three kids, aged 15, 16 and 17, because they were bored. Seriously, that's what one of the kids reportedly told police....
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The Greatest Yankees Meltdown Ever Captured On Tape [NSFW]
Here's a cool old relic from the last great era of Yankees dysfunction. It's a clip of Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage losing his shit in front of the New York media in 1982—the beginning of a miserable, drawn-out decade for the organization, when all that '70s glory turned to pinstriped shit....

Romanian Princess Arrested In Oregon Cockfighting Ring
This, right here, this is something special. This is a royal mug shot....

Fox Sports 1 Launched With A Major Discrimination Lawsuit Problem
Fox Sports 1 (and 2) launched Saturday to the media world's rapt attention. It did so despite one major division of Fox Sports coming under fire in the courtroom, with multiple lawsuits alleging discrimination in the company's music department....

WWE Leaker Strikes Again To Spoil (Some Of) SummerSlam
For five straight pay-per-view events, a Reddit user named "Dolphins1925" revealed the results of every single WWE match before they aired. But with WWE now aware that it has sprung a leak, last night's SummerSlam was our first chance to see if he could do it again....

Struzan: The Man Behind The Poster
This looks like a dope movie. Check out this cool post by Nick Schager over at Esquire.com on Drew Struzan:...

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Oakland Raiders
Some people are fans of the Oakland Raiders. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Oakland Raiders. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....


Minor League Manager Doug Mientkiewicz Started A Huge Brawl
Longtime major leaguer Doug Mientkiewicz is now managing the Fort Myers Miracle, the Twins' high-A affiliate. And to say that Mientkiewicz was merely in the middle of this brawl on Saturday would be to understate it....

Tough Guys Don't Dance
"To me," Lenny Bruce once said, "a tough guy is a guy who wears a wool suit with no underwear." In his latest profile for the Times Magazine, Pat Jordan writes about Peter Berg and Hollywood tough:...

Freshman Hits Half-Court Shot For Free Tuition
Congratulations to Markus Burden, an incoming freshman at Ball State. For hitting this half-court shot at the university's "Welcome Week," Burden wins a semester of out-of-state tuition, roughly $11,000....

Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson
Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...

Oscar Pistorius Indicted On Murder Charge
Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius was indicted on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition on Monday in the death of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot three times and killed this past Valentine's Day....

What's The Most Accurate College Football Preview Magazine?
Republished with permission from PunditTracker....

Red Sox Fans Think A-Rod Is A "Looser"
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