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Don't Be Like Me, The Passport Idiot

On Christmas night I went to the airport with my wife. We were set to fly to Amsterdam, and would be spending the next eight days enjoying a festive vacation in various cities in Holland and Belgium. Too bad they didn’t let my dumb ass on the plane!...

Shinji Kagawa Savagely Nutmegs Little Boy So Many Times That The Kid Starts Crying

Add this video to the growing pile of evidence that the baby-faced, fun-loving Shinji Kagawa takes no prisoners on the soccer pitch, not even when facing children:...

Deadspin's Favorite Sports Moments Of 2017

The Deadspin staff pick their favorite sports moments from 2017, and explain what made them so special. Here they are....

NFL Cancels New Year's Eve <i>Sunday Night Football</i> Game After Realizing It Scheduled A New Year's Eve <i>Sunday Night Football</i> Game

If you were looking forward to spending your New Year’s Eve in front of the TV with Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, feel free to make other plans as the NFL announced tonight it was canceling the season-ending Sunday Night Football game—making it the first time since 1977 that the NFL regular sea...

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Poor Bloke's Escalator Odyssey From Hell

Rarely does any scenario become worse after your dick and balls get smashed to hell. But our friend here, wearing what appears to be a Bristol City or maybe an England kit, was only beginning to get acquainted with true pain when he went airborne....

NFL Network Boss David Eaton Resigns 

David Eaton, the vice president and executive editor for NFL Media, has resigned his position. ...

NFL Network Insider: Network's Culture A "Toxic Cesspool"

More details and hints about the NFL Network’s culture of misogyny and sexual misconduct have emerged in the days since Jami Cantor, a wardrobe stylist for the network, filed an amendment to her lawsuit against the company that accused Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor, and Heath Evans, among others, of se...

Skeleton Rider Messes Up Immediately

Alexander Tretiakov is one of the best skeleton riders in the world, but he will not be in Pyeongchang. His 2014 gold medal was stripped for doping, and he was banned from all future Olympics. So today’s IBSF World Cup race in Innsbruck, Austria, might just have been his last chance at a major medal...

What Disney's Acquisition Of 21st Century Fox Means For Sports Fans<em></em>

A blockbuster media consolidation deal announced this morning sees Fox handing over nearly its entire empire to ESPN’s corporate parent Disney, with the exceptions of Fox News and the national Fox Sports networks FS1, FS2, BTN, Fox Deportes, and Fox Soccer Plus. Disney will now possess 22 Fox Sports...

<i>Boston Globe</i> Report On ESPN Reveals Pregnancy Discrimination, Other Gendered Horrors<em></em>

A report published today by the Boston Globe details sexual harassment and gender discrimination at ESPN, including a former SportsCenter anchor feeling forced to stay on air while she was having a miscarriage so as not to jeopardize her job and another sending shirtless pictures of himself to a you...

This Andy Benoit Take About Russell Wilson Is So Fucking Stupid I Want To Die

You might remember Sports Illustrated’s resident tape-eater Andy Benoit from the time he proudly listed 15 backup stiffs better than Colin Kaepernick (and unironically included the likes of Brock Osweiler), or the time he said the Browns weren’t a joke because he watched the film on them, or the tim...

Roy Moore Doesn't Even Ride A Horse Well

If you’re a reasonable, decent, sentient person paying even half-assed attention to the credible and relentless news cycle regarding Roy Moore’s predilection for preying on underage girls, you will not be voting for him in Alabama’s special election for a senator today. The candidate arrived at the ...

ESPN Suspends Donovan McNabb, Eric Davis After NFL Network Sexual Harassment Suit

ESPN has suspended analysts Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis after a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles named the former NFL Network personalities among those alleged to have committed sexual harassment against a network wardrobe stylist....

Kobe Bryant, Eagles Super Fan, Is Locked In

The Eagles play a very important game this afternoon against the Rams, and Kobe Bryant, Eagles fan, is here to awkwardly lead a solemn “Fly, Eagles, Fly!” chant, in an ill-fitting No. 8 Eagles jersey:...

Barstool Sports Editor-In-Chief Calls 16-Year-Old Cheerleader Hot, Sarcastically Apologizes, Deletes Everything [Update]

Texas high school cheerleader Ariel Olivar impressed and baffled the internet with her invisible box trick. Tons of outlets wrote about it, usually marveling at the difficulty of her accomplishment. Barstool Sports editor-in-chief Keith Markovich thought it was worth noting something else....

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Beyoncé Makes Surprise Appearance To Present Colin Kaepernick With <i>Sports Illustrated</i> Award

Beyoncé showed up at tonight’s Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Ceremony to present Colin Kaepernick with the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, given annually to an athlete who uses sports as a platform to change the world....

CBS Sports Accidentally Plagiarized SB Nation Posts Due To "Technical Issue" 

CBS Sports has blamed a “technical issue” for scraping blogs from various SB Nation team sites and posting them in full on its website with no attribution, according to a statement from CBS Sports Digital to Deadspin....

Thomas The Tank Engine Can Pull Some Gnarly Tricks<em></em>

Thomas the Tank Engine, as a children’s book and TV series, may be vaguely authoritarian, but as a toy, it’s weirdly entertaining. Watch in awe (or at least with surprisingly strong interest) as the locomotive does totally sick tricks like a 50-50 grind, or a barrel roll onto a parallel track. ...

Iowa Radio Announcers Fired After Decrying Opposing Team's "Español People" [Update]

Last week, before a basketball game between Eagle Grove and Forest City in Forest City, Iowa, two local radio broadcasters were heard cheerily expressing their disdain for the “Español people” who played for Eagle Grove High School, before wishing they would “go back to where they came from.”...