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Bill Simmons Is Just Maxin' And Relaxin' On His Instagram Account
It's been nine days since ESPN suspended Bill Simmons for going on a mildly profane and not-at-all edgy rant about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. So what's Simmons been up to since then? Based on his Instagram account (which he is apparently not banned from using, unlike his Twitter account), it ...

Let's All Get Very Intimate With Bruce Bochy In Extreme Slow Motion
It's best in high definition!...

Jose Bautista Sons Hack Columnist On Twitter
Toronto Sun sports columnist Steve Simmons is known as a bit of a curmudgeon and a troll in the world of Canadian sports media, so a lot of people will be happy to learn that he got his ass handed to him by Blue Jays star Jose Bautista on Twitter today....

MLB.com Runs "Royals Lose" Game Story
Live on MLB.com in the minutes immediately following the Royals' incredible extra-inning win was a version of the game story written in the ninth inning. In this version, which you can read below, the A's hung on to win and advance. ...

ESPN's Andrew Brandt Really Needs A New Twitter Joke
A thing that happens quite often on Twitter is that people will tweet out pictures of strange foods, usually because those foods are grotesque in size or construction, and thus there is a need to gawk at them. This is a communal exercise, involving various Twitter users retweeting pictures of the fo...

Browns Fans Allegedly Ditched Kids At Home To Tailgate Game
Police cited three Maple Heights, Ohio, parents for child endangering after they left their five children at home while the adult went to tailgate the Sept. 21 Ravens-Browns game. The kids were all between 7 and 10 years old. ...
![That ESPN Domestic Violence Panel You Keep Hearing About Isn't Real [Updates]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/jrmtwawnfg6prnrxecyw.jpg)
That ESPN Domestic Violence Panel You Keep Hearing About Isn't Real [Updates]
On Friday, Esquire.com's Ben Collins wrote a blog post in which some awkward phrasing made it appear as though tonight's episode of Monday Night Countdown on ESPN will feature a special panel discussion on domestic violence....

Local TV Tries To Cover Shellshock Bug, Fails Miserably
With news breaking yesterday of a potentially catastrophic bug in the Bash shell since dubbed "Shellshock," media outlets rushed to breathlessly tell viewers about their newly hackable Apple computers. In that rush, they almost universally got the facts wrong....

The Sports Guy Vs. ESPN: How Bill Simmons Lost Bristol
It was, he would later tell a confidant, like something out of The Godfather. Bill Simmons was meeting with two of the most powerful executives at ESPN, John Skipper and John Walsh, in a conference room in ESPN’s then-unfinished Los Angeles office hard by the Staples Center. Within three years, thi...

We Now Go Live To Hunter Pence's Dirty, Dirty Mouth
CSN Bay Area brought San Francisco fans the breadth of celebration live from the Giants' clubhouse tonight as they claimed a spot in the postseason. Part of that coverage was an extremely foul-mouthed, and unbleeped, speech by Hunter Pence....

How Do Other Notable ESPN Suspensions Compare With Bill Simmons's?
ESPN dropped a three-week suspension TV personality and Grantland honcho Bill Simmons last night, somehow working that large stick even deeper into its collective anus. How does Simmons's punishment compare with other notable suspensions handed down by the ever-suspension-happy ESPN in the past?...

The Problem With Peter King
Let’s begin with Peter King on Twitter last night. If you hate-follow poor Peter on Twitter, as I do, you know that his stream consists largely of mangled replies and random compliments to entire towns—Helluva main street you got there, Hanover, New Hampshire!—and last night was no different. The S...

That Awesome Trick Play To Johnny Manziel Was Illegal, It Turns Out
If there was a theme to Week 3, it was quarterbacks catching passes. Andy Dalton's first career reception went for a touchdown. Russell Wilson nearly scored one of his own. But the coolest and sneakiest of the afternoon's unorthodox grabs nearly went to the Browns and Johnny Manziel, with a trick ...

Brian Hartline Flagged For Golfing Touchdown Celebration
Dolphins receiver Brian Hartline's invisible putt after his touchdown was rather funny. The officials didn't appreciate his creativity, though, flagging the Dolphins for use of a non-football sport in a football game. (OK, it was actually for unsportsmanlike conduct.)...

This Browns Fan Is Living The Dream
We love fans, and we love Browns fans, because even the most minor of on-field successes can prompt a reaction of pure and unadulterated joy, as exhibited by this emotional supporter in Cleveland....

Ray Lewis: "Some Things You Can Cover Up ... Some Things You Can't"
ESPN let Ray Lewis talk about Ray Rice on NFL Countdown again, for some reason. I'd say this bit of Lewis's long monologue on the subject was ill-advised and obnoxious, but then again, Lewis is an expert on what can and can't be covered up....

ESPN Showed Jameis Winston Onscreen 48 Times During FSU-Clemson
Viewers of last night's Clemson-Florida State overtime thriller couldn't help but notice how often ESPN's broadcast on ABC showed suspended FSU quarterback Jameis Winston. Indeed, after every big play it felt like the cameras went to Winston to see the Heisman Trophy-winner's reaction. But how much ...

That Stupid Derek Jeter Ad Will Make You Cry For America
On Thursday, The Gatorade Company Inc.—a marketing shop with a secondary concern in the manufacture and distribution of sweetened salt water—released an advertisement featuring Derek Jeter, one of the worst players in baseball....
![Reggie Bush Admits To "Harshly" Disciplining His 1-Year-Old Daughter [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Reggie Bush Admits To "Harshly" Disciplining His 1-Year-Old Daughter [Update]
Lions running back Reggie Bush was a guest on the Boomer and Carton radio show yesterday, and he shared some extremely bad thoughts about Adrian Peterson and corporal punishment....

Will The Elite NFL Media Still Be Stooges After The Ray Rice Scandal?
The longtime agent and I were talking about NFL reporters and professional lapses. I said, "I guess you see lapses—"...