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The New Thing Teens Are Doing Is Called The "Mannequin Challenge"
Teens: They’re annoying, but we turn to them for the newest cool trend, then mangle and repurpose it until someone works it into a boring ad campaign three months after everyone’s moved on. The latest entry in cool things by teens is the “mannequin challenge.”...
Get A Load Of The Sports Dude's Extremely Poor World Series Take
Hey, look! It’s The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, definitely unknowingly walking smack-dab into what in no way looks like a prearranged and staged TMZ ambush today in Los Angeles, where reporters lurked to find out what famous Hollywood power-player Bill Simmons thinks will happen in Game 6 of the World Se...
Wrigleyville Is On The Case Of The Dildo-Thrower
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National Hot Rod Association Fights Broadcast Crew Over Union, Alleged Unsafe Work Conditions<em></em>
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) has recently let go of five members of their broadcast crew in retaliation for union activities, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) alleges in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint. IATSE has also filed for the NLRB to...
The Writer Who Was Too Strong To Live
Jennifer Frey drank herself to death....
The Mavericks And Pacers Set Basketball Back A Few Decades On This Sequence
The NBA is back, which means it’s time for cool highlights, like dunks, blocks, and Charles Barkley’s bad takes. But none of those live up to the majesty and splendor of, uh, whatever this is....
Report: DraftKings And FanDuel Aren't Paying Vendors, Have Almost No Cash On Hand
Daily fantasy heavyweights DraftKings and FanDuel are in dire financial straits, months behind on payments to vendors and suffering from extreme cashflow problems, according to the New York Times....
Jameis Winston Unsportsmanlike Conduct Penalty Costs Bucs Touchdown Chance
Tampa Bay was set to have the ball on fourth down at the 49ers’ five-yard line with two feet to go for first-and-goal. That’s before Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston lipped off to an official, pushing the ball back 15 yards and eliminating any chance of his team tying up San Francisco on the dr...
Mavericks Surf Contest Begrudgingly Allows Women To Compete
For the first time in its history, one of the most prestigious surf contests in the country will include a women’s heat in its 2016-17 competition. But the addition to the Titans of Mavericks competition wasn’t done solely because Mavericks organizers felt like it. It was required by the California...
CBS's Brian Jones Rants Against Targeting Rule
Brian Jones failed out of the NFL due to injury—he even filed, and lost, a lawsuit over it—but don’t tell him that the sport of football needs rules to protect players’ long-term health. The CBS college football analyst alternately demanded players grow eyes in the back of their head or barked “KEEP...
5-Year-Old Diehard Celtic Fan Calls Up Club To Apologize For Missing Game
Kids these days. They whine and whine about how much they want—no, need—that drum set they’re always going on about, then you get one for them and after two months it sits quietly in the basement, unused and collecting dust. “But daaaaad, all my friends have motorized scooters,” that ungrateful brat...
Fox Sports Is Extremely Lazy
Several of you noted Fox used the bizarre image above—one of injured Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, but with current Minnesota QB Sam Bradford’s face pasted on—during this afternoon’s NFL broadcast, but that’s far from the first time we’ve seen the image pop up. In fact, it made its debut si...
The Grate One
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Curt Schilling Went On The Radio To Defend His Right To Think Young Girls Are Attractive
Curt Schilling, who yesterday went on TV to defend Donald Trump’s ogling of a preteen girl and to let everyone know that he himself has noticed and remarked upon the beauty of his daughter’s friends, refuses to log off....
Pete Rose Is Doing It Again
Pete Rose is doing that thing he does... again. ...
Tiny Soccer Child Already Good Enough To Play Against Big Soccer Boys
I want you to look at this picture of 13-year-old Ivorian-Scot baby, Karamoko Dembélé, as he sits taking in a Celtic U-20 game:...
<i>Sports Illustrated</i> Formally Announces Retweeting Agreement With Fox Sports, Or Something
Many of you, our readers, are smart, your decision to visit Deadspin notwithstanding. See what you can get out of this blog post by Sports Illustrated managing editor Chris Stone and “Time Inc. Sports Group digital editor” Mark McClusky, hailing the ailing magazine’s, uh, “transformational digital p...