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The Rockets were losing for all of the final 18 minutes of their game against Philadelphia tonight, but after the clock hit zeros, Houston was celebrating the win. That’s because, on the game’s last possession, Eric Gordon sidestepped Joel Embiid’s upright arm and delivered a tricky corner three to seal a Rockets’…Read more...

If there’s been anything wrong with the Dodgers’ otherwise near-flawless season so far, it’s only that Vin Scully hasn’t been in the booth to call it. While the legendary announcer is hopefully enjoying his long-deserved retirement, the crowd at Dodger Stadium was understandably thrilled to see him back for a pre-game…Read more...

Earlier this week, actress Heather Lind said in a now-deleted Instagram post that former president George H.W. Bush had sexually assaulted her. “He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” she wrote. “He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed,…Read more...

Josh Smith, the guy who even three years ago was a withered hand choking to death any offense’s hopes of spacing and scoring, was last (un)seen touring with Maccabi Haifa this NBA preseason, following a stint with the Sichuan Blue Whales in China. He was reportedly looking for an NBA comeback, and it looks like he’s…Read more...

The A.V. Club Evidence continues to mount that Ivanka Trump does not, in fact, know how to use words | Jalopnik Here Are All The Cars Reported To Have Exploding Sunroof Problems | Gizmodo The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective | Lifehacker How to Never Tell Anyone Anything About Yourself | Kotaku …Read more...

People on the internet have been eating some kind of spicy chip and recording their reactions, and I don’t really care to find out more about why this is happening, but no additional information is necessary to watch this unfortunate news anchor barf after trying the snack.Read more...

After laughing at a female reporter and skipping a conference entirely earlier this month, Cam Newton suddenly left today’s Q&A after he initially responded, “Next question,” to a question about big plays.Read more...

Here is a scenario that you have probably found yourself in recently: It’s 7:00 p.m., you’re finally home from work after a long day of whatever it is that you do all day at work, and you’re out of food. You don’t want to walk to the grocery store (ugh!), chop up and heat the foodstuffs you’ve purchased (gross!!!),…Read more...

We’ve already seen the impact of LaVar Ball’s tryhard dad-bluster in the way his son was treated on the court by Patrick Beverley, but it seemed unfair to draw too big an inference from that. That’s because Patrick Beverley is, if you want to be nice about it, a particularly feisty brand of point guard. Surely, the…Read more...

In a scathing letter of termination, Louisville interim president Gregory Postel wrote that since-fired athletic director Tom Jurich’s “willful misconduct” was the reason Louisville gave him the boot last week, claiming that in addition to setting up the university’s Adidas deal in the shadows, Jurich went about his…Read more...

Anyone with a True Gamer’s Heart knows the soul-shattering frustration of getting owned. It is only through sheer force of luck that what happened to North Carolina guard Joel Berry II hasn’t happened to us all. Berry, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2017 Final Four, was apparently playing video games with teammate…Read more...

On Saturday night, I went to a show from House of Glory, one of the local independent wrestling promotions in New York City. It was a really fun show until an accident in the semifinal match, when Chris Seaton of the New York Wrecking Krew tag team broke his femur in a freak accident; he landed wrong doing a moonsault…Read more...

What can you really learn from the very first few games of a player’s NBA career?Read more...

Sixers point guard Markelle Fultz has had one of the strangest starts to an NBA career in recent memory. Hopefully he’ll end up having a long and productive one, and these first two weeks will become something he can laugh about.

Typically selling for $175+, this fire pit features a deep bowl for bigger, but safer fires. Unlike more inexpensive steel fire pits, this one is made of cast iron and built to last. It weighs 60 pounds and will take a couple of extra days to ship, which gives you a little more time to get s’mores ingredients.Read more...

Great news for insane people and morons: Amazon has disrupted the lock! Now, you can choose to pay money to grant this giant faceless hell-corporation the ability to send strangers inside your locked home when you’re not there. Just like you always wanted.

I don’t know much about Indonesian soccer, not even enough to be properly impressed when Wikipedia describes 21-year-old Borneo FC forward Terens Puhiri as “The Next Boaz Solossa,” but what I do know is what fast looks like. And this guy sure is fast:Read more...

Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, creating a bit of a conundrum for the seasonally minded. Even if you’re going out to a party the weekend before, there’s still the day of, when sitting around and watching your regular sitcoms would feel, well… less than festive. And for those for whom navigating a crowd of drunken…Read more...

The National Park Service is considering implementing “peak season pricing” in 17 of the country’s most popular parks, proposing an increase to $70 per car. Currently, Yellowstone charges $30 per vehicle, or $50 for Yellowstone and Grand Teton.Read more...

The Cavs are and will remain a bit of a mess at the point guard position until Isaiah Thomas manages to return from his hip injury. One luxury they enjoy, however, is the ability to plug the best player in the world into any lineup hole and perform at an all-world level.

Calvin, no, that’s a basketball, you don’t hit a basketball with a baseball bat...oh.

I’m generally over hockey fights, both for their silliness and their safety concerns. So here’s a good reminder that for as right-thinking as I’d like to imagine myself, I’m entirely willing to drop all principles the second something cool happens.Read more...

I think I’ve sort of avoided writing about them, because it all seems too deeply weird to be real, let alone to be anything close to sustainable, but there’s really no other option but to acknowledge it now: The Vegas Golden Knights, by pure winning percentage if not quite by points, have the best record in the NHL.

Today only, Amazon’s running two great deals on Black & Decker tools to help you with your next DIY project.

