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New Yorkers! If you like horse racing and good sportswriting, you should attend tonight’s Varsity Letters reading series, presented by Gelf Magazine. Joe Drape, who covers horse racing for The New York Times, and Pia Catton, who covers the sport for the Wall Street Journal, will be participating in ...
The Rays Hope To Save Their Pitchers With New High-Tech Cameras
Yahoo’s Jeff Passan is reporting that the Tampa Bay Rays, a team that has always been at the forefront of baseball’s analytical revolution, have installed a new high-tech camera system at their home ballpark that they hope will help them save their pitchers from injury....
Watch WWE's Emotional Salute To Dusty Rhodes
WWE gave wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes its most esteemed tribute before the opening of tonight’s Money In The Bank PPV, as the entire company’s roster stood in silence for the traditional ten-bell salute to “The American Dream.”...
Note To Jay Mariotti: <i>Ray Donovan</i> Premieres On July 12
This is an urgent message for Jay Mariotti. Jay, please read this....
This Is The Best Dusty Rhodes Anecdote
You should read The Masked Man’s remembrance of Dusty Rhodes, because, obviously, it’s aces. (You should also read our own eulogy.) But all you need to know about Rhodes’s love of and commitment to his job is contained in this story told by his sons: ...
Hey, Look: It's LeBron's Dick! (NSFW, Probably)
It sure appears ABC caught LeBron James making an adjustment just before tipoff of tonight’s Game 4:...
Farewell To Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream
This one hurts. ...
Here's Our Favorite New Low-Alcohol Beer
Earlier this week, an employee of Colorado’s Caution Brewing Company threw his job to the wind via an angry and profane letter to Evil Twin Brewing in which he chastised the Brooklyn-based contract brewer for their high prices. Evil Twin posted the letter on their Facebook page, prompting Caution’s ...
Ty Cobb Was No One's Antihero
For no obvious reason, 2015 has become the summer of Ty Cobb. Two new books about the famously belligerent outfielder are in print this year, one from SI editor Charles Leerhsen and another, more ambitiously-subtitled one—War on the Basepaths: The Definitive Biography of Ty Cobb—by independent histo...
And This Is Why Deadspin Doesn't Collect IP Address Data
When you use a burner account to comment on Deadspin, we don’t log your IP address, or any other information about your computer. This might seem like an unnecessary precaution for your favorite neighborhood dick joke blog to take—who could possibly care about your comments?—but as our friends over ...
Nobody Can Touch Chris Sale Right Now
Remember yesterday, when we were talking about how incredible Rays ace and kiss-denier Chris Archer has been over his last three starts, during which he literally made baseball history? Well, it’s time to give Chris Sale some love, too, because he’s been just as dominant as Archer has during his las...
FIFA Exec Investigated For Disappearance Of Haiti Earthquake Money
If you were harboring any notions that FIFA couldn’t possibly be any more corrupt than it already is, prepare to be disabused of those notions. ...
Women's World Cup Group E Preview: Oodles Of Attacking Midfielders
Here’s everything you need to know about Group E....
NCAA Finally Puts Hammer Down On Games Against Fake Colleges
The NCAA is finally setting actual standards for its members, declaring “countable opponents” must be real colleges and not pseudo-schools masquerading as real colleges in order to earn game checks for showing up and getting blown out....
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What Happens If The Nigerians Just Start Wrecking Shit? What Then?
Listen: No one is saying Nigeria are definitely going to descend into the Group of Death, do battle with three of the top 10 teams in the world, emerge on the other side unscathedish, demolish whatever knockout-stage horrors await them, and take a real shot at this thing. No one is saying that. But,...
This Is Sweden's Last Best Chance At World Cup Glory
Sweden are good—very good—and have been for some time. They have qualified for each and every World Cup; they rumbled all the way to the final in 2007; in 2011, they made history by being the first and only team to ever beat the United States in a World Cup group stage match en route to a third-plac...
After Years Of Climbing, Have Australia Finally Reached The Mountaintop?
There’s a narrative that national teams understandably try to claim for themselves during World Cup years. That narrative goes something like this: Since our inception, we have slowly climbed the mountain, making slow, sure strides toward the summit. There are hiccups and rockslides and detours and ...
If Anything, The USWNT Might Be <i>Too</i> Stacked
When the United States Women’s National Team takes the pitch, they’ll be tasked with navigating the largest and deepest World Cup field ever. Though the Olympic gold medal more or less belongs to the USWNT—remember this?—they have tended to come up short on the sport’s biggest stage. They’ve advance...