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Anquan Boldin's Retirement Made Me Remember That Time He Had His Face Broken By A Hit<em></em>
Eric Smith hit Anquan Boldin so hard, he knocked himself out....
Rice's Best-Case Scenario Is Being Average
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Bournemouth Player Prevents Possible Goal Using Nothing But His Voice
Saturday’s Bournemouth-Watford game featured a curious incident when Nathaniel Chalobah, in perfect position to score, ran up to and right on past the ball seemingly for no good reason. Thanks to the fine folks at the BBC’s Match of the Day, we now know that this wasn’t an inexplicable brain fart on...
NFLPA Head: Future Work Stoppage "Almost A Virtual Certainty"
Four years ahead of the expiration of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement with its players, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith says the two sides are already headed for “small-A armageddon,” whether that be a lockout or a strike. Here’s a brief video from an interview Smith did with The ...
Everything Is So Bad
I don’t think Donald Trump really is a Nazi, in the same way and for the same basic reasons I don’t think he’s really a Confederate apologist, or a Republican, or a Russian operative, or anything. Honestly, even his white supremacism is a second-order thing, an artifact of the coincidence that he, h...
Illinois Is Paying Lovie Smith A Lot Of Money For This Shit
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Richard Ben Cramer On The Damn Yankees
Originally published in the October 17, 1977, edition of The Baltimore Sun, this column appears here with permission from the author’s estate....
The "Progressive Liberal" Wipes His Butt With The Confederate Flag
At last check in July, indie wrestler the “Progressive Liberal” Daniel Richards won his match against a Trump supporter but still had to wear a diaper and drink gross milk out of a baby bottle. A couple of weeks later at Dukes Fest, a Dukes of Hazzard-themed festival in Virginia, Richards wrestled a...
Win Or Lose, Georgia Tech Will Stay Fun
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
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Report: Ric Flair In Medically Induced Coma [Update]
Update (5:15 p.m. ET): A rep for WWE tells TMZ Flair is out of surgery; his family is with him. “It’s good that he’s out of surgery,” Dave Meltzer wrote on the Wrestling Observer messageboard. “It’s still real bad.”...
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Yankees Fans Enjoy Subway Ride [NSFW]
Being a sports fan isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and when the team you root for fails to give you the joy and pleasure you’re after, sometimes you have to look for alternate avenues for good sensations. Hence these two Yankees fans coming together in sexual congress on the 5 train after the Yanks...
Tough Baseball Man Takes Fastball To The Throat And Stays In The Game
Here is a harrowing-as-hell video of Rich Hill taking a pitch directly to the Adam’s apple:...
Emma Coburn Wins World Steeplechase Title With Kick At Final Water Jump
Emma Coburn kicked at just the right time....
Q&A: NFLPA President Eric Winston On Work Stoppages, Colin Kaepernick, And "The NFL Police"
The current collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players’ union runs through the 2020 season. But even with training camps in full swing and the focus turning to FOOTBAW, there are still a number of labor-management issues percolating behind the scenes. Deadspin recently spoke to ...
This Is The Slowest Possible Way To Not Lose
Alexander Zverev was down match point against Richard Gasquet in the third set of their second-round Rogers Cup match Wednesday. The resulting exchange wasn’t exactly fun to watch, but it was impressive, in the way endurance sports are. The best comparison would be two people pushing the last bite o...
Todd Bowles Is Fed Up With Sheldon Richardson Talking About Brandon Marshall
We aren’t even one week into the preseason, and Jets head coach Todd Bowles is already snapping during interviews....
I Am Beginning To Think Jared Kushner May Not Be A Devious Mastermind After All
One of the persistent and hilarious myths of the Trump administration—along with “He’s flailing around like a spastic toddler on purpose to distract you from Russia!”—has been the narrative of Jared Kushner: Machiavellian Trump Whisperer. It’s one of the few things Donald Trump and his critics seem ...
Bo Pelini Defends Decision To Let Steubenville Rapist Ma'Lik Richmond Play For Youngstown State
Youngstown State football coach Bo Pelini has spent the last week explaining his decision to allow Ma’Lik Richmond—a former high school football player found guilty of rape in juvenile court in the Steubenville, Ohio, case—to walk on to the team this winter. ...
Awful Hell-Person Dave Bliss Has Another Basketball Coaching Job
Former Baylor basketball coach and indescribably terrible scumbag Dave Bliss, just about as awful a sports human as has not (yet!) been found to have constructed a murder dungeon in his basement, has landed another basketball coaching job. As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, he has been hir...
Richard Sherman Runs Through The List Of NFL QBs Who Are Worse Than Colin Kaepernick
In an interview with USA Today’s Jarrett Bell, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman shared his thoughts on Ravens’ owner Steve Bisciotti wringing his hands over the idea of signing Colin Kaepernick....