pool - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

The Open keeps prize money at $17MThe Open Championship prize pool will remain at $17 million this week, the first time in 13 years the R&A has not increased the purse.,Sunday's winner at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland will earn $3.1 million, the same amount Xander Schauffele took home last year at Royal Troon in Scotland.,The r...

Pool Player Naoyuki Oi Is The Best InterviewNaoyuki Oi is crushing it at this weekend’s World Pool Masters, both on the table and in the post-match interviews with Sky Sports....

The Rio Diving Pool, Which Is Still Green And Smells Like Farts, Is Closed This Morning (UPDATE)On Wednesday a Rio spokesman said the green diving pool, “should go back to classic blue colour during the day.” On Friday the still-green diving pool—set to host the women’s three meter springboard prelims in fewer than four hours—was closed:...

Hustler's Handbook

Here's Pat Jordan's 1971 Sports Illustrated pool room story, "A Clutch of Odd Birds." It's the kind of piece you don't see much these days and worth a read. ...

A Clutch of Odd Birds

Here's Pat Jordan's 1971 Sports Illustrated pool room story, "A Clutch of Odd Birds":...

Dodgers Clinch NL West, Celebrate By Swimming In D-Backs' Pool

It was revealed earlier in the week that the Diamondbacks politely requested, should Los Angeles clinch in Arizona, that the Dodgers not bring the celebration back onto the field after popping the light beers in the locker room. So, when L.A. clinched tonight, they came back out and went swimming ...

You Must Be 18 To Play

I found this at a thrift store in South Carolina. How could I pass it up? (And yeah, the photo is blurry which only adds to its appeal.)...

Even When You're Just Showin' Off

latest

Still Diggin': Welcome To The Stacks

I don't consider myself a backward-looking person by nature but I've always been fascinated with 20th Century American pop culture. Ever since I was a kid I've been curious about painters and musicians, actors, playwrights and athletes. It started as a way to connect with my father and his family. ...

by Alex Belth|Pat Jordan

|Wed Apr 24 2013

"Team Obama Loses Early Wicket": The Romney-Obama Debate Was Like Every Sport Conceivable, According To Internet

The debate Wednesday could be compared to many things—a slow dance in which the partners are holding potato peelers to each other's throats, perhaps, or a restaurant in which you, the diner, get to watch a prep cook slow-spit on your burger before it's served—but of course everyone immediately turne...

by Sam Eifling|Metaphors

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Gilbert Arenas's $1 Million Pool Is Nicer Than Yours

And by yours I mean the condo complex you sneak into every weekend because the girls are better looking than the apartment where you live. Meanwhile Agent Zero is constructing his own Xanadu replete with mountain and three acquariums. D.C. Sports Bog brings us the further details on the pool. Along...

by Clay Travis|Nba

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Was 'Barry' Obama also on the guest list for Jose Canseco's most famous pool party?...

by Ēl Bunchö!|Jose

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Introducing The Deadspin Book Club

We love books. Books are fun. They're so full of booky goodness. And because we don't have time to read and write about every sports book, we've corralled three regular Deadspinners to inaugurate the Deadspin Book Club, discussions of current sports books. Your panelists are Unsilent Majority, Signa...

by Leitch|Deadspin Book Club

|Tue Jun 18 2013

home › tag › pool