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Mike Priefer Denies He Is A Bigot
Minnesota Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer has issued a statement in response to former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe's accusation that he is a bigot who once said, "We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows." In the statement, Priefer claims...
Everything That Should Die In 2014
It's customary at the dawn of a new year to pay homage to the people we lost in the previous one. But we're optimists at Deadspin. Here's everything we hope will die in 2014....
Vikings Vow To Investigate Chris Kluwe's Allegations
The Vikings have released a statement reacting to Chris Kluwe's article from earlier today, in which he alleged that he was released from the team in part because of his outspoken support of gay rights, and accused assistant coach Mike Priefer of being an outright homophobic bigot. The statement rea...
Bride Surprises Groom With Penguins Ice Luge
Matt's a big Penguins fan. His wife couldn't care less about hockey. But she's awesome, so at their wedding reception this past summer, she got him a surprise: This ice luge in the shape of the Penguins logo....
I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot
Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I ...
The Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2013: Nos. 5-1
It's the final week of 2013, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Friday, we each gave our five worst films of 2013. Yesterday, we each counted down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year. Today, we finish off with our top fives....
The Jets Find Out Rex Ryan Isn't Fired, Are Overcome With Joy
Football is a brutal sport that more often than not makes you feel kind of shitty for caring so much about it. But sometimes it produces moments that make you smile, like the one in this GIF. This is how Rex Ryan's players reacted when owner Woody Johnson told them that Ryan would be back to coach t...
The Rice O-Line Has The Best Touchdown Celebrations You'll Never See
What's better than a Fat Guy Touchdown? A Fat Guy Touchdown that is followed by an elaborate and hilarious touchdown celebration, of course....
Anderson Silva's Final Moment
Anderson Silva, more than any other fighter ever, had—or has, who knows—a gift for timing, so that his career played out as a sequence of essentially perfect moments. The best may have been a Chaplinesque performance in a loss this summer that was so unimprovable that he should have said he was done...
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 17 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of the worst). Maps via 506sports.com....
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Lamborghini Driver Is Impersonating MSU FB Player? [UPDATE: Not Really]
A reader sent us this photo last night, claiming he and a buddy ran into Mississippi State center Dillon Day at a gas station near St. Louis. He thought it was curious a college football player was driving a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. We thought it was curious Dillon Day was spotted nearly five ho...
How Anderson Silva Turned Loss Into Victory
Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman will fight for the middleweight title tonight in a rematch of their bout from July, and it's a strange one, because despite Weidman having finished Silva off last time, no one really has any idea what to expect. Weidman could wax an aged and suddenly vulnerable Silva...
Russell Westbrook Is Out Until After The All-Star Break
Russell Westbrook underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee today, and will be out until after the All-Star break, reports Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman. ...
It Was A Great Year For Sportswriting; Here's Some Of The Best Of It
Every so often, some crank will write something suggesting that sportswriting is in decline. The argument goes that due to ease of publishing, a general lowering of standards, the reading public's divided attentions, and millennial narcissism and careerism, an entire art has been lost, subordinated ...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 17
Below is your betting info for the final week of the NFL regular season. Aaron Rodgers status was settled a bit early this week, so all 16 games are included....
2013: The Year In TV News Bloopers
We spent a few months this year tracking local news blunders until the sheer volume of them forced us to abandon the project. Thankfully, a YouTube user has been collecting awkward events and put together this wonderful montage of the year's stupidest moments in TV news....
Didier Drogba Interviewing Little Kids Will Warm Your Cold, Black Heart
Christmas is here, apparently. We, however, are at work, blogging away, and as such, we were a bit ambivalent about the holiday, and the holiday season as a whole. But then we saw this video of Galatasaray and Ivory Coast superstar Didier Drogba making the days of a roomful of little Turkish childre...
These Guys Sucked In The Playoffs. Should That Matter To HOF Voters?
Having acquired a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series can...
Mass Email From Wesleyan Athletic Department Brings Utter Chaos
Reader Frank has alerted us to a silly thing that happened that we, for whatever reason, find funny. Frank graduated from Wesleyan University, and so he often gets mass emails from various departments within the school. A few days ago, Frank got one such email from the Wesleyan athletic department:...
How To Make The Best Of A Crippling Ice Storm: Play Hockey In The Yard
A brutal ice storm made things really shitty for a lot of people this weekend, but these enterprising gentlemen from Vermont found a way to make the best of the situation....