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Pete Rose: “Don’t Do Like Me”
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Pete Rose....
The Champions League Is Harder To Win Than The World Cup, Lies Jose Mourinho
As reported on the popular Spanish website, Sport.es, Jose Mourinho's mouth has once again kicked into action before the logic part of his brain, as he muttered these words:...
Day One At Dink Inc.: A Woman Begins Her Odyssey Through Sports Gambling's Underworld
Beth Raymer moved to Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a cocktail-waitressing job. Instead, she wound up the girl Friday to a gambler named Dink, from whom she learned that one "takes" the dog, "lays" the favorite, and never, ever steals....
Pro Football Doubletalk
We missed the initial to-do over the scene depicted here, wherein Albert Haynesworth mills around enormously in the vicinity of a defensive meeting, but it's since become something of a Rorschach that determines if you're a sensible human being or Mike Florio....
Blackhawks Fans Swing Dancing To That One Annoying Song, Because Why Not
A bunch of Blackhawks fans finally decided to combine their team's insufferable goal-scored anthem with the Lindy Hop because when anyone thinks "middling Scottish rock song," they think "dance celebrating Charles Linbergh." [Puck Daddy]...
Larissa Riquelme’s Naked Body Gets The 3-D Treatment (NSFW)
Fast forward in your mind's eye to the next World Cup and what do you see? Silly new match balls? Droning horns? Stadiums full of girls with mobile phones placed between their knockers hoping to make a fortune?...
Ryan Leaf Used To Be Carried In The Arms Of Cheerleaders, Part 987
It seems like twice a year there's a new Ryan Leaf story published, updating us on the whereabouts of the NFL's bust-of-all-busts who is always on the verge of a personal rebirth. Here we go again....
Tiger Woods Can't Stop Swearing, Breaking Promises To Stop Swearing
Tiger Woods, whether he's chastising himself or enthusiastically congratulating a friend, cannot stop swearing—around his kids, no less. Oh fuck no....
Bernard Pollard Tells Reggie Wayne Off
When he isn't maiming members of the Patriots, Bernard Pollard moonlights as one of the better safeties in the NFL. However, as Reggie Wayne learned yesterday, Pollard isn't doing any of this all that quietly. H/T Mike and Tim....
10 Footballers Who Wouldn’t Visit Prostitutes (NSFW-ish)
If you'd asked The Spoiler a month or so ago to name one footballer who definitely wouldn't reach into his pocket to score some cheap sex with a proz, the name Peter Crouch would have been at the top of the list....
'Mo Money Problems
Last week, Floyd Mayweather makes, and apologizes for, a video about yellow sushi. This week, video captures him walking away from the Clark County, Nev. Detention Center after spending a little Friday time on a grand-larceny charge that ......
Deadspin Classic: The Greatest "You're With Me, Leather" Reference Of All Time (So Far)
Originally published Nov. 13, 2006...
Deadspin Classic: Sean Salisbury, Mayor Of Miami
Originally published Jan. 31, 2007...
Moroccan Keeper Jumps The Gun In Penalty Shootout
Hilarious scenes during a penalty shootout between Moroccan top division teams Maghreb Fez and FAR Rabat, in the brilliantly named ‘Throne Cup'....
Watch And Hear Aaron Cook Fracture His Fibula
Joey Votto broke Colorado Rockies pitcher Aaron Cook's fibula last night on a hard liner and it's really something to hear. Again and again. And again and again and again. [HardballTalk, video via MLB.com]...
Sacramento Kings Mural Defaced With Swastika
Sacramento PD is investigating whether or not graffiti on a mural of Kings players in mid-Sactown constitutes a hate crime. Considering the graffiti was a swastika painted on the forehead of Omri Casspi—the only Israeli NBA player—it's a decent bet....
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....
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]...
Zidane’s Son Enzo Could Reject France For Spain
French legend Zinedine Zidane has told press his son Enzo—full name Enzo Alan Zidane Fernandez—may opt for Spain when the time comes to choose his international career path....
Reminder: Save NFL Players' Brains With Your Leet Design Skillz
One day left to submit your re-design of the NFL's concussion awareness poster. Isn't it time you used your QuarkXPress skills for good instead of evil? [12 Angry Mascots]...