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Guy Loses Fantasy League, Has To Make Embarrassing Photo Calendar
This is a pretty great way to punish the person who comes in last in your fantasy league. Instead of merely living with shame in the abstract, make it tangible (and practical!) with a calendar full of embarrassing photoshops, like naked Prince Fielder....

West Ham Idiot Runs Length Of Pitch, Takes Free Kick For Spurs
An Idiot On The Field invaded the pitch at Upton Park today, and made the most of his time in the spotlight: he took a crucial free kick for the visiting Tottenham Hotspur....

How To Fix The Baseball Hall Of Fame Elections
Admission into the Baseball Hall of Fame has been called baseball's highest honor. Lately, it's also been baseball's most controversial....

The Brutal Beauty Of Our National Game: Talking With John Schulian
Today marks the publication of the Library of America's latest sports anthology—-Football: Great Writing about the National Sport. It's edited by our old chum John Schulian....

NFL Considering Increased Penalties For Domestic Violence
Hearing the backlash to the Ray Rice suspension, the NFL has reportedly had internal discussions about increasing the penalties for future cases of domestic violence. According to the Washington Post, the league has discussed a suspension of four to six game for a first offense and a potential year-...

Borussia Dortmund Player Scores Goal, Dons Spider-Man Mask
Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the DFL Supercup today, thanks in large part to a spectacular header from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the 61st minute. After he scored, Aubameyang yanked a Spider-Man mask out of his sock and put it on his head because, sure, why the hell not?...

Just A Few Baseball Fans Dressed As Peapods, Chatting
"I dunno, I feel like I don't read anymore, you know? Have you read any good books recently? Nothing interests me. New fiction, classics, non-fiction, none of it. My kid tried to get me to read Lord Of The Rings and I was like, "I already read Jordan's autobiography."...

That Isn't Richard Sherman, Sir
A brief dramatization of the events leading up to this photo of some dude and Not Richard Sherman:...

America Is Not For Black People
The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., something like that happened: An unarmed 18-year-old black man was executed by police in broad dayli...

Orlando Scandrick Got Boned By The NFL's Stupid Drug Testing Policy
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick has been suspended for the first four games of the season after testing positive for PEDs. This is dumb, because while Scandrick did have drugs in his system when he was tested, if his version of events is true, there's no way that the drugs he took should...

Angry Driver Versus Cyclists Makes For Great Roadside Screaming Match
Drivers and cyclists getting into confrontations is a thing that happens so often that it's hardly ever worth pointing out, but this is a special circumstance....

ESPN Suspends Max Kellerman For Talking About Ray Rice And Domestic Abuse
According to the New York Daily News, ESPN has suspended Max Kellerman from his ESPN radio and SportsNation duties until next Thursday because he spoke on-air about his experience with domestic abuse while discussing Ray Rice's own experience. ...

Hot Mic Catches Jon Jones And Daniel Cormier Talking Incredible Shit
"Hey pussy, are you still there?" ...

The Chiefs Are Buddying Up To Native American Groups
Whether it be for self-preservation or just out of an admirable instinct to do the right thing, the Kansas City Chiefs are making a concerted effort to solicit local Native groups' input into their pageantry and traditions. What a concept....

ESPN Asks Ray Rice What Wife's Pregame "Words of Encouragement" Were
In case you were not aware that Ray Rice, the Baltimore Ravens, and the NFL would like you to know that Ray and Janay Rice are happily married and not at the center of an ugly domestic violence ordeal, here is Sal Paolantonio asking Rice what his wife's final words of encouragement were before today...

Which NBA Player Farted And Put His Dick On This MTV Lady?
This is Carly Aquilino, a comedian and cast member on MTV's Girl Code, doing a spot on the Brilliant Idiots podcast, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God (who tells great stories) and Andrew Schulz. Aquilino's story is about the time she hung out with an NBA player who farted very loudly and then put his p...

Do Not Challenge This Lady To A Game Of Musical Chairs
Here we have a friendly bout of mid-rodeo musical chairs wherein some poor sap gets hit harder than Mike Tyson ever hit anybody, harder than Napster hit the music industry, harder than Jadeveon Clowney hit whoever that was. This dude gets lit the fuck up, is what I'm saying, and per the full video...

Be Cool Like I Used To Be: A Nervous Father's Guide To <em>Boyhood</em>
The main thing that qualifies me to write about Richard Linklater's Boyhood from a panicked new-ish father's perspective is that I had to wait three weeks to see Boyhood even after all the rapturous reviews came out, on account of having fled New York City in terror a couple years ago so I would...

This Is The Best Excuse For Failing A Breathalyzer Test
The Daily Mirror's Sophie Gadd called attention to this News of the Weird item, and we here at Deadspin had some thoughts about it. We discussed it in our staff chatroom....

Dude's Massive Rave Leads To Historically Great Local News Segment
This is a local news report about James Taylor, a wonderfully goatee'd, 20-year-old West Michigan man who threw a big-ass party at his house that featured multiple DJs, fire-throwers, go-go dancers, and about 2,000 attendees. It's a really funny news report, but it achieves transcendence around the ...