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Your Sunday Night Football Open Thread
Dallas at New York: Thanks to the wonders of the internet and my on again-off again relationship with Hermione Granger, I will be at this game. Not gonna lie, the idea of going to a stadium with 80,000 people for a prime time game involving a New York team and "America's Team" is a little..¿Cómo se ...
Watch Cam Newton's First All Growed Up Touchdown Passes
Cam Newton is doing more than just fitting in with the big boys: He threw two touchdown passes to Steve Smith (for 77 and 26 yards) and threw for 198 yards in the first half against the Cardinals in Glendale. He now has 288 passing yards and is on pace to break Peyton Manning's record for most yar...
Red Sox Fans, Now's The Time To Freak The Fahhk Out
Lo, while you were watching some kind of football all weekend, this happened: Boston got swept by Tampa Bay. 7-2, 6-5, and 9-1 today. Four of those nine runs came on this BJ Upton atom bomb off Matt Albers. That moves the Rays 3.5 games behind the Sox—three in the loss column—for the AL Wild Card ...
Young Kansas City Fan Just Seems To Get What Coach Haley's All About
Buffalo Bills 41, Kansas City Chiefs 7. Bro....
Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
We are continuing our hot open thread action this afternoon, so let's get to it before the excitement of new experiences wears off and we realize, while looking around awkwardly, oh my god, what have we done. Previews and chat, downtown. ...
Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
We're going to be doing some hot open thread action today, so let's get all experimental together. A preview of all the important story lines this afternoon is provided for your edification. Enjoy the games and chat it up down below! ...
Presenting Details Culled From The Heroic, Romantic Tale Of How Dan Snyder Courted Mike Shanahan
There's a story in today's Washington Post headlined "Washington Redskins: How Daniel Snyder found his man in Mike Shanahan."...
Here's A Picture Of An Amorous Moment Between A Yankees Starting Pitcher And Backup Catcher
Tipster Spatt sent this photo of happy handed activities in the Yankees dugout last evening, along with the observation, "Apparently Bartolo Colon didn't like the feel of Jesus Montero's balls. Looks like Montero doesn't mind though. Ah, the perks of the Big Leagues."...
Daniel Snyder Finally Dismisses His Dumbass Libel Lawsuit Against The Washington City Paper
Let this serve as We Are All Dave McKenna CCXVIII ......
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Lightning Round
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. Starting this week, that includes actual game results. ...
Paul Hamm Is Just Another Unemployed Drunk Male Gymnast Now
The Olympic gymnast Paul Hamm has been fired from his assistant coaching position at The Ohio State University, following his arrest for assaulting a cab driver in Columbus last Saturday....
Grantland Republished David Foster Wallace's Epic 2006 Essay on Roger Federer, And You Should Go Read It Now
The late author's profile, written for the now-defunct Play, "constituted a dream pairing of writer and subject" that "still stands as one of the most stirring, illuminating essays ever written about the beauty of sport at its highest level," according to the Grantland introduction provided by Mich...
Here's The Tom Brady UGG Commercial That Will Air On <i>Monday Night Football</i>
With music by Mos Def Yasiin, it features plenty of Steadicam shots of Tom walking. Tom running! Tom playing with someone's dog! Tom entering the locker room! Tom bopping his head to the beat, as if he had rhythm. The shoes are not eye-bleedingly ugly, like we've come to expect from Ugg boots, and...
The Deadspin Guide To Trolling NFL Players On Twitter
If you like pro football and you're on Twitter—and if neither of these things apply to you, well, Jesus, get over yourself; who are you trying to impress?—you've experienced the following scenario:...
Dan Snyder Is Suing <em>Washington City Paper</em> Over A Story He Has Never Read, Because Dan Snyder Is A Prick
Here's proof that Dan Snyder, the Redskins' churlish little shitbag vulgarian of an owner, runs a lawsuit the way he runs a football team. From a Q&A with The New York Times Magazine:...
SprtsCntr: There Is Only The NFL
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Michele Tafoya Seems To Be Staring At Whatever Al Michaels Finds So Funny
Your morning roundup for Sept. 9, the day we didn't realize we were on the air. Photo courtesy Getty Images, via Homer Bush. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
When The DEA Raided A Texas High-School Volleyball Coach's House, They Found Steroids And Blow
Timothy Todd Porter teaches physics and astronomy and coaches volleyball at Clear Springs High School in Texas. If what Johnny Law says is true, he was also part of a drug-trafficking ring that peddled feel-goods and get-strongers to students....
Deadspin NFL Kickoff
Locked out? LOCKED IN! It's time for America's hardest-hatted working heroes to knock heads, only not to knock heads, because nobody wants Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers to get knocked out of a game (again), right? Here's your Packers-Saints open thread, to go with our semi-cryptic gambling advice and...
Carl Everett Was Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting A Member Of His Family
And it's not like he has a history of threatening to beat anyone up or doing anything like this before. [MyFoxDFW]...