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#snooplion Snoop Dogg—His mama named him Dogg, Imma call him Dogg—is a huge fan of Celtic F.C. and wants to lead the team out in its next match against Juventus in the Champions League. More »

#superbowl47 The first time I heard a grid pool described, my father was coming home with a pocketful of bills he'd just won down at his favorite watering hole. Essentially you make a 10-by-10 grid, strip numbers vertically and horizontally, buy a square, and if the last digit of the score matches your square, you win the money. More »

#xgames A week ago at the Winter X Games, 25-year-old Caleb Moore was in the midst of a stellar run. The three-time medalist was putting on a clinic in the finals of Snowmobile Freestyle. He was landing flips and body varials, and he seemed destined for the podium. Then everything went wrong. More »

#chrisculliver Yesterday, Chris Culliver sat down for a radio interview with shock jock Artie Lange. There was no mention of suckingcock.com, but the conversation did turn toward gays in the NFL. Here's how Culliver responded when Lange asked him if any players on the 49ers were gay: More »

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "NEW 2013 Hardcore Nuts Crazy Drunk Polish Guys Fight on the Street Wrestling." Tonight's commentator: Deadspin's Dead Wrestler of the Week Associate The Masked Man (with an afterthought from Chikara Wrestling's "Director of Fun"). Coming next week: A stripper reviews a stripper brawl. More »

#yakspin Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation, where he writes about politics and sports and angers conservatives every day. He's also a frequent guest on MSNBC and Outside the Lines, where he once found out firsthand just what a loon Paul Finebaum is. He's here now to answer whatever intelligent and nuanced questions you have for him. More »

#thedailyscreencap Did you know Terrell Owens and Jerome Bettis own bowling teams? You probably didn't know that. We sure didn't, so when this popped up on ESPN's lazy Sunday PBA coverage it gave us a bit of a start. After all, T.O.'s last stint as a pro sports team owner didn't go so well. We're told this time around it's a bit more of a success, though the whole concept is still a bit confusing. The new PBA league has a whole coterie of celebrity owners, including Chris Paul, LaMarr Woodley...

#natitude At a fan fest today, the Nationals will announce the addition of a new American president to their much-beloved mascot race, which already saw a shake-up late in the Nationals' season when Teddy Roosevelt won for the first time ever. Crowd-pleasers that the Nationals are, they understood that fans really mostly want to see one thing: Fats guys running. It's why offensive lineman recovering fumbles and running them in for touchdowns is funny, it's why everyone loved Glen Davis and Ol...

#whimsy In case you missed it last week, Bad Lip Reading put together a pretty funny video dubbing over some NFL players. One of the highlights was Adrian Peterson—full of childlike wonder—asking Pam Oliver for an orange peanut. You can check it out here. More »

#hazing NBA hazing rituals will always be a tremendous source of entertainment. I may or may not have watched Delonte West tell J.J. Hickson, "I don't care if you gotta fly! Trains, planes, or automobiles: you better have my do-nuts!" over 100 times in my life. More »

#collegebasketball See that video up there? That's two-plus minutes of highlights from Cleveland State's 92-49 victory over Grambling State on Nov. 9. Put another way: It's two-plus minutes of lowlights from the first game of what's shaping up to be the worst Division I college basketball season in history. More »

#jamesdolan According to the Star-Ledger, New York Knicks owner and talentless, flubby musician James Dolan has no qualms about creepily spying on his players during games. During Friday night's Bulls-Knicks game, Dolan ordered two MSG Network employees to keep tabs on Knicks star Carmelo Anthony. More »

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Unbelievable street fight in Hollywood - Bro vs. Hipster." Tonight's commentator: friend of Deadspin Chris Kluwe, a sensible human who is scheduled to appear on tonight's Colbert Report. (Coming next week: Zodiac MF reviews what may be the most mesmerizing TNF ever, calls it "ONE OF THE FINEST VIEWING EXPERIENCES YOU'LL FIND THIS OSCAR SEASON."...

#raylewis It's easy enough to be cynical about Ray Lewis, after the 17-year veteran linebacker announced his impending retirement yesterday. In the foreground, there's the recent image of Lewis, now that the years have reduced his ability to contribute on-field: the ridiculous, spasmodic dancing; the incessant sideline woofing; the hoarse, overwrought motivational speeches; the weird proclamations about evil's relationship to football. He's a self-caricature of fearsomeness, in the absence of...

