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Ben Simmons Did So Many Cool Dunks Tonight
The LSU Tigers lost tonight to Wake Forest in basketball while their football team was scoring a bunch on Texas Tech. The hoopin’ Tigers are 7-5, and don’t look like much of a threat to Kentucky for the SEC title, but for our purposes, that doesn’t really matter. What matters is that Ben Simmons, al...
Lemmy Fucking Ruled
I don’t have anything all that insightful to say about Lemmy, who died tonight, or about Motörhead, the band he lorded over and which lorded over rock and roll longer than I’ve been alive, but they were god damn madmen and you should have loved them if you didn’t....
How Sony Changed<i> Concussion </i>To Make The NFL (Or Their Lawyers) Happy
Concussion arrived in theatres on Christmas, as the Will Smith vehicle finally reached the public after earning mixed critical reviews. We stated back in September that the real story’s complexity, along with studio honchos botching things up, would result in a movie that misses the point. Now that ...
Well, We Know Who Manchester United Fans Want Managing Their Team
Be careful what you wish for ......
Peyton Manning Appears On ESPN To Refute "Garbage" HGH Claims That Haven't Aired Yet [UPDATE]
Despite the Al Jazeera documentary alleging his ties to a doping ring having not yet aired, Peyton Manning spoke to ESPN’s Lisa Salters this morning to deny whatever the investigative report might claim—and later appeared on the network in person, stating that his wife’s medical treatments are “her ...
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Report: Documentary Links Peyton Manning To Human Growth Hormone Shipments [UPDATES]
An Al-Jazeera investigative report will allege an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic supplied Peyton Manning with human growth hormone, according to The Huffington Post....
Browns Players Arrested On Christmas
Cops busted two Cleveland Browns players on Christmas, as linebacker Armonty Bryant and defensive back De’Ante Saunders found themselves in jail yesterday according to WOIO....
Will Jared Leto's Joker Be Too Raw And Subversive For Modern Society To Handle?
Wow, we knew from previous reports (“Leto ... sent Margot Robbie [Harley Quinn] a dead rat”) that Jared Leto’s portrayal of the Joker in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie would be unbelievably edgy and raw, but Twitter users @boring_as_heck and @swarthyvillain got ahead of the film’s promotional cycl...
The 100 Most Popular Deadspin Posts Of 2015
Time to take a look back at our most popular posts of 2015. We have our own thoughts about what our best posts were, but these are the ones that brought in the most readers....
The Best Things We Watched In 2015
Here, now, are our favorite films, TV shows, and pieces of internet ephemera of the year. Thank you for your time....
<i>The Revenant</i> Is The Manliest (And Bear-iest) Movie Ever Made
You have two very specific questions about The Revenant, and we’ll get to those, promise. But first, let us discuss the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio, playing a über-badass 19th-century American outdoorsman, flees a party of bloodthirsty Native Americans, rides his horse off a cliff, lands in a gian...
Pete Morelli's Season Has Been A Referee's Worst Nightmare
Everyone in the NFL likes Pete Morelli. The 19-year veteran is consistently one of the league’s highest-graded, most-respected officials. Last year he won the Art McNally award, the NFL’s highest honor for an official, for his career body of work. Yet Morelli and his crew are having the single worst...
Italian Striker Celebrates Goal With A Nice, Refreshing Beer
Empoli’s Massimo Maccarone is really old. At 36 years old, you imagine the mere act of getting up in the morning, heading to the stadium, going through warmups, and playing a grueling match has to wear on him. So far be it from anyone to judge him for celebrating his overcoming of the odds—not only ...
Wow, Chelsea's Players Really Hated Mourinho, Didn't They?
An ESPN FC postmortem published shortly after José Mourinho finally paid for Chelsea’s debacle of a season with his job included a telling anecdote about the manager’s suspicions of a silent mutiny on the part of his players. In the locker room after the 1-0 loss to Bournemouth, an exasperated Mouri...
Great Gift Ideas For Children You Despise
I bet you know some bad kids. Not your kids. Your kids are lovely, imaginative, super-athletic, and smart as a whip. I’m talking about your step-sister’s kids and your boss’s kids and the kids on your son’s soccer team and those kids who always end up hurting someone at the neighborhood block partie...
Justin Blackmon Arrested For DUI
Jaguars wide receiver Justin Blackmon, who is currently serving an indefinite suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy multiple times, was arrested for DUI at 4:45 a.m. on Dec. 19 in Ardmore, Okla. ...
Zlatan Casually Zlatans In A Long-Range Volley
PSG are a whopping 19 points clear atop the Ligue 1 table, thanks to Zlatan kinda yawning his way into thunderbolts like this....
Doug McDermott Is Probably Still Looking For Reggie Jackson
The Bulls and the Pistons played a Kevin Costner movie of a basketball game last night in Chicago. Detroit finally beat the Bulls in 4OT, 147-144, and Jimmy Butler even had a clear shot to take it to five, but he clanked it. Reggie Jackson had 13 in the final overtime, but he also sent Doug McDermot...
The Anatomy Of A Bogus Soccer Rumor, Starring Wayne Rooney
As any sports fan knows, rumors of trades, signings, suspensions, and lineup changes—almost always vaguely attributed to sources—dominate sports media reporting, and therefore our conversations about sports. (Perhaps the causal arrow points in the other direction?) But what the American sports fan m...
Spoiler-Free Lines From <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i>, Ranked
13. “We’ve got company.” ...