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Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Kansas City Chiefs
Some people are fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

The Cruelest Sport
If you don't already follow Longform I recommend it as a great place to find choice material. (Bookmark it already.)...

Antonio Smith Tore Off Richie Incognito's Helmet, Swung It At His Head
During Saturday night's Texans-Dolphins preseason game, a one-on-one between defensive end Antonio Smith and offensive guard Richie Incognito escalated when Smith ripped Incognito's helmet off of him and swung it at his head, just missing the target....

Romanian Princess Arrested In Oregon Cockfighting Ring
This, right here, this is something special. This is a royal mug shot....

WWE Leaker Strikes Again To Spoil (Some Of) SummerSlam
For five straight pay-per-view events, a Reddit user named "Dolphins1925" revealed the results of every single WWE match before they aired. But with WWE now aware that it has sprung a leak, last night's SummerSlam was our first chance to see if he could do it again....

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Oakland Raiders
Some people are fans of the Oakland Raiders. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Oakland Raiders. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

This Steeler Really Is A Cowboy
As football season approaches here's a good one from the SI Vault:...

Tough Guys Don't Dance
"To me," Lenny Bruce once said, "a tough guy is a guy who wears a wool suit with no underwear." In his latest profile for the Times Magazine, Pat Jordan writes about Peter Berg and Hollywood tough:...

Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson
Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...

What's The Most Accurate College Football Preview Magazine?
Republished with permission from PunditTracker....

Bill Cosby Talks Money, Success, Racism, Guns And Revolution
First rock albums I ever bought were Let it Bleed and Are You Experienced?. I was in the fifth grade. My mom took me to Caldors I bought them on cassette. She dug rock n roll but wasn't an avid record buyer. She had albums by Simon and Garfunkel and Judy Collins and her favorite, Jacques Brel, but i...

Here Is NBC's First Goal Call Of The Premier League Season
We have our first goal of the 2013/14 Premier League season. After some buildup, Liverpook's Daniel Sturridge received a pass from Iago Aspas at the top of the box and drove a ball with his left across goal, beating Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic and tucking just inside the right post. It was a goo...

Your Team Is Probably Going To Fail: The 2013-14 Premier League
Fuck yeah, man. The Premier League's back tomorrow. This is super duper great, because although various leagues like the German Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1 have already kicked off, ain't nothing like the Premier League. While other leagues annually boast only two or three top sides and naught bu...

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: San Diego Chargers
Some people are fans of the San Diego Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the San Diego Chargers. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

Here, Queer: Canned
This here's a good one, case you've never read it. Pamela Colloff's 2005 Texas Monthly profile of basketball coach Merry Stephens:...

The Jockey
Slide on over to the Times and check out "The Jockey" by Barry Bearak. Article and video are worth your time:...

Atlanta Braves Batboy Uses Actual Bat In Cruel Hoax
A real, winged bat flew onto the field in the middle of last night's Phillies-Braves game. If you've seen this story by now, you probably think that the batboy scooped the bat from shortstop Paul Janish's glove and then ran, cradling it, to the Braves dugout. You may have read or incorrectly invoked...

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Green Bay Packers
Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

The Time A Baseball Player Sent A Rat To A Female Sportswriter
This column originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 1986. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. ...

Street Fightin' Man
Here’s a good book for you: “Townie,” by Andre Dubus III....