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Deadspin Up All Night: One Of Those Bands Got Paid
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The Organizers Of The Qatar World Cup Are Very Mad At Us
Below is an email that just popped into our inbox, from Paul Hughes, head of international media relations for Qatar's Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy (!). That makes him the main flack for the outfit that's overseeing the 2022 World Cup, which one international group expects to kill more peo...
Poll: White People Don't Want College Athletes To Be Paid
A poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News finds that a sizable majority of Americans are opposed to paying college players. Well, white Americans. ...
Georgia Grocery Store Terrorized By Giant Nightmare Bulldog
This picture comes to us from an Athens, Ga., resident who was just trying to get some grocery shopping done when he was confronted by this helldog in his local Kroger. ...
Report: Qatar's World Cup Expected To Take More Lives Than 9/11
"Qatar is a country without a conscience," begins the International Trade Union Confederation's recent report on the working and living conditions of the 1.4 million migrant workers living in Qatar, many of whom are there to build stadiums and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. After reading thr...
Deadspin Up All Night: Heart Entire
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How To Organize Your Spices Without Driving Yourself Crazy
Before we do this thing, we need to do a bit of expectation management: Because Foodspin is a site about food, and not a site about design or style, the focus of these tips will be on function over form. If you want to achieve one of those picture-perfect spice displays, head to Pinterest for ideas....
Deadspin Up All Night: Cry Like A Ghost
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Sensational, Inspirational, Celebrational: <em>Muppets Most Wanted</em>, Reviewed
When Roger Ebert gave The Naked Gun a rave review back in 1988, this is how he praised it: "You laugh, and then you laugh at yourself for laughing. Some of the jokes are incredibly stupid. Most of them are dumber than dumb." Muppets Most Wanted is that way, too. This sequel to the very enjoyable ...
What Are The Best Upset Picks In The First Round?
You may have noticed that the "expert brackets" we put together are mostly chalk, because they're picking the single most likely outcome of each individual game....
Map: How Hollywood Has Destroyed America
How many times have you seen New York City destroyed onscreen? Los Angeles? Kansas? For nearly as long as there have been movies, there have been disaster movies. The map above shows 189+ such cinematic attacks—using a very broad definition of the "disaster" genre—that have afflicted various parts o...
Deadspin Up All Night: Eclipse/Blue
Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. This isn't the first round. ...
Report: FIFA VP Paid Millions By Qatari Firm After World Cup Vote
It's a good sign a sport's governance is seriously screwed up when a report emerges that a FIFA executive received millions of dollars from a Qatari soccer official after Qatar was awarded the World Cup, and everyone's first reaction isn't anger, but more along the lines of "no shit."...
Deadspin Up All Night: I'll Just Hitchhike Back To Mine
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The NFL Now Wants $15.1 Million From M.I.A., Because The NFL Is Crazy
It was pretty goddamn ridiculous—for reasons explained here and here—when the NFL decided that it was going to sue M.I.A. for flipping the bird during her Super Bowl halftime performance, but according to new documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the league's suit against M.I.A. has now gon...
Hank The Dog Gets A Hero's Welcome In Milwaukee
Hank the dog stays winning like no dog before him. Over the weekend, Hank arrived at his new permanent home in Milwaukee, and he was welcomed in style....
I Can't Stop Watching This Dog Run Around In A Football Costume
We're a little late to this, but man, is that one cute football-playing dog. Look at those tiny arms! We really have been watching it for a while....
Jim Harbaugh Has A Push-Up Contest With A Walrus
Here's Jim Harbaugh in gym-teacher mode getting down and doing some 'shups with Siku the walrus. Nice form, Siku. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Spitting Venom
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Who's in your Final Four? What are the chances of a 1/16 upset this year? Which team will screw up a bunch of brackets? Talk about it!...
Deadspin Up All Night: You Better Invest
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