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<i>The Blind Side</i> Lady Shares A Heartwarming Racial Profiling Story
Leigh Anne Tuohy is best known for being portrayed by Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, a movie depicting the real-life story of how Tuohy and her husband adopted NFL tackle Michael Oher when he was a homeless teenager. The movie ostensibly taught us a lot of Important Lessons about race and the A...
Blue Moon's Winter Beer Is A Fine Gateway Drug, As Usual
For all the inroads American craft beer has made in the past decade, the 10 best-selling domestic brewskis are all still owned by either Anheuser-Busch InBev or SABMiller. The two-headed, yellow-fizz-pissing monster achieves this market dominance through the traditional means of aggressive advertisi...
Wofford Upsets N.C. State After Wiped-Away Buzzer-Beater
The Wofford Terriers beat North Carolina State today for the first time in 80 years after a buzzer-beater from Trevor Lacey was wiped off the board following video review....
Will Bynum Had To Tape A Piece Of Paper To His Jersey In China Debut
Will Bynum played his first game in China on Friday night, but his jersey didn't. Instead, in the absence of team-official gear, Bynum stuck this piece of paper to his back. ...
How CBS And The NFL Teamed Up To Screw <em>Wheel Of Fortune</em> And <em>Jeopardy!</em>
In January, CBS acquired the rights to air NFL Network's Thursday Night Football through the first half of the season. That slate turned out to be some of the shittiest professional football ever put on television, and it was a financial catastrophe for the Tiffany network. But prime-time nation...
Dan Patrick's Session Beer For Bros Will Fill Up Your Passion Bucket
Last year Red Hook teamed up with television and radio personality Dan Patrick to produce Audible Ale, which they proudly trumpet as "the ultimate craft beer for watching sports." What confers this ultamism? The marketing material suggests it's derived primarily from Audible's "crushable" status, ...
More Proof That Anheuser-Busch Hates You, Me, And Nature's Finest Fruit
Apples are the best fruit, because in addition to being delicious, they are also versatile. Apples can be juiced, pied, carameled, candied, fermented, distilled, cidered, crisped, jacked, brown bettied!, eaten plain without a fuss like you're some kind of goddamn health monster determined to live ...
Jadeveon Clowney Out Nine Months After Microfracture Knee Surgery
Houston Texans 2014 number one overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney will be out for approximately nine months after undergoing microfracture knee surgery yesterday, according to Adam Schefter. Professional athletes undergoing microfracture knee surgery have had mixed results, with some (Marques Colst...
BBWAA Recommends Increasing Hall Of Fame Ballot Limit To 12 Players
The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted today to recommend to increase the number of players they can vote for on their Hall-of-Fame ballots from 10 to 12. The non-binding, band-aid half-measure passed "overwhelmingly."...
TCU Got Screwed, And That's The Point
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering LeBron and Kate, toilet coffee, jar monkeys, and more....
Dogfish 120 Minute IPA Is America's Classiest One-Beer Buzz
I've been drinking irresponsibly lately, by which I mean all of the usual things, but also that I've been forgetting to use the stupid notebook in which I differentiate between beers with "strong grapefruit character" and those that merely display "pronounced citrus notes." I draw little trees next ...
Say Goodbye To <i>Sons Of Anarchy</i> And Its Lousy Soundtrack
One of the great benefits of watching pre-recorded television is that you can fast-forward through terrible theme songs, specifically "This Life," the atrocious roots-rock theme to the FX biker drama Sons of Anarchy. (There's an even worse Celt-ified version from the season partly set in Northern ...
Here's An Underrated IPA From A Properly Rated State
New Hampshire is often overlooked by my fellow Massachusettsian beer-drinkers and life-lovers, and this is a shame. All we tend to know about the Granite (or Marble?) State is that there's no sales tax but high property tax (or perhaps vice versa), and it's got either a nice, long coastline or, if t...
Video: Art Briles Confronts Bob Bowlsby Over Big 12 "Co-Champs" Snub
Reader Alex L. sends along video he shot of Baylor coach Art Briles confronting Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby following the Bears' win over Kansas State on Friday. Briles said he was angry at the conference's insistence on co-champions—something he (accurately) predicted would strand Baylor on t...
Alabama, Oregon, FSU, And Ohio State Make College Football Playoff
Your college football playoff selections are here, and Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, and Ohio State will face off to decide this season's national champion....
High Schoolers Don't Realize Blocked FG Is Live, Lose State Semifinal
Last night Monacan High School's football team found out that defeat is even more agonizing when it is self-imposed. They took on regional powerhouse Lake Taylor High School away for the Virginia 4A South Region title, with the winner advancing to the state championship game....
Buster Olney Is Fed Up With Hall Of Fame Voting
In his (paywalled) column today, ESPN's Buster Olney declares that he will not cast a ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame this year, nor any year going forward until the voting process's glaring flaws are fixed....
This Kansas City Beer Bravely Triumphs Over Its Hippie-Trash Name
My wife and I got stuck in traffic on the way back from Western Massachusetts Sunday afternoon, which almost prevented us from seeing kickoff of the Patriots' 21-26 victory over those lucky (and terrifyingly good) Packers. But rather than risk missing the beginning of the game—or the whole game, or ...