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Bull Escapes Bullring — Through The Crowd
Forty people were injured when a panicked bull made a break for it into the stands at a Spanish bullring yesterday, though no one was killed. Except the bull, of course. [AFP]...
Last Night's Winner: Antonio Cromartie's Seed
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like Antonio Cromartie's many many children, who each got a mention on last night's Hard Knocks, even if he had to use his fingers and toes to count them....
How To End A Relationship Via One Half-Assed Marriage Proposal
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....
Rick Reilly® Writes Column A Lot Like Other Rick Reilly® Column
When he isn't squirting various hypothetical juices in various hypothetical eyes, Rick Reilly® is usually recycling his own material. Yesterday's column finds him complaining about golf's picayune rules. Again....
Dead Wrestler Of The Week: What Lance Cade's Death Means For Linda McMahon's Senate Bid
Every week or so, the Masked Man honors the wrestling's fallen and examines their legacies — famous and obscure alike. Today: Lance Cade, who died on Friday of heart failure. He was 29. Already his death has become an issue in former WWE CEO Linda McMahon's Senate campaign....
A Look Inside The NFL's Drug Testing Methods, Chad Ochocinco's Bladder
Mr. Ochocino found this note taped to his locker yesterday. It's just the high-tech, low-margin-for-error procedure we've come to expect from the NFL's steroid testing....
Alabama Candidate Uses Horrible Photoshop To Gain Nick Saban's "Endorsement"
A Bessemer, Ala., mayoral candidate put a picture of her and Coach Saban on a campaign poster. It looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time....
Some Liner Notes To The LeBron James <em>GQ</em> Article
LeBron is the cover boy for GQ this month and writer J.R. Moehringer was there both pre-and-post Decision write about what it's like to be King James right now. He didn't ask about Delonte West-doinked-Gloria, though. But he thought about it....
Holy Parakeets and Hot Sauce, Your Drunken Hookup Failures Have Kind of Blown Our Minds
The Drunken Hookup Failure Contest is underway. You guys are a bunch of sick bastards. We mean funny sick, and just plain sick sick. Enjoy the stories of drunken hookups gone awry, then vote for the one you'd like to see re-enacted in video....
Foul Ball Couple Update: Bo The Bailer's Ex Makes A Semi-Nude Preemptive Strike
After Bo threatened to release nude photos from their ill-fated relationship, Sara Saco-Vertiz beat him to the punch....
Those Stjarnan Chaps Are At It Again
As spotted by our pals at Pies, the Icelanders who clearly spend more time coming up with dance routines than learning how to tackle have been really quite busy....
Incongruous Athlete Mix-Tape Theater: Adonal Foyle
Welcome to Incongruous Athlete Mix-Tape Theater, the feature where we look at video love letters to players that are even less deserving than usual. Today's subject: NBA big man Adonal Foyle—who announced today that he's retiring—set to "Age of Aquarius." ...
Green Man Finally Wears Appropriate Color, Though Not Size
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....
Would The World Anti-Doping Agency Kindly Shut The Hell Up?
The World Anti-Doping Agency, i.e., the people who once banned caffeine, now demands that baseball violate federal labor law and unilaterally impose a testing regime of dubious efficacy for a substance of uncertain benefits. Why does anyone take WADA seriously anymore?...
A List Of Other Things Thrown At Tila Tequila By Furious Clown-Faced Teenagers
The Village Voice's Camille Dodero was onstage when the former (?) reality star was attacked by the angry Juggalos. Yes, they threw rocks at her, but here's the list of other items which may or may not have pelted poor Tila....
Deadspin I-Team: Which Reporter Asked For Tim Tebow's Autograph? (UPDATE: Chickster Exoneration Edition)
Fox Sports's Alex Marves tweeted this morning that two members of the Cincinnati media had asked for—and received—Tim Tebow's autograph after last night's Bengals-Broncos preseason tilt. Who are the unprofessional sycophants causing such a media uproar/circle jerk?...
Foul Ball Couple Update: Bo "The Bailer" Threatens To Leak Intimate Photos Of Ex He Failed To Protect
All is not well with our favorite foul ball dodging star-cross'd lovers, Bo and Sara. We've got allegations of infidelity, and the threat of dropping nude photos. Join us, on As The Bo Turns....
Summermodo: Completely Insane Ways to Manage Summer Shrubbery
Got 22-inch guns? Bothered by summer overgrowth? Are you out of your mind? Then the lawnmower on a stick is the hedge trimming tool for you! Summermodo 2010 has lots of ingenious ways to add excitement to your sweltering summer afternoon....
Weekend Winner: ESPN Forbidden Love
In sports everyone's a winner—some just win better than others, like Katie Lacey and David Berson, who strolled all alone through a fallout zone and emerged with their souls untouched. Translation: the two ESPN horndog lovers were married last weekend....
In A Town Called East Hampton, A Man Called Mike Lupica Played A Game Called Softball
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....