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Deadspin On The 2012 Election: A Roundup Of Relevant Stories That Will Probably Infuriate Some Of You
Election Day is tomorrow. If you are one of those hopeless morons who think it's some sort of thought crime to mention politics in the same breath as sports, well, this is not the post for you. For the rest of you, here are some recent Deadspin stories relevant to the election. ...
Roundup: What You Missed The Week Deadspin Went Dark
Our servers may have been done in by Hurricane Sandy, but that didn't stop us from blogging away on Tumblr all week. Here are some posts you may have missed while we were in our temporary digs....
Nate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports
In case you haven't been hanging around the benighted corners of the political internet lately, there's an idiotic backlash afoot against Nate Silver, the proprietor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who made his name as one of the sharpest baseball analysts around....
Which TV Market Is Getting Screwed This Sunday? An Analysis Of Week 8 NFL Viewing Maps
The NFL's regional programming rules are famously byzantine, but luckily the506.com cuts through the bullshit for you, providing weekly maps that allow us to answer the only question that really matters: Which fans are the most screwed this Sunday?...
Who Is Being Told To Stick To Sports Today?
Each day, lots of things that aren't sports happen all around the world. But if you have a career in sports, you better ignore all those non-sports events, particularly if they relate to our contentious election season. What the hell is wrong with you? Don't even think about other stuff, buddy....
Who Is Being Told To Stick To Sports Today?
It's a contentious election season, which means that sports people are occasionally sharing their thoughts on things unrelated to sports. Why would they do such a thing? This is America! You stay in your lane here, pal. A roundup:...
Which TV Market Is Getting Screwed This Sunday? An Analysis Of NFL Viewing Maps
The NFL's regional programming rules are famously byzantine, which is why the Wikipedia article trying to explain them all is an insane 18,971 words long. (That's enough words to get you two-thirds of the way through Of Mice and Men, for chrissake.)...
The Best Videos Of The Week
Sean Daivari choked someone out, a German guy tried to jump into a frozen pool, and a Browns fan dunked his head in a bucket of piss. Here are the best videos that were on Deadspin this week....
The Many, Many Tweets Referring To Alex Rodriguez As "Fag," "Pussy," And "Gay-Rod"
Alex Rodriguez is both straight and male, but you wouldn't know it from the insults lobbed his way on Twitter over the past few days. Here are a few hundred examples....
Sportswriters Team Up To Remind Robert Horry Of The Time His Shorts Fell Down
What's happening here? No one pictured was quite sure, at first. Marcel Mutoni tweeted this out on Tuesday, and the sportswriters in the first row had no clue what the deal was, so, like the reporters they are, they chimed into get Robert Horry's comment. Howard Beck (now on the Brooklyn Nets beat f...
Roundup: Your Best Brandon Lloyd Photoshop Contest Submissions
Yesterday, we asked you to take Brandon Lloyd's incredible smiling-touchdown photo and use it to create your own masterpieces in Photoshop. You did not disappoint. Here are the best submissions from yesterday. via ObiWanSammons...
Tom Brady Says, "Fuck You, Bitches," And The Bengals Win Gangnam Style: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup
This is where we'll be stashing the best GIFs from Week 4—from Percy Harvin returning a kickoff for the first touchdown of the day to, in all likelihood, Michael Vick breaking a rib. The day is done, except for the Eagles and Giants, so let's take a look at what this week had to offer. ...
Which MLB Pundit Makes The Worst Predictions? Grading ESPN And <em>Sports Illustrated</em>
Republished with permission from PunditTracker.com, which just launched its fancy new site....
Hoax Website Fools Reporters Into Thinking Ben Roethlisberger Broke His Legs In A Car Accident
What you see above was the story that went screaming out on something called the Global Associated News early this morning. That the item appeared on a web page with a warning at the bottom that says "THIS STORY IS 100% FAKE" didn't stop people on Facebook and Twitter from believing it:...
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Touchdown? The Real NFL Referees Reportedly Are Coming Back Soon [UPDATE: Maybe]
The following tweet was sent out by Adam Schefter just a few minutes ago: ...
The Packers-Seahawks Refs: Who Are Those Guys?
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The Steelers Lost Because They Gave Sebastian Janikowski A Chance To Win It, In Four GIFs
It was a back-and-forth game in Oakland that ended with a Janikowski field goal, included a vicious hit on Darius Heyward-Bey that has him in the hospital as we speak, and saw an absurd Ben Rothlisberger performance wasted, which is the only way a Ben Rothlisberger anything knows....
The Cardinals Crushed The Eagles Because The Cardinals Might Actually Be Good, In Two GIFs
The Cardinals we're already up, so it's not like this is why they won, necessarily. They probably would have won anyway. But boy, this must have felt like shit for the Eagles: Down 17-0, they'd marched the ball all the way down to the Arizona one. On third and goal with six seconds left in the half...
"The Redskins Lost Because Their Comeback Ran Out Of Time, In One GIF
The Bengals beat the Redskins with a lot of interesting play calling and strong play from Andy Dalton and A.J. Green. But for a lot of the game, it seemed like the Redskins were just playing badly. At half time, it was 24-10 Washington, and people we're saying stuff like this:...
Basically Everything Happened In The Titans' OT Win Against The Lions, In Four GIFs
1020 yards of total offense, 85 points, an overtime, and Chris Johnson still only had 24 rushing yards on 14 carries....