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Vikings Release Results Of Kluwe Investigation, Suspend Mike Priefer
In the very rare Friday evening news dump, the Vikings have released a report on an independent investigation into claims made by former punter Chris Kluwe in this Deadspin column. The investigation confirmed that special teams coach Mike Priefer made one anti-gay remark—for which Priefer has been...
Chris Kluwe Vs. The Vikings Just Got Really Ugly
Shit went down tonight in the matter of Chris Kluwe vs. the Vikings. Earlier this evening, word came down that Minnesota special teams coach Mike "nuke all the gays" Priefer would be suspended three games for making homophobic remarks. This more or less closed the book on the team's investigatio...
Fast-Food Fight: Subway's Pulled Pork Vs. Wendy's Pretzel Bacon Burger
There are three main founts of greasy innovation whence spring the majority of new fast-food items. The bulk originate in the wide and shallow Same Shit, Different Condiments pool; they are joined by more ambitious offerings from the genres of Cynical Stunt Food and Honest-to-Ronald Attempts to Intr...
"Weird Al" Yankovic's "Sports Song" Is All You Need To Know About Sports
"Weird Al" Yankovic's fifth music video—out of the eight he's releasing for his new album Mandatory Fun—is for "Sports Song," a pastiche of teams' fight songs. It skips the pretense and gets honest: The team we root for is good, and yours sucks....
"Weird Al" Yankovic's <em>Mandatory Fun</em> Is Not The End (We Hope)
Does anyone actually hate "Weird Al" Yankovic? You'll usually find two reactions to him: adoration or indifference, with the indifference mostly confined to wayward millennials. Considering that he's been churning out parodies (and originals!) for nearly 35 years, that in itself is impressive. He'...
Prosecution: Aaron Hernandez's Fiancée Lied About Disposing Of Guns
Prosecutors are turning up the heat on Shayanna Jenkins, Aaron Hernandez's fiancée. In a filing, they list more than a dozen instances of evidence contradicting Jenkins's testimony to a grand jury in the murder case against Hernandez....
The Trouble With Floyd Mayweather
Last week, Floyd Mayweather announced that he will fight a rematch with Marcos Maidana on Sept. 13. Their first fight, two months ago, was Mayweather’s closest challenge in years, with many in the boxing media believing that Maidana had earned the decision. And while that bout may have failed to mee...
Shitty Sports Radio Dude Calls Erin Andrews A "Gutless Bitch"
In the landscape of trash fires that is sports talk radio, the Dennis and Callahan show on WEEI in Boston is probably the most consistently trash fire-y. The latest piece of evidence in support of that statement comes from Kirk Minihane, who on this morning's show went on a misogynistic mini-rant ab...
That Cool <em>NYT</em> LeBron Cover Was (Sort Of) Inspired By Kanye And Kim
After LeBron James announced that he was returning to Cleveland, The New York Times ran one of the coolest covers we've ever seen on its Saturday sports section. It turns out that the idea behind the cover was indirectly inspired by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, because of course it was....
Aaron Hernandez Evidence Includes 33 Pages Of Texts With Bill Belichick
Documents made public today reveal some of the evidence that prosecutors have turned over to Aaron Hernandez's defense in the Odin Lloyd murder case. Among them, interviews with Patriots higher-ups and whole mess of text messages exchanged between Hernandez and Bill Belichick in the months leading u...
It Truly Was A Sexy World Cup
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World Cup Champions Take Selfie On The Pitch Right After Their Match
If this is some dumb viral ad, I'm going to be so angry, because this is a nice photo of Lukas Podolski and Bastian Schweinsteiger after Germany won the World Cup....
TV Station Interrupts World Cup For Weather Coverage; Viewers Outraged
Viewers in southern New York and northern Pennsylvania missed the ending of today's World Cup final when Elmira ABC affiliate WENY cut away from the action with six minutes left to cover a tornado warning....
Schweinsteiger: Bloodied
Ouch. Schweinsteiger took a smack to the face on a challenge and left the match to get cleaned up, but he shortly returned. The blood looks kinda badass, though....
Irish Comedy Show Pokes Fun At Brazil-Netherlands Match With "Highlight"
Après Match is a comedy show on Irish station RTÉ that mocks various soccer commentators from Ireland and Great Britain. (Here's more of their stuff; it's amusing!) Yesterday, the crew found their "Great Dutch Play" from the third-place World Cup match between Brazil and the Netherlands, and the hig...
Jean Segura's Nine-Month-Old Son Passed Away
Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jean Segura learned after last night's game against the Cardinals that his infant son, Janniel, passed away in the Dominican Republic. According to manager Ron Roenicke, he had been battling an undisclosed illness but, as recently as yesterday, the family thought he was g...
Rookies Had Good Reason To Fear Showering With Greg Maddux
Tucked away in this ESPN The Magazine piece on athletes in communal locker-room showers was a Greg Maddux story, delightful even by the high standards of Greg Maddux stories:...
<em>Denver Post</em> Columnist Writes The Hottest LeBron Take Ever
In a world where even Dan Shaughnessy will hedge against his own stupidity, we desperately need a local newspaper columnist who isn't afraid to dish out the kind of moral rectitude and one-sentence KABOOM paragraphs that will put the sporting world back on the path to righteousness. We need a hero....