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Report: Maine High School Coach Told Players To Heckle Player With Gay Parents

According to a report from the Portland Press-Herald, the football coach at Gray-New Gloucester High School resigned after instructing his players to taunt a Yarmouth player with gay parents during a game last Friday, telling them to ask the player “Who’s your daddy?” every time he was tackled....

Reconsider The Lobster

ROCKLAND, Maine—The New Hampshire/Maine split on I-95 in Portsmouth, N.H., is unpredictable. Sometimes you’re able to breeze through to your final destination—back to your shit hole of a dorm room in Durham, or off to the Kittery Trading Post to buy a crossbow and a bottle of deer piss—but other tim...

Man Calmly Describes Escaping Two Charging Bears On His Morning Run

Moninda Marube was in the middle of an 18-mile run near his home in Auburn, Maine last Wednesday when he encountered something pretty terrifying—a pair of black bears. As he told the Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal in an impressive story that I highly recommend reading in full, he quickly sized up his ...

Rabid Raccoon Is No Match For Fearless Maine Woman

Sometimes, I’ll lay awake at night and dream of the day I can write a lede as chilling as the one Alex Acquisto has written for the Bangor Daily News:...

San Francisco 49ers CB Tramaine Brock Arrested For Felony Domestic Violence [Update]

This afternoon, Santa Clara, Calif., police announced that San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tramaine Brock has been arrested for felony domestic violence and booked into Santa Clara County Jail. Per their press release, officers went to a home yesterday near the 49ers’ stadium and arrested Brock after...

Maine Basketball Player Breaks Teammate's Jaw After Fight Over Locker Room Music

On the night of Feb. 14, an officer from the University of Maine campus police department paid a visit to the basketball team’s locker room after an ambulance was called in to pick up a player with a broken jaw. Senior guard Marko Pirovic was taken to the hospital, where he received surgery for two ...

Jermaine Jones Calls Tim Howard's Comments On USMNT Dual Nationals "Dangerous Stuff"

On Tuesday, USMNT goalkeeper Tim Howard questioned the passion of his dual-national teammates, in part blaming them and their lack of American-ness for the USMNT’s recent string of poor results. He tried walking back those comments by citing the strong play of dual-national teammates Jermaine Jones ...

Deadspin 25: Don't Be Fooled, Maryland Still Sucks 

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Maine Governor Calls State Rep A Cocksucker, Says He'd Like To Kill Him

Unless you live in Maine, probably the last time you thought about Governor Paul LePage, the Rob Ford of the Pine Tree State, was when he complained about “guys that are named D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” coming up from Connecticut and New York to sell heroin and “impregnate a young white girl.” ...

Draymond Green Reaches Plea Agreement

Police Report: Draymond Green Acts Like That In Real Life, Apparently [UPDATE]

Draymond Green was arrested on Sunday for an alleged assault. Details started to trickle out that Green had slapped a taunting fan, who was later rumored to be Michigan State football player Jermaine Edmondson. The incident report came out today, and it confirms that the altercation took place betwe...

CFL Player Jermaine Gabriel Carted Off After Blow To The Head

Toronto Argonauts defensive back Jermaine Gabriel left the field strapped to a cart after suffering an apparent head or neck injury while trying to make a routine tackle of former NFL return specialist Brandon Banks, who now plays for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats....

Jermaine Marshall Costs Team Playoff Game With Buzzer-Beating Boner

Aris defeated Kifisia 108-103 in overtime today in the Greek League playoffs, all thanks to former Arizona State star Jermaine Marshall’s incredible boner at the end of regulation....

Jermaine Jones Gets Red Card, Attacks Referee

Jermaine Jones, German-born USMNTer currently in MLS to get some checks and play whatever position he wants, has a history of getting heated and falling ass first into some stupid red cards. Back at Schalke, he got suspended for two months for stomping on Marco Reus’s foot....

Is Trophy Beer Getting Too Damn Expensive?

Let me begin by declaring my love for the Maine Beer Company. I’ve tried 11 of the 13 beers listed on their website, and while there are a few I might not bother with again, none are outright disappointing, and several are excellent. I’ve never had their shiniest trophy brew, a double India pale ale...

D-Leaguer Sinks Two Half-Court Shots In One Game

Andre Stringer of the Maine Red Claws is your D-League player of the week—probably, who's going to check—after hitting two buzzer-beating half-court shots in one game on Sunday against the Erie BayHawks. Stringer hit his buckets at halftime and the end of the third quarter. ...

Jermaine Dupri's Greatest Hits (From His Blog) 

Jermaine Dupri isn't responsible for too many radio hits these days, but he's definitely raking in the pageviews. In addition to his roles as rapper, producer, and mogul, the '90s R&B giant can now also call himself a content creator: For the last four years, his blog Global14 has churned out so...

Jermaine Kearse's Insane Super Bowl Catch, In Extreme Slow Motion

Jermaine Kearse completed one of the wildest catches in Super Bowl history, one that won't be remembered due to the inexplicable decision that followed. Here's our attempt to make the memory last just a bit longer; we recommend watching it in HD and fullscreen, just to take advantage of all the fa...

UMaine Fans' Sign Features Opposing Mascot Sucking A Dick

It's hard to make out, but that amorphous blue thing is supposed to be a wildcat, which is the UNH men's hockey team's mascot. Thanks to some lewd UMaine fans who attended last Friday's game between the two schools, that poor wildcat has a big dick in its mouth....

Jobless Father Of Two Bound For Jail, Turns Down $20k For Kearse Ball

If a $20,000 lottery ticket fell out of the sky and landed in the hands of an unemployed father of two who is going away to jail shortly, you would expect him to cash it in, right? That is basically the situation Scott Shelton finds himself in, and he has reportedly decided not to....