In the first quarter of tonight’s game against the Jazz, Blake Griffin offered up a dunk over Rudy Gobert that cannot really be fairly described as posterizing, simply because it was intense enough that it would really be kind of cruel to capture and preserve—you’d hang the poster up and everyone would be all, “Boy,…Read more...

With a 110-89 loss to the Celtics tonight, the Knicks dropped to 0-3. Here are some selected highlights.Read more...

The narrative of Clayton Kershaw’s inability to handle the postseason has always been bigger than it has been real. There have always been far too many other factors at play—namely, poor managerial decisions and a shaky bullpen behind him—for that idea to be true. (Not to mention a number of perfectly fine playoff…Read more...

The NHL clearly knew that they had a great game on their hands tonight, with two of its three biggest stars—Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby—going toe to toe in Pittsburgh. They even promoted it like a must-watch event!

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Puerto Rico is struggling to stay alive.Read more...

If you were diagramming the worst possible scenario (which, Arsenal being Arsenal, would double as the most probable forecast for their coming campaign) for the Gunners’ season this year, you would’ve had this year being one of woe.Read more...

If you’re tired of hearing college coaches and athletic directors stumbling over themselves to repeat the same tired, NCAA-issued lines about maintaining the “integrity” of college sports, you’re in luck. Starting at 7 p.m., the college sports model will be put under a microscope, as Deadspin friend/contributor Andy…Read more...

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Little-known fact: Dave McKenna actually played all instruments during this live performance.Read more...

Markelle Fultz has spent the start of his NBA career battling through a shoulder injury and shooting his free throws like someone throwing laundry into a hamper. He hasn’t played well, but that’s not much of a concern at all, since he is 19 and rookie point guards tend to be bad. What is concerning is that Fultz’s…Read more...

Did you know you’ve been pooping all wrong? It’s true! Luckily, the obscenely popular Squatty Potty is designed to lift your legs into an ideal bowel movement position, and you can get a bamboo model on Amazon today. Although it more expensive than the usual plastic model, this one allows you to adjust to your optimal…Read more...

A squirrel ran onto the field before today’s Manchester City-Wolves game. After the grounds crew chased it around for a while, they eventually managed to wrangle it.Read more...

Phoenix Suns rookie Josh Jackson fouled out of Saturday’s blowout loss to the Clippers with six minutes left, and as he headed to the bench, he appeared to mime shooting a gun at a Clippers fan, before sitting down and mouthing “Fuck you.”

Serie A and Lazio FC announced they’ll be taking measures to counter anti-semitism at soccer matches. This decision was spurred by an incident this weekend in which Lazio supporters “defaced their Stadio Olimpico home in Rome with anti-Semitic graffiti and stickers showing images of [Anne] Frank ... wearing a jersey…Read more...

Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re talking Penn State, airballs, butts, and more.

It’s been a rough week for Steelers rookie JuJu Smith-Schuster. Martavis Bryant is talking shit online about him, he’s landed in the concussion protocol, and now some rapscallion has made off with Smith-Schuster’s prized bicycle. This is bullshit! Give it back!

Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer.Read more...

Jim Boeheim spoke with the press on Friday, per Syracuse.com, touching on Syracuse’s upcoming attempt to bounce back from a 19-15 NIT campaign, UNC’s last-minute dodging of NCAA penalties, and the fact that, actually, jersey sales aren’t really that high, so college athletes should probably be happy with their Pell…Read more...

Highlight reels in soccer often cull together the best moves of attacking players, and for good reason. Scoring is the most important thing you can do in the sport, dribbles and passes and shots are just more aesthetically pleasing than smart defensive positioning, etc. etc. That doesn’t mean the big lads at the back…Read more...

With the Nuggets down five toward the end of last night’s game against the Wizards, Jamal Murray canned a three to make it a one-score game. As the Nuggets walked back to their bench following a Wizards timeout, Nikola Jokic grazed Scott Brooks with his elbow. Brooks immediately whirled around as if he’d been shot,…Read more...

The Eagles pulled away from Washington in the second half Monday night, although at halftime they only led by one touchdown. The competitive game didn’t stop a few fans from fighting early in the third quarter of the Eagles’ 34-24 win in Philly.Read more...

The Cleveland Browns, who are once again a plague upon this green Earth, have spent the season flipping back and forth between a trio of QBs of varying mediocrity. DeShone Kizer, Kevin Hogan, and Cody Kessler have teamed up to throw seven touchdowns and 17 picks for a team that only figures to have more trouble…Read more...

When I was in high school, I let my guy friends shoot crumpled paper balls into my cleavage at lunch. I thought this made me cooler than the other girls, and that my ability to assimilate and remain sexualized was special. Besides, it was just a silly thing they did. It would be years before that memory soured, and I…Read more...

Dennis Smith Jr. is just 6-foot-2, but the audacious kind of 6-foot-2, the kind that wants to put the ball directly into the hoop no matter what bodies stand between him and it. There’s not a whole lot else going on in this Mavs roster, so it’s exhilarating when the rookie launches himself off the floorboards and…Read more...

Carson Wentz had a good rookie season, and he’s been playing great so far in his second year, but last night felt like a turning point. Maybe people put too much stock into players having big performances in nationally televised games—Doing It On The Big Stage, as it were—but Wentz looked like a superstar and maybe…Read more...

Hockey dude Henrik Lundqvist literally fell flat on his face on this play that gave the Sharks their fourth and final “goal” last night.