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Snowboarders Blast Olympic Organizers For Forcing "Shitshow" Slopestyle Final To Go On In High Winds

The women’s snowboard slopestyle final, a disaster amid high winds, should not have been contested today. This seems an inarguable statement unless you’re one of the organizers who decreed that it go on because the Olympics were desperate for some marquee programming to fill a big hole on the schedu...

How Does Kevin Garnett's Hood Work? [Update]

The Celtics got beat down by the new-look Cavaliers yesterday and also retired Paul Pierce’s jersey. His old Celtics running mate Kevin Garnett was in attendance, and—oh my God what is going on with this hood:...

Serena Williams Will Be Ready When It Counts

What was set to be Serena Williams’s low-key but triumphant return to competitive tennis on Sunday, after more than a year away from the game, was instead a signal that the 36-year-old, 23-time Grand Slam winner is far from peak form. At least in matches that don’t matter. ...

Some Ridiculous Winds Couldn't Keep Jamie Anderson From Another Slopestyle Gold

The snowboarding women’s slopestyle final at this Olympics was a frustrating, unfair event, marked by high winds that cancelled the qualifying round and screwed with pretty much every competitor in the final. Still, despite the awful conditions that even cut down on the number of runs each woman cou...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Must Make You Understand

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Niners Linebacker Reuben Foster Arrested On Domestic Violence-Related Charges [Updated]

Reuben Foster of the San Francisco 49ers has been arrested on charges related to domestic violence, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle . Foster was booked Sunday at the Santa Clara County jail and held on $75,000 bail, according to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office....

Boy, The New-Look Cavs Sure Beat The Living Shit Out Of The Celtics

Sunday’s result should not be read as the Celtics are fake or the Cavs are better than the Celtics or the Celtics are doomed in the playoffs, although I dearly wish for all three of those things to be true. But it seems reasonable to say that the Celtics, who’ve had the NBA’s best defense this seaso...

17-Year-Old Red Gerard Wins Gold In Slopestyle

Red Gerard, who was born in freaking 2000, claimed the first medal for the U.S. at these Pyeongchang Games by winning men’s slopestyle with a perfect final run that launched him past some of the event’s favorites....

"Nice."

CBC snowboarding analyst Craig McMorris was pretty pleased with Seppe Smits scoring a 69 during today’s slopestyle final. ...

Grambling beat Prairie View tonight 90-85 to move into a first-place tie in the SWAC. They now have a nine-game winning streak, five years after completing the worst college basketball season in history. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: What Is There To Say?

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For Those Who Want "One Korea," The Unified Hockey Team Is A Starting Place 

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Even with more than two hours left before the puck was scheduled to drop between the Koreans and their heavily favored Swiss opponents, a taxicab couldn’t get anywhere near the arena. I’d assumed, and planned for, the first game featuring a joint team of players from both No...

Report: Free Agent Yu Darvish Signs $150 Million Deal With Chicago Cubs

Hey, would you look at that! A good baseball player has signed a free agent contract with a good baseball team! So it’s not impossible!...

Answer For Your Awful Basketbloggers, Warriors Fans

What the hell am I even reading right now?...

WEEI Suspends Christian Fauria Five Days For Racist Don Yee Impression

There is, apparently, a line that can be crossed at oft-offensive Boston sports radio shithole WEEI, as the station suspended host Christian Fauria five days for his racist impression of NFL agent Don Yee on Friday’s show....

Deadspin Up All Night: Do It Do It Do It Do It Do It Do It Do It Now

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Boston Radio Host Christian Fauria Does Insanely Racist Impression Of NFL Agent Don Yee [Update]

On today’s edition of WEEI’s Ordway, Merloni & Fauria, the fellas discussed how Boston Herald columnist Ron Borges was pranked by a guy pretending to be NFL agent Don Yee, who represents quarterbacks Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo. The prankster fooled Borges into writing an inaccurate story through ...

Of Course, N.C. State-UNC Is A Rivalry. It's Just A Bad One.

Three days ago, before Duke poo-poo’d all over itself during a ghastly second half and gave the folks in Chapel Hill something to be happy about, Joel Berry II did what every single Tar Heel fan does before each of the annual clashes between N.C. State and UNC. Yes, he denied that the Wolfpack and T...

Gabriel Landeskog Beat The Shirt Off Brayden Schenn<em></em>

Just three seconds into last night’s Avs-Blues contest, Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog and St. Louis’s Brayden Schenn decided to randomly drop the gloves and have a brawl in open ice. The initial violence in itself was 20 seconds of intensity, but the fight really heated up and came to a climax when L...

U.S. Luge Is Chasing That Extra Thousandth Of A Second

“You always have that in the back of your head, wanting to beat the Germans. And I did it.” —Erin Hamlin, after winning the 2009 FIL World Championships and ending a 99-race winning streak by German women in top-level luge competitions....