rod Page 67 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
The WWE Network's "Hidden Gems" Are Fantastic
One of my favorite things about covering and following pro wrestling is that it’s basically infinite. There has just been so much pro wrestling all over the world for so many decades that there will always be more interesting stories and chunks of strange history uncovered, more footage found that n...
Enjoy Chris Froome's Stunning Attack At The Giro d'Italia Now, Because It Might Get Taken Away
This is a season of purgatory for four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome. In a normal year, the British rider would be gearing up to defend his three straight yellow jerseys and tailoring his entire season around the Tour, as he’s done every year since he became a contender. However, Froome ...
Here Are Some Guys Willingly Getting Trucked Into The Sky By A Rampaging Bull
This event, which appears to ask its participants to stand in a small ring and wait for a charging bull to visit its fury upon them, is hard to understand. Why would any human being volunteer for this?...
What's Eating Rodney Hood?
In the second postseason of his career, Rodney Hood has done very little to speak of. So far the Cavs’ trade deadline pickup has coughed up 4.6 points a game on 40-percent shooting from the floor and just 13-percent shooting from the arc, making him an especially useless cog in a LeBron Plus Shooter...
This Is The Biggest Wave Ever Surfed
Over the weekend, the World Surf League officially crowned Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa the new record-holder for the biggest wave ever surfed. He successfully rode an 80-foot wave off the coast of Portugal in November to overtake the previous record of 78 feet, set in 2011....
Report: Aaron Rodgers Is "Frustrated" With Packers For Icing Him Out Of Personnel Decisions
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is “frustrated” because the team’s front office didn’t consult him about a couple of personnel decisions this offseason, according to a report from Yahoo’s Charles Robinson. Quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt walked after last season because he believed he had a bett...
Boxer Wears Anti-Immigrant Trunks, Gets Soundly Beaten By Mexican Opponent
American boxer Rod Salka lost a six-round bout to Mexican fighter Francisco Vargas last night. Salka, who is known for having been brutally knocked out by Danny Garcia in 2014, entered the ring wearing trunks with an anti-immigrant message. The top of Salka’s trunks had “AMERICA 1ST” written on them...
The Fittest Human Ever Quit Sports, Found Happiness<em></em>
Oskar Svendsen was the next big thing. The baby-faced Norwegian was just 18 years old when he was tabbed as cycling’s next great prodigy at the 2012 World Championships; maybe he’d follow in Thor Hushovd’s footsteps and win bushels of Tour de France stages for Norway, or, who knows, maybe even beco...
Deep Space Nine Innings: A Star Trek Spinoff's Unlikely Baseball Obsession
Star Trek, the original television show, is built on Gene Roddenberry’s insanely optimistic view of the future. Someday, he and his show believed, human beings would would learn to split the atom and solve the problem of need; our better natures would take over and we would fly around the galaxy spr...
Another Iditarod Means Another Dead Dog
Alaskan musher Katherine Keith had one of her sled dogs, Blonde, die during the Iditarod yesterday. Last year, one of her dogs died as well. Last year, five dogs died, and since the race began in 1973, over 150 dogs have died....
The Browns Trade A QB, Receive A QB, And Still Need A QB
The Cleveland Browns are making moves, in the same way that a dead squid writhes after being covered in soy sauce. New GM John Dorsey pulled off three whole trades today, two of them involving quarterbacks, and neither of them involving A.J. McCarron....
Rich Rodriguez's Guide To Marriage: "Educate Her And Control Her Talk"
As part of the ongoing legal battle over claims that former Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez serially harassed his assistant, Rodriguez’s legal team has released Arizona’s “Hideaway Book” of team rules from 2015. Rodriguez’s accuser said in her lawsuit that the Hideaway Book’s purpose was to “...
![Barstool Radio Host Can't Resist Calling 17-Year-Old Olympian Chloe Kim A "Little Hot Piece Of Ass" [Update] <em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ih5olxquzrh44mqnkjvf.jpg)
Barstool Radio Host Can't Resist Calling 17-Year-Old Olympian Chloe Kim A "Little Hot Piece Of Ass" [Update] <em></em>
Barstool Radio’s newest Sirius XM talk show, Dialed-In with Dallas Braden, hit a bump in its second episode today when co-host Patrick Connor (who also has a show on KNBR) called 17-year-old snowboarding gold medalist Chloe Kim a “little hot piece of ass.”...
Rodney Mullen And Daewon Song Made A Video That Changed Skateboarding Forever
The opening title credits for “Rodney Mullen Vs. Daewon Song” fly onto the screen like text in a remedial PowerPoint presentation. The picture is grainy, as almost all VHS tapes were, and cuts bounce into each other instead of sliding with contemporary digital smoothness. The black background and wh...
Rodney Hood Does Not Care About Your Phone
Rodney Hood was decidedly not happy about being ejected from a close Wizards-Jazz game after picking up his second technical at the end of the third quarter tonight. He wasn’t interested in a photo opp, either:...
Tyrod Taylor Leaves Potential Comeback Drive After His Head Gets Slammed Into The Ground
The Bills suffered a scary injury to their No. 1 quarterback while on their last-chance drive to keep their season going against the Jaguars. As Tyrod Taylor scrambled to try and convert on a third down with his team down seven, he was grabbed and slammed to the ground head-first by Jaguars defensiv...
Former Assistant Says Rich Rodriguez Grabbed His Penis In Front Of Her, Was Nicknamed "The Predator"
Former Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez serially harassed his assistant, including grabbing his penis in front of her, trying to kiss her, telling her “I love you” in a text message, and making her cover for his extramarital affair, according to a notice of claim she filed last month with the s...
Arizona Fires Rich Rodriguez; Former Employee Claims Sexual Harassment, Files Intent To Sue
Arizona fired Rich Rodriguez as head football coach tonight after a former athletics department employee accused him of sexual harassment; a university investigation into those accusations found “information” that led the department to be “concerned,” according to a statement from the university. ...
Report: Packers Strip Ted Thompson Of GM Duties, Fire A Few Coaches
One day after falling to the Lions and locking up their first losing season since 2008, the Green Bay Packers will make several changes. Ted Thompson has been with the team since 1992—save for a four-year spell in Seattle—and he served as the team’s general manager from 2005 until today, when he was...
Aaron Rodgers Is Back
Here’s some rapturous or possibly terrifying news for NFL fans of various affiliations: the Green Bay Packers have activated Aaron Rodgers from injured reserve....