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In Praise Of The Oxford Shirt, A Style Essential For Anonymous Drones Worldwide
We are here to discuss the Oxford shirt, which, you will find, is the most adequate piece of clothing available to mankind....
ESPN's <i>College Football Final</i> Gets Live Sex Soundtrack
Beagle-eared and possibly insomniac reader Steve caught this moment on ESPN’s College Football Final around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, in which sex sounds mysteriously pop up into the broadcast. In ESPN’s defense, Stanford’s offense makes me horny too. ...
Arian Foster Leaves Game With Non-Contact Achilles Injury (UPDATE)
Arian Foster left today’s blowout against the Dolphins with an Achilles injury, after he went down without contact accelerating out of pre-snap motion. As you can see above, he knew something was wrong as soon as he started to run. Almost immediately, he was ruled out for the game....
Rex Ryan Taunts Doug Marrone By Selecting Entire Offensive Line As Captains
Doug Marrone was the Buffalo Bills head coach for two seasons, including last year’s successful 9-7 campaign. He opted out of his contract last December to take advantage of a clause that allowed him to make $4 million dollars in 2015 no matter if he coached or not. He tried to get the New York Jets...
Mateen Cleaves Is Being Investigated For Sexual Assault
Wayne County (Michigan) prosecutors are investigating former NBA player Mateen Cleaves for a possible sexual assault. The case was initially to be processed in Genesee County, but it was transferred due to a potential conflict of interest. Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton told MLive:...
Report: Tom Brady's Personal Guru Was Sued For Fraud Twice
One of the highlights revealed in the Tom Brady email dump was his adherence to the teachings and theories of one Alex Guerrero. Guerrero is Brady’s business partner, body coach, and friend, and Brady has defended Guerrero even as numerous allegations of fraud have come out against him. The FTC inve...
There Are Still Several More Innings Left To Play
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Bob McNair Changes Mind, Wants Refund Of His Donation To Group Opposing Anti-Discrimination Law
Texans owner Bob McNair donated $10,000 to Campaign for Houston, a PAC that opposes an ordinance that intends to protect Houstonians from discrimination. (The opposition has mostly been from those opposed to giving protections to gay and transgender residents.) After receiving backlash for backing t...
NXT Is Lapping WWE Right Now
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month or so of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us....
Vince Wilfork Speaks Out About His Friend Killed By A Cop
Vince Wilfork’s childhood friend Corey Jones was shot dead on Sunday by Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) police officer Nouman Raja. Wilfork spoke yesterday about doing what he can to make sure justice is served....
Bud Crawford Is An Anomaly
The race to identify boxing’s next pay-per-view superstar started up just last week, when middleweight Gennady Golovkin and flyweight Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez both delivered brutal knockouts at Madison Square Garden. While both men were hefty favorites, they won like good favorites should, solid...
<i>No Tears For The Dead </i>Mixes Badass Fights With Heavy Consequences
In the opening scene of the 2014 South Korean thriller No Tears for the Dead, we see a dark, brooding figure, tattoos peaking out of the sleeves of his suit, folding together an origami crane in a nightclub. After spending a few seconds charming a little girl a few tables over, he gets the text he’s...
Three Friends Take A Selfie
Look, we have a fun new picture. It’s of our friend, Sergio Agüero. And his friend, UK Prime Minister David Cameron. And their other friend, Chinese President Xi Jinping. Big smiles all around....
11 Gins, Ranked
Gin is the best white spirit, and its reward for this distinction is an unfounded but excellent reputation for spookiness and danger. Long before Reddit’s baddest boyz started taking pictures of “shower beer” balanced precariously atop their guts, the true freedom fighters of the 1920s battled Prohi...
Texans Owner Donates $10,000 To Houston Group Opposing Anti-Discrimination Law
On Nov. 3, Houston residents will vote on Proposition 1, a proposed ordinance that would help protect people from discrimination at work, in public, and in the housing market. A major opponent of Proposition 1 is the Campaign for Houston PAC, a group that produced a campaign commercial in which form...
Dusty Baker Once Smoked A Joint With Jimi Hendrix
Dusty Baker, who you probably best know (somewhat unfairly) as the author of many befuddling managerial decisions, wasn’t necessarily destined for a career in baseball. His first love was actually music, and now he’s written a memoir of attending the infamous 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, which featur...
Alex Killorn Does Not Do Well In Haunted Houses
Lightning players Alex Killorn and Jason Garrison checked out a haunted house yesterday, and the best way to watch this video is to ignore Garrison. He goes first—because Killorn can’t handle it—but keep your eyes on Killorn in the back. He’s scared by everything....
Chinese Soccer Player Accidentally Kicks The Living Shit Out Of Teammate
Li Jianbin only had eyes for the ball. The rest of the world faded away and there was only the ball, Li, and the necessity for Li to punt the thing into orbit. But when his bicycle kick was completed and he fell to the ground, the only thing Li had succeeded in clearing was his Shanghai Shenhua team...
There Are Levels To This Violence
“Had I an enemy whom I wished to ruin, body and soul, I would ask no more than to turn him out into the company of pugilists and their clique, and the matter would be effected without delay.”-The Spirit of the Times, 1832....
2016 Presidential Campaign Merch, Ranked
From $1,000 copies of the Constitution to $75 guacamole bowls to “Grillary Clinton” aprons, the world of presidential campaign merchandise is a strange one, and nowhere is that clearer than on the internet, where some of our illustrious candidates have launched merch stores that come in every degree...