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Breaking The 100-Chicken-Wing Barrier, And More Of Your Overeating Stories
On Friday, we asked you to share your sordid tales of gluttony. What’s the most you’ve ever overeaten, and what were the consequences? You told us so many, all of them gross in their own unique ways, and if there’s a lesson to be learned from them, it’s that you should never, ever, ever agree to a r...
So, 3-On-3 Overtime Is Pretty Fun, Huh?
Along with coach’s challenges, the most noticeable new wrinkle in the NHL this season is the debut of 3-on-3 overtimes meant to decrease the number of games that go to a shootout. We saw its regular-season debut in last night’s 3-2 Lightning win over the Flyers, and it looked a lot like it did in it...
Tell Us Your Most Regrettable Tales Of Overeating
Yesterday in Deadspin Slack, the staff swapped stories of gluttony and woe. What’s the most you’ve ever eaten in one sitting, and how destructive was the aftermath? A few examples:...
How To Fix Your TV If You Couldn't See The Timeouts On <i>Monday Night Football</i>
A lot of people complained last night that ESPN’s new, flashy graphics system for Monday Night Football no longer showed how many timeouts each team had remaining. That’s not true! As you can see above, the timeouts are clearly displayed beneath each team’s logo. If you couldn’t see those, then your...
How To Deal With A Hangover At Work
When you’re drinking on a weeknight, you never think you’re going to drink to the point of having a horrid hangover the next day. So, you agree to happy hour... with the promise to yourself that you’ll only drink a very responsible two drinks and then leave the bar. After your third, you swear you’l...
How Do We Fix The Preseason?
It’s official: Packers top receiver Jordy Nelson will miss the entire 2015 season with a torn ACL suffered on the sixth play in Sunday’s preseason game. Injuries, by and large, are freak things, and there’s no way to absolutely prevent them. But their volume could be reduced so simply: give them few...
16 Great Ryan Adams Covers
The recent news that Ryan Adams is covering the entirety of Taylor Swift’s 1989 inspired me to make a giant list of other albums he should probably cover. But he’s already way ahead of me. His version of Oasis’s “Wonderwall” is legendary; recently, he finally came full circle and did Bryan Adams’ “S...
League One Team Accidentally Scores, Allows Opponent To Score On Them
That’s the manager of Doncaster Rovers explaining why his team intentionally allowed a player from the opposing team to dribble down the field and score. ...
A List of Albums Ryan Adams Should Probably Cover
Ryan Adams is covering Taylor Swift’s 1989. The whole thing. I love that he’s doing this. I also love that he’s a huge, loveable weirdo who likes a wide variety of music across different genres, and makes a wide variety of music across different genres. Remember when in he put out something like 11 ...
NBA Likely To Adjust Playoff Seeding, Won't Prevent Hack-A-Shaq
With everybody in the basketball world in Las Vegas for the Summer League, the NBA held meetings of both its competition committee and Board of Governors, and afterwards commissioner Adam Silver answered questions from the media. There were no bombshells, just a number of small but interesting chang...
NHL Approves 3-on-3 Overtime, Will Explore Expansion
As expected, the NHL’s Board of Governors officially approved the GMs’ recommendation to move to a 3-on-3 format for overtime. This is going to mean a lot more winners, and more importantly, a lot fewer shootouts....
Angry Softball Man Leaves Insane Voicemail After Being Moved To Outfield
This voicemail recording comes to us from a reader who got himself involved in some drama at a recreational softball game. According to our tipster, he received this voicemail from a teammate after asking said teammate to move from third base to outfield after committing a bunch of errors....
Blackhawks Even Series With Antoine Vermette Goal In Double Overtime
The Western Conference Final is tied 2-2 after a double overtime thriller that came to an end when Chicago’s Antoine Vermette found the net to give the Blackhawks a 5-4 win....
Katie Nolan Devastates Co-Worker's Horrible Blog On <i>Garbage Time</i>
Fox Sports personality and Garbage Time host Katie Nolan was among the first to call bullshit on this “How To Land A Husband At The Masters” post that appeared on co-worker Clay Travis’s Fox-owned Outkick The Coverage blog when it popped up last week. That the outspoken and generally awesome Nolan ...
11 Things Longer Than Last Night's Sox-Yanks Game But That Felt Shorter
Last night’s offensively-, technologically-, and spermatozoaically-deficient 19-inning Red Sox-Yankees game officially clocked in at 6:49, but in reality the broadcast with festivities, anthems, et cetera lasted around seven hours. For viewers, though, the slogging despair of watching the longest R...
This Is What Pioneers Wear
The runner in the photo above with very little skin showing is Fatma El Sharnouby, representing Egypt at the World Cross Country Meet, held March 28, 2015, in Guiyang, China. She was Egypt's only entrant in the junior women's race, and was 95th out of 97 finishers. El Sharnouby's IAAF profile lists ...
Quick, Drink This Great Kosher Beer Before Passover Starts!
Were your parents the sort of filthy liars who encouraged you to believe you could accomplish anything you wanted in life? Mine were not. They were pleasant realists who offered vague philosophical support for my larger hopes and dreams, but mainly wished my penmanship would improve enough to help...
Milan Lucic Scores Controversial "Kicked" Goal
The above play by Boston's Milan Lucic was ruled no goal on the ice, as the referees determined that Lucic kicked the puck into the back of the net. But upon video replay that ruling was overturned, as it was ruled there was no "distinct" kicking motion from Lucic. NHL rules say that a goal should...
Failure To Pay Office Pool Winnings Leads To Sad, Overwrought Email
This overwrought email, sent by the winner of a March Madness office pool to the irresponsible pool administrator who was dragging his or her feet with payouts, comes to us from a tipster who tells us that he dusts it off every March for a good chuckle. We don't blame him....
Please Get Your Talk About "Overthinking" Out Of Trevor Bauer's Face
Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer is fairly active on Twitter, and fans who tweet questions at him often get responses. Yesterday, one fan asked Bauer what he probably thought was a pretty innocent question until he got an eight-tweet rant in response. ...