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Grand Theft Blotto: What <em>GTAV</em> Means To A Laid-Off Depressive Like Me

I am on a rampage. Having recently been laid off from my posh tech job, the one with the free sodas and Work From Home days, the one where the employees put the casual in business casual and there's non-stop tension between the Product and Design teams, the one where the staff, like its counterparts...

Mexico Keeps World Cup Dreams Alive With Spectacular Bicycle Kick

This, from Mexico's Raúl Jiménez, came in the 85th minute, four minutes after Panama had just equalized and bummed all of Mexico out. Jimenez brought them all back to life with a bicycle kick laser that left Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo rooted to his spot. Look at him. Either it's going wide or, ...

Deadspin Up All Night: We're Past Elation

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With The World Cup Clinched, USMNT Players Must Now Fight For Spots

The United States men's national team is take on Jamaica this evening in what is, thankfully, a somewhat meaningless World Cup qualifying match. That's because the Americans already whooped Mexico, as well as everyone else in CONCACAF, to clinch a spot in next year's tournament in Brazil. So what's ...

English Soccer Is Dead, And It Deserves To Be

World Cup qualifying runs this week, and a lot of what's going on involves glorified exhibition play. Continental giants like the Netherlands and Italy are booked for Brazil, as is our great nation; other teams of interest, like Germany, Spain, Portugal, and France are more or less box-checking. The...

So Many Manningfaces: Your Giants-Bears Roundup

Bears 27, Giants 21: A game on short rest was the least helpful thing to the Giants' 0-5 woes. New York actually held it together for the most part, though, and their defense gave the team a chance. Unfortunately, Eli Manning's turnovers severely hindered the offense. Matt Schaub knows how you're ...

Deadspin Up All Night: What A Wonderful World This Could Be

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Escaped Dog Runs Half-Marathon, Wins Medal, Gets Neutered

Boogie got off his leash Friday night, and the next day decided to join the Evansville half-marathon. He finished in 2:15—better than most of the entered runners—and promptly got sent to an animal shelter for his trouble....

Deadspin Up All Night: The Unity Of Money And Machine Gun

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Perfectly Timed Sports TV Graphics Are A Gift From God

We spend so much time here making fun of chyron mistakes that we sometimes forget to give thanks for the serendipitous moments where on-screen graphics and live action work in hilarious concert. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Motion Movement

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There's almost no way the USMNT can earn a top seed at the World Cup: The top eight seeds for Brazil will be decided by this month's FIFA rankings, where the U.S. currently sit 13th. Even if they win both matches this week, moving into the top seven (host Brazil are automatically in) would require s...

The 11 Best Things For Sale At Curt Schilling's Bankruptcy Auction

Curt Schilling is being sued by the state of Rhode Island as a result of that whole video game company going bankrupt and defaulting on $75 million in loans thing. In an attempt to satisfy his creditors, Schilling's putting the contents of his Medfield home up for estate auction, enabling you (or so...

Presidents Cup Streaker: "I Wanted To Add A Little Excitement To Golf"

Stephanie Wei, at Wei Under Par, interviewed the Presidents Cup streaker and got her—Kimberly Webster is her name, by the way—to give a play-by-play of sorts of her mostly-nude sprint....

Deadspin Up All Night: Y'All Know What I'm Bringing To You

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There's No Crying At The Pee Wee Super Bowl

A new magazine story from Jeanne Marie Laskas is good reason to be excited. Her latest for GQ, "There's No Crying at the Pee Wee Super Bowl" looks like another sure shot:...

Matt Schaub Is A Broken, Morose Man: Your 49ers-Texans Roundup

49ers 34, Texans 3: As you can probably tell from the final score, San Francisco controlled this game. Matt Schaub threw a pick-six within the first two minutes of the game, his fourth in four straight games; he was not happy. ...

Here's Video Of The Female Presidents Cup Streaker

Per reader Kyle, we now have some footage of the half-naked Idiot on the Links from the Presidents Cup. She's pretty damn fast....

Deadspin Up All Night: Circulate

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