#thatssojavale In recent years, the NBA has showcased a variety of creative three-point celebrations. We've seen the championship belt, the three goggles, and the three-to-the-head, among others. But none of those moves are quite like what JaVale McGee dropped on us last night after hitting a buzzer-beating three (his first of the season). More »

#deadspinxy This went down in Shanghai last week, at a shopping center that happened to have a decorative aquarium in the lobby. The tank cracked, then shattered, sending water and fish and turtles and three lemon sharks flooding onto visitors. It's like that scene from Jaws 3-D which no one saw so I don't know why I brought it up. More »

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Girl Goes Into Party to Fight," aka "best FIGHT on youtube." Tonight's commentator: Brawlotographer Zack Yutzey, whose filmography can be viewed via YouTube. More »

#suzyfavorhamilton Suzy Favor Hamilton was a middle distance runner, competing in three Olympics—most notably, the 1500 meters in Sydney, where she collapsed to the ground coming down the stretch. But she's probably best known for this 2000 Nike ad, in which a sports bra-clad Faovr Hamilton outran a masked chainsaw-wielding psycho—drawing claims that the commercial objectified women as sex objects and victims. More »

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Backyard pro wrestling in rural China - absolutely awesome." Tonight's commentator: TNF's Beijing Correspondent Anthony Tao. More »

#chrisberman Like any good showman knows, you've got to give the people what they want. And, clearly, what the people want is an homage to a bit on foreign painkillers from a lovable oaf. So this morning on Sunday NFL Countdown, Chris Berman used the Buffalo Bills "home game" in Toronto against the Seahawks to return to the Canadian well with just a little drop of codeine. More »

#brooklynnets I watched this game while sort of glancing at the television and then looking away again, so when I first heard this call, from the YES Network's Ian Eagle, I thought it was pretty irredeemably dweeby, regardless of the quality of the source material. Now that I've watched again and seen that Jerry Seinfeld was in the crowd, I think the same thing, but you have to give Eagle a little bit of credit for improvising on the spot—much better than yelling "BUTTER", which he does about...

#mediameltdowns When the mascots of corporations send out painfully canned condolences—our thoughts and prayers, seriously, from this ridiculously stupid dancing robot—people always say, "Oh man, I pity the poor intern that had to write that B.S." I've got news for you: It probably wasn't an intern. It was probably a well-compensated social media guru, working for the 20th Century Fox Football Wing version of MLB Advanced Media, who wrote that tweet. Some guy who's job it is write tweets from...

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Street fight for pop star (Russia)." Tonight's commentator: occasional Deadspin contributor Rodney Anonymous of the Dead Milkmen. More »

#ilyabryzgalov The Russian men's national hockey team recently removed Flyers' goalie and philosopher Ilya Bryzgalov from their roster before the start of the Channel One Cup, an annual tournament for Europeans playing in European leagues. During the NHL lockout, Bryzgalov has been playing for CSKA Moscow of the KHL. And he hasn't been doing particularly well—his .907 SV% would be third-worst in the league, if he hadn't been benched too much to qualify. More »

#greghardy It was Week 4 when Matt Ryan told the Carolina Panthers to "get the fuck off of his field" at the conclusion of his team's dramatic victory over the lowly Panthers. Headed into this week's rematch, it became known that the Panthers were still agitated by Ryan's boasting, and were looking to get some revenge. More »

#greggpopovich Usually, Gregg Popovich goes right for the jugular when he decides to condescend to whatever poor schmuck has to conduct a sideline interview with him. But he threw us a bit of a curveball last night, answering the first two questions he got from Charles Barkley earnestly and without any sneering. Was he on his best behavior in an effort to make amends with David Stern? Did his respect for Barkley as a player cause him to change his tune? More »

#michaeljordan A reader named Scott alerted us to this video, which is apparently an episode of a local television show Michael Jordan had in 1989 called Michael Jordan's Airwaves. MJ sits down with Chicago sports anchor Jim Rose in front of a live studio audience to talk about the upcoming season. It oozes 80s goodness. Here are some highlights: More »

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Sexy girls street fight outside the club." Tonight's commentator: Me. More »

#tuesdaynightfights Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Frankford Girl Fight" and "North Philly Fight So Slow." Tonight's commentator: A Philadelphia cop who sees shades of NatGeo porn. More »

#evgenimalkin The player once called "the ugliest guy in the league" has graduated to the most eligible bachelor in Russia. This says something about the men in Russia, or perhaps more about Malkin's willingness to sit for a photo shoot. More »

#northcarolina While the actual "student-athlete" may have died a long time ago, the conceit somehow lives on. As college athletics has grown in popularity and profitability, the NCAA quietly killed the student-athlete and replaced him with an evil twin brother. It used to be a ringer was a guy who had no connection to a team, he was just really good and was used to win a game. Now the ringers are the teams. That's not a bad thing—the play on the field, court, or whatever playing surface you ...

