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What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
As in past years, the Sun Sentinel has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data for the finest examples of insertions showcasing extraordinarily bad luck and/or ingenuity. ...
<em>The B.S. Report</em> Report: Road Games
Julia Alvidrez, Gawker Media's operations manager, is an unabashed fan of Bill Simmons and everything Grantland. She is also an occasional reader of Deadspin. Every week, she will recap Simmons's podcast, The B.S. Report, for us....
Canada's <em>SportsCentre</em> Has Bad Taste In Basketball Games
Saturday's Lakers-Warriors game was one of the most entertaining bouts the NBA's seen this season, with Steve Nash returning to action and leading L.A. to a 118-115 overtime win. That wasn't enough to impress TSN's SportsCentre, which opened a late broadcast with this curious graphic subtitle....
The Sports Video Games Of The Year
Rarely considered for overall video-game-of-the-year honors, the uncommon diversity of sports video games, and the unique demands placed on them to recreate both a real-world sport and the real-life experiences associated with it, support their own class of awards more than any other genre. These ar...
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"Hallelujah, Holy Shit! Where's The Tylenol?": Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [Updated]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from London Fletcher losing his lunch to sad Tom Brady. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...
Yahoo's Hockey Scribes Have Finally Cracked Under The Strain Of The NHL Lockout
The NHL lockout is a man-made catastrophe with many victims. Montreal poutine vendors, Boston bar-puke moppers and Vancouver glaziers all stand to take a bath this year without the NHL stimulating the local eat/drink/smash economies. Even a third-rate alleged professional league such as the NHL keep...
Forbes's 2012 List Of The Most Valuable Teams In College Football Reads A Lot Like The 1936 AP Poll
Forbes's latest best guess at the most valuable college football programs is out, and if you're a Texas fan, congratulations: Your slavering devotion to the Death Star of the Big 12 has paid off once again. You're number one! Granted, you're in the "also receiving votes" category in the AP's poll of...
Jacked Creature: In Praise Of Tom Cruise's Relentless Intensity
There are lots of perfectly understandable reasons not to like Tom Cruise. His attitude about antidepressants. The Oprah couch-jumping episode. That church he attends. And, outside of his personal life, he's made tons of questionable professional choices, yes....
Jake LaMotta Is 90 Years Old And About To Get Married For The Seventh Time
There's no getting down boxing's real-life Raging Bull, and the New York Post has heard things: former middleweight champ Jake LaMotta, age 90, plans to marry Denise Baker, his fiancée of the last dozen years or so, on Jan. 4 in Bisbee, Ariz. It will be LaMotta's seventh wedding, and the Post says B...
The Czar Of The Telestrator Has His Own Custom-Branded Chocolate Bars
The Inside The NBA hosts swapped holiday gifts at the end of last night's show, with a special gift to the show's staff from longtime coach and analyst Mike Fratello. Not only does the logo in these extra-large chocolate bars bear the Czar's moniker, but look closely and you'll see there's an actua...
Here Are Some Photos Of J.J. Watt Bro-ing Down At The Club
The Texans clinched the AFC South with Sunday's win over the Colts, and defensive end J.J. Watt was eager to celebrate after the game. Those brash boozehounds over at Shot of Ginn have six photos of Watt bringing the cool to what looked like a swell time at the 5th Amendment in Houston, and we sugge...
Resistance Is Futile. <em>Les Misérables</em>, Reviewed
As someone who hasn't read the Victor Hugo novel and is only vaguely familiar with the musical based on it, I can't say I went into director Tom Hooper's version of Les Misérables with any expectations or cultural baggage. I suspect that's part of the reason why the film worked for me—or, at the ver...
Former Racehorse Retires To A Quiet Life Of Painting
Metro was once a racehorse who won more than $300,000 in prize money at tracks like Saratoga and Belmont. These days, having retired with bad knees, Metro spends his days hanging around a stable in Rocky Ridge, Md., eating hay and dabbling in abstract painting....
Last Night's Xavier-Cincinnati Game Started In A Remarkably Different Manner Than Last Year's Ended
Cincinnati continued its undefeated run to start the 2012-2013 college basketball season with a 60-45 win last night over Xavier in the Crosstown Rivalry. Of greater interest than the final score, though, is that the game happened at all—and in such cordial fashion. Last year's UC-X game, of course...
Creaks And Reeks. Judd Apatow's <em>This Is 40</em>, Reviewed.
In recent years, critics have pegged writer-director Judd Apatow as the next James L. Brooks. That's meant to be high praise. Brooks—the director of movies like Broadcast News who, like Apatow, transitioned from television to film—managed to create sophisticated romantic comedies that mixed humor an...
You Need To Read This Oral History Of Fire Joe Morgan
Our pals at The Classical are running a three-part oral history of the late and beloved blog, Fire Joe Morgan. It includes gems such as this:...
Yes, Jim Lampley's Glasses Have Real Lenses
It's recently become an odd topic of speculation that HBO boxing commentator and occasional bad decision maker Jim Lampley wears glasses on-air that don't have any lenses in them. This speculation, indeed, has come up inside the Deadspin offices. After all, they're so damn clear! There's no glare! ...
The 15 Or So Most Watchable Teams In College Basketball: An Occasional Ranking
An occasional ranking of college basketball teams on the basis of watchability and with very little regard to how good they might be....
Why Did <em>The Globe And Mail</em> Take Down Its Story About How Kyle Turris Hates Finland?
After supposedly "returning" from the Finnish SM-Liiga, Kyle Turris complained about his lockout home to The Globe and Mail, in just the latest of a few such stories to come out recently. The Globe and Mail piece covered the usual stuff: the food sucked, the travel sucked, "they spoke a different l...
Quentin Tarantino, Slave To His Habits: <em>Django Unchained</em>, Reviewed
1. Django Unchained is giddily entertaining, powerful, confident filmmaking by a guy who keeps finding new tricks up his sleeve with every movie. It's a big, sprawling statement that throws everything at the wall and sees what sticks, which has always been one of the strengths of Quentin Tarantino, ...