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Here's Charles Barkley Wearing An Ill-Fitting Shirt
We received this image moments ago in an email from reader Tyler, with no text other than the subject "Charles Barkley Swapping Shirts with a Bro." ...
Terry Francona Should Be Fired Immediately
Today was the home-opener for the Indians and according to Francona, he got lost on his way to Progressive Field this morning....
Central Figure In Selena Roberts's Nothingburger Auburn Story Pleads Guilty
Mike McNeil, the central figure in Selena Roberts's much-bruited story about the University of Auburn football program, has pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. He will serve at least three years in prison, nothing like the 21-years-to-life sentence he'd faced on the original charges. That brings...
Report: Naked Man Ransacks SPEED Network Offices After Break-In
Police in Charlotte said the nude dude broke into the building sometime this morning. He tore stuff from the walls, dumped trash cans on the floor, and broke trophies by knocking them over. He then dashed outside and started running down the street before being apprehended. Also? "A SPEED security g...
Dumb Shining Moment: Your 2013 NCAA Tournament Lowlight Reel
Tonight in Atlanta, Louisville and Michigan will battle for the national title in what promises to be a game full of spectacular and heroic plays—some of which will make CBS's "One Shining Moment" highlight reel afterward. Here's a compilation of our favorite March Madness moments from 2013 that wo...
Boris Diaw Made A Lego Harlem Shake Video, Because Sure, Why Not
The very first release from Diaw's Babac Films is this, a surprisingly hypnotic take on a dying meme....
The Art Of Screwing Up: How NCAA Refs Live With Their Mistakes
In the second round of the 2012 NCAA tournament, 16th-seeded UNC-Asheville trailed top-seeded Syracuse by three points with 38.2 seconds remaining, Orange inbounding the ball. This was a big moment for the Bulldogs, and it would prove to be a big moment, too, for a man whose name and face you wouldn...
Let's Watch This Drunk Blue Jays Fan Vomit Like A Champ
Man goes to baseball game. Man spends nine innings consuming what must have been copious amounts of alcohol. Man sends forth a river of vomit while trying to leave stadium. Man saunters off like nothing happened. Man probably feels much better....
Sad Novak Djokovic Cries On Serbian TV After Ankle Injury
Novak Djokovic led Serbia to a big win over Sam Querrey and the U.S. in the Davis Cup yesterday, but at what cost?...
Fucking Vote: The Curse Word Bracket Final Is Here
The final of the Deadspin Swear Word Bracket has arrived. And despite a valiant attempt by "cunt" to take down top seed "fuck," this is looking less like a tournament than it is a coronation....
Baseball Team Loses "Another Game By A Point," According To Newspaper
Need a statistic to explain exactly what ails the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim during their 2-4 start? Look no further than the subhead in Saturday's Los Angeles Times. We're confident the Angels will get it together as soon as they start scoring more points than their opponents. [Twitter]...
Lawsuit Alleges That Curt Schilling's Company Concealed Financial Information To Get Loan From Rhode Island
It's been months since the Curt Schilling's quixotic pursuit to create an online role playing game ended with his video game company, 38 Studios, going belly up. 38 Studios didn't go bankrupt until after it had taken a $75 million dollar loan from the state of Rhode Island, though, and new court do...
ESPN X Games Memo Asks Staffers To Work For Free And Not Make Fun Of Brazilian People
ESPN's X Games are slouching toward Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, the first of three new international host cities, where competition begins next week and where staffers are arriving to find that their mellows have already been thoroughly harshed. It seems that money is tight in this corner of the $40 bi...
Steelers Player Tweets Really Dumb Photo
Last October, Steelers nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu got wasted and decided to play bumper cars with several parked vehicles on Pittsburgh's South Side. Thursday, Ta'amu was sentenced to just 18 months' probation for it all. Last night, Ta'amu's friend tweeted the photo you see here, and Ta'amu re-twee...
This Is The Perfect Miami Marlins Vanity License Plate
Mierda means "shit" in Spanish....
A Scary Minor League Hockey Injury Led To This Blood-Covered Skate
This skate belongs to Eric Wellwood of the Adirondack Phantoms, the Flyers' AHL affiliate, who hurt himself during a game yesterday afternoon. The blood is his own, and the injury—a severed tendon in his right leg, just above the ankle—was of his own doing....
Blake Griffin Decides Finger Rolls Are Stupid, Throws Down Dunk
This play is impressive enough at full speed, thanks to Griffin's ability to momentarily transform into Clyde Drexler and go gliding through the sky for a breakaway dunk. But then you see the slow-motion replay, and you realize that Griffin was planning on laying that ball in, only to change his mi...