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Arizona Diamondbacks' New Uniforms Are No Longer Ugly As Hell, But Still Pretty Ugly
After just one season, the Arizona Diamondbacks are retiring the egregiously weird uniforms pictured above in favor of a style that does not make it look as if the players’ legs have been dipped in blood....

John Carroll Ends Mount Union's Championship Streak
For the first time in 25 years, the Ohio Athletic Conference has a champion other than Mount Union as the Purple Raiders fell today 31-28 to John Carroll, giving the Blue Streaks only their second league title in history....

Lee Corso Has A #BABYARM
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Cleveland Browns Fan Plans Parade To Celebrate Franchise Failure
One of the dependable comforts of this turbulent world is the reassuring fact that the Cleveland Browns are interminably, totally awful. This can be something that Browns fan continually mourn, or it can be something that they embrace and commemorate with a parade....

Kansas Runs Hidden-Man Kick Return
Kansas is, as in most years, a miserably bad football team. But today they did something neat:...

Baylor Confirms Art Briles Knew About Alleged Gang Rape And Chose Not To Report It
Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles and former athletic director Ian McCaw knew about an alleged group sexual assault and chose not to report it, according to a statement issued yesterday by the university. This confirmation also indicates that the assistant coaches who spoke out last week ...

Life Is Futile
Look to the children for inspiration... or don’t, as they tried to retrieve a football stuck in a tree, got another football stuck in the tree, and continue in a futile effort to get back what has probably been lost forever....

How To Deal With Being The Only Black Man In An Office Full Of Conservatives
Have you ever been the only black man in an office full of outspoken, conservative co-workers? No? Well, let me tell you what it’s like....

Corso Spiked A Fish
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NFL To Teams: Stop Commenting On Concussions
The NFL has given teams a new strategy for talking about players in concussion protocol: just not talking about them. ...

Chalk One Up For The Process
For the past few years, winning has not been an autumn endeavor for the Philadelphia 76ers. The fall is strictly for setting expectations low, and the precious few wins come scattered throughout the winter and spring. But not anymore, folks. Last night, for the first time since 2013, the Sixers won ...

Paul Finebaum Renews Call To Suspend Baylor's Season; Says Stadium Built With "Blood Money"
An emotional Paul Finebaum appeared on College GameDay this morning to renew his call for the Big 12 to suspend Baylor’s season due to that university’s tone-deaf response to the ongoing sexual assault scandal within its football team....

Kadeem Allen Goes Coast-To-Coast To Beat Michigan State<em></em>
Arizona’s Kadeem Allen went coast-to-coast to score the winning basket that knocked off 12th-ranked Michigan State and give Arizona a win in the season-opener. Spartans, what are you doing?...

Deadspin Up All Night: We Can Work It Out
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Yes we can. ...

The Hot Fucking Stove Is Now Happening
Welcome to our first Hot Stove in Trump’s America, where, unlike the rest of Trump’s America, the men getting rich will actually deserve it....

Here Are The Racist, Sexist Text Messages That Put Columbia's Wrestling Team Under Investigation
The young scions of the Harvard soccer team got their season canceled last week after the university wrapped up an investigation of the team’s codified practice of sexually rating the women’s soccer team’s recruits. As it turns out, Harvard is not the only team from an Ivy League enclave with a cult...

Bruins Go Five-Hole For Own Goal
The Bruins were murder on goalies last night, chasing Sergei Bobrovsky with four goals on nine shots in their eventual 5-2 win over the Blue Jackets. They got to Tuukka Rask too, even though he plays for them. Defenseman Colin Miller mishandled the puck and put it right between Rask’s legs for an ow...

<i>First Take</i> Moved To ESPN As Skip Bayless Closes In<em></em>
Amid huge ratings declines, ESPN execs have decided to move First Take from ESPN2 to ESPN beginning in 2017, reports John Ourand. It will still occupy its 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. ET time slot, meaning the 10:00 a.m. SportsCenter hosted by Hannah Storm and the 11:00 a.m. SportsCenter hosted by David Ll...