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Here's An Old "Haters Gonna Say It's Fake" Video From High School-Era Carson Wentz

This one’s pretty self-explanatory. Tipster Ed sent us this video of a young Carson Wentz and his friends fucking around and creating a proto-“Haters gonna say it’s fake” video of themselves throwing paper into the trash. It was uploaded in 2011. It made me laugh much more than I thought it would. T...

Arsène Wenger Disses José Mourinho In The Pettiest Way Possible

José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger do not like each other. José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger do not pass up on opportunities to make it clear, both to each other and the world at large, that they do not like each other. Today, Arsène Wenger did something—an incredibly petty thing, at that—to demonstrate ...

Only A Month After Breaking Her Back In A Horrific Crash, Annemiek Van Vleuten Won A Bike Race

After Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten crashed while leading the Olympic road race, I thought she was dead. She fell headfirst into a ditch and appeared to wrench her neck in the process, then remained motionless as her pursuers passed her. No official update was offered for about ten minutes, and g...

Forget What You Learned In School; The Goths Sacked Rome For Good Reasons

If you ever learned about the Roman Empire in history class, the barbarian Goths’ sack of Rome in 410 was probably one of the points your teacher hit. After all, if you’re looking for an endpoint for an empire, the looting of its namesake city is probably a good place to start....

Iconic Endurance Cyclist Danny Chew Paralyzed After Crash

Cycling legend Danny Chew, 54, broke his neck and was paralyzed below the waist after drifting off the road and crashing in a ditch while out on a ride Sunday, according to a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. According to his friend Cassie Schumacher, who was riding with him when he crashed, ...

Don't Bother Recruiting Him, He's Already An Alabama Commit

Western Michigan Saved By Officials After Mind-Blowingly Stupid Play

Northwestern was driving late to take the lead on Western Michigan, needing only a field goal to gain the advantage on the scoreboard and having first-and-goal to do it. Then, disaster: Clayton Thorson fumbled just as he reached the end zone and WMU’s Davontae Ginwright recovered. Then things got we...

Western Kentucky Was A Little Too Excited For The Season To Begin

We worked all summer for this. Just do what you’re supposed to and your teammates will take care of the rest. Now let’s go out there and—ah, fuck!...

Why Your Team Sucks 2016: New England Patriots<em></em>

Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....

Power Meters Are Dumb And Professional Cycling Should Ban Them<em></em>

The history of professional cycling has been one long march towards trying to find the most interesting, spectator-friendly way to present what is, at its core, kind of a boring sport. Over one hundred years ago, a French newspaper created the Tour de France as the ultimate endurance competition and...

Here Is A Nice Story, I Hope You Will Enjoy It Because Most Everything Else Is Awful

Some Florida State football players visited Montford Middle School in Tallahassee yesterday, but Leah Paske didn’t realize it until later, when a friend sent her this photo of WR Travis Rudolph eating lunch with her son Bo, who has autism....

Deadspin 25: It's Getting Harder And Harder To Bet Against Michigan State

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Cute Little Spanish Kids Console Distraught Little Japanese Kids After Wrecking Them At Soccer<em></em>

The baby-faced assassins of Barcelona’s youth team won an international U12 tournament this weekend, beating the tots of Japanese club Omiya Ardija in the final. The Omiya Ardija kids were absolutely destroyed by the loss, which led to this adorable moment of sportsmanship as the winners tried to co...

Huma Abedin Dumps Anthony Weiner After Third Sexting Scandal

Huma Abedin announced this morning that she is separating from her husband Anthony Weiner, a little over 12 hours after the New York Post revealed that the former congressman and New York mayoral candidate has been engaged in a year and a half-long texting relationship with an anonymous woman that f...

Whatever Your History Teacher Said, The Goths Crushed Rome Because Rome Had It Coming

The fall of the Roman Empire is one of the central events in human history, and chances are good that at some point in your education, you were forced to sit through a godawful lecture or two filled with weird-ass names—seriously, Gundobad? Stilicho?—and dates that you forgot as soon as the test was...

Report: Anthony Weiner Has Once Again Sent The Grossest Possible Sexts And Dong Pics

Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, the powdered remnant of a pack of expired herbal boner pills found on a bodega shelf, has once again been busy sending pictures of his tighty-whitey-clad dick to a Twitter user, according to a new report from the New York Post, a reliable source of informa...

Report: Two Western Michigan Football Players Arrested, Allegedly Held Up Student [UPDATE]

Two Western Michigan University football players were arrested early this morning after allegedly holding up and robbing a fellow student, reports Kalamazoo’s CBS affiliate....

Merril Hoge: "Nobody's Ever Messed With Drugs And Won"

ESPN analyst and occasionally coherent talking neck Merril Hoge lashed out at Ezekiel Elliott today for touring a weed dispensary, stating that “nobody’s ever played with drugs, messed with drugs, had drugs be their friend, and won.” Obviously, this is true, as you can see in the above video....

That's Not Actually Latrell Sprewell You're DMing With<em></em>

Twitter user and four-time All-Star Latrell Sprewell had a request for his 825 followers this evening: He wanted help getting verified. Problem is, this doesn’t seem to actually be Latrell Sprewell....

That's Not How Hoodies Work

Chris Archer lost twice tonight, first to the Red Sox, then to his sweatshirt....