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How The NHL Fit Into Whitey Bulger's Underworld Empire
James "Whitey" Bulger, formerly one of the country's most wanted fugitives, was convicted this afternoon by a Boston jury on multiple counts of racketeering and conspiracy in connection with 11 gangland-style murders dating back to the 1970s. He will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. But ...
Terry Southern on Stanley Kubrick
Everything You Always Wanted To Stop Worrying About The Bomb over at Cinephilia and Beyond including these two notable items by screenwriter Terry Southern:...
The Cinderella Man
From the cool-ass site—of two cool-ass books—please enjoy Damon Runyon's 1935 column, "The Cinderella Man":...
Gentling Cheatgrass
Dig—Sterry Butcher's 2010 Texas Monthly story, "Gentling Cheatgrass":...
Leaked Memo: Bleacher Report's Top Eight Ways To Not Piss Off The UFC
A tipster passes along the following email sent around to Bleacher Report's MMA writers last year. It was written by Jeremy Botter, a lead MMA writer for B/R who also covers the fights for the Houston Chronicle. There is some good advice here (don't publish random bullshit!) and some weird advice he...
Adam Jones Says A Giants Fan Threw A Banana At Him
Orioles outfielder Adam Jones took to Twitter after yesterday's 10-2 win in San Francisco to complain about a fan tossing a banana onto the field. The Giants say they have no record of the incident....
Footage From Infamous Unreleased Film <em>The Day The Clown Cried</em> Leaked
The Holy Grail for film fans emerged, unexpectedly, on YouTube tonight as nearly seven minutes of footage from Jerry Lewis's unrelased Nazi clown film The Day The Clown Cried found way to the video sharing website....
J.J. Putz Gets Interrupted By "Kickstart My Heart," Spikes Ball
Theories confirmed by this clip of J.J. Putz spiking the ball after his warm-up is interrupted by a little Mötley Crüe include a) It is never not funny to see pitchers fail to deliver the ball home and b) Baseball announcers don't really love the Crüe....
Dirtbike Rider Encounters Rude Ram That Charges At Him
This dirtbiker was cruising along until he found a ram camped out in the middle of the track. The ram didn't appreciate the dirtbiker trying to pass by, so it ran at him a few times. "Yakety Sax" was also involved....
Thinking of Elmore
Elmore Leonard, 87, had a stroke earlier this week. "He's doing better every day, and the family is guardedly optimistic," said Gregg Sutter, Leonard's longtime researcher. ...
Four Former Vanderbilt Football Players Charged With Rape
Some details of the sex crimes investigation that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players in June have been released, and the four players linked to the investigation have been charged. Brandon Vandenburg, Brandon Banks, JaBorian McKenzie, and Cory Batey have each been charged with ...
I Have Skidmarks! What To Do?
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....
Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Baltimore Ravens
Some people are fans of the Baltimore Ravens. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Baltimore Ravens. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....
Subtle As A Boomsaw: <em>Elysium,</em> Reviewed.
1. Elysium, like writer-director Neill Blomkamp's much-loved first film District 9, is very concerned with making you understand that it is about something. I wasn't as big a fan of District 9 as most were—it felt like a great idea for a short film, which it was, stretched out to feature length—but ...
Hockey Player Serves Ice Cream To Rob Ford. Rob Ford Is Pleased.
Look at how excited he is!...
Doug Gilmour Traded Away His Son
NHL Hall of Famer Doug Gilmour is the GM of the OHL's Kingston Frontenacs, and last year spent an eighth-round pick on his son Jake. The Gilmour genes only bought Jake a year—yesterday, Doug sent his son packing for basically nothing....
What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like?
Nate Silver's ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. ...
Brain Damage May Have Played Role In Death Of Former Quarterback
In May, former Division II football star and Ravens quarterback Cullen Finnerty was found dead in the Michigan woods near his family's fishing cottage. At the time, Finnerty's cause of death was not apparent, but an autopsy has revealed that Finnerty died of pneumonia, and that chronic brain damage ...
Breakfast of Champions: Showtime
Found, sitting on a table at Monroe Street Books in Vermont, just outside of Middlebury (one of my favorite places in the world). ...
Why Pop Culture Gets Under Our Skin
There are pieces of pop culture—songs, plays, movies—that touch us in ways that get inside of us and don't let go. Taxi Driver, The Graduate, or even Lost in Translation, are movies that stir something deep inside people. I liked Lost in Translation well enough but it is one of my wife's favorite mo...