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Weekend Winner: The Dan Haren Swindle
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the Angels, who shoplifted Dan Haren out of Arizona and so thoroughly snookered the Diamondbacks that someone should check if Chase Field is encased in aluminum siding....
What's The Difference Between John Elway And Barbaro?
Let's just get to what you probably want to know about me, Brian Hickey, the new weekend guy: How to throw me down into your basement well with Precious because you get rammy when swaddled in vulnerable soullessness on Saturdays and Sundays....
Dead Wrestler Of The Week: Road Warrior Hawk
Every week, the Masked Man, Deadspin's pro wrestling correspondent, honors the sport's fallen and examines their legacies — famous and obscure alike. Today: Michael Hegstrand, aka Road Warrior Hawk, who died in 2003 of a heart attack. He was 46....
Angry, Fan-Punching Mexican Wrestler Of The Week: This Guy
A luchadore's mask is very important. You can understand why La Parka punched this fan who tried to unmask him. After the fight, La Parka returned to his ancestral home: the cover of that one Offspring album. H/T The Masked Man....
Hope You've Already Had Lunch: A Blood Week <em>Blood Writes</em> Gallery To Close Out Blood Week
To end Blood Week, here is a gallery of some of the best Blood Writes we had left in the ol' inbox. All sic'd. And sick. You've been warned....
"It Looked Like A Butterflied Shrimp": A Cutman's Tour Of 12 Terrible Fight Wounds
We've already posted an ode to boxing's bleeders. Let us now look at the blood itself. We ask Jacob "Stitch" Duran, an elite cutman who's worked many thousands of bouts, to share a few memories of the foulest gashes he's ever plugged....
Blood Writes: I Bumped Into A Banana Crate
One of Deadspin's own has a gruesome tale to tell. This is the time that I bumped my leg at the bodega the other night....
Private Stache: Cassius Clay Has Blood On His Hands
As keeper of Sports Illustrated's indispensable Vault, Andy Gray spends a lot of his time sifting through the sports photography of another time, when athletes wore short shorts and facial hair, and everyone looked vaguely uncomfortable. Here is one such photo....
The Hidden Menace That Is The Scrotal Hydrocele
I went to the doctor a while back because I thought I had a hernia. It turned out I had something far less serious, and yet somehow far more horrifying....
Blood Writes: "I Got Stabbed"
This issue of Blood Writes features Jason's story of being in the wrong parking lot at the wrong time....
Blood Writes: Hit By A Freaking Subway Train
Today, on Blood Writes, we bring you the story of Justin. Justin got hit by a fucking train....
Dead Wrestling Company Of The Week: Extreme Championship Wrestling
Every week, the Masked Man, Deadspin's pro wrestling correspondent, honors the sport's fallen and examines their legacies — famous and obscure alike. Today: Extreme Championship Wrestling, the notoriously bloody wrestling promotion that went bankrupt in 2001....
The King Of The Ferret Leggers: The Classic Tale Of Sportsmen Who Put Carnivores Down Their Pants
In his new book, Rick Reilly writes at length about ferret legging, a bloody endurance competition wherein the athlete stuffs a ferret down his pants. In 1987, Outside's Donald Katz wrote the first, and still the best, ferret-legging account. Here it is....
Blood Writes: "Hockey Stick To The Face"
Kinda wuss (only 20 stitches), but here you go…— Tom...
Blood Writes: "Cow crushed my thumb" (WARNING: STUPENDOUSLY GROSS)
About two months ago I was working at one of the farms at Ohio State and a cow went bat shit crazy crashing through one of the gates....
Man Sentenced For Killing Uncle In Drunken Sword Fight
Chris Rondeau of Indianapolis will spend the next 55 years in prison, after stabbing his uncle with a shin guntō after the man came at him with a sword. Rondeau's grandmother was also killed trying to break up the fight. [WTHR]...
Blood Writes: This Knee Has A Mouth (WARNING: PUS)
My knee after taking a nasty tumble trail running and the aftermath, 20 stitches later — Howard S....
Blood Writes: The Mangled Foot From Switzerland (WARNING: UGLY FOOT ALERT)
My friend was studying abroad in Italy when he took a weekend trip to Interlochen, Switzerland..he tried to jump a fence and it nearly ripped his foot off — Jason...
School Of Fight: Learning To Brawl With The Hockey Goons Of Tomorrow
In which our writer goes to the notorious hockey fight camp for kids, takes a teenager's punch to the kidneys, and winds up finding the bruised soul of the game. Camp photos by Chris Buck....
Blood Writes: This Man's Pinky Is Falling Off His Hand
This was a friend's pinky after sliding headfirst and hooking it on 3rd base. Sorry about the clarity, but that's about as clear as I want it to b — Matt W....