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Matt Holliday Leaves Game After Taking A Pitch Right In The Nose
During a sixth-inning rally against the San Diego, Matt Holliday caught a 95 MPH fastball from Andrew Cashner right in the nose. He immediately fell to the ground, and Mike Matheny leapt from the dugout. As you can see in the slow motion shot here, his nose looks worryingly elastic when it gets plow...

WNBA Players Continue Protests Despite Fines, Stage Media Blackout
The New York Liberty played a game against the Indiana Fever this morning, the first game either team has played since being fined by the WNBA for wearing clothing that expressed support for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter, and the slain Dallas police officers. Based on events t...

WNBA Fines Teams And Players For Speaking Out Against Violence
In response to the deadly shootings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers, members of the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, and Indiana Fever have been wearing black warmup shirts as a form of protest against the recent acts of violence. Today, the WNBA fined them for...

We'd Love To Hear More Of Jason Whitlock's Ideas About Communist Mastery Of The American Media
Yesterday, Fox Sports personality and All Takes Matter co-host Jason Whitlock sent some interesting tweets about Communist financial influence on the American media:...

Report: Canadiens' Analytics Guy Let Go After Telling Team Not To Trade P.K. Subban
Matt Pfeffer had a one-year contract as an analytics consultant for the Montreal Canadiens, and the team reportedly informed him Wednesday that it wouldn’t be renewed for the upcoming season. According to one report, Pfeffer had strongly argued not to trade defenseman P.K. Subban, and lost more than...

"Guys, Start Talking"
Say what you will about Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock, but it’s clear they both take direction well. Here are the All Takes Matter hosts pretending to chat—at the direction of Fox broadcast personnel—as the network attempts to promote their shitty TV show....
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"O Canada" Rendition Features Modified, Racist Lyrics [Update]
This only aired in Canada, as Fox went to commercial break in the U.S. All-Star Game broadcast, but what the fuck? These four Canadian men (known as The Tenors) decided to add one of white supremacists’ favorite phrases into “O Canada.” We have no idea what is going on here....

Minneapolis Cops Walk Off Job At WNBA Game After Lynx Players Speak Out Against Violence
Four off-duty Minneapolis police officers working security at Saturday’s WNBA game at the Target Center quit their (freelance) jobs and walked out, after four Lynx players held a press conferencing denouncing violence committed by and against police, and the entire team wore warmup shirts mentioning...

Spanish Bullfighter Gored To Death
A bull named Lorenzo gored 29-year-old bullfighter Victor Barrio to death today at the Feria del Ángel festival in Aragon, according to El Mundo....


How Big Of A Problem Is Matt Harvey's Injury?
Yesterday, the New York Mets announced that struggling pitcher Matt Harvey would be placed on the disabled list with thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), an ailment that can deaden a pitcher’s arm by compressing blood vessels between the collarbone and the first rib. Harvey could opt for a nerve-block in...

Joey Chestnut Sets New Record With 70 Hot Dogs Eaten
Joey Chestnut avenged last year’s shocking loss to Matt Stonie in consuming 70 hot dogs (and buns) at today’s Hot Dog Contest at Coney Island. Stonie managed just 53 in a disappointing second-place finish....

Phillies Prospect Loses Eye In Freak Injury
Last Friday, Phillies minor-league pitcher Matt Imhof suffered a serious eye injury in an absolutely freakish accident. He was stretching using a rubber resistance band anchored to a wall when the metal base broke, and a piece struck him in the eye. Doctors tried to save it, but Imhof revealed today...

No One Is Watching <i>All Takes Matter</i>
Fox Sports 1's new flagship debate fest, All Takes Matter, isn’t very good. The problem isn’t that it features two idiots slinging bad takes—although it does—but that it’s boring. Good sports studio shows need to be either smart or entertaining. A select few—Inside the NBA is the prime example—manag...

LeBron Had More Important Things To Do With His Shirt And Hat Than To Promote Nike
Yes, J.R. Smith is still shirtless from his night in Vegas, but look away from his booze-glazed torso for a second and focus on LeBron James. Here’s the hero of the Finals, at the moment he literally brings home the trophy Cleveland has been awaiting since before he was born. And he’s wearing—well, ...

L.A. Galaxy Require Cheap, Fake Goal To Beat Fifth-Division Beer League Team
“Obviously you’re going to bleed every precious second off the clock,” the announcer notes, as the L.A. Galaxy are nursing a 2-1 lead with only 10 men against La Maquina, obviously a fearsome opponent, given the Galaxy’s desire to nurse the clock. Wait, who are La Maquina?...

Fox Sports 1's <i>All Takes Matter</i> Is As Boring As It Is Long
During the “Good Bet or Bad Bet?” segment of the premiere of Fox Sports 1's All Takes Matter, Jason McIntyre asked Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock to debate the following premise: The Denver Broncos will miss the playoffs this season. “That’s a ... decent bet,” Whitlock said....

Hideki Matsui Jacks Old-Timers' Game Dong
Hideki Matsui has been out of baseball for four years, but the former Yankee still has that oomph—as proven during today’s Old-Timers’ Game in the Bronx, when the slugger crushed a David Cone pitch into the second deck....

Will Fox Sports 1's <i>All Takes Matter</i> Be Any Good? We're Airing Rehearsal Footage Right Now.
Fox Sports 1's All Takes Matter with Cowherd & Whitlock has been taping rehearsals all week in preparation for the show’s premiere on Monday. Deadspin has acquired several hours of these rehearsals from a Fox Sports source, and we’re airing select portions right now on Facebook Live:...

Matt Murray Is The Man
One win away from a Stanley Cup, and because the Penguins are doing so many things so well, it’s become easy to underpraise the player who might’ve done more than anyone to get them here....