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Dutee Chand's Victory is Not A Victory For Fairness
The Court of Arbitration for Sports, the final word on disputes in Olympic sports, threw out the baby with the bathwater. I’m talking about the recent CAS decision to allow Indian sprinter Dutee Chand (above) to compete again. Chand was banned from competition last year because she is hyperandrogeni...
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Red Sox Score 22 Runs For Ben Affleck
The Boston Red Sox have had a shit year, until very recently. In the approximately 24 hours since manager John Farrell announced he had been diagnosed with lymphoma, the team has scored, by my math, one million runs....
Classic Man: "In A Pinch, A Telephoto Lens Will Work To Start A Fire"
Frequently in this space, we will consult a different entry in the 1987 book The Modern Man’s Guide to Life to see how the advice therein has aged. On Monday, we discussed shopping; today, we’ll discover how to make fires without matches. ...
The Blue Jays Are Killing Everyone, And Why Wouldn't They Be?
One of the more frustrating things in baseball over the past few years has been watching the perpetually okay Toronto Blue Jays continue to be nothing more than just okay, because in a sports landscape populated by mountebanks who preach the virtues of losing, they’ve actively been trying to win, wh...
Dr. Dre's Spotty <i>Compton </i>Is The First Record To Show His Age
Dr. Dre has enjoyed one of the most remarkable careers in hip-hop history. In music’s most youth-dominant genre, not only has he managed to roll with the changing times, he has ranked among the most powerful forces steering the direction of the rap industry for a solid two decades. Which makes it a ...
The Packers Have A New Play-Caller
Preseason wins and losses don’t matter, but preseason games do. It’s a chance for players to get realtime experience with new systems and new coaches, and for a chance for coaches to get used to their new roles. Usually, the biggest changes happen on bad teams that have cleaned house, not teams that...
Nike Exec: “I’m Gonna Fuckin’ Kill You”
On Wednesday, website LetsRun.com published a University of Oregon Police Department report of an incident on June 25 in a field just west of Hayward Field. It was around 7 p.m., toward the end of the first day of the USA Track and Field national championships, and coach Danny Mackey was sitting wit...
Niles Paul Carted Off With Gruesome Ankle Injury (UPDATE)
The NFL preseason is a great time for unheralded players to make the case for playing time in the regular season and, unfortunately, for established players to risk injuries. The injury gods have claimed their first victim tonight, and it’s Washington starting tight end Niles Paul. Paul’s ankle bent...
How To Have An Actual Conversation With A Woman
I know the headline may have ruffled your peacock feathers, but please, hear me out. Many men do not know how to have a conversation, and it would behoove our communities, our country, and dare I say the entire human race if this disconnect could be bridged. I’m not referring to suaveness in the pic...
DeAndre Hopkins And DeAngelo Hall Are Still Going At It
The first episode of Hard Knocks featured Houston WR DeAndre Hopkins and Washington CB DeAngelo Hall jawing at each other through a joint practice. The climax was Hall slipping and falling in coverage, and Hopkins treating it like he broke Hall’s ankles. The battle didn’t end with on-field taunting,...
<i>Straight Outta Compton</i> Celebrates The Day The Bad Guys Won
Director F. Gary Gray’s group-endorsed new N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton brings us back to a time when hip-hop didn’t yet dominate popular culture. Now that rap has long been at the forefront of pop music, it’s easy to forget that in the 1980s, the form wasn’t just new but also novel, an outsi...
We Want To Help Geno Smith Settle His Debt, So Here's $600
Linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali found himself out of a job Tuesday after he broke New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith’s jaw over, reportedly, a $600 plane ticket. The third-string linebacker came out of the exchange okay, though, quickly getting picked up by the Buffalo Bills. Meanwhile, Smith is in...
Here Is The Full 2015-16 NBA National TV Schedule
The NBA has released its full 2015-16 schedule, so head on over here or to your favorite team’s website to micro-analyze it. Below you will find a full listing of the national TV schedule, as well as a tally of the number of times each team appears on national TV. But first, a few observations....
Bernie Sanders Can't Save Black People
Bernie Sanders, the senator from the very great state of Vermont, is campaigning to be the next president of the United States of America. As such, he is giving speeches throughout the land. This past weekend, his ongoing tour took him to Seattle, Wash., where he stumped in front of people at Westla...
Deadspin 25: If Nothing Else, Arizona State Will Light It Up On Offense
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, ...
Tom Brady Looks Like He's Melting In His Courtroom Sketch
Judge Richard Berman held a hearing in New York Federal Court today for Tom Brady’s civil case against Roger Goodell and the NFL, and Berman did his best to move the process along as both sides’ legal teams took shots at each other, but the best part of the whole event was the courtroom sketch of Br...
Classic Man: "Avoid Making A Major Purchase On Impulse"
Frequently in this space, we will consult a different entry in the 1987 book The Modern Man’s Guide to Life to see how the advice therein has aged. On Monday, we discussed dealing with drunk friends; today, we’ll explore the foreign world of shopping....
Texans Assistant Coach Has A Great "Macho Man" Randy Savage Impersonation
A new season of HBO’s Hard Knocks is upon us, and amidst the expected f-bombs and sideshows has emerged a gem: Texans assistant strength coach Sean Hayes pulling off a marvelous “Macho Man” Randy Savage impersonation....