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Former Heavyweight Boxing Champ Hunts Yeti, Finds Self
This just in from remote Siberia: a giant hairy creature has been sighted gamboling about the mountains in the Kemerovo Region. The creature is, surprisingly, not Nikolai Valuev (above, left). It is, rather, the Kuzbass Bigfoot and it has been spotted several times near the Azass Cave of Mount Shori...
Cal Coaches Use Foolproof Technique To Connect With Their Team: White Person R&B
Oh god. I can't. This is almost too painful. Cal women's basketball held a team retreat last week, apparently in my grandfather's finished basement. Assistant coach Daron Park, with the rest of the coaching staff on backup, entertained the players with an altered Montell Jordan routine that really...
A Gruesome Wipe-Out Left This Surfer With Coral Lodged In Her Face
Keala Kennelly, a female pro surfer who is not—far as we know—a con artist, went under during a ride in Teahupoo, Tahiti at the end of August. She hit the reef so hard that the subsequent surgery was necessary in part to remove coral from her face. Video from the wipe-out was just released on Tues...
Can I Call You Back Later? There's A Foul Ball Screaming Toward My Head
This is the greatest catch, and no one seems to care. Where are the ovations? The panegyrics? Where is even the slightest acknowledgement from the announcers or the Texas crowd that this guy made a snap grab on a sharp line drive, without stirring or interrupting his phone conversation? Maybe it's...
The Indians' Shelley Duncan Made Leaping Catches At The Wall Three Straight Times Last Night
Your morning roundup for Sept. 15, the day we learned we're going to Mars. Photo via Big League Stew. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Tom Brady Wants Patriots Fans To Get Rowdy, "Lubed Up" On Sunday
Sunday's 4:15 p.m. game at Gillette Stadium is a big one for the home side. With the San Diego Chargers coming to town to face Tom Brady and the Patriots, the predictable "potential AFC Championship Game" angle is a repetitive inevitability....
Watch A Mom Jump Into A Fist Fight Between Her Daughter And Another 12-Year-Old Girl (NSFW)
"The Long Island woman arrested on charges she encouraged two 12-year-old girls, one of them her own daughter, to fight outside a local school is speaking out, saying she allowed the fight to protect her daughter....
Here Are Eight Mugshots Of Amish Guys With Odd Hair And Beards
Pictured here are "eight members of an Amish sect who were ordered jailed by a Kentucky judge after they refused to pay fines for failing to affix orange safety triangles to their horse-drawn buggies."...
Sadly, There Isn't Video Of Those Prison Guards Who Stabbed And Maced People At The Albuquerque Hooters
Per the KRQE report on shenanigans breaking out during Monday night's Broncos/Raiders game at an Albuquerque Hooters, police really don't know "what specifically set the brawl off." But that doesn't mean there are a lack of details about it....
Several Broncos Fans Plan To Spend Their Super Bowl Savings On "Start Tebow" Billboards
Some people might wait until Week Two to write off their professional football team's chances of a successful season. Jesse Oaks and his seven friends are not those people....
Presenting Footage Of Auburn's Eagle Mascot Crashing Into A Luxury Box Window
There are no concrete answers as to why Auburn University alum "Spirit" flew into a window at this past weekend's game against Mississippi State. As such, Harvey Updyke Jr. could have slipped it a roofie, but that would be treasonous, would it not?...
Here's Chad McGhee With Your Weekly Knox City Greyhounds Update And Blistering Jerry Jones Take Down
You should have heard the excitement in Chad McGhee's tone during the weekly call. It was unparalleled in football analytica. Such is what one would expect when the mighty Knox City Greyhounds got off the schneid with a 47-0 victory over the Rule Bulldogs....
If You're In Manhattan On Sunday And Would Like To Watch Football With Us, Please Stop By, Penis Breathers
Twice per month, Deadspin readers will be able to congregate and watch football in peace: no more screaming babies, nagging significant others, noisy pet hamsters or any other weekend distraction that's made your Sunday game-watching experience miserable. ...
The Losingest Losers Extend Their String of Losing Seasons
Today's 3-2 loss to the Cardinals before an announced crowd of 12,520 at PNC Park was No. 82 on the season for The Pittsburgh Baseball Club, thus extending the longest streak of consecutive losing seasons in the history of North American sports. I could have sworn the Bucs were in first place as la...
My Team Threw For 731 Yards And Lost
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....
The 61-Year-Old College Kicker Is Doing Well, Has To Use The Bathroom A Lot
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Alan Moore on being the oldest college football player ever....
Here's Sarah Palin Reporting On Glen Rice's Michigan Team Three Months After They Allegedly Humped
Just about three months after her alleged one-night stand with Michigan star player Glen Rice, Sarah Palin (then Sarah Heath) reported on a Wolverines game for Anchorage's KTUU-TV. In the clip above, she's reporting on Michigan's 80-67 loss to Purdue on March 3, 1988, in which clinched the Big Ten...
I-Team: Which College Basketball Team Guaranteed A Walk-Out If They Made The NCAA Final?
We gave you a cheat sheet to The Atlantic's long NCAA takedown this morning, but we left one surprising bit out, to which reader Aaron has directed us....
Curt Leskanic Had A Ridiculously High Breathalyzer Score During His DUI
We thought we'd never again hear the name of Curt Leskanic, who had all the stuff of a journeyman pitcher despite spending seven years in Colorado. He racked up a DUI this weekend near his Orlando home, but even this might not have put him on our radar if not for the fact that he was almost more alc...
Skip Bayless Finally Faces Down Chris Bosh After A Year Of Calling Him "Bosh Spice"
Skip Bayless is exceedingly proud of his "Bosh Spice" nickname (a nickname, it should be pointed out, he stole from the internet and claimed as his own). For weeks ESPN has been hyping Bosh's appearance on First Take, and everybody has been hoping for a confrontation on the level of Jim Everett an...