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Here's The Best Goal So Far Of This Ridiculous Liverpool-Arsenal Game
Liverpool are hosting Arsenal in the Premier League right now, and it already feels like a classic. There have been four goals in the first 25 minutes, and it’s tied at two. The best one, though, was this here golazo from Liverpool striker Firmino, which is very sexy indeed, and already his second o...
Poker Player Disqualified From Tournament For Peeing At The Table
Professional poker player Antonio Esfandiari was recently disqualified from a tournament and forced to forfeit his $110,000 stack because he tried to pee into a container while sitting at the table. ...
Kris Dunn Step-Back Buzzer-Beater Leads Providence Over Creighton
The 12th-ranked Providence Friars—I know, that sounds weird to me too—found themselves tied up 48-48 with Creighton Tuesday night, with just 15 seconds left to play. Fortunately for them they have Kris Dunn, a future lottery pick, to win games....
Mikhail Prokhorov Still Doesn't Get It
This weekend Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov fired GM Billy King and coach Lionel Hollins, making them the fall guys for a strategy that involved setting a bonfire to the future for marginal improvements in the present. ...
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>Mickey Mouse Clubhouse </i>
It’s time once again for our ongoing series surveying the awful shows you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours....
Robert Sarver's Purchase Of Mallorca Is An Indictment Of The American Soccer System
Phoenix Suns owner and amateur intergenerational psychologist Robert Sarver has purchased a controlling stake in Mallorca, a Spanish soccer club currently playing in the country’s second division. The move is presumably good for Sarver and the rest of his ownership group, which includes noted soccer...
Progress! Progress? Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
Every season the NFL puts out an annual report on player safety, helpfully titled the “NFL Health and Safety Report.” Now that we’ve arrived at the end of the regular season, let’s revisit the report from the preseason....
Disney Inundates <i>General Hospital</i> Episode With References To New Year's Eve College Football Playoff Games
ESPN says it isn’t worried about viewership for tomorrow’s college football playoff games on New Year’s Eve, but the degree to which TV viewers have been choked to death by promos for the two games—which were played on New Year’s Day last year—has left many never wanting to hear “Auld Lang Syne” eve...
Christian Benteke Had Another Brutal Miss Today
Don’t click on the video just yet. Look at the image for a second. Christian Benteke, yards clear of any defender, strolls into the heart of the penalty box with only the keeper to beat. It was right about at that frame when, watching it live, I thought to myself, He’s definitely about to miss this....
David Moyes Sneaks Excuses For His Own Failure Into Comments Backing Louis van Gaal
When a team finds itself mired in a bog of bad results it can’t work its way out of, it’s perfectly common for illustrious figures from the club’s past to pop up offering words of support and encouragement to the current players and staff. What isn’t so common is a less-than-illustrious former manag...
2015: The Year In Cursing
2015 was a banner year for the world’s profanity practitioners, as motherfuckers with filthy mouths talked shit on TV, to referees, and to fans around the world. Here’s the best fucking curse words we highlighted on Deadspin’s pages in 2015:...
Mesut Özil Caps Genius Arsenal Team Move With A Goal
Every season, Arsenal are good for two or three of these kind of flowing, intricate, one-touch passing moves that end with the ball in the back of the net and a huge grin on your face. This time, it was Olivier Giroud providing the sick flick-on and Mesut Özil, who is absolutely unstoppable right no...
Well, We Know Who Manchester United Fans Want Managing Their Team
Be careful what you wish for ......
Brilliant Shithead Gerard Deulofeu Yellow Carded For Obvious Dive [Update]
Yellows for diving are generally reserved for players with reputations. A flop from your typical brave Brit is a lot less likely to receive a booking than the same one from a player refs know as a consistent victim of sniper fire....
Cuco Martina Stuns Arsenal With Blistering Strike
Southampton took a 1-0 lead on Arsenal in tonight’s late EPL match thanks to a hammer strike from Cuco Martina, who beat Petr Cech with this stunner that elicited the proper response from Andrés Cantor:...
Tom Cleverley's Long Header Beats Newcastle On Final Touch Of The Match
Everton downed Newcastle today 1-0 thanks to a 93rd-minute long-range header by Tom Cleverley that proved to be the final touch of the match....
Liverpool Storm Four Men On Open-Goal Fast Break, Still Don't Score
Liverpool beat Leicester City 1-0 at Anfield today, holding the league’s most surprising team scoreless for the first time all season. But it should have been a 2-0 victory, as a late open goal break somehow fell apart when Christian Benteke couldn’t find a net left vacant by Kasper Schmeichel. Schm...
Pissed Off Louis van Gaal Demands Apology From Media, Storms Out Of Press Conference
Yesterday had to be an ... interesting experience for beleaguered Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal. At about this hour, Twitter exploded with rumors that he had been fired and that the club had already brought in José Mourinho as his replacement. What started as a prank soon snowballed as th...
<i>The Revenant</i> Is The Manliest (And Bear-iest) Movie Ever Made
You have two very specific questions about The Revenant, and we’ll get to those, promise. But first, let us discuss the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio, playing a über-badass 19th-century American outdoorsman, flees a party of bloodthirsty Native Americans, rides his horse off a cliff, lands in a gian...
Dalton Prout Given Double-Minor, So One Minute For Each Cross-Check
Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Dalton Prout let loose this vicious series of cross-checks late in the third period of a 5-2 loss to the Penguins. This is no inadvertent penalty or being a bit overzealous; it’s straight-up assault on Sergei Plotnikov....