Have you ever found yourself envious of all those races runners participate in, but are unwilling to actually run? Then Philadelphia (which, it should be noted, is the 14th-fattest city in the U.S.) has just the event for you.
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16 Dec 19:13
Jumping Into Opposing Team's Fans: Always A Bad Idea
by Timothy Burke on screengrabber, shared by Timothy Burke to Deadspin
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11 Dec 16:21
This Is Probably The Worst Jump Shot You'll Ever See In The NBA
by Tom Ley
Something remarkable happened in the fourth quarter of last night's game between the Bulls and Nets: Cory Jefferson tried to play basketball while on an LSD trip.
09 Dec 05:29
Strong-Ass Take Ahoy
by Barry Petchesky
If #TCU was TMU - Texas Muslim University - they prob would have made it in2 playoffs! Board was obvi anti-Christian! #NCAAplayoff
— Luzy Payne (@luzypayne) December 7, 2014
05 Dec 15:49
Portland State Player Fakes Handshake, Steals Ball, Dunks
by Samer Kalaf
Portland was up by 14 against Portland State as the game wound down Wednesday. As Portland's Alec Wintering dribbled out the clock, Portland State's Bryce White came up for a handshake. Just kidding! White stole the ball and made a meaningless dunk. Suck it, Portland! Now you only beat Portland State by 12!
21 Nov 17:34
Street Fighter ugly Christmas jumper
by Cory Doctorow
The realisation that knitting (and cross-stitch) is pixel-based has been dawning on the crafty gamer world for more than a decade, and I've enjoyed chronicling the rise of 8-bit nostalgia textiles. Case in point: the £40 Street Fighter Christmas Jumper.
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13 Nov 13:38
FC Zurich Initiates Legal Proceedings Over Horror Tackle
by Kevin Draper
If you're the squeamish sort, I highly suggest you do not watch the above video. It shows a barbaric tackle from this weekend's Swiss Super League action, involving FC Arau's Sandro Wieser and FC Zurich's Gilles Yapi Yalo. Wieser launches his cleat into Yapi Yalo's knee, causing "torn anterior and interior cruciate ligaments, serious cartilage damage, meniscus tear, a torn kneecap and deep bruising in his thigh," according to The Guardian. Wieser was immediately red carded, and later visited Yapi Yalo—a former teammate on FC Basel—in the locker room and apologized for the tackle on Facebook.
10 Nov 17:16
Man Utd Legend Asks City Fan Noel Gallagher To Sign Guitar, Gets Trolled
by Billy Haisley
C'mon, Gary Neville, did you really think asking Noel Gallagher—who at this point is practically as famous for being a Manchester City superfan as he is for being a member of Oasis—to autograph your guitar would end in any other way than this troll job?
10 Nov 17:15
Pepsi Tests Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew on Innocent Public
by Hudson Hongo
What looks like Mountain Dew, tastes like Doritos, and sounds just awful? If you guessed "Dewitos," a new soft drink concocted by the food criminals at Pepsi, congratulations, you're qualified to be an executive at America's largest food and beverage company.
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09 Nov 06:59
Receiver's Blunder Turns 78 Yard TD Catch Into 100 Yard Fumble Return
by Timothy Burke
Kaelin Clay should have had a 79-yard touchdown catch to put Utah up 14-0 on Oregon. Instead, the Ducks tied the game when Clay dropped the ball short of the goal line and Oregon's Joe Walker picked it up to go the entire length of the field in the opposite direction.
07 Nov 18:36
FSU Sorority Girl Burns Everyone On Flag Football Touchdown
by Samer Kalaf
Delta Gamma's Michelle Roque channeled her inner LaDainian Tomlinson and toasted four defenders in a flag football game at Florida State. As a former flag football ref (for one semester), I can determine she did not use her hands to prevent any defender from grabbing one of her flags, so her moves are legal. That's just a really good run.
04 Nov 21:38
Wind Blows Florida Rapper Right Into The Sea During Photo Shoot
by Tom Ley
A Florida rapper who goes by the name of Presto Flo decided that the edge of a seawall would be a good place to have a photo shoot, because everyone looks awesome and cool while standing in front of the ocean. Unfortunately for Presto Flo, he decided to do his shoot on a particularly windy day, and it did not end well for him.
04 Nov 03:01
Brilliant Goalie Knocks Over Own Net Rather Than Face A 2-On-0
by Barry Petchesky
Thirty-year-old David Leggio has never made the big show—but you don't spend that long in the minor leagues without learning a few tricks. In a game yesterday, the netminder for the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers saw his team turn the puck over at center ice, so he immediately toppled his own net to stop play.
