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United States Wins Medal Count, Is The Best Country Ever At Sports

Well, it's official—the United States is the best country at a collection of regular sports and a whole bunch of random weirdo sports, as determined by an international competition staged every four years. America won both the gold (46) and overall (104) medal counts. These colors do not bleed, Chi...

Watch Some Poor Sap Miss A Wide Open Goal Twice

We can argue for days about what miss is "the worst miss ever." This one is on the list. It is so terribly unthinkable, in fact, that the play-by-play man believed the sure thing goal was waived off for some reason, perhaps offsides....

Team USA Wins Basketball Gold, Beats Spain, Gets Mike Krzyzewski To Do Something He's Never Done Before

Gold for the 2012 Dream Team proved to be a bit more elusive than expected, as foul trouble and a pesky Spanish team led to a 107-100 win, one locked up by a clever Chris Paul drive that led to coach Mike Krzyzewski leaping into the air as if he'd just purchased a Toyota. He's stepping down after...

Mark Sanchez Confidence Report

As training camp continues, so does the most important quarterback controversy in the 6,000 year history of the world. We will haphazardly monitor the progress of the Mark Sanchez-Tim Tebow competition....

Russia Accuses Olympic Boxing Of Shadiness

At this point, boxing couldn't even beat its rap as a sham if it paid off every person who ever thought about boxing. Things are especially bad for your sport, though, when the Russians are accusing you of being below board. That's exactly what Russian sports minister, Vitaly Mutko has said about th...

Ryan Hall Pulled Up Lame In The Men's Marathon

"Sure, God made the universe," Jake Mooney noted in this space back before the Olympics started, "but can he coach an American marathoner to Olympic gold?"...

Talk About The USA's Possible Impending Loss Of Sovereignty To Spain Here

That's how it works, right? Going into the third, Team USA is up one and looking vulnerable. If you can tear your eyes away long enough to yak, let's do so. Ooh, hard foul from Rudy Fernandez! Get that shit out of here....

South Korean Soccer Player Did Not Receive His Medal Because Of Politics

Park Jong-soo played all 90 minutes in South Korea's 2-0 win over Japan in Friday's bronze medal game. As he walked off the field he held up the sign you see, which apparently reads "Dokdo is our territory." The reference is to a group of islands between South Korea and Japan in waters (the Sea of ...

At the half, Team USA is only up one against Spain in the gold medal game. ¡Que malo!...

Your Daily Olympic Schedule: August 12 - Day 17

In effort to save you the time that it takes to both find and decipher the NBC Olympics schedule while trying to figure out which events are even worth watching, we've created our own (better) daily schedule of Olympic events. All events are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (no math) at the time tha...

Is Ian Thorpe Gay?

Maybe, sort of:...

NBC Confuses Jesse Eisenberg For The Guy He Played In A Movie

Actor Jesse Eisenberg played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a movie. He must have done a really good job, because it seems lots of people think he really is Mark Zuckerberg. ...

Bill Simmons Has A Pretty Good Seat For Today's U.S.A.-Spain Gold Medal Game

Bill Simmons appears to be unimpressed by what he's seeing. Maybe he'll tweet about it! (He'll definitely tweet about it.)...

Little League Team Advances To World Series On Sketchy Third-Base Appeal

The team from Petaluma, California advanced to the Little League World Series last night after escaping from a sixth-inning rally by their Nanakuli, Hawaii opponents with an appeal to third base that a Hawaiian runner missed the bag. The score was 7-6 Petaluma at the time, with the Northern Calif...

Today In Metta World Peace Will "Portray A Gregarious And Overtly Sexual Vampire Elder" News

You ever wake up earlier than usual, check your phone to see what time it is and see that you have new emails waiting for you? You obviously check it because, well, what if there was something cool in one of those new emails. Most of the time it's just something stupid and you go back to sleep kind...

Chad Johnson Remains In Jail, Might Be There Until Tomorrow Morning [UPDATE: He'll Be Out Soon]

Chad Johnson was booked into Broward County Jail last night after being arrested on charges he head-butted new wife Evelyn Lozada after an argument over a receipt for a box of condoms....

Chad Johnson Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges [UPDATE]

The Dolphins' Chad Johnson was arrested tonight on domestic violence charges, according to the Sun-Sentinel....

It Sounds Like Braves Broadcaster Joe Simpson Wants To Beat Up Someone On Twitter

A Joe Simpson was arrested earlier this week for DUI. A Joe Simpson is the color analyst for Atlanta Braves games on SportSouth. These are different people, albeit both celebrities in some way. It seems an individual on Twitter mixed the two up, taking the Hollywood Joe Simpson's offense and attac...

Deadspin Up All Night: Let's Get A Bottle And Drink Alone Tonight

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We will see you tomorrow when we resume talkin' sports and hatin' on Allyson Felix....

NBA Cancels Charity Basketball Game At The Last Minute

A day before a charity pick up game organized by former Sacramento King Donte Green was set to be played, the NBA cancelled the event. The game, called The Goon Squad Classic, had sold over 1,000 tickets to fans, like Monica Topete, who were treated to quite a surprise when they showed up....