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Crybaby Cops Threaten To Stop Dolphins' Police Escort, Claim Players Don't Have The Right To Free Speech
The Broward County sheriff’s union is calling for an end to police escorts that protect the Miami Dolphins in response to four players kneeling in protest during the national anthem last week....
Noah Brown Is Amazing
We don’t have many words for this catch—Noah Brown’s third touchdown in one half for the Buckeyes—except that after he missed almost all of last season with a broken leg, we’re pretty happy for the kid. ...
The Strangest Kickoff You'll Ever See Happened In A Real College Game
Eastern Michigan smoked Charlotte tonight, but the highlight of the game was a strangely-competent EMU team kicking off from the 49ers’ 20-yard line after a series of personal fouls drawn during and after the Eagles pulled off a pick-six. We never thought we’d see this once, but then we saw it again...
Deadspin Up All Night: Brain Like A Rolling Snowball
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Joe Paterno Honored By Tone-Deaf Penn State Officials And Football Fans
Penn State honored Joe Paterno, the former football coach who knowingly harbored serial child rapist Jerry Sandusky on his coaching staff for 33 years, multiple times throughout the first half of today’s football game between the Nittany Lions and Temple. A bevy of tributes and monuments constructed...
NDSU Continues Win Streak Over FBS Teams With Last-Second Field Goal To Beat Iowa
North Dakota State continued its incredible streak of beating teams from college football’s top division when it downed 13th-ranked Iowa 23-21 thanks to a last-second field goal....
Lamar Jackson Remains Ridiculous
That Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson is having an unreal season was already apparent—13 touchdowns and 1,015 total yards of offense in your first two games will make that clear, even if said games aren’t against particularly tough competition. That Lamar Jackson is potentially a demigod of some...
Here Is How Not To Field A Kickoff
Clemson is currently beating the snot out of South Carolina State, an FCS team with an athletic budget 90% smaller than the Tigers’. It doesn’t help that the Bulldogs botched a touchback by tossing a live ball to the official....
The Cardinals Lost Their 71st Game
Buster Posey went 3-for-4 and hit his first home run in two months to help the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 8-2....
Penn State Crisis Communication Professor Has Crisis While Communicating His Adoration For Joe Paterno
Penn State public relations & crisis communication professor Steve Manuel has deleted his Twitter account after a meltdown during which the character from a confused retelling of a Marine Todd story declared that Joe Paterno did nothing wrong and that the longtime Nittany Lions coach is deserving of...
What Goes Up Must Come Down
Making Ryan Zimmerman look kind of dumb last night......
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Running QBs
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Can You Find Our Heartfelt Tribute To The Minnesota Vikings Outside Their New Stadium?
On Sunday night, the Minnesota Vikings will play their first regular season home game at their billion-dollar stadium in downtown Minneapolis. To celebrate, the team plans a full afternoon of festivities outside the venue and a Super Bowl-style extended halftime show at the game itself, with perform...
We Are The Deadspin Staff: Let's Chat!
It is Friday afternoon and we have to convince our bosses we are still working, so come on down and hang out with us in the comments. ...
Poorly Disguised Theo Epstein Takes In Cubs Game From The Bleachers
The Chicago Cubs are currently playing the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field, and some fans noticed that they happened to be sitting in the same section as a guy who looks a lot like Cubs GM Theo Epstein....
I Can't Tell If I Like Or Hate This DeAngelo Williams Quote
The Steelers-Bengals rematch from that brawl of a wild card game is this Sunday—and as Drew wrote, the NFL is dumb as hell for scheduling it for before Vontaze Burfict returns from suspension—and Pittsburgh running back DeAngelo Williams sounds ready as hell. Check this quote:...
If You Want Donald Trump's Tax Returns, Start Asking Now And Don't Stop<em></em>
We are less than eight weeks away from Election Day, and Donald Trump, one of the two major-party presidential candidates, is refusing to release his tax returns. This is very frustrating and embarrassing for the press, which believes that a candidate’s financial situation is information that the pu...
The Cardinals Lost Their 70th Game
Johnny Cueto struck out seven in a complete game Thursday as the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2....
How Many Sentences Does It Take To Know David Brooks Has Written A Bad Column?
What number of sentences do you guess is sufficient to positively say that David Brooks has failed in the stated purpose of his New York Times column?...