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Tennessee WR Who Joked About Upset Loss To Georgia State Suddenly No Longer On Team

The Tennessee Volunteers dropped their first college football game of the season, 38-30, to Georgia State, a Sun Belt team that went 2-10 last season. The crowd was openly booing, and there’s already been a players-only meeting, so everyone in the program’s pretty on edge. With all that considered, ...

Overexcited Jackson State Mascot Hops Right In The Scrum After A Touchdown

You can really tell that Jackson State’s mascot is a valued part of the team—or the person inside the suit feels that way, at least....

Hugh Freeze Probably Should've Just Stayed Home

Liberty Flames head coach Hugh Freeze was so committed to attending the first game of his team’s season that despite recovering from a recent surgery, he was wheeled into a booth Saturday and did his job anyway. Liberty lost to Syracuse, 24-0....

Naomi Osaka's Treatment Of Defeated Teen Coco Gauff Was A Moment To Treasure

The enthralling run of 15-year-old prodigy Coco Gauff had to come to an end eventually. She fell in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0, to No. 1 Naomi Osaka in the third round Saturday at the U.S. Open. Osaka did everything she could to make the disappointment hit Gauff as softly as possible....

Deadspin Up All Night: Please Turn On Your Magic Beam

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NFL free agent Ryan Russell, who’s played for the Cowboys and Buccaneers, comes out as bisexual. “For me, not publicly acknowledging my sexuality became one of those sacrifices, just one of those hundreds of little interests or passions a pro athlete puts off until their playing days are long gone.”...

Skateboarding Dog Crushes Stair Sets? Skateboarding Dog Crushes Stair Sets

Murdy the Dawg is a well-known figure in the skating world, and Thrasher magazine actually released this part in February, but he has only just now rolled into our purview, which is as good enough a reason as any to share this video. What, are you not going to watch a skateboarding dog who also know...

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Rob Gronkowski Says He Couldn't Sleep For Weeks After A Fairly Routine Hit In The Super Bowl

Reformed footballer Rob Gronkowski showed up at an event in New York City today to push some CBD product. Since the NFL world has been engrossed by the abrupt retirement of Colts quarterback Andrew Luck, Gronkowski brought up an injury he had suffered in this past season’s Super Bowl to illustrate a...

Brian Flores Says He Played Jay-Z Songs To "Challenge" Kenny Stills, Supports His Protest

One day after Dolphins receiver Kenny Stills called out the NFL’s superficial-seeming social-justice partnership with Jay-Z and Roc Nation, head coach Brian Flores loaded up the practice playlist with a bunch of Shawn Carter’s songs. This appeared to be a strangely antagonistic move from Flores, but...

Patriots' Patrick Chung Indicted On Cocaine Possession Charge In New Hampshire [Update]

New England Patriots safety Patrick Chung might have to make a trip to New Hampshire next Wednesday, as he’s slated to be arraigned on a charge of cocaine possession stemming from June 25....

Deadspin Up All Night: This Scam Will Still Save Us All

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Ronda Rousey Fucked Up Her Finger While She Filmed A TV Show

Let’s issue the warning up front: You’re going to see a pretty gross finger if you keep reading. It looks like a bloody lowercase “Z,” if that helps you sharpen your imagination. Okay, you’ve been warned....

Baseball's Cranks Agree: The Sport Was Better When They Were Part Of It

Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage has been complaining about the state of baseball for so long that his complaints have spanned multiple decades of the sport. It feels like just yesterday, he was lecturing Joba Chamberlain on “the Yankee way.” (Joba Chamberlain is now retired.) Eleven years later,...

Minor League Stadium Ravaged By The Dreaded Mumford & Sons

The Pioneer League’s Missoula Osprey had to postpone all of its games this weekend when the aftermath of a Mumford & Sons concert combined with bad weather to make the baseball field mushy and unplayable....

Deadspin Up All Night: Into The Black

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Conor McGregor Sucker-Punches Old Man After Whiskey Argument In Dublin Pub

Conor McGregor still hasn’t decided on his next fight, but in the meantime he’s won an exhibition bout against an old guy who was just trying to have a pint....

Barstool Sports Employees Organize To Smooch Their Boss's Ass

Prompted by The Ringer’s unionization, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, whose site uses the tagline “By the common man, for the common man,” has spent a lot of his time yesterday and today coming out as a big anti-union guy. This was a predictable shtick from the guy who sold MAGA hats and yuks...

Curt Schilling Once Again Threatens To Run For Office

Curt Schilling, former major-league pitcher and World Series hero who squandered away so much goodwill that the Red Sox no longer want anything to do with him, has for the umpteenth time floated the idea of running for office. What makes this time different is that Donald Trump gave him a signal boo...