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Farewell to my first and lastThe generations of sports fans who grew up learning and loving a sport and team through the radio are disappearing these days. Another one came to a close on Thursday night in Chicago, though this one was a little different. We were a group out of place and time, which we came to identify ourselves ...

Triple H watched other wrestling, which is actually a big dealTriple H announcing his retirement on Friday with Stephen A. Smith was more of a confirmation than a surprise. The dude nearly died due to heart failure, after all, and he hadn’t been in the ring in three years. He’s in his 50s too, though that hasn’t stopped a host of others. And there was still a ...

Stone Cold Steve Austin to return for WrestleManiaThe Texas Rattlesnake is likely lacing his boots up one more time. For the first time in 19 years, Stone Cold Steve Austin will hear glass shatter, walk out onto the entrance way to an ovation that would make Robert Plant jealous, and get his shtick to reverberate through a crowd like it’s 1998 for ...

Some great wrestling matches from the year that was

That time again. This year’s list feels a little more genuine, as wrestling (outside of Japan at least) was able to get out of the TV-studio era and back in front of the crowds it so desperately needs. Whether that was or is a really good idea at the moment, we’ll save for another time. Trying to ju...

AEW All Out 2021 preview and predictions

It’s the first week of September, you know what that means! It’s time for AEW’s biggest show, All Out. Not only is it the biggest show they’ve ever run, or their most important, but it has a real chance to shift the wrestling world in a way we haven’t seen in a couple decades. AEW could very well be...

The WWE is going to be at … Rolling Loud?!?

Did you grow up on Sweet Chin Music?...

25 years ago today, wrestling changed forever

“Whose side is he on?!”...

Britt Baker match finally gives AEW a signature moment in its women’s division

For the past few weeks, or months, the frustration with AEW among some fans had begun to be unavoidable. The ignoring or dismissal of the women’s division was becoming too much, and it was impossible to watch an episode of “Dynamite” and not count the segments that could have, and should have, been ...

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The Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, in all the best ways

They actually went through with it....

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Mar 08 2021

Deadspin Presents: Top 10 presidential endorsements from sports stars, Part II: Biden backers

It’s rare for athletes to openly advocate for a change in leadership in their day-to-day lives, because it usually means getting branded as a “coach killer,” or an excuse-maker. But when it comes to politics, it’s different. There’s the choice of either the person in charge, or the person running to...

by Jesse Spector|

|Sat Oct 31 2020

Sheffield United's Billy Sharp Celebrates Goal With Mr. Socko

Despite the best efforts of Norwich keeper Tim Krul to disrupt Billy Sharp’s focus before his penalty kick, the Sheffield United striker scored from the spot to give his time a 1-0 lead to end the first half of play. Sharp, one of the most prolific scorers at the senior English league level, ran ove...

by Gabe Fernandez|

|Sat Jan 26 2019

Twenty Years Ago, The Rock Beat Mick Foley About The Head And It Was Fucked Up

What still stands as quite possibly the most viscerally memorable match in the modern history of World Wrestling Entertainment took place 20 years ago this week at Royal Rumble ‘99. How much of a compliment that is depends on your perspective. ...

by David Bixenspan|

|Fri Jan 25 2019

Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, & "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Return To Wrestlemania

“Attitude Era” WWE stars Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin returned to the ring tonight at Wrestlemania to defend New Day’s honor against the League of Nations, with the, uh, veteran wrestlers performing their famous finishing moves of Sweet Chin Music, the Mandible Claw (wit...

by Timothy Burke|

|Mon Apr 04 2016

Jim Ross remembers Mick Foley's and the Undertaker's famous 1998 Hell in a Cell match....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Oct 20 2014

Wrestling Legend Mick Foley Interviews Michael Morse On MLB Network

We love when old-time wrestling heroes intersect with "real" sports, so it was a treat on MLB Network this afternoon when Mick Foley joined the MLB Now panel for an interview with San Francisco's Michael Morse. Tune in for the Daniel Bryan conversation, stay for the reference to Mick Foley not hav...

by Timothy Burke|

|Thu Oct 16 2014

Hey, It's 15 Years (And A Day) Since Mick Foley Got Thrown Off A Cage

In keeping with our inability to notice anniversaries until it’s too late, we’d like to point out that it was 15 years ago last night that Mankind and the Undertaker faced off in one of the most memorable and brutal wrestling matches of all time....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Thu Jun 28 2018

A Brief Examination Of Mick Foley's EBay Firesale

In an attempt to help his son "put gas in the car," lovable polymath wrestler Mick Foley has put up his entire boyhood sports memorabilia collection through a seller on eBay. Dude Love is clearly a sports fan. He was an active collector in the early 1970s, focused on baseball and basketball. He's se...

by Luke O'Brien|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Breaking: Mick Foley Is In Our Office Right Now

That is all. [Jezebel]...

by Tommy Craggs|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Because Of Tori Amos, Mick Foley Didn't Fear For His Balls In Barbed-Wire Cage Matches

"Finding solitude in a far corner of the frigid backstage area," recalls the semi-retired hardcore wrestler, right here in Slate.com, "I saw a cloud of my own breath as I pressed the play button. 'Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens. ...'"...

by Tommy Craggs|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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