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Deadspin NBA Shit List: Eddie House, World Champion Cockroach
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, past and present....
Deadspin's NBA Shit List: Sasha Vujacic, The Infernal Machine
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
"World Series Shits To Detroit" Declares <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, Fox News, Et Al
Gather ‘round, my little dreamlets. Grandpa's going to sing of the days before every baboon with a wireless connection could vomit up a website and call it news. In those long-forgotten times, human beings would staff publications—magazines and newspapers, chiefly. But as audience habits and adverti...
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Dahntay Jones, Your Asshole Teammate
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Michael Sweetney, Large Symbol Of New York's Leanest Years
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: DeShawn Stevenson, The Braggart With Nothing To Brag About
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Bill Cartwright, The Scourge Of The Free-Throw Line
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Toney Douglas, The Little Engine That Couldn't
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Anthony Carter, The Quiet Sinkhole Of Despair
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Deadspin NBA Shit List: Nick Young, Who Is The Devil
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Here's Michael Phelps Sinking A 150-Foot Putt At A Scottish Pro-Am
Olympic legend Michael Phelps has picked up golf, taking on Hank Haney as an instructor and managing to register as a 24 handicap. He's playing with Paul Casey at the Dunhill Links Championship pro-am today in Scotland, and he managed to land a putt measured by the Daily Mail as a 50-yarder. The p...
Holy Shit, The Athletics Just Won The AL West
In April, Baseball Prospectus picked the Oakland A's to finish 73-89. In June, we called the team "hopeless," and said they were playing out the string. Today, they beat the Rangers, 12-5, to finish 94-68, one game better than Texas. In first place. The Oakland A's. They won the AL West. Holy shit. ...
Downhill Skateboarder Slams Straight Into A Deer
The video above comes from this past weekend's Buffalo Bill Downhill race, which is a thing in which skateboarders race down a mountain in Golden, Colo....
Contest: This Reader Thought He Spotted A Famous Sportsperson. Can You Guess Who It Was?
Sometimes our readers send in great tips that yield unexpected, rich, fascinating stories. And sometimes our readers send in tips that are powerfully useless. This is one of those times. But if you can see where this useless tip was going, you can win a prize. Read on:...
This Egyptian Bodybuilder Has The World's Most Freakishly Large Biceps
Egypt's Moustafa Ismail has now been certified by the world record-recognizin' folks at Guinness as officially having the world's most ginormous guns, measuring some 31 inches around. (That's, like, three inches less than my waist.) The 24-year-old Ismail maintains such musculature by subsisting o...
20-Year-Old Soccer Player Gets Pulled From Stands, Suits Up For Scottish National Team, Scores Dramatic Game-Tying Goal
You hear about improbable debuts in sports all the time, but anybody else's story would be hard-pressed to top that of Sarah Crilly. Last week, the 20-year-old university student, who plays for club team Hamilton Academical, was sitting in the stands watching Scotland's national team play an exhibit...
A.J. Ellis Hits Walk-Off Single For Dodgers, Teammates Take Turns Punching Him In The Nuts
If Ellis wants to blame anyone, it should really be Andre Ethier. If not for his game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth, Ellis never would have had a chance to hit a single in the bottom of the 11th, driving in the winning run as he capped off a 4-3 Dodgers comeback against the Padres....
Is This 6-11, 500-Pound Dude From Central Pennsylvania The Largest Football Player Ever?
Aaron Gibson, the former Lions, Cowboys, and Bears offensive tackle, was the heaviest player to ever play in the NFL: He weighed 410 pounds. Richard Sligh, a defensive tackle who played one season for the Raiders while they were still in the AFL, was the tallest man ever to play the sport....
NBC Cut Nearly An Hour From Its Closing Ceremony Telecast. Here's Everything They Didn't Show You (Including The Kinks' Ray Davies)
We knew NBC would heavily edit its broadcast of last night's London Olympics closing ceremony; they cut out a bunch of stuff from the opening ceremony, too, in the name of "tailoring programming to our American audience." Last night presented an additional scheduling challenge for NBC, as they had ...
A DeLorean Hovercraft Appeared At Last Night's Giants-Rockies Game
Our friends over at Productive Outs let us know about this, one of the more astounding things of the many bizarre ones we've seen in McCovey Cove. It's a DeLorean DMC-12 hovercraft, live and in action....