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Deadspin Up All Night: Who'll Be My Role Model
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The Lakers Are Putting Together A Highly Combustible Roster Around LeBron
The Lakers have LeBron James. Good for them. They now also have a handful of guys who seem like ideal targets to absorb LeBron’s ire. ...
Everything Okay Over There, Robert Williams?
When the Celtics took Robert Williams with the 27th pick in the NBA Draft last month, they knew why he’d slipped that far. It wasn’t just because he can’t space the floor like all those other bigs taken in the first round—there were Character Concerns. Boston took the risk anyway. The Celtics have e...
The Yankees Just Absolutely Teed Off On David Price
The last two months had been pretty solid for Red Sox pitcher David Price. After one brutal showing against the Rangers on May 3 (seven earned runs, 3.2 IP), he hadn’t allowed more than three earned runs in any of his past nine starts, and had a 2.72 ERA over that period. Then Price was completely l...
Huge Brawl Breaks Out During Australia-Philippines Basketball Game
A massive fight erupted during an Australia-Philippines basketball game today. When the dust settled, 13 players were ejected from the FIBA World Cup qualifier—four from Australia and nine from Philippines....
Deadspin Up All Night: Before I Let You Go
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Noggin Bonked By Errant First Pitch
An unfortunate fellow was bonked in the head by an errant first pitch before Sunday’s Braves-Cardinals game. This is especially delightful because first of all he works for the dreaded St. Louis Cardinals and therefore deserves this abuse, but also this same lad was famously scratched up by the vile...
Rockets Retain Chris Paul, Get Worse
Chris Paul has reportedly agreed to a four-year maximum contract worth $160 million to stay in Houston and continue fine-tuning the absolutely hateful brand of basketball he and James Harden pioneered last season. But they will have to do it without their most accomplished and important three-and-D ...
Deadspin Up All Night: I'm Into Politics
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Attorney: Ronald Darby's Text Messages Showed He Wasn't With Jameis Winston, Despite Claiming He Was
Jameis Winston took the NFL equivalent of a deal earlier this week, agreeing to be suspended for three games in return for not appealing his league-sanctioned punishment after an Uber driver said he groped her. In return for Winston agreeing to his suspension, the NFL hasn’t revealed much about what...
Larry Nassar And A Former USA Gymnastics Athletic Trainer Indicted In Texas<em></em>
Today, authorities in Walker County, Texas, which encompasses the infamous Karolyi Ranch, announced that the grand jury had returned indictments against Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor who sexually abused hundreds of women and girls, and Debbie Van Horn, a former athletic trainer...
Let's Remember Some Guys: 1981 Fleer Session Volume III
What brings us back? What makes us Remember, whether it’s Guys or any of the other things that are out there to remember? Is it the fundamental human urge to open what is closed, or to return to places in which we have felt happy or safe in the past, or to create “snackable” video content to put ont...
Kane Is Back In The Mix In WWE...While Running For Mayor At Home
Tuesday’s edition of WWE SmackDown Live ended with something of a surprise. Daniel Bryan was being beaten down by The Bludgeon Brothers when Kane, his former tag team partner, returned to help him out. The day was saved, fans celebrated, and it all felt so familiar that it was easy to miss how weird...
What It Meant To Be Young And Homeless In Old New York
This feature originally appeared as “The Young and the Homeless” in the September, 1987 issue of New York Woman, and appears here with the author’s permission....
The American Who Briefly Got Ireland To Love Basketball Is Looking For A Storybook Ending
On Thursday, the national basketball team of Ireland beat Andorra, 63-56, to stay alive in FIBA’s European Championship for Small Countries, held all week in Serravalle, San Marino....
The NFL Did A Deal With Jameis Winston
The NFL was very pleased with itself back in 2014 when it announced its new hardline policy that “violations of the Personal Conduct Policy regarding assault, battery, domestic violence or sexual assault that involve physical force will be subject to a suspension without pay of six games.” Though th...
Don't Leave Elena Delle Donne This Wide Open<em></em>
The Mystics squashed the Liberty in dramatic fashion on Thursday night, thanks to an Elena Delle Donne buzzer beater. She got the shot off thanks to a brilliantly drawn inbounds play, but also because the Liberty played some atrocious defense that left Delle Donne with an acre of space at the three-...
USA Gymnastics Finally Names New National Team Coordinator
USA Gymnastics announced today that Tom Forster, a coach and gym owner from Colorado, will be the new coordinator for the U.S. women’s national team. But, per the press release from USA Gymnastics, the job appears to have been renamed. Instead of calling him the national team coordinator, which was ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Shit Is Old, Fam
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Barstool Sports Founder Tells Employee She'll Be Too Ugly To Be On Camera In Five Years
During yesterday’s edition of Barstool Radio, a show enjoyed exclusively by Deloitte interns who wish they were still in college, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said that one of his employees, 20-year-old Ria Ciuffo, would be too ugly to continue as an on-camera personality in five years. “She...