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Buddy Ryan's "Polish Goal Line" Defense Was Against The Rules, And That Was The Point
This diagram is supposed to be from the Houston Oilers' playbook in 1993, the one season Buddy Ryan spent as the team's defensive coordinator. It depicts a special goal-line formation Ryan designed for the end of the half or the end of the game—situations in which there were "less than 15 seconds,"...
Bryant Gumbel Drops One Little Plantation Metaphor, And Everybody Loses Their Shit
You'll notice that Bryant Gumbel never once used the s-word in his criticism of David Stern last night. His extended analogy called the players "hired hands," which ought to put the lie to any suggestion that actual, literal slavery was being evoked. That hasn't stopped the usual backlash that comes...
Doc Gooden Missed The Mets' Victory Parade In 1986 Because He Was Doing Coke, And Other Depressing Tales
It's time for some uplifting news from the good folks at E:60! It's a rare occasion when "club in Long Island" is not the most soul-wrenching part of a story, but this is one of those times. ...
Happy Halloween! Meet The Human Centipede Pumpkin
We here at Deadspin are great fans of the Human Centipede series of films—the second of which hit theaters a week and a half ago. And we're also great fans of Halloween, or something. So when some reader—in this case Adam K., of lovely Wrightsville Beach, NC—sends us a Human Centipede-carved pumpkin...
John Beck Gets To Be The Next Redskins Starting QB To Screw Everything Up
According to Dan Steinberg, Mike Shanahan's decision to make a change for Sunday's game at the Panthers makes Beck the 13th different starter in Dan Snyder's tenure as owner. To which Steinberg added: "Name them all, and then punch yourself in the face." [D.C. Sports Bog]...
Why, Yes, An Angry Hockey Fan In Boston Did Throw An Empty Liquor Bottle On The Ice Last Night
Your morning roundup for Oct. 19, the day we just laughed at Ohio, again and again. Photo via @emptynetters. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
This Evening: Donovan McNabb, Now Benched, Sitting Front And Center At A Lingerie Football League Game Last Week
Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 18, the day we took dating advice from a gold-digging pole dancer. Video via Busted Coverage. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Rex Ryan, Drinking Buddy
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
How To Win A 10-Man Battle Royal Inside A Home Depot
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The Dumbest Thing About the NFL's Dumb Handshake Controversy
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
ESPN's Adam Schefter Traded Carson Palmer To The Raiders, Or Something (UPDATED)
So it appears the Bengals have finally traded Carson Palmer, sending him to the Raiders for a pair of first-round draft picks. That news was surprising enough. But then something else popped up from the clogged Twitter feeds announcing the deal: That ESPN's Adam Schefter knew about the trade last n...
Josh Hamilton Uses Just For Men To Make Sure His 'Stache Is Not Trash
We're slightly baffled by the box of Just For Men hair color spotted in Josh Hamilton's locker by reader Patrick. (For the record, mustache & beard, medium brown.) Hamilton is usually clean shaven, so perhaps it's one of the scads of promotional products sent unbidden to athletes every day? Unless.....
A Brief Dialogue Between Reporter And Athlete That Exposes The Fundamental Hypocrisy Of College Sports (Or Not)
This comes via the Seattle/Tacoma Fox affiliate. Keith Price is the quarterback for the Washington Huskies. Steve Kelley is a columnist for the Seattle Times. The exchange takes place in the aftermath of Washington's victory on Saturday over Colorado....
The Flash Mob Was Canceled, But Nobody Told Stuart Scott, Trent Dilfer, And Steve Young
Your morning roundup for Oct. 18, the day those dastardly criminal penguins got away with it. Photo via @xmasape. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Someone Apparently Left These Penis- And Vagina-Shaped Cakes In Tony La Russa's Hotel Suite
You didn't think there was actually any merit in La Russa's reliever-overuse strategy, did you? No, these Cards, like other championship Cards, are made of the secret sauce. The grit. The phenomena. In 2006, it was David Eckstein. This year, it's homemade dong- and vagina-shaped cakes....
Why You Have To Kick To Devin Hester
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Legends Are Born In October, Then Pulled In The Fifth Inning For A Situational Lefty
Baseball Prospectus's Jay Jaffe has an NLCS stat that, if you're at all like me, will send you scurrying to the far reaches of the cable box on Wednesday in search of something that does not involve Tony La Russa. (I'm serious. I like baseball as much as the next guy, but I'm not wasting my precious...
Someone Drew A Dong On Chris Cooley's Finger Cast
Cooley's dong has long been a friend of Deadspin, and we're glad that the Redskins TE finally embraced his inner donginess, even if it took a broken index finger to do it. He's out up to six weeks....
Hey, David Garrard Was Just Kidding About Playing QB This Year, You Guys
Now that the Raiders want him, it turns out that Garrard's needed surgery since training camp, reports Jay Glazer....
Jim Harbaugh Was Still Fired Up After His Skirmish With Jim Schwartz Yesterday
Yesterday, 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh untucked his shirt, chest-bumped a lineman, and then shook hands with losing coach Jim Schwartz. Then he (allegedly) yelled "Fuck you!" or "Fuck yeah!" at Schwartz as he ran away and towards the tunnel, which is (allegedly) what set off the Lions coach and ...