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Ray-Ray McCloud Boner Costs Clemson Touchdown<em></em>

Ray-Ray McCloud’s 74-yard punt return went to waste after the Clemson returner dropped the football prior to crossing the goal line, handing possession back over to Troy with a touchback....

Popular Soccer Stats Twitter Account Tweets A Butthole Instead Of Soccer Stats [NSFW]

Squawka is a very popular soccer statistics website, boasting some 370K Facebook fans and 592K Twitter followers. Most readers expect geeky soccer analysis and statistical breakdowns of, say, how the Bayern Munich midfield passed to each other. What they didn’t expect was an extreme close up of a bu...

Roger Goodell On Colin Kaepernick: I Love The Troops!

Today, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem....

Murray St. Forced To Start At 1-Yard-Line After Official Hallucinates Fair Catch Call On Kickoff

Murray State’s day is bad enough as they get walloped by the Illini, but it didn’t help that officials declared the Racers called for a fair catch on a kickoff early in the fourth quarter—at the one yard line....

ESPN Hot Mic Catches Someone Blathering About Chicago

“CHICAGO!? You can’t talk about Chicago like that! You can talk about Northwestern if you want.”...

Western Kentucky Was A Little Too Excited For The Season To Begin

We worked all summer for this. Just do what you’re supposed to and your teammates will take care of the rest. Now let’s go out there and—ah, fuck!...

Work On That Sideline, Bud

The easiest shape to draw is a straight line, and yet, look at this shit....

Andy Murray Is Unfazed By Loud-Ass Rain

Tennis is typically a sport of silent courts, but rain battered the newly retractable roof of Arthur Ashe Stadium today, drumming up a dull roar over a second-round U.S. Open match between Marcel Granollers and Andy Murray....

That's Not How You Throw A Football

Washington travelled down to Tampa Bay during a goddamn tropical storm to play their fourth and final preseason game. The storm has forced evacuations, but if there’s one thing we know about football, it’s that it never sleeps. The game was moved up a day, to avoid the worst of the storm, and yet co...

Hell Exists And It's Getting Your Hair Cut While Skip Bayless Yells At You

The Los Angeles Times’ Lance Pugmire talked to old friend Skip Bayless and wrote about his preparation for the premiere of Second Take, which will begin airing on Sept. 6 and, if patterns hold, will stop drawing viewers about a week later when everyone is finished rubber-necking. Skip has already pr...

Deadspin 25: Baker Mayfield Is A Gift, And The Sooners Are Going To Be Really Good

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Defending Gold Medalist Diver Scores A Perfect Zero

Ilia Zakharov won the gold medal in the 3m springboard event at the 2012 Olympics. He made it all the way to the semi-finals at this year’s games, and that’s where his quest to win back-to-back golds went very wrong....

Malaysian Diver Executes Flawless Belly Flop

In the prelims of the men’s 3m springboard, Ahmad Amsyar Azman tried to do a dive that, presumably, was not meant to end in a belly flop. Despite his best efforts, it ended in a belly flop....

Does This Minneapolis TV Station Know How Many Games Are In An NFL Season?

Minneapolis NBC station KARE ran a live poll last night asking viewers to opine how they thought the Vikings’ season would end up. Options ranged from “0-12" to “6-6" to “Super Bowl”:...

No, BBC, That Is Not A Cake

The Yankees held a storm-shortened ceremony last night before pushing A-Rod out the door, and as the heavens opened up they thrust a base into his arms that had been signed by Rodriguez’s teammates. A-Rod’s retirement being a major international sports story, it earned coverage from the likes of the...

Olympic Officials Apologize For Using Knock-Off Chinese Flags In Medal Ceremony

After Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics over Du Li and Yi Siling of China, Olympic officials raised incorrect Chinese flags to the rafter during the medal ceremony. See those flags up there? Notice any differences between them and the real Chinese flag below? ...

I've Always Wanted To Visit "Coloradao"

As tipster Michael points out, that is not how you spell Colorado. Here are some since-deleted tweets from Colorado State recruits....

Soccer Has Made It In America

The Bicycle Cops At The RNC Ride Their Bikes Like A Bunch Of Dumbass Jamokes

The Republican National Convention has been marked by weirdo demonstrators, Alex Jones squawking, desperate brand exercises, and hundreds of bike cops. Meanwhile, RNC-attending sources tell Deadspin that the city is overrun with bike-mounted officers who ride like herbs. ...

Twitter Prankster Fools Sky Sports Into Reading Made Up Facts About Team From Gibraltar

Yesterday afternoon, Celtic lost a 1-0 stunner in Champions League qualifying to the Lincoln Red Imps, who are a semi-professional team from Gibraltar. A police officer scored the lone goal, and Celtic now have to win at home to avoid getting bounced by the best team from a country of 30,000....