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Jim Schwartz Ain't Even Mad
The Colts topped Detroit yesterday thanks to some last-second Andrew Luck magic, and it's the sort of ending one might expect could launch notoriously-volatile Lions coach Jim Schwartz into orbit. Not so, it seems, as Schwartz simply brushed it off with a "haters gonna hate" and marched back into t...
Tebowmania Is For Rubes: Jets Fans Seek Salvation Through Greg McElroy
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Harrison Barnes Demolishes Nikola Pekovic With The Dunk Of The Year
Not long ago, Harrison Barnes was touted as the next big thing, a guy who was destined for NBA stardom. A disappointing college career changed all that, however, and Barnes—just a rookie—is now associated with unfulfilled potential. So it's easy to forget that he can do things like this....
Jim Schwartz's Illegal Challenge Doubled The Texans' Chances Of Winning The Game
With the possible exception of the tuck rule, the rule that tripped up the Lions and Jim Schwartz has to be one of the dumbest in the game. You don't have to throw the challenge flag because we'll review it on our own, the rulebook says, but if you throw the challenge flag we won't review it....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Don Nelson, Drunk On His Own Genius (And Scotch)
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
News Corp Buys Into The YES Network, As The RSN Bubble Grows Closer To Bursting
What was rumored last week has been officially announced: News Corporation will purchase 49 percent of the YES Network, and become the single biggest shareholder in the single most lucrative regional sports network in the country....
The Weirdest And Worst Ballots Of MLB Awards Voting
Just because voting is subjective does not mean voters can't be wrong. So, with the knowledge that no ballot will make everyone happy, and with sincere appreciation for the BBWAA making all ballots public, let's hand out some awards to the most mystifying, inexplicable, and just downright terrible M...
Here's That Alabama Fan's Video Game Meltdown, Set To The Game Footage
Monday, we brought you this, which was amazing: an XBox live gamer freaking out in his game as he watched Bama lose to Texas A&M. Now someone has helpfully set the audio to the actual game footage. Still hilarious....
Will We Ever Hear From These <em>Twilight</em> People Again?
Friday brings with it the end of the half-decade scourge of the Twilight films. There have been five of them, and I have to confess to you, I haven't seen a single one of them. I know they are about vampires, I know the books they're based off are terrible, and I know that they make a shit-ton of mo...
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Antawn Jamison, Captain Of Failure
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Andris Biedrins, The Man Who Forgot How To Shoot
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
A Crimson Tide Fan Watches Alabama Lose And Melts Down In His <i>Modern Warfare 3</i> Game
Online multiplayer is great for exposing you to a wide swath of humanity. Most of that swath is 13-year-old boys hurling slurs, but there's other stuff too. Like this, from a game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, played Saturday evening just as Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M were finishing up thei...
The Lakers Found A New Coach In Seven Seconds Or Less: Mike D'Antoni
ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Marc Stein are reporting that the Los Angeles Lakers have settled on Mike D'Antoni as the team's replacement for Mike Brown. This move is surprising for a few reasons, first among them the fact that D'Antoni is still recovering from knee surgery, and as recently as last ...
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Dwight Howard, The Superman Of Unfunny
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Brandon Rush Won't, In Fact, Be Alright
In a cosmic sense, that's probably true, and we admire Brandon's stoicism....
Late Contender For Most Infantilizing Headline Of The Year: "Dez Bryant Stays Out Past Midnight"
That's sitting atop this piece on ESPN-it's on ESPN's frontpage headline feed as "Cowboys' Bryant gets permission to be out late"-about Dez Bryant's 24th birthday, which is tomorrow. Dez has been living under strict rules, enforced by Cowboys employees and personal advisers, ever since he assaulted...
Mark Cuban Turned Into A Crazy Penguin When Dwight Howard Fouled Out
When Dwight Howard fouled out of his first game in a Lakers uniform, one L.A. dropped to the Mavericks 99-91, it made Dallas owner Mark Cuban a bit wobbly....
The NFL Network Crew Continues To Push The Envelope With Truly Bizarre Content
Man, I don't know what is going on here, but like a lot of the NFL Network's content, it just makes me uncomfortable. This is one of those segments that sounds great in theory: a goofy Halloween-themed bit that is also about football....