27 Oct 21:20
Dumb Wi-Fi Network Name Delays Flight for Four Hours
by Adam Clark Estes
Some asshat at Los Angeles International Airport ruined a plane-full of people's days on Sunday night. He named a Wi-Fi network "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork," and a passenger about to take off on a 9am flight to London noticed it. The plane didn't take off until 1pm as a result.
24 Oct 20:58
Patrick Rothfuss narrates "The Slow Regard of Silent Things"
by Cory Doctorow
HabanerocouscousI just happened to be reading about this the other day. Apparently this is a novella that follows the character Auri. He's also contracted for a novel following Laniel Young-Again next, so the speculation is that the actual Kingkiller Chronicles book 3 (tentatively titled The Doors of Stone) will not be out until ~ 2018.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things being his next novel, a fantasy title due out at the end of October.
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23 Oct 04:20
Gridland
incredibly addictive, deceptively simple match-three game from the creator of A Dark Room
22 Oct 01:05
Mercilessly pricking the bubbles of AI, Big Data, machine learning
by Cory Doctorow
Michael I Jordan is an extremely accomplished computer scientist who is also deeply skeptical of claims made by Big Data advocates as well as people who believe that machine intelligence, AI and machine vision are solved, or nearly so.
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20 Oct 01:09
Rams Execute Brilliant Fake Punt Return For Touchdown
by Timothy Burke
You've heard of fake punts. Have you heard of a fake punt return? The Rams pulled it off to perfection against the Seahawks today.
17 Oct 18:41
Ill-Timed Bench Collapse Makes For Great Soccer Team Photo
by Tom Ley on Screamer, shared by Tom Ley to Deadspin
This is what happened when Derry City, a professional soccer team from the League of Ireland Premier Division, tried to get together to snap a team photo. Everyone seems to be having a good laugh at the situation, except for that dude on the bottom left. He might be dead.
15 Oct 21:23
Monster leech swallows giant worm
by Mark Frauenfelder
"A giant red leech hunts down a 70cm long blue worm and sucks it down like spaghetti."
15 Oct 21:22
Missing parrot returns speaking Spanish
by David Pescovitz
When Nigel, an African grey parrot who was missing for four years, was reunited with his caretaker, the bird was chattering in Spanish, not the British accent he had when he disappeared. (The Daily Breeze)
14 Oct 01:38
New Zealand FIBA Team Does Haka Dance, Confuses Team USA Players
by Tom Ley
Like all good New Zealand national teams, these dudes started off their FIBA World Cup game against Team USA with a bitchin' Haka dance. Haka dances are never not cool, and this one comes with the added bonus of the camera capturing a few American players looking on, befuddled and perhaps a bit terrified.
12 Oct 20:46
Great Moments In Pass Defending, Brought To You By The Buffalo Bills
by Timothy Burke on screengrabber, shared by Timothy Burke to Deadspin
06 Oct 23:49
This Kangaroo Fight Is Better Than Most Boxing And UFC Matches
by Tom Ley on The Concourse, shared by Tom Ley to Deadspin
I have no good theories about why these two kangaroos are fighting—is there territory or a food source to be fought over in the middle of the suburbs?—so I can only assume that they are fighting because they crave combat.
05 Oct 16:35
Alabama Fan Throws Cup At Crowd, Is Promptly Taken Out
by Samer Kalaf
This Bama fan was sour after the Crimson Tide lost to Ole Miss, so he threw a cup at the jeering crowd. Bad idea. An overeager security guard took him down, because tossing a cup is apparently an offense worthy of a takedown on concrete steps. Everyone should take a lesson from the unfazed guy in the red shirt, and chill.
01 Oct 15:21
Great Job, Internet!: Read This: Real archaeologists think Indiana Jones is just a low-down, dirty tomb raider
by Christopher Curley
It’s been pretty well established that Indiana Jones is a shitty archeologist (he couldn’t even get tenure from Marshall College). What makes journalist Erik Vance’s feature “Why Archeologists Hate Indiana Jones” special is the genuine–albeit well-founded–ire actual archeologists have for the fictional adventurer and his constant betrayal of a modern archeologist’s basic code of ethics. Take Tulane archeologist Marcello Canuto, for example, who bemoans Indy’s ignorance of the wonders of the temple in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark:
“[The temple builders] are using these amazing mechanisms of engineering and all he wants to do is steal the stupid gold statue.”
A real archeologist, Vance writes, would let the Nazis have the statue and “spend the next 10 years studying the temple’s booby traps.”
Another mark against Dr. Jones is that he operates without a proper legal authorization to ...
29 Sep 23:42
Joseph Fauria Says He Hurt Himself Trying To Stop His Puppy From Peeing
by Samer Kalaf
Joseph Fauria's got quite the story behind his sprained ankle, which caused him to miss yesterday's game against the Jets. The Lions tight end says he hurt himself last week in an attempt to thwart his puppy, Lil' Rufio, from peeing inside the house.