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Christian McCaffrey Punt Return Called Back, But Is Still A Work Of Art
Heisman favorite Christian McCaffrey is starting this season off with a bang, even if it didn’t actually result in points on the board. Here’s his first-quarter punt return against Kansas State that was brought back for an illegal block penalty; Stanford fans have a lot of reasons to be excited this...
Destin Hood Gets First Career Hit, Immediately Makes Baserunning Blunder
Marlins outfielder Destin Hood is making his major league debut after eight years in the minors, and his parents were in Cleveland to watch him earn his first career hit—and, immediately after that, get tagged out on a baserunning mistake....
Dalilah Muhammad Covers Herself In Gold<em></em>
In 1974, the Iranian national women’s volleyball team competed in the well-recognized volleyball ensemble—shorts and a t-shirt—with their hair uncovered. Today they compete, heads covered, in long-sleeved jerseys and long pants....
Tomorrow's Clemson-Auburn Game, Simulated In <i>NCAA '97</i> With Updated Rosters
It’s Facebook Live Friday, so here’s tomorrow’s big Clemson-Auburn game—using a Sega Genesis, the EA Sports NCAA football game from 20 years ago, and updated rosters. It’s LIVE:...
How To Soberly Hang With The Drunk
Recently I’ve gotten some practice in the art of hanging out with very drunk people while not imbibing anything myself. In the process, I developed two general strategies to make this scenario a little livelier....
Deadspin 25: Ohio Is All About That MACtion
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Ted Cruz Can't Wait To Watch The Football Men Do Touchpoints In The Grass Zone<em></em>
Can you guess who’s ready for The Big Game?...
Why Colin Kaepernick Switched Up His Protest
On the Chargers’ “Salute to the Military” night—well, let’s stop for a big parenthetical right here. (It makes me wonder how much the Chargers actually care about the military, if they choose to salute them at the single worst attended and lowest quality game of the year, the final preseason game in...
Latinos For Trump Founder Stumps For Hillary, Promises Tacos<em></em>
What will happen to the United States if Hillary Clinton is elected president? The streets and alleys of our great land will be flooded with taco trucks offering delicious fare, per Latinos For Trump founder Marco Gutierrez....
Two More Players Join Colin Kaepernick In Sitting Out The National Anthem
The 49ers traveled down to San Diego for a preseason game against the Chargers on “Salute to the Military” night. As he did against the Packers last week, Colin Kaepernick did not stand during the national anthem, instead choosing to take a knee in protest. This time, he was joined by teammate Eric ...
Trump's Wacky Doctor Is Downers Personified
Harold Bornstein, New York-based gastroenterologist and personal physician to Donald Trump, is quite the man. He looks like Upper West Side Willie Nelson, talks with an inhuman calmness and quietness, and his wife crafted the greatest Dadaist tweet of all time and hates reporters. ...
We're Simulating USC-Alabama In <i>NCAA '97</i> Using Updated Rosters
Sim season is here again. We took the Sega Genesis version of EA Sports’s NCAA game from 20 years ago, updated the rosters, and are running a CPU vs CPU sim of this weekend’s big game on Facebook Live:...
Donald Trump Gives Big Mexico Speech, Sounds Very Much Like Someone Zonked Out On Pills
Well, Donald Trump went to Mexico. And while it wasn’t the comedy of errors we were hoping for, the trip was not without its high points. Specifically, the fact that Donald Trump sounded exactly like a man who’d been popping Quaaludes since dawn....
How To Legalize Sports Betting
Millions of Americans are gearing up for their fantasy football drafts. And thanks to the scores of lobbyists and lawyers employed by the daily fantasy sports industry, DraftKings and FanDuel are back in business in New York and many other states, just in time for the start of the NFL season. For th...
Donald Trump Is In Mexico
Did you hear? Donald J. Trump is in Mexico for a last minute, pre-immigration speech visit right now. It’s an objectively terrible idea for everyone involved—we can’t wait!...
A Salute To John Bogle, A Real Fucking People's Hero
Che Guevara looks good in a beret, and Eldridge Cleaver had his moments, but today let us all take a moment to honor Real Motherfucking Hero of the People: John motherfucking Bogle, who has kept hundreds of billions of dollars out of the pockets of Wall Street greedheads....
Tim Tebow Got What He Needed
Tim Tebow threw and hit some baseballs in front of 40 MLB scouts yesterday, and didn’t seem to impress too many of them. One scout described him as an “actor trying to portray a baseball player,” and another proclaimed that the former quarterback “has a long way to go.” Most everyone there seemed to...
Colin Kaepernick's Fight Is Not With The Military
It has been a banner week for the takes. It’s certainly aided by the fact that there are no real sports and the one legitimate controversy is sucking up all the oxygen, feeding a maelstrom swirling about the peak of Mt. Take, but it’s been extraordinary to see so many people reveal themselves as uns...
Manny Machado Hits The Ball So Dang Hard
The Baltimore Orioles are in the hunt for the AL East title and hold a 1.5 game lead over Detroit for the second wild card spot precisely because their offense does one thing better than any other baseball club: They mash so many dingers....
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Donald Trump Might Actually Go to Mexico Tomorrow [Update]
This election has been an objective nightmare, but at long last, we finally have some good news. In a little over 12 hours, Donald Trump could be heading to Mexico. And if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has even a sliver of a heart, he’ll let him in. Because god knows we need this....