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A Whole Lot Of Leeds And Eintracht Frankfurt Fans Beat Up On Each Other
It’s that time of the year again, when Europe’s teams have commenced their preseason programs to prepare for the upcoming campaign. Fans, too, are using their teams’ friendlies to tune up their brawling skills, as we witnessed yesterday when Leeds United and Eintracht Frankfurt fans got to scrapping...
Titans Sign Marcus Mariota
The Titans have agreed to terms with QB Marcus Mariota. At issue was offset language, which would have had Tennessee on the hook for money if Mariota didn’t play out his full rookie deal. In the end, they settled on “partial offsets.” Compromise!...
Aaron Nola Gives Up First Career Home Run To Opposing Pitcher
The baseball season is 162 games long and every possible number is tracked, leading to quirky statistical anomalies. These aren’t particularly insightful or important but they’re fun, and part of what make baseball, baseball. ...
Report: Cleveland Browns Still A Huge Mess
The Browns are bad and hilarious, and it sure looks like they will never stop being that way. The latest report on the team’s persistent, ingrained dysfunction comes from ESPN reporter Tony Grossi, and it reveals that GM Ray Farmer’s practice of texting members of the coaching staff during games was...
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Tennessee Titans
Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. ...
Canada Wins Gold In Women's Basketball But Who Cares
Canada, the moose-humping failed state to the north, won gold in women’s basketball at the Pan Am Games after beating the United States 81-73 Monday night. Whatever, hosers....
Why Only Two Cities Submitted Bids For NHL Expansion Teams
Prospective ownership groups from Las Vegas and Quebec City were the only two to submit formal bids for NHL expansion teams by last night’s deadline. There was no anticipated bid for a second Toronto-area team, and even more surprisingly, nothing from Seattle....
Report: Titans WR Justin Hunter Arrested For July 4th Weekend Assault
WTKR in Hampton Roads, Va. reports that Titans wide receiver Justin Hunter turned himself in to authorities today and was arrested for his role in a “large” July 3 fight at Sandbar Raw Bar in Virginia Beach. At least one person involved went to the hospital. According to the Virginia Beach City Jail...
Phil Jackson Has No Problem Dumping On Ex-Knicks
Do you wish you were a fly on the wall of the New York Knicks’ basura 2014-15 season? Of course not, but Charley Rosen was, and he’s filing dispatches to ESPN from the one day each month he spent with Phil Jackson during the course of it. He’s now up to January 10, four days after the Knicks traded ...
Zach Johnson Wins British Open After Three-Way Playoff
Zach Johnson claimed his second career major today at St. Andrews after dispatching Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman in a four-hole playoff to claim the Open Championship....
Alcides Escobar Really Threw The Dick Off The Ball Yesterday
During yesterday’s rain delay at the scheduled Angels-Red Sox game, ESPN threw to a live version of SportsCenter, which is always fun for the chaos a live, highly produced news show always produces. But instead of bad jokes and dead air, the show was basically just a bunch of Alcides Escobar highlig...
This Guy Is A Big Roman Reigns Fan
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Amateur Leads At The Open After Three Rounds For First Time Since 1927
Former UAB golfer Paul Dunne shot a 6-under 66 at St. Andrews on Sunday, putting him at 12-under for the tournament and tied for the lead after 54 holes, the first time an amateur has led The Open at St. Andrews after three rounds since Bobby Jones in 1927. ...
It's Not A World Surf League Event Until A Shark Shows Up
Good morning! Competition in the J-Bay Open has been suspended until....when exactly?...
Take That, Cuba!
Clint Dempsey put the U.S. up 1-0 on a defection-ravaged Cuban team in the fourth minute of today’s Gold Cup quarterfinal in Baltimore. ...
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Did ESPN President John Skipper Play Dewey On <i>Malcolm In The Middle</i>?
Watch this video and be the judge....
Bird Bad
A raven, or possibly some disguised trickster god, made a run at Henrik Stenson’s tee shot on 14 at the British Open today. It failed to either swallow the ball or pick it up and drop it directly into the hole:...
Bruins Rookie Jake DeBrusk Is Already Showing Off
The Bruins’ 14th overall draft pick Jake DeBrusk is already getting notice for his skills in development camp. The 18-year-old winger pulled off an impressive behind-the-back flick on goalie Zane McIntyre today....