Category: Sport
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According to a press release issued by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, former ESPN commentator Jay Mariotti pleaded not guilty today to allegations of stalking and assaulting the former girlfriend he was convicted of assaulting last year. Here’s the release in its entirety: More » [Deadspin]
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The Miami Heat can put the Celtics down like a mangy mutt that was good for about a fifth of its lifetime tonight. And you know what? Good for Team Olbermann. And good for the United States of America. Rondo might as well have smeared some of Schilling’s ketchup on his jersey. More » [Deadspin]
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Yesterday, the story of the two Ole Miss students who had their laptops stolen over the weekend only to find them mysteriously returned in shrubbery with a note attached decided to follow-through with a public thank you to the anonymous good samaritan. More » [Deadspin]
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Seems as if this would be the perfect moment for LeBron James to come up with some sort of witty “All y’all joked about me taking my talents to South Beach” retort, no? More » [Deadspin]
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Here’s An Update About The Video Of Some White Parking-Lot Rage That Left A Guy Hospitalized [Video]
Earlier today, Philadelphia police announced they’d arrested two of the four imbeciles who beat someone unconscious and face-bashed near a bunch of clubs that tend to attract gorilla juiceheads willing to beat people unconscious and face-bashed in parking lots. More » [Deadspin]
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Thus far, at the behest of the “Vertical Dance lobby,” nearly 6,000 people “have read the Get Pole Dance Accepted into the Olympics Petition to International Olympic Committee, and I hereby sign the petition.” Here’s an excerpt: More » [Deadspin]
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Your morning roundup for May 12, the day old coot Yogi Berra will come up with something witty to say about turning 82, even though he’s only 81. More » [Deadspin]
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A huge court ruling has gone completely under the radar. It’s not a steroids witch hunt, or a BCS antitrust suit, but something far more important to the day-to-day lives of sports fans: protecting your First Amendment right to bear middle fingers at a football game. More » [Deadspin]
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A Dominican medical team designed a rejuvenation treatment, in which they’d inject stem cells into the pitching arm, for Pedro Martinez. He turned them down. Bartolo Colon didn’t. More » [Deadspin]
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One of the underrated subplots of the playoffs is when non-sports events get scheduled for our nation’s arenas, and the conflicts it causes when a team goes deep. We’ve had two notable instances of it already, with the Lightning and Bulls running up against two of the most powerful forces in entertainment: Disney and Oprah.…
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Our French tipster Antoine sent this in with the subject line “ro basketball team training with robots,” perhaps because he’s aware of our constant fear of the Robot Uprising. But the Futuroscope that helped Poitiers Basket 86 develop their spatial recognition or some such nonsense doesn’t inspire the same kind of fear. Certainly the giant…
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Here’s a tidy summation of how we’ve managed to get to where we are with the NFL lockout. A few years ago, the players and owners agreed to a new CBA, with only Ralph Wilson and Mike Brown voting against the agreement, in Wilson’s case because he’s old and easily confused by things. More » [Deadspin]
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