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Weird FS1 Segment: Say What You Will About Joseph Stalin, But He Had A Sick House
Today’s World Cup coverage on Fox Sports 1 featured a short segment produced by National Geographic, in which a reporter gave viewers a light-hearted tour of Joseph Stalin’s dacha while going to some remarkable lengths to avoid mentioning that Stalin was a brutal dictator who was responsible for the...
The Pirates Want Sports Gambling Revenue To Fund Stadium Upkeep
With the Supreme Court paving the way for the legalization of sports gambling last month, sports leagues and teams have quietly dropped their longstanding opposition to gambling and have a new question: How can we get a cut?...
SB Nation May Like The Brands More Than Good Interviews
SB Nation published a blog about how Joel Embiid likes a soda that the soda company pays him to say he likes. Yes, it’s as embarrassing and pointless as it sounds....
Barstool Sports Stooges Try To Explain Why Corey Lewandowski's "Womp Womp" Was Actually Funny
On Tuesday, former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski displayed a shocking lack of humanity when he went on Fox News and responded to a story about a 10-year-old migrant girl with Down Syndrome being taken away from her mother at a border facility by saying, “womp womp” in a mocking ton...
Baker Mayfield Turns Colin Cowherd Into A Punching Bag
Cleveland Browns draft pick Baker Mayfield, who will have some kind of documentary series air on Fox next month, has frequently been criticized by rat boy Colin Cowherd. That part in between the commas is presumably why Mayfield appeared today on The Herd, where he handed Cowherd’s ass to him when t...
Sweaty Softball Parents Try To Brawl, Roll Around For A Bit, Ruin Daughters' Weekend
The video you’re about to watch is going to look chaotic as hell and sound like the end of days—almost immediately, your ears will be flooded with girls screaming at the top of their lungs while your eyes fixate on what appears to be a violent brawl. Upon closer inspection, however, you’ll realize t...
Texas A&M Addresses Questions About Sexual Assault Investigations With Hollow Statement
People began asking questions about how Texas A&M handles reports of sexual assault after multiple students spoke out about their negative experiences last week. The university responded by joining in the longstanding tradition of powerful institutions issuing statements late on a Friday afternoon,...
Ed Werder Bravely Speaks For All The Men Who Don't Have Jobs In Sports Media
Sports Illustrated is looking to hire an entry-level news writer—an hourly position for 40 hours a week—but Ed Werder is explicitly not allowed to apply for the job, and if he does he’ll be chemically sterilized and thrown into a lion pit, as per company policy....
USGA Says It "Deeply Regrets" Violent Sex Commentary On U.S. Open Broadcast
The USGA is apologizing for Fox Sports’s U.S. Open broadcast yesterday, which featured two men talking about violent sex:...
Tough-As-Nails Racehorse Falls, Nearly Dumps Jockey, Recovers, Wins
This happened at something called the ITM Frame and Truss Maiden Steeplechase, in New Zealand. What we’ve got here is a horse falling over on a jump, nearly dumping its jockey, improbably recovering, then blazing back from the dead to win the whole damn race:...
Fox U.S. Open Broadcast Features Two Dudes Talkin' About Fuckin'
“We were fucking so hard and I head-butted her in the head.”...
You Can’t Bet On Rutgers To Win The National Title: The First Day Of Sports Gambling In New Jersey
I almost didn’t get to place a bet that ended up winning me $100....
Students Are Calling Out Texas A&M For How It Handles Reports Of Sexual Assault
Last week, a Texas A&M student tweeted that she had reported to the university that a member of the swimming and diving team had raped her—and that the swimmer was back with the team. These are what she posted, first on June 7....
Boss As Hell Baserunner Steals Home In Tie Game With Trip To College World Series On The Line
The Auburn and Florida baseball teams are meeting in a Super Regional contest tonight, the winner of which will head to the College World Series. Nice high stakes, there, which makes what happened with two away in the bottom of the fourth inning all the more bitchin’:...
A Day At The Belmont Stakes
ELMONT, N.Y.—From just about 20 feet back from the track at the Belmont Stakes, watching three year-old thoroughbred Justify and his jockey, Mike Smith, make history mostly looked like outstretched arms holding aloft cellphones with the cameras rolling. A normal-sized woman could look up and see, on...
Are These The Names Of Real Race Horses Or Just Nonsense Phrases?<em></em>
If you’re a millionaire race horse owner who reads Deadspin, please consider yourself welcome to use any of these fake names for your next foal—with credit, of course. ...
I Went To All Three Delaware Casinos On The First Day Of Legal Sports Betting And Now I Have An Unbeatable System
The odds boards are outdated, and they are state-of-the-art in Delaware....
The Athletes Hit A Slump This Week On <i>The Bachelorette</i>, But Lil Jon Showed Up
Okay, team. This week was a rambunctious one, full of so many twists and turns that none of us could really follow the playbook. As the season goes on, the chaff will be cut and the roster will really start to gel. But in the meantime, as your stern but loving coach, I’m here to make clear what real...
Sydney Leroux Dwyer Delivers A Loving Slide Tackle To Her Own Son<em></em>
Cassius Dwyer, son of USWNT and Orlando Pride soccer player Sydney Leroux Dwyer, learned a valuable lesson from his mom at Sunday’s match: Okay, the lesson is unclear, but maybe it was the experience of getting tackled that was beneficial. This top-tier sports baby was delicately but absolutely wrec...
Delaware Finally Comes Up With A Reason To Visit It
Starting on Tuesday, June 5, Delaware will become the first state to allow betting on sports since the Supreme Court overturned the federal anti-sports gambling law earlier in May. Betting will be run by the Delaware Lottery, and it will be open at all of the state’s three casinos....