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Deadspin Up All Night: Thinking About You

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James Harrison Has Joined A Dodgeball League [UPDATE]

James Harrison, who had knee surgery last year and two back surgeries the year before, turns 35 in May. The Steelers are in salary-cap hell, and one of the biggest decisions they'll make this offseason is whether to keep the former NFL defensive player of the year around. In the meantime, Harrison h...

Super Bowl Tuesday? Sure, why not....

Here's A Video Of Dogs Saying "I Love You"

Originally published Feb. 14, 2011....

Deadspin Up All Night: So Devilish

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. You've got a smörgåsbord of NBA and college basketball action to keep you busy tonight, so enjoy that. We'll be back at it tomorrow....

Brian Bosworth Had A Real Nice Time At The xx Concert

You probably remember Brian Bosworth as the crazy linebacker with weird hair who was good in college but sucked in the NFL and once got trucked by Bo Jackson. Regardless of what you know about The Boz, though, you probably wouldn't expect him to be the kind of guy who sends tweets like this from Th...

Here's Why You Don't Tell Your Mom When Your Ski Races Are Scheduled

The other day, Yuri Danilochkin of Belarus went flying down the slope in the downhill competition at the FIS World Cup championships in Schladming, Austria. He just never made it past the first turn. Crashes happen in skiing, but be sure to watch what happens at the 58-second mark of the video abo...

Deadspin Up All Night: Where Even Richard Nixon Has Got Soul

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Watch This Gigantic High School Running Back Score Fat Guy Touchdowns

One of the sadder developments in the NFL has been the extinction of the fat running back. Gone are the days when Jerome Bettis, T.J. Duckett, Ron Dayne, Najeh Davenport, and LenDale White made a living by hefting their considerable weight up and down the field....

Deadspin Up All Night: Somebody Come And Get Me

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If You Use "Gay" As An Insult, Kobe Bryant Might Call You Out On Twitter

Kobe Bryant hasn't had a Twitter account for very long, but he's quickly becoming one of the most interesting follows in the NBA. Yesterday, that trend continued when Bryant called out one Twitter user for using "gay" as a pejorative. Here's the tweet that set everything off:...

Michael Vick Is Staying With The Eagles, Let's Get Excited

Word just came down that Michael Vick, who was previously pegged as a prime candidate to be released by the Philadelphia Eagles due to the $15 million left on his contract, will in fact be staying in Philly for at least one more season. Vick and the Eagles restructured his deal, and he now has a on...

Lil Wayne Says He Was Kicked Out Of The Lakers-Heat Game, Possibly For Threatening Another Fan

Maybe Lil Wayne should just stop going to live sporting events. First, there was that whole kerfuffle about him not being able to attend a Thunder game, which brought accusations of racism. Then he had a strange meltdown at the DirectTV Celebrity Beach Bowl, and now it appears that he was kicked ou...

Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend Two Dudes Showed Us How To Sneak Into The Super Bowl

Two Savannah State Students Recorded Themselves Sneaking Into The Super Bowl | Highlights include one of the men incredulously narrating "I wonder what's going on-they should've stopped us, they should've stopped us but they didn't." Read »...

How'd Those Fans Get There? A Deeper Dive Into The Facebook NFL Fandom Map

After weeks of us awkwardly guessing who wanted to watch which NFL games, Facebook finally used its terrifying trove of user data and made the map that no one else could. In our original post, we pointed out some of the more surprising fan pockets, but the data deserve a deeper dive. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: A Little Story For You

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Two Savannah State Students Recorded Themselves Sneaking Into The Super Bowl

If walking past dozens of police and security guards while sneaking into the Super Bowl is not brazen enough for you, these two guys decided to film themselves doing it, too. According to Savannah Morning News, what you see below is "footage of how they snuck into the stadium just in time for Beyo...

<i>Saturday Night Live</i>'s Cold Open Spoofed The Super Bowl Blackout

It's been a week since the Super Bowl, but Saturday Night Live is a weekly show, unfortunately airing the night before Super Bowl Sunday, so they just got around to pointing out the uselessness of studio shows. Keenan Thompson as James Brown guides the skit and has some fun when, at his wit's end, h...

Deadspin Up All Night: Raw Deal

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Five New Jersey Mayors Are Threatening To Withhold Police And Emergency Services From Next Year's Super Bowl

Many a lame observation has been made about the likelihood that next year's Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium will be ruined by bad weather like the stuff we've got now. It's silly. Rare is the storm that dumps a foot of snow on the New York metropolitan area, and rarer still is the football fan that wo...