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Deadspin Up All Night: Gold
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Erik will be with you in a few for the hoops and such....
In Most Annoying Twitter Fight Ever, Rick Reilly Defends George Will From Donald Trump
Donald Trump, when he's not questioning Barack Obama's citizenship or trying to revive his years-old slap-fight with Rosie O'Donnell, sometimes says funny things on Twitter. Not "ha-ha" funny things, but "your weird uncle walking around with his robe open at Thanksgiving" funny things....
Are You A Current Or Former Make-Up Person At ESPN? Do You Know One? Please Contact Us.
Do you (or did you) work in the make-up department at ESPN HQ in Bristol? We've heard some, erm, stories. About certain, um, talent. Email me at [email protected]. I'll explain....
Deadspin Up All Night: Good Disease
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People Call This Rugby Player "Beast." See If You Can Guess Why.
When you're young and stupid this is how you imagine all sports moments ought to look, like something out of a G-rated movie about an all-star donkey who plays point guard, or one of those daydream sandlot plays that involves you jumping off a friend's shoulders to catch the would-be home run. Then...
The Odds Ever Favor The Truly Regional NCAA Baseball Bracket
The NCAA has just announced its baseball championship bracket, to approximately one billionth of the fanfare that its annual orgy of uneducated guesswork, the basketball championships, engenders. But take a moment to appreciate the symmetry, and the humble nature of the appropriately named Regionals...
The Flaming Lips, Oklahoma City's Only Other Reason For Being, Rewrite 1999 Track to Celebrate Thunder
While the Thunder ponder what might have been in San Antonio last night if they hadn't committed four offensive fouls in the fourth quarter, or if they'd defended Manu Ginobili with something sturdier than hard glares, they can regroup to the flattering sounds of OKC's favorite local psychedelic roc...
Happy Memorial Day! Here Are Some Really Happy Dogs Welcoming Soldiers Home
Originally published for Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2010. Just as affecting today....
Deadspin Up All Night: We Will Slumber
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Deadspin Up All Night: Try To Find The Sun
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"Lots Of Dead Or Dying Bodies. Thought I Was In A Morgue": A Woman Tweets Her Way Up Mt. Everest
Sandra Leduc is an attorney from Canada who quite literally just finished scaling the world's highest mountain. She also live-tweeted her ascent. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: The Livin's Easy
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We're ducking out early for the holiday weekend. Sean and Tim will be back with you tomorrow. Enjoy yourselves out there....
Pussyblocked By Your College Major!
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase three heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....
David Segui Led A Parents' Uprising Against The Shady Coach At Bryce Harper's Junior College
Long before Bryce Harper injected D.C. with Natitude, he played for the College of Southern Nevada Coyotes. Harper was then the same athletic freak he is now. He left after one season because he was draft-eligible and the Nats offered a lot of money. But, according to sources quoted in the Las Veg...
J.R. Smith Arrested For Being Black In Miami Beach
Urban Beach Weekend starts today, but the Miami Beach cops were ready to party last night. Even though the police force has absolutely no quotas about how many young, recreation-seeking black people they're supposed to lock up over the holiday weekend, New York Knick/Zhejiang Golden Bull J.R. Smith ...
The AP Is Gay For Stupid
So I'm reading along, enjoying this pleasant little story by the AP about UConn hockey players appearing in PSAs in which they not only pledge their support to "any teammate, gay or straight, that can help us win games" but do so with a welcome matter-of-factness—as if they were telling you someth...
Deadspin Up All Night: Keep Trying
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Deadspin Up All Night: Roll
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Hate Hockey? Hate Women? The CBC's Women-Only Stanley Cup Feed Is For You
Canadian national broadcaster CBC announced today the network's Stanley Cup Finals coverage will include an alternate audio channel featuring Lena Sutherland and Jules Mancuso of While The Men Watch, a site dedicated to "sports commentary that women actually want to hear."...