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Everyone In<i> Taboo </i>Is Repulsive And That's Good As Hell
I’ll watch pretty much any British period drama that’s available to me because I like cool costumes and accents. Penny Dreadful? Sign me the hell up. Peaky Blinders? You bet your ass. The Crown? Ehhh, I don’t know, maybe. It’s maybe not technically a “period” drama, but I’d say 80 percent of the rea...
Whatever The Hell <i>The Young Pope</i> Was, It Ruled<em></em>
If there’s one scene that best captures the sense of hallucinatory wonder of watching HBO’s The Young Pope, it’s a vision that the Pope has in the season finale....
Leicester City Are Having A Garbage Season
The fairy tale of last season was real. Leicester City—such a preposterously unlikely underdog that even the instinctive Cinderella comparison feels like a woefully insufficient metaphor for the sheer absurdity of a small, recently promoted club beating Manchester United and Chelsea and Arsenal and ...
Sadio Mané Steamrolled Tottenham All By Himself
Lately, the soccer-watching world has been in the midst of a (quite understandable) inquest into the mysterious affliction affecting Liverpool in 2017. It seemed like once the calendar switched, the club that had most convincingly staked its claim as the Premier League’s second-best team this season...
Someone Wanted You To See This Sketchy And Feeble Pro-Dolan Protest Outside MSG
Yesterday afternoon, tipster John Rats sent us a link to a Craigslist post seeking “enthusiastic people to take part in a Pro-Knicks rally before this Sunday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs.” Naturally intrigued, we responded to the ad, which promised $50 to anyone who came out to “support the ...
Prince Fielder's First Project In Retirement Is Launching His Own Cooking Show
It’s now been six months since Prince Fielder tearfully announced that a second spinal fusion surgery meant he would be forced to retire from baseball at the age of 32, and it sounds like the guy is doing just fine. In an interview with Jerry Crasnick of ESPN, Fielder seems to be making peace with t...
Two Minutes After Tweeting "Game Over," Sunderland Got Scored On Again
Here is Sunderland nearing the end of today’s match against Southampton:...
Knicks Claim Charles Oakley Said "All Of You Suck Dolan's Dick" As He Was Being Dragged Out Of MSG
Just two days after Charles Oakley got dragged out of MSG and arrested following a scuffle with stadium security and one day after Rangers fans let James Dolan have it for being a sensitive penis, the New York Knicks are back at home tonight. And thank God, because that short layoff means fans will ...
American Liverpool Fan's Adam Lallama Tattoo Is Dumb And Amazing At The Same Time
Adam Lallama. Adam Lallama. A llama, with Adam Lallana’s face. I’m almost tearing up over the beauty of it all....
Dan Gilbert Offers To Trade Wayne County A New Jail For MLS Stadium Land
Dan Gilbert—Cavaliers owner, Comic Sans enthusiast, and predatory lending magnate—recently submitted a bid with Pistons owner Tom Gores (who he partnered with last year) for an MLS expansion team in Detroit. Part of that bid was the outline of a stadium plan. Gilbert and Gores don’t have a stadium d...
Apropos Of Nothing, Here's Chris Sale In A Red Sox Outfit
Courtesy of the Boston Globe’s Pete Abraham, on Twitter:...
You Will Fail: Today's Guide To Ignoring The Super Bowl
You there. Yes, you. Guess what you will not be doing tonight. You will not be skipping the Super Bowl. Sorry....
Manchester City Supporters Praise Jesus After Stoppage-Time Goal
Manchester City pulled out a win over Swansea City after Jesus showed no mercy to keeper Łukasz Fabiański and knocked in a rebound in the 92nd minute to give the home supporters a 2-1 win to go crazy about....
Terrell Owens Is Still Not In The Hall Of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced its next induction class this evening, and Terrell Owens is not among the seven members. This is, as it was last year, bullshit....
Eden Hazard Makes Arsenal Look Like Children
Chelsea doubled its lead on Arsenal early in the second half as Eden Hazard wove his way past a Gunners squad apparently completely made up of the family members of neighboring Mr. Bean. ...
Top-Ranked Chess Grandmaster Throws Game In Protest After Just Five Moves
Hou Yifan is the highest ranked women’s chess player in the world. She became the youngest woman to reach the rank of grandmaster when she was 16, and she already had four World Championships under her belt by age 22. Her nickname is “Queen of Chess” and last year, she declined to defend her women’s...
Jason Pierre-Paul And ESPN Settle Invasion Of Privacy Suit
Free agent defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul has settled his invasion of privacy lawsuit against ESPN, the network announced today in a statement:...
Proposal: They Should Make <i>Sherlock</i> Into Movies<em></em>
The fourth season of Sherlock came and went, and it’s altogether possible that there won’t be a fifth one, because Benedict Cumberbatch is a huge fucking movie star now, and Martin Freeman isn’t far behind. These are busy men, and getting them together with creators Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss (w...
Look At These Wonderful Gifts JaVale McGee Got For His Teammates
Deadspin favorite JaVale McGee has found himself a productive and comfortable place on the Warriors’ bench. In addition to providing the team with some dunks and rebounds in his short minutes, he’s also giving solid gifts....
Elderly Giant Peter Crouch Is Still Scoring Goals And Dancing Like A Lovable Goof
Of all the soccer players even non-obsessives can most likely recognize, Peter Crouch is probably the oddest. He was never a truly great player, and never really all that popular or famous, either. For most of you who know Peter Crouch, it’s because of two of his immutable attributes: 1) that he’s E...