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How are things going for the Islanders these days? I was at an ostensible Islanders bar last night, with about 15 TVs in the place, and only one screen—one of the smaller ones—had the Islanders-Oilers game on. And not with sound.

A heated cushion...what’s the big deal, you say? Well, this one is powered by USB, meaning you can take it anywhere.

At some point today, the question of how to celebrate International Women’s Day on social media was considered by the Clippers. The answer, somehow, was to play up the team’s new partnership with a dating app and use the trio of Ayn Rand, Maya Angelou and Anne Frank to do so.Read more...

With three weeks until opening day, third baseman Mike Moustakas is reportedly finally signing a deal to stay in Kansas City. He’ll do so for just a fraction of what he was originally expected to bring in—a one-year, $5.5 million contract with $2.2 million in potential performance bonuses and a mutual option for a…Read more...

Jaylen Brown’s fingers slipped after a third-quarter dunk tonight against Minnesota and the Celtics swingman miraculously left the court under his own power after an emergency response that suggested the Celtics had seen their second devastating injury of the season.Read more...

The question of what the Broncos will do with Aqib Talib is finally settled—after weeks of speculation, Denver has reportedly traded the veteran cornerback to the Rams in exchange for a fifth-round pick, as first reported by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and James Palmer.

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

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As first reported by Willamette Week, Portland police investigated a 2011 incident in which a woman said Mark Cuban groped her while posing for a photo at a bar. Yesterday, a person working at the bar that night said while he couldn’t confirm the specifics, he did remember the woman recoiling from and arguing with…Read more...

Alabama is an occasionally pretty fun college basketball team with a sub-.500 conference record, and they desperately need wins in the SEC Tournament in order to get in the NCAA Tournament. Luckily for the Tide, they earned a dramatic one today against Texas A&M.

On Thursday afternoon, a few but probably not too many minutes after 3:45 p.m. EST, Michael Porter Jr. is going to jog onto the court for just the second time this season. This matters because Porter is one of, if not the single most promising prospects in the upcoming NBA draft. Before the season there was a…Read more...

Looking to get some trendy mid-century modern look without spending a fortune? Amazon is looking out for you by discounting some of their Rivet furniture today. They have hairpin-legged end tables and long console table, and a couple of discounted chairs in fun colors, like this lotus accent chair in canary, and cozy …Read more...

It has come to my attention that some people do not like all birds. This or that bird is not good, they are saying or thinking or blogging nearly two years ago. But actually, whatever bird they are talking about is good. Birds are good.Read more...

At the same event where Russian strongman Mikhail Shivlyakov’s face turned into a bloody mess, Icelandic strongman and Game Of Thrones hulk Hafþór Björnsson took the stage and deadlifted a world-record 1,041 pounds. Björnsson’s lift came on a specially designed bar meant to accommodate four-digit lifts, and he did it…Read more...

A consultant group serving as the “External Compliance Monitor” for the 2022 FIFA World Cup released its second annual report on Wednesday detailing labor conditions at construction sites in Qatar. The tone of the accompanying press release is positive, touting “a new spirit” and labor law reforms (which are mostly…Read more...

I know that the Olympics fades from the collective consciousness the second the closing ceremonies end, if not sooner! But this week, Deadspin Olympics correspondent Hannah Keyser came onto the DEADCAST to debrief us on her time in Pyeongchang and ended up giving us an EXCLUSIVE BACKSTAGE LOOK at how your Olympics…Read more...

The Magic lost a weird one to the Lakers last night. After Aaron Gordon drove through four defenders to put his team up one with five seconds left, Nikola Vucevic fouled Brook Lopez with 0.6 seconds left. Lopez nailed both free throws to give the Lakers a 108-107 lead, so the Magic’s only real chance of winning was…Read more...

You can get our readers’ favorite meat thermometer for $63 ($16 less than usual), as long as you don’t mind that the box has been opened. You guys love the Classic Thermapen because it displays the temperature in 2 - 3 seconds, and is accurate to within 0.7°F.

That this post is about Nate McLouth, who hasn’t played in the majors since 2014, already indicates that the information’s a bit old, but this video’s making the rounds now and I’d never seen it before, so whatever. McLouth, then with the Baltimore Orioles, did an interview with a Spanish-speaking reporter after a…Read more...

In a case of fortuitous timing, two days before it was announced that Papa John’s is no longer the official pizza of the NFL, professional spokesman retired Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning sold his stake in 31 Denver-area Papa John’s, The Denver Post reports.Read more...

StarCraft is reportedly dead, though for a corpse the exact time and cause of death are proving difficult to pin down. It’s possible that the StarCraft: Brood War match-fixing scandal of 2010 killed the pioneering real time strategy game a few months before the sequel was even released, but by then it may have already…Read more...

After just two seasons spent running the once-proud Pitt basketball program straight into the ground, Kevin Stallings has been fired. Jon Rothstein of FanRag Sports reported the news first.Read more...

PHILADELPHIA — There were massive piles of snow outside the Flyers’ arena last night, but things were bright and sunny inside before the game.

It was only two months ago that Trae Young’s Oklahoma team was ranked fourth in the nation. With the most exciting player in the country leading the way, the Sooners improved drastically from an awful 2017 season, riding a 14-2 start that turned their freshman point guard into a national fascination. Now, however,…Read more...

All you really need to play tennis is a friend.Read more...

