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The Deadspin Milk Idiots Try To Identify Some Milks
Deadspin did a blind milk taste test. There were multiple fat percentages, and one non-cow wild card. Each of the six participants sipped the four milks and recorded their answers. You should watch the video, but here are the results: ...
The FBI's College Basketball Investigation Made Simple
Even though the fallout from the FBI’s ongoing college basketball investigation is just in the beginning stages, the abruptness of the Department of Justice’s announcement made it difficult to keep tabs on just what or who is being investigated, let alone understand the sprawling effects this will h...
Which Of These Are Real FA Cup Team Names?
Part of the appeal of the FA Cup is the chance to see lesser-known teams potentially upset big-name clubs. But even if you care about this particular competition, you’re probably not paying that much attention until the Premier League teams start playing. We wanted to know if even real soccer fans—...
Can Jets Fans Name Five Jets Players?
When I set out for the Meadowlands on Sunday morning with Anders Kapur, I hoped to find tailgating Jets fans who were in a good mood. This might sound like an impossible mission—are Jets fans even capable of experiencing joy?—but my interactions with Jets fans through the years have taught me that t...
Raiders Superfan Dr. Death On Giving Up Football
I’ve never lost a team. I don’t and can’t really understand what Raiders fans are going through with the planned departure of the team from Oakland; that’s what I came here to figure out....
The World Beard And Mustache Championships Is A Place To Be Seen
If you watch the Westminster Dog Show on television, what you’ll see is the best of groups—like toy or hunting—and ultimately the best in show. But earlier in the day, in a warehouse on a pier, judges pick the best in breed. This is my favorite part. Since dog shows grade canines on their adherence ...
When Women Played Baseball
I went to Rockford, Ill. to watch girls play baseball 63 years after the real Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League played their last season and 25 years after A League Of Their Own introduced their story to a new generation. The Peaches were the most successful te...
An Arm Wrestling Champion Shares His Secrets Then Humiliates Us Anyway
“At a low level, if a weaker guy is beaten by a stronger person, they’ll think they can never win. But at a high level, if a stronger guy beats you, you know you can get him at a different time,” competitive arm wrestler Patrick Baffa told me before he came office to teach me and some Deadspin staff...
Here Are Three Minutes Of Overdramatic Voiceover From <i>All Access: Mayweather Vs. McGregor</i>
At its core, Showtime’s All Access series is designed to do one thing: Convince viewers to pony up the money for the pay-per-view. The latest season, which follows Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather before their August 26 fight, is doing a hard sell. ...
Which Deadspin Staffer Would Make The Best Ball Person?
Have what it takes to be a ball person at a pro tennis tournament? Yeah, we thought so, too. When the U.S. Open begins at Flushing Meadows on August 28, a whole fleet of ball people will mobilize to ensure every match runs as smoothly as possible. We will not be among them....
We Played Connect Four With New Hall Of Famer Pudge Rodriguez
Over the winter, Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez became just the second catcher ever to be elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. (Johnny Bench was the other.) It was well deserved: Over 21 seasons in the big leagues, Pudge was, amont other things, a 14-time All Star, a 13-time Gold Glove winner, a...
The National Marbles Tournament Has One Prize Nobody Wants<em></em>
WILDWOOD, N.J. — The beach at Wildwood is so wide, from boardwalk to surf, that we could barely see the water from where we sat on one of three empty metal bleachers in the sand surrounding the 94th (mostly) annual National Marbles Tournament. A transient parade of spectators watched from the boardw...
Wildwood Boardwalk T-Shirt Patrons Explain Their Questionable Purchases
Despite years of chronicling the unique t-shirt culture on the Wildwood Boardwalk in New Jersey, I’ve never really asked anyone on the boards why they buy what they buy when it comes to wonderfully bad t-shirts. Until now....
Meet The New York Giants Fans Who Still Love Their Team, 60 Years After It Left Them Behind
The New York Giants became the San Francisco Giants in 1957, and all that remains of the stadium they used to play in, the Polo Grounds, is an old staircase that once led to the stadium’s entrance. Tucked within a nearby housing development are two plaques, one denoting where home plate used to be, ...
We Made Rick Ankiel Play Jenga With Us
When Rick Ankiel’s long, strange career ended in 2013, he was left with a .240 batting average in almost 2,000 at-bats, a 3.90 ERA over 242 innings, and a place in the record books next to Babe Ruth as the only other player to start a playoff game as the pitcher and hit a home run in the postseason ...
We Talked To Marshall Faulk About Retirement, Donnel Pumphrey, And Angry Pats Fans
Marshall Faulk picked in an inopportune time to dredge up his 2002 Super Bowl beef with New England. The Hall of Fame running back and NFL Network Analyst insisted that Tom Brady’s claim as the greatest quarterback ever should come with an asterisk on the same day that Brady and the Pats pulled off ...
Bills Fans Combine A Hora And Keg Stand
Spoiler alert: the chair and person are not thrown through any sort of furniture....
Jeff Fisher Tries To Challenge Play, Is Thwarted By His Own Coat
Los Angeles Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who recently received a two-year contract extension and couldn’t correctly name his opponent’s players this week, was soundly defeated by his coat during today’s game against the Patriots....
Rams Can't Even Fair Catch A Punt Without Incident
All the Los Angeles Rams’ special teams unit had to do was catch a punt. That’s it. Just wave for the fair catch so Jeff Fisher’s offense can figure out a new way to go three-and-out. Instead, Pharoh Cooper had to deal with his own teammate laying a hit on him....
Messy Niners-Dolphins Stadium Brawl Punctuated By Miami Fan Complaining About Play-Calling
What prompted this fight in the stands at Sunday’s 49ers-Dolphins game is unclear—the uploader’s description shares his account of the events—but there’s a lot going on....