Category: Sport
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Pretty boy ex-boxer Oscar De La Hoya issued a statement to TMZ after it declared he checked himself into a rehab facility for substance-abuse problems. More » [Deadspin]
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Your morning roundup for May 22, the day some people in North Carolina started taking Pirates of the Caribbean too literally, but not in a cool swashbuckling way or anything. More » [Deadspin]
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Here’s your daily link to Dave McKenna’s brilliant “Cranky Redskins Fan’s Guide to Dan Snyder,” which we’ll be posting until Dan Snyder’s dumbass libel suit chokes on a crab puff at a cocktail party. (For those of you keeping track, this is “We Are All Dave McKenna CV.”) More » [Deadspin]
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Nick Gilbert, bespoke son of Comic Sans-loving Cavaliers owner Dan, became your new favorite meme for about six hours Tuesday night when he presided over Cleveland’s unlikely NBA draft lottery win. (And he too cued something in between dickishness and awkward humor from Timberwolves GM David Kahn.) More » [Deadspin]
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“TMZ spoke with Randy’s brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while he was behind the wheel around 10 AM … and lost control of his vehicle.” [TMZ] More » [Deadspin]
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The Rapture is scheduled for tomorrow, and this is roughly the 17th time in my life that all of us were supposed to die according to some kind of vague, medieval prediction. All of these Rapture predictions, of course, are born of hubris. Everyone wants to believe that they will be alive during the most…
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When Dugan Smith was 10 years old, doctors discovered a tumor “the size of a softball” in his right leg. He had a rare form of cancer, and he’d need an operation to remove it. Instead of choosing a more standard procedure, The Post Game reports this week, Smith opted for a “rotationplasty,” because he…
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The Deadspin tips line received an email today with this subject: Bear Playing Tennis. It was a thrilling possibility. A bear playing tennis? You just don’t see that everyday. We were prepared to make a lot of half-assed rapture jokes about it. More » [Deadspin]
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As if you weren’t already paying too much to see Justin Turner mash on Dillon Gee’s behalf, a recent internet groundswell sheds light on another gross perversion inherent in the Citi Field experience. A dog, Coffee, sits outside the stadium, ostensibly for your amusement, in sunglasses or a Groucho Marx disguise, with a WRIGHT 5…
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Jared Max told his cat before he told anyone else. More » [Deadspin]
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Randy Poffo spent four season in the minors, playing in the Cardinals and Reds systems, and never rising above Single-A ball. He put down his bat for good in 1975 and picked up a steel chair and became known to the world as Randy Savage, his brief and unremarkable baseball career amounting to nothing more…
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Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase four heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go. More » [Deadspin]
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