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Skip Bayless Is Gaining On ESPN In A Ratings War That Doesn't Matter<em></em>
ESPN’s flagship shoutfest, First Take, has long and rightly been reviled for degrading everyone and everything it touches. Until co-host Skip Bayless departed earlier this year, that didn’t seem to matter at all to its loyal core audience, which happily tuned in each day no matter how repulsive or j...
Grover Norquist Rages At Debate: What About The Motherfucking Vapers?<em></em><em></em>
We know where Donald Trump stands on pussy grabbing (for). We know where Hillary Clinton stands on drinking water (against). What we don’t know, however, is where either candidate stands on the biggest issue of the election: Vapers’ rights....
The Deadspin Debate And Ongoing Donald Trump National Humiliation Liveblog
Party members are calling on him to drop out, his biggest, craziest supporters have turned their backs on him, and millions of people across the country listened to him boast about grabbing women “by the pussy.” Donald Trump is living in a garish, gold-trimmed hell—and from now until tonight’s debat...
Western New York Win NWSL Championship In A Shootout After Stoppage Time Equalizer
The Western New York Flash defeated the Washington Spirit in a shootout to win the NWSL title. The Spirit took the lead early into extra time, with Crystal Dunn scoring in the 92nd minute, her second of the night. But Western New York’s Lynn Williams headed in a Jessica McDonald cross four minutes i...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Was Kinder
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The Cleveland Browns Are A Sick Joke
In the process of getting whooped by the Patriots today, the Browns cycled through three quarterbacks. It feels like every week, you hear that the Browns have hit a new low, and again, this week, the Browns hit a new low....
What In The Hell Happened To Roman Britain?
Part of our shared culture is a basic, generally unspoken assumption that things are supposed to get better. Oppressed groups will have more rights in a few years than they have now. The economy overall will grow, even if an individual’s share might not. We’ll have cooler and more useful gadgets as ...
Matt Stafford's Day Is Fine, Notwithstanding
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Indians-Red Sox ALDS Game 3 Postponed Due To Rain
This afternoon’s ALDS Game 3 between the Indians and Red Sox has been rained out in Boston and moved to 6:08 p.m. Monday. ...
The Washington Post is reporting that NBC News had the recently-leaked footage of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault four days before the tape was released. But NBC was holding onto the footage while lawyers finished reviewing it—meaning that they were scooped by the Post, who vetted the sto...
Baseball Players Get Really Deep When Their Teams Are Down 0-2<em></em>
Three of the four MLB division series have one team in an 0-2 hole. This isn’t a great spot to be in a best-of-five series, but it’s a very great spot for hearing the emptiest and most hackneyed postgame platitudes that athlete speak has to offer. Some highlights from this weekend, grouped by team s...
Deadspin Up All Night: Bet The Hand That Your Money Is On
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. It barely rained in D.C. today; the Nationals and Dodgers should have played....
Navy Stuns Houston With Upset
After swapping leads with Houston throughout the first half, Navy pulled away in the last two quarters to come away with a huge upset by a score of 46-40....
Nearly 60,000 People Stood In A Hurricane To Watch N.C. State Beat Notre Dame
Hurricane Matthew made its way through Raleigh this afternoon; at the same time, football was played, kind of. And people showed up in droves. ...
Ivory Coast-Mali Has Had A Lightning First Half
The first half of today’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between Ivory Coast and Mali featured three outstanding golazos and one really, really bad own goal....
Play Football In A Hurricane, Why Not
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CNN has a detailed account of how the “Grab them by the pussy” tape got leaked. Apparently, an NBC producer recalled the existence of the tape on Monday after Trump made sexist comments on Alicia Machado. Access Hollywood was working on reporting the story out and airing the tape, when David Farenth...
Nick Kyrgios Likes To Look Cool As He Makes His Opponents Look Silly<em></em>
Nick Kyrgios is the bold bad boy in a sport where it’s frowned upon for fans to make noises during play. Tremble as you realize that this youngster, well ... he truly might not give a damn....
Deadspin Up All Night: I Must Look Like A Dork
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