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A Curious List Of Things That Floyd Landis Is Not Allowed To Say About Pat McQuaid
Pat McQuaid, former president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), has long been at odds with disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis. Recently, McQuaid filed a proceeding against Landis in a low-level Swiss court. The court ruled in McQuaid's favor, and Landis was given a list of things that he, acc...
Who Wants To Go To The Super Bowl With This Awful Human Being?
What's up, ladies? Do you like the Ravens? Would you like a ticket to the Super Bowl? Are you "hot?" Are you open to performing an "HJ/BJ/etc." in exchange for said Super Bowl ticket? Well then, this Craigslist ad is for you!...
Whatever You Do, Don't Call The Amazing Kreskin A Magician
So our live chat this afternoon with mentalist The Amazing Kreskin didn't go so well. There were some initial technical difficulties on his end, after which he answered three of the more than 200 questions submitted by our readers. We figure you guys deserve an explanation. And the explanation is th...
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Andray Blatche, Who Has No Idea
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
The 15 Or So Most Watchable Teams In College Basketball: A Ranking
A weekly (or so) ranking of college basketball teams on the basis of watchability and with very little regard to how good they might be. ...
What Happens When You Try To Buy Or Sell Counterfeit NFL Jerseys?
Slate's Josh Levin attended the Seahawks-Redskins game on Sunday, and, while he saw a lot of genuine RGIII memorabilia, he also saw plenty of knockoffs. So, in this week's excerpt from the Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh dives in to this nefarious underworld. Where does counterfeit memorabilia come...
The Definitive List Of Actual, No-Bullshit College Football National Champions; Or, Why Alabama Is A Liar
Monday night, the Alabama Crimson Tide mercilessly clobbered Notre Dame in the BCS championship game. According to Alabama, it was the school's 15th national football title. Football has been an intercollegiate sport for 142 seasons, starting in 1869 (no one played in 1871). So that should mean that...
Dear ESPN Announcers: Please Stop Inventing Merits Of Terrible Bowl Games
We can understand why so many mediocre bowls line our on-screen guides every December and early January: They're lucrative for everyone (well, almost everyone) involved. Local dignitaries in moderate-sized middle American metropolises gotta eat. But we could really do without all the specious shilli...
The Top Nine Romeo Crennel Photos Of 2012
After a 2-14 season, the Chiefs fired head coach Romeo Crennel today. Here's a selection of photos commemorating his impactful tenure....
33 Bowl Games Ranked As If They Were Dishes
The custom of calling post-season collegiate contests "bowl" games stems from the granddaddy of them all, the Rose Bowl, so-called for the eponymous bowl-shaped stadium. But our first association with the word "bowl" of course is as a container, most often for food, keys, change, or cereal milk and ...
The 27 Dumbest Things Gregg Easterbrook Wrote In 2012
Imagine the import of an alien to answer the yes-or-no question, "Does your society believe in God?"...
Meet Godfrey Chitalu, The Zambian Lionel Messi
Barça's Lionel Messi scored a lot of goals this year. 86 of them, apparently.* That's a record for a soccer player. Or is it? Zambia's Godfrey Chitalu—whose heyday as a player came in the late 1960s and 70s, before he began coaching in the 80s—may have scored 116 goals in 1972. On this week's excerp...
The 15 Best Peter Gammons Tweets Of 2012
Longtime baseball analyst Peter Gammons also shares his insight and knowledge via his Twitter account. Even when the season is over, Gammons will offer up his aperçus about baseball and life in general. Here are his best tweets from 2012....
James Naismith's Original Rules Of Basket Ball, Ranked
13. "6. A foul is striking at the ball with the fist, violation of Rules 3, 4, and such as described in Rule 5."...
Constitutional Amendments, Ranked
1. Fourteenth 2. Fifth 3. Fourth 4. (tie) Thirteenth 4. (tie) Fifteenth 4. (tie) Nineteenth 7. Ninth 8. First 9. Sixth 10. Eighth 11. Seventh 12. Sixteenth 13. Twenty-fourth 14. Seventeenth 15. Twenty-third 16. Twenty-sixth 17. Twenty-fifth 18. Twenty-seventh 19. (tie) Third 19. (tie) Twentieth 21. ...
The 15 Or So Most Watchable Teams In College Basketball: An Occasional Ranking
An occasional ranking of college basketball teams on the basis of watchability and with very little regard to how good they might be....
Lots Of NHL Players Have Headed To A Russian City That Is Essentially A Toxic Waste Dump
Magnitogorsk, Russia. Our kind of town. They've got one hell of a hockey team, with Evgeni Malkin and Nikolai Kulemin, and all the rest. They just added the Avalanche's Ryan O'Reilly. What's in the latest headlines over there?...
The St. Louis Cardinals Just Traded For Subject 7 From The Duke Fuck List
On Tuesday, the St. Louis Cardinals traded infielder Skip Schumaker to the Los Angeles Dodgers for some guy named Jake Lemmerman. Who is Jake Lemmerman? The baseball record says he's nobody special, a 24-year-old utility infielder who's put up decent numbers in the minors and profiles as a solid ba...
Luncheon Meats, Ranked
24. Bologna 23. Head cheese 22. Swiss cheese 18. (tie) Olive loaf 18. (tie) Pickle-and-pimento loaf 18. (tie) Dutch loaf 18. (tie) Chicken loaf 17. Sopressata 16. Chicken breast 15. Boiled ham 14. Genoa salami 13. Smoked turkey 12. Turkey 11. Liverwurst 10. Braunschweiger 9. Hard salami 8. Virginia ...