#mannyramirez Manny Ramirez is still hitting baseballs with the greatest of ease—just not in Major League Baseball, mind you. Ramirez, who endured a rocky 2012 season in which he ultimately didn't play a game in the bigs, suited up for the Las Aguilas Eagles of the Dominican Winter League tonight. In the first pitch of his first at-bat, in front of an estimated 22,000 fans, Ramirez homered to right field and sent the crowd (and announcing crew) into near-hysterics. Yeah, he's a serial PED-use...

Well, this was a strange week. We hope to return to normalcy—politics!—very shortly. The usual weekday suspects will be here for you tomorrow so do check back. As always, thank you for your continued support of Deadspin.

It goes without saying that Terry Bradshaw is not very bright. So it is much more plausible that this is a case of an idiot doofus that FOX allows to speak unscripted on live television in a vomit of words unwittingly comparing Reggie Bush running with some strange chasing after a bucket of chicken reference that perhaps only he and Jimmy Johnson understand than it is that Terry Bradshaw is a racist. Still, it happened. You know it’s bad when the typically chock full of chuckles Curt Menefee ...

“You know what would be fun? A football match,” one might say to a friend. “Let’s get tickets and go,” a friend might respond. “It’ll be a nice day and there would be absolutely no chance of us getting soaked to the bone by some random, malfunctioning sprinkler positioned right at the edge of the pitch and facing the stands, a hypothetical mess only compounded by officials just standing there watching it all happen,” the two stupidly assume. Halftime of the Liverpool-Newcastle match (a match ...

When the Nets left New Jersey, they left their old mascot, Sly, a wolf or rabbit or something, in New Jersey, along with Shawne Williams and the ghost of Kerry Kittles. The arena is new, the location is new, the mascot is new: the Nets now have BrooklyKnight (spelled like that, pronounced “Brooklyn Knight,” or “Brooklyn Night,” if you will). That’s the same name a musician named Sene. (spelled like that, with the period) used for a song recently and he’s not thrilled about the overlap. But th...

Sharyland high school did not necessarily need this remarkable feat of balance and hand-eye coordination to defeat the Edinburg North Cougars—the final score was 48-7 in favor of Sharyland—but it was certainly fun to watch. In the first quarter of Friday night’s game between the two Mission, Texas high schools, Sean Landez took Edinburg’s missed 44-yard field goal the farthest it could possibly be returned (without getting into millimeters, I suppose), easily dwarfing his 95-yard opening kick...

Basketball resumed this week, and unless you are a Houston Rockets fan, who cares. The T-Wolves at Milwaukee just ain’t opening day at Wrigley. The Nuggets flailing in Philadelphia simply isn’t the first drop of the puck in Detroit or Boston or Montreal. I once lived in a house with some Steelers fans who went approximately insane at the start of the NFL season. One, upon seeing the fireworks to open the first game, ran to a weight bench and started pounding out chest-presses as fast as he co...

No actual DUAN! here, but we wanted to put a song here, remind you of LSU-Alabama (8.p.m., CBS), and tell you to put on Pitt-ND if you didn’t already know (NBC). Notre Dame just fumbled in their own endzone during the second overtime. UPDATE: Third overtime. To get ready for Alabama at LSU, look at this picture of a freshly-painted LSU-wagon (i.e, totally messed up Lamborghini) and read this story about recidivist LSU-grad Jordan Jefferson speaking to this year’s Tigers. And hey—let’s hope US...

Picture via Getty That’s sitting atop this piece on ESPN—it’s on ESPN’s frontpage headline feed as “Cowboys’ Bryant gets permission to be out late”—about Dez Bryant’s 24th birthday, which is tomorrow. Dez has been living under strict rules, enforced by Cowboys employees and personal advisers, ever since he assaulted his mother in July. Now? This was the first time he’s gone out in months, and he couldn’t stay out long. It sounds like Dez kept mostly to himself, hung out with friends, and stay...

Rasheed Wallace never disappoints. At the end of the Knicks’ emotional victory over the Heat last night, ‘Sheed was roused from a fitful nap at the end of the bench by the crowd chanting his name, and coach Mike Woodson immediately subbing him in for his first minutes as a Knick. He looked out of shape, hit a three, and with zen detachment, offered “Brian Scalibrine role” as the new euphemism for a substitution during the loose giddiness of a blowout victory, replacing the shopworn ”victory c...

Finally, Next Media Animation weighs in on the World Series. If you didn’t catch this year’s Fall Classic—and, if you’re reading these words, there’s a good chance you didn’t—or if you immediately forgot everything that happened during the Series—and, all things considered, there’s a good chance you did—Next Media Animation has you covered. Our only quibbles: the walking bottle of shaving cream seemed drunker in real life, and Miguel Cabrera is fatter than that.