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Your Culturally Insensitive World Cup Goal Roundup For June 16
Day 6 saw a huge upset with the Swiss defeating Spain and Uruguay's Diego Forlan putting two away against an overmatched South Africa. Pretty goals, lucky goals — they're all here to be enhanced with some good old-fashioned cultural insensitivity....
Bristol Man Gets All World Cup On His House’s Ass
The Spoiler has some experience of Knowle West in Bristol, thanks to a few years spent getting loaded on the taxpayer's buck back in the early 1990s. Great times....
Extremely In-Depth Profiles In Courage: Larissa Riquelme (A.K.A. Paraguay Girl) (NSFW)
This is Larissa Riquelme. She's the cell phone-bosomed young woman the internet fell in love with on Monday. Currently, no one is blaming her for the Azzurri tying with Paraguay, but what do we really know about her? Pictures and (some) NSFW profile after the jump....
Tim Donaghy On Game 6: The Refs Get A Night Off
Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, is reviewing the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of Game 6, with video....
The Self-Identified Tiger Woods Babymamas Come Out Of The Woodwork
Devon James now says a 2006 threesome wasn't her first encounter with Woods, and, in fact, he's the father of her nine-year-old son. This is the type of thing she should have mentioned earlier, back when we actually cared. [NYDN]...
Get Dad Something Classy For Once
If the day before Father's Day you can usually be found elbowing your way to the front of a pack of fellow procrastinating schmoes scanning the "Dads" greeting card section in a Rite Aid, let Johnnie Walker help. Click here to order a specially-labeled bottle of Black Label for Dad....
World Cup Open Thread: South Africa-Uruguay
So, these two both played to draws in their respective first games. Uruguay shamed France, but "Bafana Bafana" is really fun to write, so let's root for them....
World Cup Sexy Fans: Legit, Or Viral Marketing?
With news that the scantily-clad Dutch blondes were actually models hired for a publicity stunt by a beer company, we thought it would be instructive to look at some of the other attention-grabbing female fans. Real or fake?...
"Bros Icing Bros" Offs SELLS Itself (UPDATE)
Praise (or blame) Drew Magary for this outcome. UPDATE: VV scoundrel Foster Kamer is reporting that Bros Icing Bros was sold to some place. But not Bro Bible. Yeah. [BrosIcingBros]...
Kill Two Animals With One Stone With This Over-The-Top NBA Gear
I've always wanted a chinchilla coat, with NBA team logos made of crocodile skin, lined with satin. What's that? It's only in XXL? Never mind then. [eBay, via FirstCuts]...
Which World Cup Coach Hit On Jemele Hill?
The sultry Ms. Hill had the moves put on her by a World Cup coach yesterday. She shut him down, but refuses to name the would-be Casanova. We look at the candidates....
Sad Spanish Fan Gives The Universal Gesture For "We Lost To The Freaking Swiss By One Goal"
Switzerland produced the World Cup's first big upset, and this guy produced his middle finger on camera. H/T Adam K....
Your Belated 2010 Hater’s Guide To World Cup
Like many of you, I'm largely indifferent to soccer most of the time. But one thing I'm never indifferent to is an opportunity to gleefully hate 31 lesser nations in the spirit of international competition....
Pobody's Nerfect In Australasia
America doesn't have a monopoly on jingoistic, inaccurate headlines. The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates New Zealand's unlikely draw by labeling them "Australasia." [SMH]...
Mike Ditka Gets Annoyed With Idiocy Of Airplane Passengers On Recent Flight (Video)
Story summary: Flight from Pittsburgh takes off, has mechanical trouble, goes back to runway. Passengers told to wait in seats, but some try to de-plane anyway. Da Coach gets frustrated by their inability to listen to instructions. (H/T: Mike.)...
Last Night's Winner: Game 7 Aficionados
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like those who aren't ready to resign themselves to soccer and the dog days of baseball season. We still have basketball, for a little while longer....
World Cup Open Thread: Spain-Switzerland (RUH-ROH)
Spain goes by The Fury and has an obscenely talented squad. The Swiss ...had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Prediction: Torres gets one in a grinder. FINAL: Switzerland 1, Spain 0....
World Cup Open Thread: Honduras-Chile
Day 6 kicks things off with two of the favorite countries of coup d'etat enthusiasts. Honduras's nickname, Los Catrachos, is based on a mispronunciation of the last name of a general who was the basis of a bizarre Ed Harris movie....
Alexander Ovechkin Is Enjoying His Summer
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Albert Haynesworth Continues To Out-Haynesworth Himself
It seems that the NFL's most well-paid defensive lineman finds playing defensive lineman to be an unreasonable job requirement and wants to be traded—even though his stupidly gargantuan contract makes that impossible....