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Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Jason Garrett Or Mike Smith?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...
Lionel Messi Named The Third-Best Argentine Athlete Of 2012
How was your calendar year, Messi? Oh, not too bad, only the greatest of all time. (I know. He scores too many in the box. He needed more games than Müller. You could net 20 getting fed by Xavi and Iniesta. Whatever, it was amazing and he's amazing.) But great enough to be named the country's best a...
Phil Mickelson Won't Be A Padres Owner, Doesn't Have The Money Time
When the Padres were sold for $800 million, the new ownership group consisted of the family of former Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley, local businessman Ron Fowler, and, among others, hometown hero Phil Mickelson. Except, a weird thing happened. When the deal actually closed, Mickelson's name wasn't on...
James Naismith's Original Rules Of Basket Ball, Ranked
13. "6. A foul is striking at the ball with the fist, violation of Rules 3, 4, and such as described in Rule 5."...
Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Leslie Frazier Or Bill Belichick?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...
Tim Tebow And The Girl He Was Not Humping Are No Longer Not Humping Each Other
This hasn't been the best week for Tim Tebow. His Jets team was eliminated from playoff contention after suffering a humiliating loss on Monday Night Football, he was leapfrogged on the depth chart by third-stringer Greg McElroy, and now he has reportedly split from girlfriend Camilla Belle. Us Wee...
Constitutional Amendments, Ranked
1. Fourteenth 2. Fifth 3. Fourth 4. (tie) Thirteenth 4. (tie) Fifteenth 4. (tie) Nineteenth 7. Ninth 8. First 9. Sixth 10. Eighth 11. Seventh 12. Sixteenth 13. Twenty-fourth 14. Seventeenth 15. Twenty-third 16. Twenty-sixth 17. Twenty-fifth 18. Twenty-seventh 19. (tie) Third 19. (tie) Twentieth 21. ...
Alex Smith Has A Good Shot At Setting An NFL Passing Record This Season
It's been more than a month since Colin Kaepernick became the man in San Francisco. The Niners were 6-2, and Alex Smith's numbers were sparkling—not just for his supposed game-manager image, but up there with anyone in the league. And then Smith took a couple of hard hits in the first half of a game...
More People Watched A Rerun Of <i>NCIS</i> Than Lakers-Knicks: Last Week's TV Ratings, In Context
A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen, Sports Business Journal's John Ourand and @TVSportsRTGS. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all household...
Is Intentionally Missing A Free Throw With A Two-Point Lead And One Second Remaining A Good Idea?
Last night's Boston City League high school rivalry game between East Boston and Madison Park had the unlikeliest of finishes: With the score tied at 40, Madison Park's Johnny Bowden was fouled while attempting a three-pointer with one second remaining. Bowden was awarded three fouls shots, and he ...
The 10 Best Sports Infographics Of 2012
For those who don't really enjoy scrolling through Baseball Reference spreadsheets, there are some great artists and analysts out there constantly developing new ways to elegantly present the data of sports. Below are the 10 best sports infographics/data visualizations from 2012, in approximate orde...
You Need To Read This Oral History Of Fire Joe Morgan
Our pals at The Classical are running a three-part oral history of the late and beloved blog, Fire Joe Morgan. It includes gems such as this:...
Kenneth Faried Topped Off His Big Game Last Night By Vomiting And Scaring Away His Teammates
Kenneth Faried played 29 minutes last night in Denver's win against San Antonio, posting 19 points and 11 rebounds. All well and good. But consider: According to the Denver Post, Faried was sick with a cold and flu. He sat the final seven minutes of the third quarter before re-entering at the star...
WWE's Daniel Bryan Tapping Out To A 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient Is Just As Adorable As It Sounds
Oh, this is great. WWE was in Pittsburgh to tape Raw last night, and before the show Daniel Bryan dropped by the hospital to meet one of his biggest fans, 7-year-old Conner "Stone Crusher" Michalek....
There May Be A Lot Of Empty Seats At Yankee Stadium This Year
Last week, Major League Baseball renewed its partnership with StubHub, making the service the official secondary ticket marketplace of MLB. The New York Yankees are not very happy about this, and have decided to strike out on their own, creating a partnership with Ticketmaster....
ECHL Team Plans "Indoor Winter Classic"
Ah, the Winter Classic, perhaps the NHL's best innovation of the Bettman era. There's something pure about a game played out in the elements—bundled up, plenty of hot cocoa in reserve, the puck occasionally at the mercy of winds, and perhaps, if you're lucky, a light snowfall to add that magical tou...
Christian Ponder And Samantha Steele Got Married
Early September-ish: Vikings QB Christian Ponder meets ESPN blonde lady Samantha Steele at a filming of College GameDay. Despite both having jobs that regularly take them around the country, they found time to start a relationship....
Yes, Jim Lampley's Glasses Have Real Lenses
It's recently become an odd topic of speculation that HBO boxing commentator and occasional bad decision maker Jim Lampley wears glasses on-air that don't have any lenses in them. This speculation, indeed, has come up inside the Deadspin offices. After all, they're so damn clear! There's no glare! ...
Dwight Howard Wanted No Piece Of Gerald Henderson's Absurd Dunk
As one savvy observer pointed out, you actually have to be in the frame in order to be posterized, but Dwight Howard is so disinterested in being a part of the play that Gerald Henderson has a relatively easy time throwing down one of the dunks of the year, one that has clear shades of Griffin-on-...
No Matter How Hilarious It Would Be, Tim Tebow Will Never Play In The Canadian Football League
With Rex Ryan engaged in a hilarious, semi-silent standoff with management over Tim Tebow's playing time, or severe lack thereof, there's been some speculation, idle thus far but growing in volume, that Tim Tebow's last best option for playing professional football, once his underwhelming tenure wit...