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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Flees Sinking Ship For Liverpool
There had to be a point during Liverpool’s curb-stomping of Arsenal this past weekend when a few Gunners thought to themselves I’ve got to get the hell out of here. After being announced as Liverpool’s newest signing today, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain became the first to make good on that sentiment. He ...
Just What In The Goddamn Hell Are Barcelona Doing In The Transfer Market?
Death, taxes, and Barcelona doing some fuck shit in the summer 2017 transfer window. These are the three constants in life, and boy does that last one keep reminding us of its omnipresence....
This Already Scary Liverpool Team Is Getting Even Better
Liverpool have spent the last generation in a strange state, a sort of high-end irrelevance. They’ve remained, for all but the topmost tier of players, a destination club—one with plentiful resources, a winning tradition, and one of the strongest fan bases in world soccer. The problem, though, is th...
How Barcelona's Scramble To Replace Neymar Might Send Christian Pulisic To The Stars<em></em>
It wasn’t really supposed to happen like this. French teen sensation Kylian Mbappé was slated to be this summer’s headlining transfer, with the usual suspects in Madrid, Paris, and Barcelona fighting over the right to pay one-sixth of a billion dollars for his signature. Instead, Neymar somehow went...
Philippe Coutinho Stars In The Hit New Transfer Soap Opera Of The Summer
We all laughed and cried together at every unpredictable twist during the summer’s preeminent melodrama known as NeyWatch, and we were sad to see it end. Luckily for us, that saga was such a hit that it has led to a spin-off series starring a couple of the same characters—namely Barcelona and Philip...
Sports! It's Tonight's <i>Mean Girls</i> Liveblog
Look, the White Sox already played today, so there are no sports worth paying attention to tonight. Mean Girls just started on ABC Family, so let’s follow along with that instead....
Of Course Daniel Sturridge Hurt Himself Scoring
Daniel Sturridge is generally very good when he’s healthy, but unfortunately, he’s almost never healthy. The annual Sturridge injury came again Tuesday during a friendly, right when the English striker should have been celebrating....
Ex-MLB Pitcher Livan Hernandez Files For Bankruptcy
Former MLB pitcher Livan Hernandez has filed for bankruptcy in federal court in South Florida. It was first reported today by the Miami Herald....
Olivier Giroud Golazo Gives France Short-Lived Lead
Olivier Giroud is no stranger to magnificent goals, and his half-volley bender to put his France side up 1-0 on Sweden today ranks up there with the best of them. (Perhaps in shock, the Frenchmen surrendered a Jimmy Durmaz equalizer minutes later.)...
Would The Warriors Beat The '96 Bulls? Watch Our <i>NBA Live</i> Simulation To Find Out
The Golden State Warriors’ unprecedented dominance in this year’s playoffs have boosted the team past the ‘95-’96 Bulls for best NBA team ever, according to “mathematics.” But how would they stack up head-to-head? There’s only one way to find out: by importing the current Golden State team into a co...
Tonight's NBA Finals Game 1, Simulated In NBA Live '96
We updated the rosters in NBA Live ‘96 on a Sega Genesis to simulate tonight’s NBA Finals game 1 between the Cavaliers and the Warriors. Can Draymond successfully injure someone? Can the Cavs overcome the oddsmakers? We’re LIVE:...
Liverpool And Manchester City Smashed Their Opponents And Killed Arsenal<em></em>
The Premier League’s game of musical chairs for a spot in the top four, the only remaining bit of intrigue coming into today’s league-ending round of matches, only gave us about 45 minutes of real drama. It was a good 45 minutes, though, and for the first time in forever, the music has stopped and A...
A Question About Owns
Here’s a video of a town hall held in Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday evening, by ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus member Rod Blum. In it, a crowd of the constituents who delivered Blum’s district to Donald Trump in November’s presidential election variously boo, shout down, and yell at their congr...
Tonight's <i>SNL</i> Featured 30 Nearly Perfect Seconds
This entire sketch was less than two minutes long, and we credit the Saturday Night Live writing staff for recognizing the bit really only needed that much time. Get in, make the joke, get out. ...
Come To Our Boxing Party Next Wednesday Night
This coming Wednesday, Deadspin will be holding a party at our New York offices to celebrate the release of The Bittersweet Science, the newly released anthology of boxing writing edited by Carlo Rotella and Mike Ezra and featuring, among others, our own Hamilton Nolan and Charles Farrell. What’s mo...
Here's The Marlins' President Playing Lorne Michaels In A Local Theater Production
Marlins president David Samson is one of those rich guys who likes to do not-rich-guy things in order to show how cool and down to earth he is. He went on Survivor, and in 2014 he starred in a play put on by a local Miami theater called Not Ready For Primetime. The play was about the early days of S...
Emre Can Smashes Acrobatic Golazo To Put Liverpool Up 1-0
When Liverpool winger Philippe Coutinho was forced off in the 12th minute after taking a knee to the thigh, the club’s all-but-assured win over Watford looked less certain. Right before the half, though, Emre Can got on the end of chip from Lucas and did this:...
The Greatest Break In Snooker History Was Even Better Than Anyone Realized
This week marks 20 years since the greatest frame of snooker ever played. Englishman Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 147 break in his first-round match against Mick Price at the 1997 World Championship is indisputably the pièce de résistance of O’Sullivan’s 25-year-long career, snooker’s advertisement to the wo...
Colombian Soccer Club Accidentally Mourns Living Player With Taps, Moment Of Silence
Before the start of Independiente Santa Fe and Santos FC Copa Libertadores group stage match on Wednesday night in Bogotá, Colombian club Santa Fe intended to honor former Santos player Alexandre de Carvalho Kaneko, who recently died. Instead, they memorialized current Santos striker Ricardo Olivei...
World's Worst Columnist Under Police Investigation For Racist Article
English tabloids are honestly the worst purveyors of media in the world. They make the New York Post look like a goddamn academic journal by comparison, and this is coming from someone who respects and works for a self-described tabloid. Of all the English tabs, though, The Sun is the absolute worst...