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Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Baltimore Ravens
Some people are fans of the Baltimore Ravens. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Baltimore Ravens. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....
J.R. Smith's Hair Has Gone Rogue
A couple of days ago, J.R. Smith showed up on Instagram looking like this. Rodman? Sisqo? Simon Phoenix? Nope. You'll never guess where the Knicks' swingman got the idea to go blond....
Who Killed Nugget II? Solving The Death Of Southern Miss's Mascot
The 1992 death of Nugget II, the University of Southern Mississippi's Golden Eagle, is cloaked in mystery. A federal investigation and autopsy revealed two possible causes of death: The eagle's body contained lead shotgun pellets, and it suffered from malnutrition. But no blame was ever assigned, an...
What Is Nate Silver's New ESPN Site Going To Look Like?
Nate Silver's ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight site is not going to be The Nate Silver Show + a few contributors. Silver's plan is to make it a Grantland II, of sorts. ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Pittsburgh Steelers
Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....
She's Listening To Music
I remember walking into The Sound Library, a boutique record shop in the east village in the late Nineties and hearing something special. It was a short cut off a white label Lord Finesse promo. Rare. Finesse chopped-up and looped a famous Marvin Gaye record on an SP-1200. Man, it was cool. I eventu...
For The Boids
Last summer, Molly Langmuir wrote a nice piece for New York magazine about pigeon racing: ...
The Butt From The Buttfumble Retires From The NFL
The buttfumble will always belong to Mark Sanchez. But Sanchez couldn't have done it without Brandon Moore's butt. Today, Brandon Moore and his butt retired after 10 NFL seasons, all with the Jets. It's the end for an end of an era....
Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Cleveland Browns
Some people are fans of the Cleveland Browns. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cleveland Browns. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....
Roundup: Your Best A-Rod Out On The Town Photoshop Entries
We asked, and once again you delivered. What follows is the best of the photoshop contest submissions we got for this image of A-Rod hitting the town in Florida last week. You jerks never manage to disappoint....
Can I Have Your Autograph?
Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...
Mind The Gap
From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...
Ex-Giants Lineman Allegedly Assaults Wife With Her Own Pocketbook
Luke Petitgout, a 1999 first-round draft pick who spent all but one of his nine NFL seasons with the Giants, turned himself in to New York City police today after his wife accused him of smacking her with her pocketbook and shoving her out of a car....
Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Cincinnati Bengals
Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....
Andrew Shaw To Auction Off The Stitches From His Glorious Hockey Face
Andrew Shaw's busted-up face was one of the highlights of the Chicago Blackhawks' Stanley Cup victory. Shaw hoisting the cup while his face continued to swell and blood oozed from his stitched-up wounds is an image that will always hold a place in hockey history, and now fans have the opportunity to...
Summertime
Charles Simic writes about summertime over at the New York Review of Books:...
Throw It Down, Big Man
Check out Pat Jordan's 2001 New York Times profile of Bill Walton:...
Hand Jive
You'll like this—Peter Duffy's 2009 New York magazine story on handball:...
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....