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Australians Have Once Again Gone Wild At The Melbourne Cup

Today is Melbourne Cup day, the most wonderful time of the year, the designated and officially sanctioned horserace/alcohol drinking competition when thousands and thousands of Aussies dress up in their finest duds and get blitzed while intrepid photographers capture it all in order to delight of th...

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Joel Embiid And Hassan Whiteside Appear To Not Like Each Other Very Much

Here’s a date to circle on your NBA calendar (you’ve got an NBA calendar, right? Hanging up in your bedroom? Next to the John Wall Fathead and above your candlelit John Wall shrine? Of course you do): February 2. It’s a long way off, but it is the first regular season meeting between Joel Embiid’s 7...

Phil, No!

The Penguins visited the White House today, and Donald Trump made a bunch of the players, including Phil Kessel, shake his hand. Dammit....

Mike Ditka Slams NFL Protests: "There Has Been No Oppression In The Last 100 Years" [Update]

Pro Football Hall of Famer and former ESPN analyst Mike Ditka dove again into the NFL protest controversy last night in an interview with Jim Gray on Westwood One Radio, saying that players kneeling during the national anthem need to “go to another country and play football” because he “doesn’t know...

Georges Laraque Calls Out The Penguins' Decision To Visit The White House

The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins decided to visit Donald Trump at the White House, in a statement that was released soon after the President uninvited the never-really-invited Golden State Warriors. Former NHL player Georges Laraque, who played for roughly two years in Pittsburgh over a...

LeBron James Says Donald Trump Is Using Sports "To Try To Divide Us Even More"

Following up on his savage “u bum” tweet aimed at Donald Trump earlier today, LeBron James took to UNINTERRUPTED this afternoon to offer more expansive thoughts on our President’s deranged behavior:...

Now UNC's Basketball Team Is Declining Their Invitation To Meet With Basketball-Colored President

The Trump White House is being denied visits from basketball teams left and right, these days. First the great doofus had to hastily pretend to disinvite the NBA champion Golden State Warriors, and now the 2017 NCAA champion North Carolina men’s basketball team will be declining their own invitatio...

Auburn QB Kicked Off Team For Allegedly Behaving Like A College Student

Barely a day after it was reported that Auburn quarterback Sean White had been arrested for public intoxication, Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn dismissed White from the program, saying in a statement that White had “made poor decisions that are not in the best interest of our program, and more import...

Good-For-Nothing White Sox Spoil Ninth Inning No-Hitter With Pointless Double

Matthew Boyd took a no-hitter into the top of the ninth today against the Chicago White Sox, with the Tigers winning 12-0. Boyd had allowed one base-runner all day, on a third inning walk. Adam Engel led off the bottom of the ninth with a pop out to third; Kevan Smith, hitting for Rob Brantly, groun...

LenDale White Estimates He's Suffered 20-30 Concussions

The Los Angeles Times published a pretty tragic profile of LenDale White, catching up with everything that’s happened to the former USC star running back since he left college....

A's Will Not Burden Fans By Asking Them To Buy Tickets For Game Against White Sox 

Along with the rest of Major League Baseball, the A’s announced their tentative 2018 schedule today. That includes a partial list of promotions—many of them geared towards celebrating the team’s 50th anniversary in Oakland—and a very special one on April 17 means that fans will be able to see that d...

Can A New-Look Houston Live Up To The Past Two Years?

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, ...

Cycles Are Good, And Jose Abreu Did A Good One

Before you come in here with your mew mew mew cycles aren’t valuable, a two-homer game is more valuable than a cycle routine, know this: cycles are good because they are unlikely and interesting. If an alien spacecraft were to land on the pitcher’s mound in the third inning of a meaningless Septembe...

Look At These Goddamn Blighted Dogs

The Chicago White Sox are the worst team in the American League, and so the best part of September is going to be Dog Day. At the GarField tonight, fans got to see a bunch of good boys who unfortunately support a very bad team....

White Sox Lose On Walk-Off Hit-By-Pitch

The White Sox lost in Minnesota today when pitcher Juan Minaya hit Twins outfielder Max Kepler with the bases loaded in the ninth. There were two outs in the half inning, and the teams were tied at four runs apiece before Kepler’s HBP brought in Brian Dozier to score....

Texas A&M's Head Football Coach Applauds Cancellation Of "White Lives Matter" Rally

Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp this week put the kibosh on a planned “White Lives Matter” event reportedly scheduled at the university by Preston Wiginton, a former A&M student and apparent white supremacist. That decision was met with praise today by A&M’s head football coach, Kevin Sumlin:...

Robinson Moncada, A Precious Little Beam Of Human Sunshine, Is King Of The Sports Babies

Sports babies, generally, are good. A replacement-level sports baby is still one who is adorable and funny and gloriously chubby-cheeked, and a sub-replacement-level sports baby is still probably going to make you aww at least once. But a truly great sports baby? A truly great sports baby is on anot...

This ESPN Fantasy Football Auction Segment Is ... Yikes

I don’t know if this tone-deaf fantasy football auction segment that ESPN2 aired yesterday, with its galling resemblance to a slave auction, means that nobody involved in its production saw or understood Get Out, or if they’ve never read a history book, or if they’re all just really dumb, nor do I k...

Why Did Tyler Clippard Answer The Phone During <i>Game Of Thrones</i>?<em></em>

Here are two things of note from Tyler Clippard’s Sunday: He was traded to the Astros for either cash considerations or a player to be named later, and he was watching Game of Thrones when he got the call from White Sox GM Rick Hahn telling him as much. Clippard was 35 minutes into the episode, prob...