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Mauricio Pochettino Says Video Replay Threatens To "Kill The Emotion" Of Soccer
Yesterday’s Tottenham-Rochdale match had all the ingredients for great game. It had stakes, as an F.A. Cup knockout match; it had narrative, since it pit a Goliath of a club against a lower league David; it had drama, after it went into halftime tied at one goal apiece as Rochdale fought valiantly t...
I Hope To Be Like This Surfer And Survive Life's Batterings
In the grand metaphor of life, where the ocean is the world and we are the surfer getting battered against some rocks, it’s comforting to know that there are people like Australian Ross Clarke-Jones. ...
Olympian Haley Anderson Ranks The Buoyancy Of Olympic Heroes
Two-time Olympic open swimmer Haley Anderson knows a thing or two about buoyancy, but how does she feel about the buoyancy of, say, Olympic curler Matt Hamilton? Or Aja Evans? Or the relative merits of the Williams sisters versus the Knowles sisters? It truly takes an Olympian to bring clarity to th...
Kerri Walsh Jennings Ranks Olympians As Volleyball Prospects
Kerri Walsh Jennings is a five-time Olympian volleyballer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. Here her expertise is directed to the task of ranking things, including the volleyball potential of other U.S. Olympians, and other people whose names are some form of “Kerri.” Enjoy!...
Amy Van Dyken Ranks The Swim Strokes, For Once And For All
Amy Van Dyken has six Olympic gold medals in swimming, so who better than her to finally settle the debate that has stymied mankind since life first tetrapod-paddled up onto dry land. Which swimming stroke is the best??...
We Made Olympic Fencer Daryl Homer Rank Things
Bronx-born fencer Daryl Homer won silver in the individual saber at the 2016 Olympics, but he’s watching the Pyeongchang games from home, just like you. So, as you’ll see in the video above, we had him play a little game....
Here Is Your Daily Dose Of Adam Rippon Being Delightful
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—“Nobody loves me as much as I love me; so I guess I’ll just be my own Valentine tomorrow,” American figure skater Adam Rippon said at a press conference the day after he helped the U.S. team win a bronze medal with his clean free skate. Either he really really loves himself ...
Let's Remember Some Guys: 1992 Baseball Guys
We’re opening the coolest pack in the streets today on Let’s Remember Some Guys: 1992 Upper Deck! That means we got three times the Ken Griffey Jr. to remember, a bunch of utility guys with mustaches, and Nolan Ryan bonding with a child, all in a pack that our own David Roth calls “catcher-ful.”...
Video Replay Thwarted When Flag-Waving Fan Blocks Camera
Video replay in soccer, as in all sports, sucks. This is true mostly for philosophical reasons, but also for logistical ones, too. Like when this Boavista fan inadvertently boned their own team by waving a huge flag that blocked the camera angle that probably would’ve invalidated the opponent’s goal...
We Ate Lutefisk And Didn’t Die<em></em>
So this is lutefisk, and it sucks. It’s fish that been preserved in lye and broken down into a strange jellylike texture, which is exactly as appeitizing as it sounds. We bought it because we were in Minnesota and it seemed like a very Minnesota thing to do even though virtually NO Minnesotans eat t...
Let's Play Broomball: The Other Ice Sport!
Any asshole can play hockey, but the delightful Minnesotan sport of BROOMBALL is for TRUE ICEBOYS. ...
The Deadspin Eagles Idiot Visited The Mall Of America
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — When it opened in 1992, the Mall of America was so big the owners offered rentable cell phones so shoppers could contact each other throughout the mall. It is now the second-largest mall in the country in terms of gross leasable space, behind the King of Prussia Mall in suburban...
Upon Further Review, The NFL Dodged A Bullet
Thank god for Brandon Graham. It was his effectively game-sealing strip-sack of Tom Brady—an actual, incontrovertible football play, a display of the kind of strength and athleticism and determination that bring us to the sport in the first place, a moment for which there was no reason to doubt your...
The Drew Magary Super Bowl Chili Recipe, Now With Video!<em></em>
Every year I post this recipe for the Super Bowl. But this year, we decided to go one step further and make it on camera for you. Drool on your keyboard at all the hot, meaty, food porn you are about to witness herein. Roth’s scallion chopping game is not to be denied. We added a guest meat to the r...
OH MY GOD SNOWMOBILING RULES DROP EVERYTHING YOU HAVE NOW AND BUY A SNOWMOBILE OR ELSE SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ONLINE LIKE A LOSER<em></em>
This week the Deadspin Snow Idiots visited the toddlin’ town of St. Bonifacius to ride some snowmobiles with friend of the blog Karl and his father-in-law, Jeff. And brother, lemme tell you: I have wasted my life. To think I went 41 years without knowing the feel of a growling snowhog between my amp...
Let’s Go Ice Fishing Like Fucking Morons<em></em>
I am fully aware that literally everyone in sports media did an ice fishing stunt here in Minnesota this week. But what if I told you that OUR ice fishing stunt was the bestest? Changes your whole outlook on matters now, doesn’t it?...
Let's Remember Some Guys: 1990 Basketball Guys
In this episode of Let’s Remember Some Guys, Tom Ley and I try to find treasure in a pack of 1990 Fleer basketball cards. We get into a tangent about old basketball nicknames and how David “The Admiral” Robinson and Ken “Snake” Norman had badass ones. (Apparently Norman hates snakes, though.) Fat Le...
Baby Will Definitely Grow Up To Be Hoagie-Loving Adult
Philadelphia is already out of control with Super Bowl fever, and this baby is no exception. This kid has likely heard the word “Eagles” 10 million times over the last few weeks, so why wouldn’t his first word be “Eagles”? The only thing that’s surprising is that he didn’t say “Go Birds.”...
Let's Remember Some Guys: 1990 Basketball Guys
Walking baseball almanac David Roth and I have spent a lot of time remembering the vaguely known guys of the diamond, but today, we’re switching it up. While we’re sticking around in the same dawn-of-grunge/golden age of hip-hop era (the late ’80s and early ’90s), the shorts are shorter, and the ret...