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Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Houston Texans<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....
This Tiger Just Wants To Fuck
The Smithsonian National Zoo has brought in Sparky, the Sumatran tiger you see above, for the sole purpose of sexing up “proven breeder” Damai (also a tiger)....
MLB Owns Darren Rovell Online For Posting Erroneous Picture
Darren Rovell—a living, breathing blazer from Northwestern’s business school—is fond of tweeting out pictures. Sometimes, it’s a cake that’s shaped like a shoe, and usually it’s a piece of truly fucked up junk food from a stadium. Tonight, he posted a very well-composed picture of the Chicago White ...
Andrew Benintendi May Have Just Made The Catch Of The Season
David Price pitched a gem for the Red Sox this evening, striking out eight men and only giving up two hits in eight innings of work. His night would have been a lot less spectacular, had Andrew Benintendi not flown across the outfield to leap up on top of the wall to rob Steven Souza of a dinger....
High School Athlete Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Unconscious Women Gets Probation<em></em>
In April, East Longmeadow High School senior David Becker was charged with sexually assaulting two of his classmates at a party while they were unconscious. Prosecutors recommended that the three-sport athlete be found guilty, MassLive.com reported, on two counts of indecent assault and battery. The...
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LA Galaxy Players Hit Pigeon With Ball During Warmups [Update]
A routine warmup by LA Galaxy turned into an act of bird violence before the club’s match against NYCFC Saturday....
Claressa Shields Defends Olympic Gold
Claressa Shields is the first-ever American to defend an Olympic gold medal in boxing after her middleweight unanimous decision over Dutch boxer Nouchka Fontijn. ...
Which Was Longer: Katie Ledecky's Margin Of Victory Or The Johnson-Teixeira Fight?
Today was a great day for Brazilian sport, but it was not a great day for Brazilian fighter Glover Teixeira, whose UFC 202 match against Anthony “Rumble” Johnson was over nearly as it began. But was that match shorter than Katie Ledecky’s margin of victory in the 800m freestyle? Watch this video to ...
Usain Bolt Completes Triple-Triple, Leads Jamaica To 4x100m Gold
Usain Bolt has completed the unprecedented feat of winning the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay in three straight Olympics, anchoring Jamaica to a 37.27 tonight and, with Nickel Ashmeade, Yohan Blake, and Asafa Powell, beating Japan by 0.33 seconds. The U.S. claimed bronze, two hundredths of a second be...
U.S. Women's 4x100m Relay Team Qualifies For Final On Empty Track
This semifinal was just like any other—vocal Brazilian crowd, starting pistol, a spot in the final on the line—only there was no one else on the track. In a slightly surreal scene, the U.S. women’s 4x100m team were granted a solo re-run after successfully protesting their disqualification in their h...
Adam Eaton Hits A Grand Slam While Blowing A Bubble
Last night, Adam Eaton hit a ninth-inning grand slam to send the White Sox home with a 10-7 win over the Indians. And he did it while blowing a bubble, which seems a little dangerous but adds unexpected flair to baseball’s most magical outcome. After the game, Eaton told reporters he “was so fluster...
Deadspin 25: Baker Mayfield Is A Gift, And The Sooners Are Going To Be Really Good
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, ...
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U.S. Women's Relay Team Drops Baton, Lodges Appeal [Update]
Shit went down in a preliminary women’s 4x100 relay race today. The American team, which came into these Olympics as one of the favorites to take gold in the event, crashed out when Allyson Felix failed to hand the baton to English Gardner....
The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion<em></em>
On the night she was murdered, Stella Walsh was in a great mood. The Cleveland resident spent much of December 4, 1980, thinking about her two passions: sports and Poland, the country she ran for when she won two Olympic medals. There was a women’s basketball match the next week between Kent State a...
Olympic Boxing Judges Sent Home Amid Allegations Of Match Fixing
This has not been a good Olympics for AIBA, international boxing’s governing body. Multiple fights have been judged suspiciously, and there is a prevailing sentiment that not everything is on the up and up. Now, AIBA is sending home a number of Olympic judges and referees, apparently hoping to quell...
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Here Are The Penis Pics That Lena Zawaideh Says Shaun White Sent Her [NSFW]
Back in May, snowboarder Shaun White was sued by a woman who said White sexually harassed her, made inappropriate comments, and once demanded she cut her hair. On Friday, her lawyers filed a new complaint in San Diego court with added details about how drummer Lena Zawaideh says White pressured her ...
Art Briles: "I’ve Never Done Anything Illegal, Immoral, Unethical"
Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles, who was fired in May after an investigation into a massive sexual assault scandal involving the program, has visited a couple of NFL teams’ training camps this summer. Today, he showed up at the Houston Texans’ facility and talked to reporters. While tal...
How To Plan Your Lunches And Avoid Cooking All Week
You would think a single AC unit would be sufficient for cooling the sort of diminutive New York City one-bedroom for which I am currently overpaying. But, alas, despite racking up what is sure to be a reprehensibly reckless utilities bill, it’s still at least a billion degrees in my apartment this ...
Irish Olympic Boxer Rages After Loss, Claims Fight Was Fixed
Ireland’s Michael Conlan boxed Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin in a bantamweight quarterfinal at the Rio Olympics this morning, and the three-round bout was a furious one, in which both fighters stood their ground and traded flurries of punches. At the end of the fight, Conlan was sure he had won, and wen...