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Curt Schilling Is Selling His Bloody Sock—But Not <em>That</em> Bloody Sock

Heritage Auctions has posted a preview of an eagerly awaited lot—a bloodstained sock worn by Curt Schilling as he pitched through injury to lead the Red Sox to their first World Championship in 86 years. But before you go taking out a second mortgage, know that this isn't the one from Game 6 of the ...

NFL 2012: Which Teams Actually Had Injuries, And Which Teams Just Lied?

Football injuries are random but inevitable. Every year, some teams will spend the season in an MRI machine, and others will end up pretty much unharmed (outside of thousands of micro-concussions). Just as predictably, some coaches will try to obfuscate their team's health to screw with their oppone...

Read Floyd Landis's Lawsuit Againt Lance Armstrong, Which The Government Could Join Any Day

There's no love lost between Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong, two of America's greatest cyclists with a combined zero Tour de France wins between them. After Landis was nailed for synthetic testosterone use and stripped of his trophies, he turned informer—he made public claims about Armstrong's and...

Welcome To Deadspin. Here's What We're All About.

So, that Manti Te'o story sure is something, isn't it? If you haven't visited our site before, you might not know that stories like that one are our specialty. Our mission is to tell the unauthorized version of events—to cover things that other media outlets won't touch. We hope you'll take a minut...

Matt Kemp Now Has A Massive Tattoo Of His Grandparents On His Chest

The Dodgers' outfielder got the custom ink to pay tribute to his grandparents, Doris and the late Vernon Mukes. Vernon had died in November. What's not known is whether Doris is cool with Kemp's decision here. In August 2011, on the subject of Kemp getting any tats at all, Sports Illustrated quoted ...

Lance Armstrong's Biggest Crime Was Being A Huge Asshole

By now, you know that Lance Armstrong will be giving a two-and-a-half-hour confession to Oprah Winfrey on Thursday and Friday nights (Two nights? Jesus Christ, Shogun wasn't that long). No one who watches this thing will be there to hear Armstrong admit to doping. We all knew that ages ago. The reas...

Kenny Britt Finally Talked To Jersey City Police About His Friend Getting Stabbed [UPDATED]

The APB had gone out Monday, and yesterday Kenny Britt's father told The Tennessean his son had lined up a lawyer and that Britt had every intention of meeting with cops in Jersey City to discuss a stabbing and a gunshot that went off at a party there early Sunday. Today, according to Jim Wyatt, The...

The Stars Hired Their Own Beat Reporter. Will The NHL Be Able To Keep Its Hands Off This Time?

The Dallas Stars announced earlier this week that they're hiring Mark Stepneski to cover the team. He'll run a blog, StarsInsideEdge.com, and his work will appear on the club's official site. He's been writing about the Stars since 1996 on his personal blog, and covering them for ESPN Dallas for two...

Report: The Government Has Turned Down Lance Armstrong's Proposed Bribe Of $5 Million And Testimony

You could try, but you would struggle to find two negotiating parties less likable than Lance Armstrong and the United States government. And according to CBS News's Twitter feed, negotiations between the pair are not going well....

Terry Francona Says Red Sox Owners Don't Really Care About Baseball

Terry Francona has a book coming out about his time in Boston. Written with (ugh) Dan Shaughnessy, it probably won't satisfy readers expecting a bridge-burning tell-all, since he's back in baseball managing the Indians and has to work alongside the players he'd probably love to blast. But there are ...

"Armstrong Used Rugs," Says CBC News

The way we see it, there are two possible typos in the chyron above. The first, and most obvious, is that "rugs" is actually supposed to say "drugs." This scenario makes sense, given all the news that's recently come to light about Lance Armstrong's use of performance enhancing drugs. Or, "Armstro...

Deadspin NBA Shit List: Andray Blatche, Who Has No Idea

A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....

Stuart Scott's cancer has returned for a third time. Don't worry, he's going to P90X the hell out of it....

Lance Armstrong Could Snitch On Other Dopers To Get His Ban Lifted

The apology you're forced to make is rarely the most sincere. And make no mistake: Lance Armstrong's magical misery tour isn't coming from a place of penitence, but a transparent last-ditch attempt to race again. Even Armstrong's humility is selfish....

Taj Gibson Posterizes Anthony Tolliver; Stacey King Enjoys It Immensely

The dunk itself is pretty good, but Stacey King's reaction is even better. This is sort of a thing, I've learned, that King does so maybe you Chicagoans are yawning, but the rest of us can still enjoy his enthusiasm....

The Lance Armstrong Redemption Tour Is Hitting Some Hurdles

According to The Wall Street Journal, Justice Department officials have recommended joining Floyd Landis's federal whistleblower suit against Armstrong in which he alleges Armstrong, among others, defrauded the federal government in accepting money while engaging in "sophisticated doping ring."...

Lance Armstrong Admits To Doping. Did Oprah Make Him Cry?

Congrats, AP—big fucking scoop, for those of us who have been on the ISS this past week. In his interview with Oprah Winfrey taped today (it'll air Thursday and be two hours long and on a channel no one gets), Armstrong confessed to using performance enhancing drugs. This gets a "breaking" from the ...

Kenny Britt Still Hasn't Talked To Police About His Friend's Stabbing, And No One Seems To Know Where He Is [UPDATED]

To review: Kenny Britt's friend* was brought to a Jersey City hospital early Sunday morning after having been stabbed during a fight that reportedly involved a lot of people. His injuries were not life-threatening. Britt, the Tennessee Titans wide receiver, was with his brother when his brother got ...

Is This The Worst Division I College Basketball Team Of All Time?

See that video up there? That's two-plus minutes of highlights from Cleveland State's 92-49 victory over Grambling State on Nov. 9. Put another way: It's two-plus minutes of lowlights from the first game of what's shaping up to be the worst Division I college basketball season in history. ...

The Dolphins Want Taxpayers To Help Them Renovate Sun Life Stadium

We called this one a couple of months ago, but the Dolphins and owner Stephen Ross made it official today—they want to make $400 million worth of renovations to Sun Life Stadium, and they want state and local governments to pay for some, possibly most of it....