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Los Angeles Really Wants To Host The 2024 Olympics
It is becoming increasingly clear that hosting an Olympic Games tends to precede financial ruin. Rio de Janeiro just got finished hosting the Summer Games and the city is more or less out of money. Would-be host cities of the 2022 Winter Games scrambled to take their names out of the running and Bos...
Mike Francesa Interviews George Karl, Doesn't Seem To Know Who He Is
George Karl, an angry dumpling who wrote a book, is still still on a press tour so that he can sell more copies of a book in which he talks a lot of shit about his former players. Yesterday, Karl’s PR circuit hit Mike Francesa’s radio show, and things got extremely awkward....
Trust Me, This Is A Cool Badminton Highlight
Badminton, a sport where two (or four) players try to ceremoniously murder a fake bird, is much more prone to producing cool highlights than I thought. Take this insane rally between Mads Conrad-Petersen and Mads Pieler Kolding of Denmark and Japanese duo Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda. These badmi...
You Don't Have To Write This Shit If They're Not Paying You To
Over at Sports Illustrated, you can read an article about Tom Brady’s new line of sleepwear for A Company That Makes Stretchy Workout Stuff. The article contains the following lines:...
Soccer Fan Takes Ball Square In The Face
A spectator at yesterday’s Porto-Feirense Portuguese league cup match learned the hard way to never look away from the match, even for a moment....
The Worst American Sportswriting Of 201<em></em>6
There are plenty of lists out there compiling the year’s best sportswriting—try this one if you’re looking for some good holiday-weekend reading—and that’s as it should be, because there is a lot of great sportswriting out there, possibly more than ever. You won’t find any of it here, though. Instea...
Deadspin's Favorite Sports Moments Of 2016
The Deadspin staff pick their favorite sports moments from 2016, and explain what made them so special. Here they are....
ESPN, Others Fall For Bogus Information About NFL Spring League
Late Thursday afternoon, SiriusXM NFL Radio tweeted the following:...
DeMarcus Cousins Is On The Sacramento Kings
DeMarcus Cousins is on the Sacramento Kings. He is not on the Boston Celtics. His time on the Boston Celtics has not gone well or poorly, because he has not had any time on the Boston Celtics, because all of his time has been on the Sacramento Kings. (Also he is not on any other teams, except for th...
T.J. Smith, King Of The Sports Babies, Is Back
T.J. Smith, son of 49ers receiver Torrey Smith, knows how to hit the field in search of victory and success, and as it turns out, he’s also an elite dancer. Young T.J. has grown a lot since we first saw him last summer and in the meantime he’s only improved....
Nine Elements Of The LeBron <i>SI </i>Cover Meant To Distract You From His Hairline, Ranked
1. Safety pin on the lapel...
The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Dog
This gag usually entails videos that aren’t sports, and come on genuinely slow news days. Well, this is absolutely sports, and no matter what sort of highlight-reel dunks or goals come tonight, this is better....
Gus Johnson Calls Penn State Win "A Milestone In The Healing Process"
As time expired on Penn State’s win over Wisconsin in tonight’s Big Ten championship game, Fox announcer Gus Johnson tried to capture the gravity of the moment—and the Nittany Lions’ first conference title since 2008—but managed to utter some regrettable words about it being a “milestone in the heal...
Heung-Min Son Fires Spectacular Volley To Give Spurs 2-0 Lead<em></em>
Spurs are up 2-0 at the half against Swansea thanks to Heung-Min Son’s magic in stoppage time. We told you!...
Fucking Up Swansea's Shit Is Just What Spurs Need To Start Having Fun Again
It’s been an odd start to the 2016-17 Premier League campaign for Tottenham Hotspur: Sitting fifth after 13 matches played, Spurs suffered their first defeat just last weekend to a Chelsea side currently playing some of the most dominant football in Europe. Normally, this would not be such a bad pos...
Woman Claims Fox Sports Arizona Broadcaster Melted Down Over Minor Car Accident
Fox Sports Arizona broadcaster Todd Walsh flipped out at a woman Wednesday after a car accident in Arizona and attacked her gender and race, according to the woman’s account on Facebook....
These Ecstatic Little Leicester City Fans Are Painfully Adorable
Oh man, this is so freaking cute I almost feel like puking....
Al Horford's Sister Tells Radio Doofus To Fuck Off Over His Bad Paternity Leave Take
Al Horford missed the Celtics’ win last night over the Heat to be in Atlanta for the birth of his daughter. This did not sit well with Mike Felger, a Boston-based radio and TV doofus, who said on CSN New England last night that Horford should have chartered a private jet and made the game because th...
Drake Athletic Trainer Says He Was Fired For Peeing In Tub Even Though He Immediately Cleaned It
Drake University’s head athletic trainer says he was fired in September after he peed into a tub, cleaned it, and told the athletic director....