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For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Worst Mizzou Volleyball Team Rap Ever
The Missouri women's volleyball team's official "Spirit Group," VolleyZou, found an enterprising group of young men with Missouri apparel, a gold cart, a video camera, and lots of gumption and commissioned them to make this, whatever this is....
John Salley Story Corner: An East St. Louis Strip Club Horror Show With The Torry Brothers
Every week, John Salley, onetime Bad Boy and currently the arachnoid half of the Spider and the Henchman podcast, will regale us with an amusing and occasionally salacious story from his playing days. Today: A big-assed stripper leaves a mark....
Deadspin Classic: The Greatest "You're With Me, Leather" Reference Of All Time (So Far)
Originally published Nov. 13, 2006...
Is It Foul If The Ball Hits John Smoltz's Pole?
During last night's Braves-Cardinals game, the crew in the booth flashed back to Sunday's TBS game to show a replay of John Smoltz getting plunked in the junk by an Adrian Beltre foul ball. Your move, Aaron Cook....
Deadspin Classic: Sean Salisbury, Mayor Of Miami
Originally published Jan. 31, 2007...
Private Stache: Jimmy Connors And Chris Evert, Love-Love
As keeper of Sports Illustrated's indispensable Vault, Andy Gray spends a lot of his time sifting through the sports photography of another time, when athletes wore short shorts and facial hair, and everyone looked vaguely uncomfortable. Here is one such photo....
Last Night's Winner: Tom Brady's Indomitable Will
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Tom Brady, who had kind of a big day yesterday....
Swimmer Stephanie Rice Cries, Apologizes For Her Victory "Suck On That Faggots!" Tweet
"My comments were thoughtless and careless but I can assure you when I made those comments on Twitter I never intended to offend anybody." Thank you. But an openly gay swimmer says Rice is not a homophobe. [Courier.AU]...
Mark Sanchez Should Refrain From Sending Brooke Hundley Cock Shots (UPDATE)
Or not. But, Miss Hundley, former ESPN production assistant/part-time illicit lover of Steve Phillips, is now training to become a spunky promo girl for the Jets/Giants games at the New Meadowlands Stadium....
Look At This Fucking Hoopster: "Toni Kukoc" Drums For Vampire Weekend
An occasional feature in which we spotlight the ridiculous trend of recontextualized basketball jerseys. Today: The Croatian Sensation, Toni Kukoc....
Stories That Don't Suck: USA Basketball's 12 Angry Men
From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: The 1972 Olympic team, still bitter about losing to the Soviets....
Carlos Tevez "Doesn’t Have The Balls" To Quit Argentina
Carlos Tevez has declared he is considering winding down his career—at the ripe old age of 26....
Last Night's Winner: Mike Krzyzewski, Restarting The Cold War
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like the revival of Soviet-American tensions, exacerbated by a little trash talking from Coach K at the FIBA World Championships. Duck and cover, kids...
You're With Me, Tom Friedman's Mustache
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Dick Enberg Dabbling In Theater? Oh, My!
Coming soon to the Ruth N. Halls Theatre in Bloomington, Ind.: Coach, written by Dick Enberg. Tickets are available. [Ticketmaster, via]...
Look At This Fucking Hoopster: "Jason Kidd" Doublefists Dos Equis Cans At A Concert
An occasional feature in which we spotlight the ridiculous trend of recontextualized basketball jerseys. Today: Jason Kidd....
Red Sox Nation Is Made Up Of Lots Of White Women
Our friends at Gizmodo did some fancy-scientific breakdown of the language used overwhelmingly by specific races, and they found that the biggest outlier among white women is "The Red Sox." Black men, on the other hand, love "ESPN."...
Yesterday Was ESPN's Birthday, So That's Nice
Yes, the WWL turned 31 yesterday, and what better time to look back at old commercials and bloopers that are actually pretty funny? My favorite: Craig Kilborn acting like "Craig Kilborn," insulting a PA every chance he gets. [NESW Sports]...
Deadspin Classic: The Most Brilliant Thing You'll See All Day
Originally published May 25, 2006...
That Time Of The Month: Patronizingly Edited WNBA Playoffs Highlights
The NBA's ladies auxiliary is in its playoffs, and yesterday the team from Atlanta clinched a berth in the finals by beating the one from New York. So here are some condescendingly packaged highlights of the little ladies scampering around the hardwood....