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Cuban Pitcher Cionel Perez On Signing With The Astros: "I Feel Abused By This System"

It can be a little dubious when professional athletes making literal millions complain about being treated unfairly. But within the highly skewed relative universe of superstar signing bonuses, international baseball amateurs have a distinctly viable grievance....

How The Fuck High Was This <i>New Yorker</i> Guy When He Wrote This <i>Star Wars</i> Take?

Listen. I am not going to try to unpack and critique the bonkers Rogue One review published by the New Yorker’s Richard Brody today. I do not even know where to begin. I am just going to blockquote some portions down below this paragraph, and I invite you to join me in making halting, inarticulate, ...

James Harden Made A Quiet, Leisurely Meal Out Of The Nets

In last night’s win over the Nets, James Harden dropped a bloated stat line that, by week eight, feels routine: 36 points, 11 assists, 8 rebounds. He served the usual slew of crafty pocket passes, cottony lobs and floaters, crossovers and pull-up threes. If there’s anything worth noting, it’s that h...

Big Strong Santa Will Get You Feeling Festive

You wanna see a guy who looks like Santa Claus deadlift 650 pounds while some EDM-inflected Christmas music plays in the background? Hell yeah you do!...

Yaya Touré Catches Drunk Driving Rap After Unwittingly Drinking Spiked Diet Coke

It was a surprise to many to learn that Yaya Touré had been charged with drunk driving a few weeks ago, seeing as the Manchester City midfielder famously doesn’t drink alcohol. We now know that all of this caught Touré himself similarly unaware, as he didn’t even know he had been drinking the night...

Triple H: Donald Trump Is Unclear On Whether Wrestling Is Real<em></em>

Back in 2007, WWE ran a storyline that culminated with CEO Vince McMahon being blown up in a limo. You don’t need me to tell you that McMahon is still alive and was not actually blown to pieces, because you aren’t a moron who thinks wrestling is real. Apparently, the same cannot be said for our futu...

St. Louis News Station Mercilessly Roasts Rams Executive

Jeff Fisher got shitcanned today, meaning he will no longer be glowering on the Rams sidelines and mangling Jared Goff’s development. Nobody’s happier about this than St. Louis’ FOX affiliate, who reveled in Fisher’s failures and stunted on Rams COO Kevin Demoff. As FOX2 noted, Demoff’s father is Fi...

Stanford Band Accuses University Of Sanitizing Them To Protect School's "Well-Manicured Image"

The Stanford Band was recently suspended until the spring of 2017. They’ll now miss most of the basketball season, but it could have been much worse, as a university conduct board recommended that they be suspended for the whole year....

WMU Basketball Player Charged With Murdering Fellow Student

At around 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 8, Kalamazoo police responded to a report of a shooting near the campus of Western Michigan University. They arrived to find 19-year-old WMU student Jacob Ryan Jones dead, and a day later they arrested 20-year-old WMU basketball player Joeviair Kennedy as part of a felon...

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Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I’m with some flawless bitches because they be mobbin’ pretty....

Amherst Suspends Men's Cross Country Team After Publication Of Racist, Misogynist Emails

In statements from the school president and athletic director issued Monday, Amherst College announced the suspension of all team activities for its men’s cross country team. The announcement comes one day after the student magazine, The Indicator, published a report that found members of the team b...

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The fantasy football playoffs have arrived, which means that the bonings hurt even more....

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Nine Elements Of The LeBron <i>SI </i>Cover Meant To Distract You From His Hairline, Ranked

1. Safety pin on the lapel...

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You can rent yourself a perfectly spacious one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn or Queens for well under $2,000. Or not!...

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Report: Giants Complained To NFL About Steelers' Deflated Balls [Update]

Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reports that the New York Giants tested the Pittsburgh Steelers’ footballs during last Sunday’s game and informed the NFL that two of the balls were deflated....

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Stanford Band Suspended For New Policy Violations, Breaking Rules From Old Policy Violations 

A year and a half after Stanford’s marching band was found responsible for a “sexual hazing” scandal, a new investigation by the university’s conduct board has discovered that the group has continued to break school alcohol policy—along with ignoring the terms of their original punishment. Though th...

Kansas Forward Carlton Bragg Jr. Charged With Battery For Allegedly Striking Girlfriend, Pushing Her Down Stairs

Kansas Jayhawks sophomore forward Carlton Bragg Jr. was charged today with one count of misdemeanor battery after prosecutors said his girlfriend called 911, saying he struck her and pushed her down the stairs. Bragg was initially arrested on suspicion of domestic battery, but the Douglas County Dis...