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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, ...
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Central Michigan Upsets Oklahoma State With Hail Mary Lateral [Updates]
Central Michigan, which completed one of the greatest Hail Mary plays of all time two years ago, did it again to beat #22 Oklahoma State 30-27 when Cooper Rush connected with Jesse Kroll, who then lateraled to Corey Willis for the touchdown. ...
The Story Behind The Perfect Photo Of Olympic Pain
What does it feel like to have your lifelong dream dashed in an instant? How would you react?...
An Alaskan High School Football Player Let The Results Of A Bear Hunt Decide Where He'd Play In College
What’s your process for making a really tough decision? Do you flip a coin? Consult the wisdom of your parents? Maybe you make a spreadsheet. Chase Ferris of Palmer, Alaska had to decide between playing college football for the University of Mary or attending the University of Wyoming. So he went on...
Check Out Some Candid 2010 Pre-Draft Assessments By Oakland Raiders Scouts
Solid evidence has surfaced online that the Oakland Raiders have staffers who evaluate talent, and moreover, that they sometimes know what they’re talking about. A post up on Imgur this weekend purports (credibly, it seems) to have the Raiders’ pre-draft evaluations from 2010. It’s not a huge galler...
Walmart Fucks Up Maryland Shirt; Literally Truthers The Shape Of Maryland
In case you missed it last week, an enterprising Twitter user pointed out to Walmart that they were selling University of Maryland shirts with the nickname TERPS jammed into what is clearly an outline of Massachusetts:...
If You Don't Much Care About UConn Women's Hoops, The Feeling Is Mutual
Connecticut is about to win its fourth straight women’s basketball title (heretofore unprecedented in all of college hoops) and all the questions facing coach Geno Auriemma seem to amount to: Why doesn’t anyone care?...
This Is One Dumb Technical Foul
Refs blew it twice in one play tonight as Maryland’s Jake Layman wasn’t whistled for a double dribble on his first-half dunk against Kansas, but earned a technical foul for hanging on the rim. There’s a good reason Layman didn’t immediately let go after the straight-on two-handed dunk, and the techn...
John Kasich's Jumper Is Trash
Ohio Governor John Kasich won the Republican primary in his home state last night, and celebrated the victory by channeling his inner Bernie Sanders:...
"WE BE CHAMPIONSHIP": Draymond Green's Mother Pens Open Letter To Warriors Haters
The Warriors are probably going to win at least 70 games, and are currently on pace to eclipse Michael Jordan’s 1996 Bulls and win 73. They’re good and fun and they’re killing everyone, but even they’ve drawn some haters. Draymond Green’s mother wrote an open letter to those haters. Hey, Oscar Rober...
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Players Keep Complaining About Maryland's Under Armour Balls
Here’s a stupid fact about college basketball: The million-dollar sponsorship deals that schools sign with various apparel companies has created a sport in which there is no universal game ball. Nike schools use Nike balls, Adidas schools use Adidas balls, and so on....
GOP Candidates Offer Super Bowl Predictions In Meaningless, Waste-Of-Time Debate Question
Tonight’s GOP primary debate in New Hampshire has succeeded despite itself as candidates attack each other while ABC moderators stand by, barely acknowledging their non-answers to the question prompts. One of those questions? “Who’s going to win tomorrow’s Super Bowl?” (None of the candidates offere...
Maryland Breaks Wisconsin's Heart With Game-Winning Three
Wisconsin fought back at home against Maryland from a late eight-point deficit, only to lose at the last second. Down 60-52 with less than 1:30 left, Wisconsin hit a layup and a pair of threes to tie it at 60. But right after Bronson Koenig’s three, Melo Trimble calmly pulled up from well behind the...
"What In The World Just Happened There!?" Maryland & Northwestern Combine For Wild Sequence
Northwestern is sporting its best men’s basketball team in years—maybe ever, given that the Wildcats have never, ever made the NCAA tournament—and Maryland’s fourth-ranked Terrapins are in Evanston tonight looking to darken those bright Chicago skies (heh, heh)....
Good Dunking, Darius Thompson
The #10 Virginia Cavaliers won their seventh straight game of the season against William & Mary today. That’s all good and fine and to be expected, but this here slam from Darius Thompson was one of the better ones I’ve seen this year....
Aaron Rodgers Shocks Lions On Untimed Down With Hail Mary Winner
An untimed down due to a facemask penalty on what should have been the final play of the game allowed Aaron Rodgers to find Richard Rodgers in the end zone 61 yards away to give the Packers an incredible 27-23 victory. The Lions defense, which had made Aaron Rodgers look merely average on the evenin...
Michigan State Wide Receiver Makes Wild One-Handed Catch Around A Defender
Michigan State is in the midst of what looks like it should be a comfortable home win against Maryland. Early in the second quarter, the Spartans’s Macgarrett Kings Jr. hauled in this left-handed catch in a tight window to give his team a first down....
One Mystery And Four Other Good Stories From The New York City Marathon
Gosh, it was fun to see a woman with some healthiness about her and FIEN—who is FIEN?—printed on her bib, out front just killing it in Sunday’s New York City Marathon. And wasn’t it a marvel to watch that cheetah Wilson Kipsang loping along at 5:05 or so per mile, easy as cracking a cold one? ...
Jaelen Strong’s First NFL Reception A Hail Mary Touchdown
What better way to get your first career catch than on a 42-yard Hail Mary touchdown with no time left on the clock?...