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Missed Field Goal Followed By Marcus Peters Puking
Marcus Peters is as sickened by the state of placekicking in the NFL as you. CBS cameras caught the Chiefs defensive back vomiting after Oakland failed to get points on their fourth quarter drive today. Get well soon, Marcus....

Goalkeeping Boner Gives Portland A Goal 27 Seconds Into MLS Cup
Steve Clark got way too casual with this backwards pass from Wil Trapp and gifted Diego Valeri and the Portland Timbers a goal to start MLS Cup. At 27 seconds, this is easily the fastest goal in MLS Cup history....

Bills Fan Slams Santa Through A Table
It’s Christmastime, and that means families gather together, the spirit of giving moves us, and Santa Claus travels about, giving presents to children who’ve behaved all year. ...


Ohhhhhhh, Track & Field Organizations Are Supposed To Serve Track & Field Athletes. Oops!
It has come to track and field athletes’ attention that during all those gutting workouts, dark-thirty in the morning, when the rent was due and cupboards bare, and it seemed like no one had their back—they were right. No one had their back. While they were pounding out repeat 1000s, the organizatio...

U.S. Soccer Doesn't Care Enough About The Women's National Team
The United States Women’s National Team is scheduled to play a friendly in the Alamodome on Thursday. Right now, the game is slated to be played on a new turf surface that is about a year old. The last time the USWNT played at the Alamodome, Australian forward Kyah Simon tore her ACL. She lasted 27 ...

Fake Cops Under Fire For Beating Shit Out Of Houston Fans Celebrating AAC Title
Houston won its first AAC title yesterday with a 24-13 win over Temple. Afterward, Cougars fans rushed the field to celebrate their team’s championship, only to earn a series of beatdowns from the rent-a-cops guarding Houston’s stadium:...

Gusgasm: Iowa's Touchdown Brings Fox Announcer To Ecstasy
In Gus Johnson’s defense, we’d be driven to rapture by a touchdown finally being scored in the B1G title game, too....

Today Was A Great Day For American Soccer Players In Europe
Right now is not a banner time for American soccer players in Europe. There are precious few starters for top-tier European clubs, and many American stars have repopulated MLS rather than try to hack it in the big leagues....

Enraged Football Coach Headbutts Player, Gives Self Head Injury
Coach gotta chill out, man. The concussion problem in football is bad enough without you making it worse on yourself....

Alex Ovechkin Talks About His Diet, Hockey, How He Would Kill Himself If He Had One Day To Live
Alex Ovechkin has a feature in December’s issue of the Russian edition of Esquire, accompanied by a lovely cover portrait of the Capitals captain. Russian Machine Never Breaks translated portions of the interview, and Ovechkin provided some fun answers. A few quotes are below, but check out their pa...

Farewell, Elegant Bachelor: Scott Weiland, RIP
The thing about being a rock star in the ’90s is you had to act like you hated being a rock star, and this is where Scott Weiland made his first mistake. As frontman for Stone Temple Pilots, whose 1992 debut Core was an instant Columbia House Hall of Famer, he swaggered and sashayed and preened and ...

Oh Hell Yeah, Jeremih Finally Dropped <i>Late Nights </i>
Good morning! While you were sleeping, R&B singer Jeremih finally released Late Nights. (Hence the name.) I truly thought this album would never arrive, and the steady trail of little nuggets like the singles “Oui” and “Planes” felt like little teases of something we’d never hear in full. The album ...

Floyd Mayweather Says He Has A New Pet Tiger
In his latest effort to remind everyone of how extravagant his life is, boxer Floyd Mayweather used Instagram to announce that he had received a 2-month-old tiger as a gift while visiting Russia....

Coldplay Are Playing The Super Bowl Halftime Show, And LOL, You're Gonna Love It
Look, I’ll just tell you exactly how this is gonna go down. So Super Bowl Sunday 2016, it’ll be Panthers-Patriots, obviously, and when halftime comes around, the Panthers will be up, oh, let’s say between 60 and 80 points, and then Coldplay will do a little set. ...

Oscar Pistorius Found Guilty Of Murder
A South African appeals court overturned Oscar Pistorius’s previous conviction on lesser charges in the death of his girlfriend, and found the Olympic sprinter guilty of murder, which could carry a sentence of at least 15 years in prison....

Report: Swiss Authorities Raid Same Hotel As Last Time, Arrest More FIFA Officials (UPDATED)
Remember six months ago, when Swiss authorities raided a luxury hotel in Zurich to arrest a number of FIFA officials, on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department? Luckily for those of us who want to see the incompetent and corrupt world soccer organization brought to its knees, it’s happening again!...


A Goodbye From Grierson & Leitch
It’s a sad day here at Grierson & Leitch: After nearly four years of confusing you with movie reviews featuring seemingly arbitrary letter grades and inexplicable paragraph numbering, today is our last day at Deadspin. In two weeks, you can find us at our new home at The New Republic. But we want to...

How To Say Goodbye To City Life
There may come a time in your life when, through choice or necessity, you will find yourself abandoning the metropolis you’ve called home for however many years. The bars you’ve been kicked out of, the parks you’ve surreptitiously pissed in, the various former workplaces where you once spent so much...