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Wave Pool Transforms Into Tsunami Pool, Injures Over 40 PeopleA summer day of floating and chilling at Longjing, China’s Yulong Shuiyun Water Amusement Park earlier this week quickly turned dangerous when an oversized wave unexpectedly slammed through the crowded pool. Video from the park is rather quite scary, as people are launched out of the wave pool onto ...

Is The First Pro Surfing Contest In A Wave Pool The Sport's Future, Or Its Bastardization?LEMOORE, Calif. — Imagine a gymnastics floor routine competition in which athletes are scored on the difficulty, variety, and quality of execution of their maneuvers. Now imagine that the floor itself is in a constant state of change. It may be longer or shorter, harder or softer, weirdly curved, bu...

A Trip To The Only Outdoor Public Pool In Brussels, Which Is In A DumpsterLast year, residents of Philadelphia’s Kensington section created a dumpster pool for their block party. Though the stunt was incredibly cool, the city deemed it incredibly dangerous and forbade the 2400 block of Cedar Street from getting any more block party permits....

Looks Like David Johnson's Feeling Fine

On the Arizona Cardinals’ New Year’s Day season finale win over the Rams, Cardinals running back David Johnson suffered a scary-looking knee injury, later classified as an MCL sprain. Let’s check in on him....

Weak-Ass Bureaucrats To Heroic Philly Citizens: Stop Turning Dumpsters Into Swimming Pools

The wise and proud residents of Cedar Street in Philadelphia, Penn. recently threw themselves a block party. Understanding that the party would be greatly improved by the presence of a swimming pool, they participated in the great American tradition of doing whatever the hell you want. Which is to s...

Pool Bear Is Getting This Summer Started Right

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but summer is here, my friend. It is officially here....

Your Last-Minute Bracket Cheat Sheet: What All The Smart People Say

The "first" "round" of the NCAA tournament is underway, and the deadline for bracket submissions is fast approaching. To help you out with your last-minute picks, we took a look a seven March Madness/college hoops models, and used them to build out seven different "expert brackets."...

1980 ESPN Report About Pool Shark Is Ron Burgundyishly Hilarious

On a slow Christmas news day, WAVY-TV (Hampton Roads, Va.) unearthed this gem from 1980: longtime sports director Bruce Rader's feature on a pool shark who happened to be female. It aired on ESPN, which was just a year old at the time and which in those days would apparently ask local stations for s...

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McKayla Maroney's Meme Knowledge Is...Impressive

Most impressive. Here is a photo Maroney posted to instagram with teammates Aly Raisman and Kyla Ross posing for a picture at their hotel maybe? Trying to get in a quick swim. Their luck ran out however, as they were informed the pool's closed....

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Former Aspiring Olympian Files Sex-Abuse Suit Against US Swimming, Coach

The USA Swimming sex scandal deepens, what with former Olympic hopeful Jancy Thompson talking to ABC News about filing a sexual-misconduct lawsuit. It includes accusations of being forced to wear a dog collar....

by Brian Hickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Your NCAA Office Pool Is Illegal, And You Are Headed To Federal Prison

Washington State Gambling Spokeswoman Amy Hunter says that any March Madness bracket pools over $1 are a crime. I wonder how she feels about all the Indian casinos in that state? [Sports Radio Interviews]...

by Rick Chandler|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

We're only gonna remind you of this two more times: Join the College Pick 'Em Pool....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Hot Blogger Bracketology

With mere hours to go until the end of the first round of the Hot Blogger Bracket (presented by the Ladies...) that took the sports-blog universe by storm this week (and shot their Ballhype ranking into the Top 5). There have been mass email campaigns, "going negative" on opponents and far too many ...

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Your Early Round Pants Party Winners

You might remember last week, when Tiger Woods was shaking his Hootie thing around these parts. Well, we promised then that we had five versions of that thar video game to give away to the top five finishers in Pants Party League, and now we're here to pay up....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Hey, Anybody Hear Anything About Tiger Woods?

So, remember our Deadspin Pants Party Pick 'Em Pool? Well, hopefully you've been making your picks every week, because we're told we can give away some gifts....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Everybody Into The Pool!

We mentioned this last week, but it was late in the day and we think some of you might have missed it. Anyway, as we told you Friday afternoon, we've got ourselves one of them NFL Pick 'Em Pools on ESPN.com — ESPN.com is the official Web site of ESPN, the cable sports network — and we'd love for you...

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Time To Join Our NFL Pick 'Em Pool

Just because we like to introduce such matters on a Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET, we've decided to keep with the tradition of our NCAA pool and World Cup pool and happily invite you to join our official Deadspin NFL Pick 'Em Pool....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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