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Cubs Fire Rick Renteria After One Season, Admit He Got Fucked
After Joe Maddon unexpectedly left the Tampa Bay Rays, the Cubs worked quickly to cut a deal and bring him on. Current skipper Rick Renteria, a baseball lifer in his first-ever major league managing gig, got the shaft, and president Theo Epstein admitted as much in today's press release....
Fanboy Government Agents Illegally Spied On Costa Rican World Cup Hero
Keylor Navas was the best player on a Costa Rica team that exceeded all expectations in this summer's World Cup. Because of the goalkeeper's heroics, neutrals fell in love with him, Real Madrid fell in love with him, and Costa Ricans especially fell in love with him—a little too much, it turns out....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Jason Richardson, The Man Who Did Not Dunk
Word out of Philadelphia is that veteran shooting guard Jason Richardson has a stress fracture in his right foot; this may prevent him from playing this season, and if it does, his career likely is over....
What Was This "God Bless America" Performance?
We assume MSgt. Jennifer Sherman is who she says she is, which puts her a step up from previous "God Bless America" singers. But her interesting take on the seventh-inning showtune left the nation a bit baffled:...
Here's An Odd Legal Journal Letter About The NFL And The Ray Rice Tapes
A couple of tipsters have pointed us to an anonymous question printed in the October issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal. Take it with a grain of salt, but correspondent "Tim Troubled" says his firm dealt with a pro sports league that sounds a lot like the NFL, and a pro athlete who ...
How The Cavaliers' Old Court Ended Up In A High School Gym
The coliseum referenced on the basketball court above is the Richfield Coliseum, once home to the Cleveland Cavaliers. It's the very same floor on which Michael Jordan dusted Craig Ehlo, and now it belongs to a high school in Virginia. ...
Watch These Old People From The '60s Get Shitfaced To Wiz Khalifa
Here we have some cobbled-together footage of old white people getting hammered in the 1960s, cheekily set to "Black and Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa. ...
Where Does Aaron Lewis's Rank Among The Worst National Anthems Ever?
Aaron Lewis, lead singer of Staind, butchered "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of last night's World Series game. He has since apologized, but he needn't; his rendition immediately goes down in history as one of the most memorable. ...
This Failed Trick Play From The Jets Gets Sadder Every Time You Watch It
Upon reflection, the most embarrassing thing the New York Jets did yesterday was try to run the world's least effective trick play on a third-quarter kickoff return. I realize that's a bold statement to make, seeing as how this game also included Geno Smith turning in one of the worst quarterbacki...
Report: South African Keeper Senzo Meyiwa Shot Dead
South Africa national team captain and Orlando Pirates keeper Senzo Meyiwa was reportedly shot and killed in Vosloorus. He was 27. A spokesperson for the South African Football Association confirmed Meyiwa's death....
Ray Rice Blackface Halloween Costumes Are The Worst Idea
Dressing up as Ray Rice for Halloween is a bad idea. An even worse idea is dressing up as Ray Rice for Halloween and wearing blackface. ...
Two Grown Men Get In A Fistfight Over Fantasy Football
So, what exactly is going on here?...
Eric Bledsoe Shook Some Poor Scrub Right Off The Damn Court
Preseason basketball isn't really worth much of anyone's time, but there is value in the fact that it allows the game's best players ample opportunity to humiliate end-of-the-bench scrubs in live game action. That's how we ended up with Suns point guard Eric Bledsoe shaking Clippers benchwarmer Jare...
Hunter Strickland Was Mad Because He Couldn't Understand Salvador Perez
The most exciting moment in the top-to-bottom pivotal sixth inning came when Kansas City broke things open at the expense of Giants' fireballer Hunter Strickland, who is, according to Bruce Bochy, "a really intense kid." Yeah, we saw....
Drake Protégé Gets Duffed In The Club On A Tuesday (On A Tuesday)
ILoveMakonnen is an R&B singer who has a Twitter handle for a name. You know him from a track he recently released with Drake, the one about hanging out in the club on a Tuesday. In an exceptionally hilarious turn of events, ILoveMakonnen got attacked while performing in a New York City club. And gu...
Icelandic Dipshits Totally Owned By Giant Parking-Garage Cat Door
Look, there's a lot going on here, and the only available information has to be translated from the Icelandic, so bear with me: I'm doing the best I can. From available news reports (headline: "Icelander panties girlfriend and drove car sales - mixed video!"), we can glean that this transpired t...
Struggle
It's stupid to distill a baseball game down to a single play. They're a complex, evolving series of discrete events. If you were going to try, though, Game 1 of the World Series would maybe look something like this. ...
"The Buttfumble Song," Starring ESPN's Mike Tirico
During last night's Monday Night Football clash in Pittsburgh, ESPN announcer Mike Tirico referred to the Buttfumble by its proper title. While analysts and and anchors have previously mentioned that great event, we can't recall ever hearing "buttfumble" spoken during a game (and a search of closed ...