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Tigers Woods And Lindsey Vonn Are Facebook Official

The high school cafeteria jock table nearly flipped over in pent-up anticipation today, when Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn—sports' 218th-hottest couple—made their relationship Facebook official. ...

Is Tim Tebow Headed To Arena Football?

Tim Tebow is a bad quarterback. Tim Tebow is so bad that last year, he didn't start a single game in place of another bad quarterback, Mark Sanchez, even though Sanchez was having an uncannily bad season. He is so bad that he is likely to be released from the New York Jets this offseason, and as of ...

Man Shoots Himself In Dick's Sporting Goods After Asking For Shotgun From Store

Last night around 7 p.m., 58-year-old Mark McCarpy walked into Dick's Sporting Goods in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, and asked to see a shotgun and ammunition. When the clerk complied, McCarpy pulled out a handgun and demanded the clerk undo the shotgun's gun lock. McCarpy then took the gun and amm...

Last-Minute Handball Sends Wigan Athletic Past Newcastle

The Premier League is ridiculous this time of year. In addition to the giants fight for European qualification at the top of the table, you have really, really bad teams fighting to avoid relegation at the bottom. ...

Twitter Troll Further Shamed On Awkward Television Meet And Greet

Early this week we told you about the Twitter troll who got his comeuppance when boxer Curtis Woodhouse decided to track him down and confront him about his online habits. He quickly changed his tune when shit got real and apologized. End of story?...

Greek Midfielder Banned From National Team For Life After Possible Nazi Salute

Giorgos Katidis is a former captain of the Greek under-19 team and current midfield for AEK Athens. On Saturday, he scored a game-winning goal in a Super League match against Veria and went on to strip his shirt off and salute the crowd as shown above (and the below video). ...

Another Buzzer-Beater For Another High School State Championship

Here we have Mercy star senior Maria Weselyj hitting a three point shot as time expires to give her team a 54-53 win in the Connecticut Class LL state final. Had Weselyj not made the shot, Mercy would have lost four consecutive Class LL finals, making her Mercy's very own Jim Kelly. ...

Justin Durant's Jokey Chick-Fil-A Application Is Actually A Rite Of Passage For America's Child Laborers

This week Detroit Lions linebacker Justin Durant, a free agent, popped by a Chick-fil-A and filled out part of an application. (Middle initial: R.) His explanation was succinct. “Rough outchea bruh,” he tweeted....

Northwestern Has Fired Bill Carmody After 13 Years Of Decent-By-Northwestern-Standards Basketball

In 13 seasons as the head coach at Northwestern University, an alleged Big Ten basketball program, Bill Carmody’s signature moment might’ve been getting hired in the first place. And that, presumably, is why the school fired him today. Cracker-box facilities, lack of tradition, and academic pressure...

Millionaire College Basketball Coach Describes College Basketball's Emphasis On Money As "Hypocrisy"

Our friend Sally Jenkins wrote a column on the death of Big East this Thursday, and quoted University of Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin, who was very passionate about the conference's widely perceived demise:...

Competitive Fire Leads Kobe Bryant To Play Despite Ankle Injury, Ankle Injury Leads Him To Play Terribly

Fans and media often talk about Kobe Bryant's burning desire to win at all costs as a way of favorably comparing his reckless passion to others who might have a more holistic approach to the game, and just as often, to chide him for the willful tunnel-vision that causes him to lapse into hero-mode....

Ryan Glasspiegel runs through sportswriting's reaction to the sad death of the Boston Phoenix, where Charles P. Pierce and Bill Simmons both got their careers started (and where the infamous George Kimball served as a writer and editor for many years). The Phoenix folded yesterday after a 46-year ru...

Bullying Dickhead Gets Knocked Out At South By Southwest

Keep your eyes on the guy in the grey shirt on the left side of the frame. He's just hanging out, watching afro guy strut around and slap people like a prick. He does not like what he sees....

The Deadspin Guide To Goalkeeping

Welcome to Dataspin, a weekly data visualization of whatever the fuck....

This Is Awful: Jay Mariotti Has A Really Long Story On ESPN.com, For Some Reason

So, Jay Mariotti's no-seriously-I-have-a-girlfriend-in-Canada-I-met-her-at-summer-camp freelance project? Turned out to be real. ESPN allowed Mariotti to write more than 5,000 unforgivable words on Kobe and the Lakers....

Former World Series Of Poker Champion Busted In Bullshit Male Prostitution Sting [Update: It Wasn't Male Prostitution After All]

Back when the World Series of Poker was a thing, one of the game's biggest stars was Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer. You probably spent at least one lonely night in front of your television, watching Raymer tear his way through the 2004 WSOP main event while wearing his signature holographic sunglasses. T...

Notre Dame's Uniforms Make Us Wish HDTV Had Never Been Invented

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Louisville Beats Villanova, Hangs With Bill Clinton

Fourth-ranked Louisville rolled over Villanova, a 74-55 trouncing that was both expected and cursory. It sets up a final four showdown with Notre Dame tonight, while Syracuse and Georgetown face off again in the other semifinal. While the Big East tournament isn't dead, it will be different. The cur...

"You Always Think You're Gonna Win A Game": An Interview With The Coach Of The Worst Team In College Basketball History

It's official: With last night's 59-51 loss to Alabama A&M in the quarterfinals of the SWAC tournament, Grambling basketball finished the season a perfectly imperfect 0-28. It was the closest game the Tigers played all year; all of their other losses were by at least 10, and their final average marg...

This Atlantic 10 Tournament Game Had One Of The Craziest Endings You'll Ever See

Shit got weird at the end of the Charlotte-Richmond game today. With five seconds remaining in the game, Richmond was up by three as Charlotte's Pierria Henry, who had just been intentionally fouled in order to prevent a made three-pointer, stepped to the line for a one-and-one. Henry sank the first...