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Mitch Albom Goes On ESPN To Say Awful Things About Jameis Winston's Accuser
Yesterday, ESPN’s The Sports Reporters—holy shit! The Sports Reporters is still on?—featured wealthy fabulist Mitch Albom discussing the $950,000 settlement Florida State University paid to Erica Kinsman, the woman who accused Jameis Winston of raping her and later sued the university over its indif...

Fox Sports Publishes, Deletes Bad Royals Blog
Today, Fox Sports published an article about how the 2015 Royals are “one of the worst AL teams” to win a World Series since 2000. One could make this oddly specific claim, provided one had stats and evidence to back it up. The article, however, had a list of batting averages. That was it....
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Ping-Pong Player Returns Service With His Dong [NSFW]
The best sports highlight of today, by a large margin, is this man using his dick to hit a ping-pong ball....

Poker-Playing Jabroni Can't Stop Shilling His Businesses
Meet Salomon Ponte, the winner of a WPTDeepStacks no-limit hold ’em tournament. After taking first place, he sat down for a post-tourney interview and took the opportunity to relentlessly advertise himself. Everyone has to make a living, but Ponte was seemingly incapable of stopping the hustle....

Where Are They Going? Why Are They Running?
Syracuse beat Duke tonight in Durham, giving the Blue Devils its first three-game losing streak against unranked teams since the 1960s. As soon as the final buzzer sounded, these young men went running. Who are they? Why are they in such a hurry? We have so many questions....

I Want To Punt The Houston Super Bowl Mascot's Dumb Head
Super Bowl 51 will be in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017, and today, the city’s Super Bowl committee unveiled its mascot. His name is TD, and he’s a football dressed up in a football uniform. He also has a smile, I think. It could be a misplaced lace....

Bob Ryan Just Fuckin' Tweets All His Shit At Once
NBA sage Bob Ryan is just going for it today. Hours after calling ex-Warriors coach Mark Jackson a “Bible-pounding phony,” Ryan—who has never been adept at Twitter—sent a flood of tweets in just a couple of minutes....

Former NFL Player Shaun Smith Has A Message For Trolls: Look At This Gun
Shaun Smith, a defensive lineman who last played for the Chiefs, rattled off a couple of thoughts today about Kansas City’s upcoming playoff game against the Texans. When he faced some pushback, Smith tweeted a photo of a gun....

Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner Of Miss Universe, Chaos Ensues
Steve Harvey, the host of tonight’s Miss Universe pageant, did the one thing that the host of any award show absolutely cannot do: he announced the wrong winner. It was hilarious....

Mark Brunell Fondly Recalls The Time Brett Favre Tortured A Deer To Death
CBS Sports published a kind of oral history of Brett Favre, in which former teammates, coaches, and friends shared their fond memories of the ol’ gunslinger, and hooooooly shit get a load of this story from Mark Brunell:...

Bruh, What?
No idea what this guy in a random Colombian game was trying to do, and yet I think I’m impressed all the same....

Someone Please Explain This To Us
Here is video of the perfoming of national anthems before today’s Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko heavyweight title fight. It is by something we were told by Michael Buffer is named “The Dark Center.” We’re all very confused by this....

That Makes No Sense, John Saunders
We’re all a little loopy today due to overindulgence, but we’re pretty sure John Saunders butchered whatever he was trying to say about LSU riding Les Miles out of town on a rail—which has nothing to do with trains, anyway....

Amateur MMA Fighter Gets His Dang Tooth Knocked Out Of His Dang Head
The man on the right up there is named Joshua Spears, and he recently got his face punched by a man named Preston “Ice Pick” Schick during an amateur MMA bout. How hard did Spears get his face punched? Hard enough to lose his tooth!...

Why Is The NBA Replay Center Watching <i>Animal House</i>?
Reader Chris caught this odd moment during today’s Sixers-Timberwolves matchup, as late in the game a play demanded review from the NBA’s replay center in Secaucus. The live camera shot from inside that center showed, strangely, the movie Animal House showing on several of the screens....

A Square's Guide To Buying Sneakers
When I was a kid and lived on West 72nd Street in Manhattan, I wanted a pair of the original Air Jordans—the red and black ones that the NBA had banned for being too flashy or some shit. There was a mom-and-pop sneaker shop on the Upper West Side that showed them off in their windows, and I’d saliva...

This Terrible New Song From Spike Lee's <i>Chi-Raq</i> Can't Possibly Be Real
Okay, so when I first heard that Spike Lee was making a movie called Chi-Raq, I was a bit suspicious, given that his prolificacy makes him kind of hit-or-miss. Chiraq is a nickname for the parts of Chicago in which gun and gang violence are so rampant that they resemble a war zone. There are a whole...