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How Having Kids Ruins You For Gratuitous Violence
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re covering gay royalty, Russian roulette, football-induced cancer, and more. Image by Sam Woolley....
Everything Plays
And now for something completely different: Vladimir Nabokov on boxing:...
Reminder: Johnny Manziel May Not Profit From The Use Of His Own Name
Because doing so would violate the spirit of amateurism. Rules are rules. Shipping not included....
Michael Beasley Arrested On Suspicion Of Marijuana Possession
It's Tuesday, which means we were about due for another Michael Beasley arrest....
Fearless Red Sox Fan Refuses To Flinch At Foul Balls
According to our friends at The Nosebleeds, the gentleman featured in this video is known as Dennis Drinkwater, and he is rather famous for his ability to react to foul balls that come screaming toward his face with a zen-like focus and calm. Please enjoy this montage of his fearlessness. The music...
For The Latest On A-Rod, Here's Mike Lupica, Live From The Hamptons
He did manage to find a baseball field in East Hampton to use as a backdrop, so you know he's doing the legwork on this developing story....
The David Brooks Problem
I started a new job at Deadspin about three weeks ago, and I endured a tough first stretch. That was, in part, because, like anybody starting a new job, I wasn’t sure I could pull it off....
Fan Promises To Run On Field In Exchange For Retweets, Chickens Out
Tonight, while the baseball world watched the return of Alex Rodriguez, another young baseball fan used Twitter to gain a whole lot of attention and retweets in exchange for promising everyone the schadenfreude of watching him get obliterated by stadium security. He began the night with a simple pro...
Here's Chicago Booing A-Rod In His First At-Bat
We had to wait until the second inning thanks to some iffy baserunning and the human element, but Alex Rodriguez made his season debut moments ago in Chicago and it was, as expected, a shitshow. He was lustily booed in his first at-bat since Major League Baseball suspended him for 211 games....
Alex Rodriguez Speaks, Attempts To Mimic Human Emotion
In a statement accompanied by watery eyes and dramatic pauses, Alex Rodriguez addressed the media ahead of his first game since last October—and for the first time since MLB announced a 211-game suspension for his role in the Biogenesis scandal....
A Non-Exhaustive List Of People MLB Has Not Suspended For 211 Games
Major League Baseball has suspended Alex Rodriguez for 211 games. There are, however, many people who haven't been suspended for 211 games. Here are a few of them:...
X Games Rider Celebrates On Last Jump, Crashes, Loses, Cries
Australian Meghan Rutledge had the supercross gold in the bag, until she allowed herself a fist pump at the top of her very last jump. Her race ended in tears....
Meet Bud Selig, Commissioner of Ken Burns's MLB
Originally published in Bloomberg View...
Alex Rodriguez Suspended Through 2014
Major League Baseball announced it will suspend Alex Rodriguez for the remainder of this season and all of 2014 for his role in the Biogenesis scandal. It becomes effective Thursday. That's 211 games, by far the longest PED suspension ever handed out by baseball. He will appeal, and is expected to b...
ESPN's John Clayton Says Some Random Shit About Johnny Manziel
So what happens to Johnny Manziel if the NCAA decides he's no longer eligible to play college football because he allegedly sold his autograph? Last night during SportsCenter, John Clayton explained that Manziel could turn pro and enter the supplemental draft later this month, "if indeed he does qua...
Cardboard Busts
Via Oddity Central, dig these busts of famous people by Scott Fife. ...
The Whore of Akron
Last year I interviewed Scott Raab about his entertaining book The Whore of Akron. Dig:...