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Hey, The Falcons And Lions Are Playing At 9:30 A.M. ET Sunday
Yeah, we did a post touching on Sunday's Lions-Falcons game in Wembley Stadium, but an informal poll showed that most of us didn't know it would air on the East Coast at 9:30 a.m. We thought it'd be at 1 p.m. like usual. Anyway, now you know. Double-check your fantasy team and start drinking earlier...

Reviewer Jump-Kicks Macho Steakhouse's Dick And Balls Into The Sun
Beast is a self-consciously primal London steak-and-crab restaurant, all ludicrously oversized tables and steaks and crab legs and prices, presented gravely as though in mourning of the fallen at Helm's Deep; a display of such over-the-top machismo that even Vladimir Putin rolls his eyes at it when ...

London Fletcher Says He Started Feeling "Uneasy" About Redskins Name
Former Washington linebacker London Fletcher was recently a guest on NBC's SportsDash, and he was asked about how he felt about playing for a team that has a racial slur as a name. His response, flagged by DC Sports Bog's Dan Steinberg, was surprisingly honest....

OHL Goalie Takes His Stick To The Back Of His Opponent's Head
London Knights goalie Anthony Stolarz seemed to be fed up with pokes and prods after the whistle, because when the Windsor Spitfires' Josh Ho-Sang hit him with his stick on a dead puck, Stolarz reacted poorly....

UVa's Recruiting Letters Aren't Even Trying Anymore
(If your name is Jeff, by viewing this photo you have officially committed to Virginia.)...

NFL London Game Will Begin Ass-Early
One of the NFL's London games next season will actually be an afternoon game for Brits: It'll kick off at 1:30 p.m. local time. That means it'll be 9:30 a.m. on the East Coast, 6:30 a.m. on the West Coast, and, like, Tuesday in Hawaii....

We're So Sorry, London
Don't judge us by our expendable football teams....


Virginia's Mike London "Formerly" Extends Scholarship Offer
The University of Virginia is one of America's most august institutions of higher learning, and most alumni know that very well. Head coach Mike London was not a Wahoo; while he will hear grumbles for "formerly" extending a written scholarship offer, UVa fans will also be happy to not claim him....

Rugby Player Accidentally Kicks Ball Into Trash Can 50 Yards Away
On Sunday, in rugby union's English Premiership, Elliot Daly did something that he'll never in a million years be able to duplicate....

Here's The Wheelchair Collision From The London Marathon
We told you earlier today about the accident at the London Marathon early Sunday morning between an olympic champion and a wheelchair racer. Now we have video....

London Marathon Holds Moment Of Silence For Boston Prior To Race
Earlier this morning, Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia won his second London Marathon, overtaking Emmanuel Mutai in the final stages and clocking in at just over two hours and six minutes. Exactly 14 minutes later, Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo won the women's race. ...

London's Olympic Stadium Finally Finds A Tenant
Premier League side West Ham has reportedly agreed to a 99-year lease to play at Olympic Stadium in East London, a deal that brings an end to a long, contentious bidding process and the question of what to do with an empty $700 million venue....

U.S. Border Guards Detained Mo Farah, Who Won Two Olympic Gold Medals Six Months Ago, On Suspicion Of Being A Terrorist
Mo Farah, gold-medal winner in the men's 5,000m and 10,000m this summer in London, hilarious celebrator, and world-famous meme, couldn't get through customs in Oregon over the Christmas holiday because he is of Somalian descent. That'll show him for beating us in the Olympics! (And also expose our b...

Report: London Fletcher's Family Involved In Altercation With Cleveland Fans, Aunt Suffers Heart Attack
Following the Redskins' 38-21 win over the Browns in Cleveland, several members of London Fletcher's family were reportedly involved in an altercation with Browns fans that resulted in three arrests and one hospitalization. Fletcher is a Cleveland native and this was the first NFL game he played in...

Sign Of The Apocalypse: Mass Child Lead Poisoning
For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....

Bob Costas Actually Has Something Critical To Say About NBC's Olympic Coverage
Well, finally. Someone at NBC has admitted that its coverage of the Olympics wasn't absolutely perfect....

NBC Has Only Shown Four Total Hours Of The Paralympics, And The IPC Would Like To Know Why
It seems quaint now, bitching over NBC's lack of live Olympic broadcasts, when the International Paralympic Committee has its own complaints about the network's coverage: zero live TV, and what little there was shunted to the little-watched NBC Sports Network. And now the IPC president is openly won...

NBC Broke Even On The London Olympics, So Get Ready For More Tape Delays And Crappy Online Streaming
The lasting legacy of these recent London Olympics wasn't Ryan Lochte's epic bro-ness or McKayla Maroney's perpetual disinterest in everything, but rather it was #NBCfail, the hashtag that, over the course of 17 days, came to signify the complete ineptness of a media conglomerate to please its wider...

For Only $1000, You Too Can Own A Small Amount Of Water Mo Farah Probably Didn't Sit In
Remember Mo Farah? He won gold for Great Britain in the men's 5000m and 10000m races at the London Olympics, everyone in the UK totally freaked out, and then he ran away from some stuff....