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Deadspin NBA Shit List: Kendrick Perkins, Anti-Fun
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
American Football Gains IOC Recognition
The International Olympic Committee officially granted provisional recognition to the International Federation of American Football. This does not mean football will be an Olympic sport—but it's a necessary first step....
Here's A Goalkeeper Training By Getting Shot With Actual Cannons
This is from the Slovenian fourth division team SD Gorisnica, but it may as well be Wile E Coyote. ...
Vote For Jack Morris (And Shut Up About Game 7 Already)
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Is Kobe Blood Doping? What Those Trips To Germany Are Really About
Kobe Bryant is just back from a ruptured Achilles tendon, but that doesn't mean the rest of him is magically fixed. He's still got to deal with all the damage that 18 years of professional basketball inflicts on the human body. In recent years, that's meant a trip to Germany and a promising, somewha...
Woody: All Schoolyard
I was always interested in gangsters and people don't associate me with that because of their image of me on the screen. They think I'm more intellectual than I am, because I wear glasses and I'm built slightly.But the truth is I came from the streets of Brooklyn. I'm not educated—I mean I was throw...
All Together Now
Is sports writing dead? Sure, just like rock n roll and rap and every other thing worth caring about. Check out this collection of sports writing is dead articles through the years. ...
The Mariners' Front Office Sounds Like A Total Shitshow
It seemed a little odd when Eric Wedge stepped away from the Seattle Mariners after his contract ran out. No extension, no firing. Wedge and the team simply parted ways. After the Seattle Times published an article Saturday in which Wedge criticized three of his old bosses, however, the breakup mad...
Price Of Fame: Frank Thomas, Who Saved My Life
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Price Of Fame: Ray Durham, Who Made Ballgames Worth Enduring
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's Hall of Fame ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can be found here....
Who Should Be In The Baseball Hall Of Fame? Vote Now!
Here it is—your chance to vote in the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame elections!...
Deadspin Announces Process By Which Readers Will Vote For Hall Of Fame
When we announced that we had illicitly purchased a Hall of Fame vote from a veteran member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, we made clear that our intention was to turn the ballot over to the public. Starting tomorrow, we'll make good on that promise, but we wanted first to lay out ...
I Can't Stop Watching This Old Man Kick An ASU Fan In The Face
Not since an aged A's fan decided to fight all the cops have we seen a display of old-man badassery like this. ...
How A Secret Informant Program Got Air Force's Star RB Expelled
Asher Clark remains the second leading rusher in the history of the Air Force Academy. He was kicked out of school in 2012, less than a week before he was to graduate, on charges of smoking synthetic marijuana. How the academy nailed Clark, and several other athletes on charges ranging from drug use...
Cut Off From The Herd
Dig S.L. Price's 1997 SI feature on Randy Moss:...
Jon Gruden Has His Hands Full With Mike Tirico
It's probably a safe bet that Mike Tirico's inner monologue is something along the lines of Yup, this is going to be on the internet....