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Now Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is Calling Out The NFL Over Colin Kaepernick

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran and a man of many sports takes, has now come to the defense of Colin Kaepernick, the out-of-work quarterback....

CORRECTED: Big Ten Network Suspends Braylon Edwards Indefinitely For Criticizing Michigan On Twitter

CORRECTION (7:51 p.m.): Though the announcement of Edwards’s suspension was made after Harbaugh’s press conference, Pat Kenny of Big Ten Network tells Deadspin that Edwards was informed of his suspension Sunday, before Harbaugh made his comments, and that “Coach Harbaugh’s comments had no bearing on...

Papa John's (The Pizza) Is Very, Very Sorry About What Papa John (The Guy) Did

Papa John’s is ready for the hurt to end. This wounded nation expected better of Papa “John” Schnatter, and his racist remarks have cut us deep. His crusade against his former company may have sprinkled red pepper flakes on the wound, but the time has come to gather around the kitchen table of forgi...

Paul Pogba's Agent Shit-Talks Man United Legend, And Things Are Looking Bad

Following Manchester United for the couple years, it’s hard to combat the sense that Paul Pogba isn’t very happy at the club right now. But for as up-and-down as his return to England has been, it seems like right now—with his manager criticizing him and the team playing poorly and unadventurously a...

Mike Clevinger Doesn't Need A Haircut

By the low standards of baseball, Indians starting pitcher Mike Clevinger is an interesting personality. He loves good vibes, has a flowery tattoo sleeve on his left arm, and frequently wears customized cleats, even if that means pushing back on MLB’s dour uniform rules. Clevinger also has long hair...

Mike Francesa: Yeah, I Remember Grinding My Feet Into Eddie's Couch

This is unreal....

The <i>Roanoke Times</i> Is Suing Its Former Reporter Over Refusal To Give Up Twitter Account 

A custody battle is raging between a newspaper and its former reporter over a Twitter account. The Roanoke Times’s parent company, BH Media, is suing one of the newspaper’s former college football reporters, Andy Bitter. They say he refused to hand control of his Twitter account—which he had acquire...

Cody Garbrandt Only Has Limp Excuses For His Rotten Old Tweets 

Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt will fight T.J. Dillashaw for his belt on Saturday, nine months after getting his face punched off by Dillashaw in his first-ever loss as a professional. In the run-up to the fight, MMA fans have surfaced a treasure trove of old tweets from Garbrandt, ...

Nationals' Sean Doolittle Does Some Good And Wise Tweets

Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle, whose teammate is one of three prominent baseball players recently found to have a history of homophobic and/or racist Twitter behavior, spent a portion of his Monday off constructing a thoughtful series of tweets on casual bigotry, baseball, and social media:...

The Value Of Public Shaming

The bad old tweets are an increasingly permanent component of the news cycle: An athlete does something good—has a good run of appearances, or gets drafted, or, say, loses a no-hitter with two strikes to go—and someone looks up his very old (and very public) tweets, which are racist and/or homophobi...

MLB Tweets, Deletes Dumb, Sweaty, Racist Joke About Ichiro And Shohei Ohtani

Someone on Major League Baseball’s social media crew tweeted and then quickly deleted a joke Friday night comparing an image of Ichiro and Shohei Ohtani greeting each other to a meme showing two cartoon Spider-Men pointing at each other in mutual recognition and surprise:...

Dez Bryant Is Going Off On The Cowboys And Sean Lee

How are you spending your Friday evening? Free agent wide receiver Dez Bryant is spending his ripping the Cowboys—most notably shithead VP Stephen Jones, linebacker Sean Lee, and offensive tackle Travis Frederick—to shreds....

Jon Heyman's Fingers Are Interfering With His MLB Scoops<em></em>

Fancred baseball scoopster Jon Heyman was either overwhelmed by the Brewers’ trade for reliever Joakim Soria, or his fingers were covered in Horsey sauce, because he had a lot of trouble reporting out the transaction....

Serving Up A Three-Run Homer Is Somehow Only The Second-Worst Part Of Josh Hader's Night<em></em><em></em>

Brewers reliever Josh Hader pitched just a third of an inning during Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game, and allowed a mighty three-run Jean Segura tater that put the American League ahead in the eighth. His hair was perfect, but it was otherwise not a great night for Milwaukee’s closer. But getting ...

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Plucky Little Lemon Rolling Its Way To Freedom

Are you ready to be surprisingly invested in the fate of a lemon? Are you ready to cheer, to gasp, to thrill as an indomitable citrus rolls ever onward, besting the gutter forces arrayed against it? ...

Here Is A Twitter Account I Have Been Enjoying This World Cup

Just consider this a recommendation for People But With Small Head, a Twitter account where, as it explains, “it is people but small head.”...

Woj's Synonyms For "Will Draft," Ranked<em></em>

Despite a report from Awful Announcing stating that reporters associated with NBA broadcast partners were asked by the league not to tip picks, the draft-night focus of ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski could not be shaken. But while Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania appeared to outright ignore the league’s orde...

Sixers Allow Bryan Colangelo To Resign After His Wife Admits To Operating Defensive Burner Accounts [Update]

The Philadelphia 76ers and collar-loving general manager Bryan Colangelo have “agreed to part ways” today, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Last week, the Ringer dropped a bombshell report advancing the theory that Colangelo had been secretly operating five Twitter accounts to defend himself. They wer...

Sounds Like Today Could Be A Big Day For Bryan Colangelo

Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo could be getting a little hot under the normal collar. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Sixers ownership spent “hours” Tuesday night discussing whether to fire Colangelo....