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Before signing with the Angels, Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani narrowed his list to seven teams, and heard in-person presentations from each. Players from one of those teams, at least, say the whole thing was a farce and Ohtani shouldn’t have wasted their time.Read more...

If you’re in the market for a new computer chair, Amazon has over a dozen options on sale today in the Gold Box.

University of San Diego head basketball coach Lamont Smith has resigned, almost two weeks after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and two days after police announced that he would not face charges. San Diego initially suspended Smith on the day after his arrest.Read more...

Former LSU running back Derrius Guice said that one team used last week’s NFL Combine to ask him if he liked men, with another asking if his mother was a prostitute.Read more...

For a few glorious moments, this DeMar DeRozan dunk looked like it was going to be the game-winner in tonight’s Raptors-Pistons game. It would’ve been perfect—explosive and dramatic and from a guy who was on fire, with DeRozan on his way to 42 points and six assists:Read more...

Colorado and Arizona State got a little beef stewing in the closing moments of today’s Pac-12 Tournament game. Up by nine points with eight seconds to play on their way to the win, Buffaloes guard Tyler Bey went for a dunk, and the Sun Devils didn’t react too kindly.Read more...

Washington Wizards small forward Kelly Oubre Jr. added his perspective to what other NBA players like DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love have opened up about in recent days—talking about his mental health in an interview on NBC Sports’s “Wizards Tipoff” podcast (it starts around the 13:00 mark).Read more...

The Royals spent part of this weekend hosting an anti-porn workshop for players and coaches, doing their part to sponsor “a fight for love,” as workshop leadership call it.Read more...

The NFL machine should be napping right now, but the rich white dudes who run the league will never stop trying to swing their otherwise useless dicks. The latest drama was a spat between Roger Goodell and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who Goodell ordered to pay about $2 million of the NFL’s legal fees for their defense…Read more...

Today was Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s first full day of classes since the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead and many others wounded. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stopped by to meet with students, as did Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade. One of these visitors was more popular than the other.

Sure, at the outset of this Champions League Round of 16 pairing, Tottenham were the clear underdogs. A perennial Europa League squad, Spurs were going up against six-time defending Serie A winners Juventus, a team that had made the Champions League final in two of the past three seasons. As exciting as Tottenham can…Read more...

Marjory Stoneman Douglas football player Tyler Goodman was meeting with Nichols College assistant coach St. Clair Ryan and dean of admissions Paul Brower during last month’s shooting which killed 17 people at the high school. Goodman had not seriously considered attending Nichols, a D-III school in Massachusetts, but…Read more...

Who’s hungry for some fuckin’ sports media drama? What if I told you it involved one writer misquoting another and a sassy Bill Simmons tweet? Pull up a chair, friend, and get a plate of this hot beef.

The Cinderella-est story of the schoolboy hoops season in the Washington, D.C. area came to an end over the weekend. It turns out the year’s most fantastical feel-good tale really was a fantasy after all.

U.S. women’s hockey player and 2018 Olympic gold medalist Amanda Kessel delivered a bombshell today regarding her NHL brother Phil, who has a history with tubed meats: Her older sibling isn’t as avid a hot dog fan as he’s been reported to be.

Indian Wells, tennis’s “fifth major,” begins today in southern California. Last year the men’s draw produced one of the most evil sections of a draw you will ever see: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro, Nick Kyrgios, and Sascha Zverev all crammed unhappily into one corner. After the…Read more...

The run-up to the NFL Draft is a minefield of misinformation, replete with scouts, execs, and NFL information brokers scrambling to outflank each other and throw up various smokescreens. It is also, simultaneously and hilariously, a realm of comically serious and idiotically wised-up analysis, which takes the form of…Read more...

Good sportsmanship: seeing an opponent fall in pain while in the process of making an easy clearance and kicking the ball out of play. Bad sportsmanship: seeing an opponent fall in pain while in the process of making an easy clearance and stealing the ball from the injured fellow in order to go score the winning goal…Read more...

Just before last Saturday’s fight between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz, I predicted a number of things would happen when they met. I said that Wilder would win, most likely within the first three rounds. I stated unequivocally that in a legitimate fight Ortiz would beat Wilder in any manner he chose. I mapped out the…Read more...

Here we have Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer stuck on a face. By his own account, he lost his route with “no option anymore to climb up or down.” This is a terrifying place to be, even with the proper safety equipment. Auer, however, was only equipped with a thin rope, one ice screw, his harness, and a belay device. He…Read more...

Metal Gear Survive is wreckage of the long battle between the series’ lead creator, Hideo Kojima, and Konami, his long-time employer who ditched him three years ago. Kojima split with Konami after a lifetime of making Metal Gear games, going back to the first in 1987. Survive is Konami’s attempt to make a new one…Read more...

Sir Roger Bannister died over the weekend at the age of 88 and, as to be expected, the glowing obituaries focused on his epochal mile of May 6, 1954, when he shattered the four-minute barrier on Oxford University’s Iffley Road track.

In this episode of Let’s Remember Some Guys, Tom Ley and I open a pack of “Baseball Legends.” Most of the guys are quite memorable, so with that objective accomplished, Ley tells a few Joe DiMaggio stories he once read in a book, and I apologize for saying Bill Freehan has dumb face which resembles that of Roy from …Read more...

PITTSBURGH — I hadn’t even made it to my seat, and Pitt basketball was already living down to my expectations.