You (and tennis) need to distinguish between grunting and screaming. Seles and Sharapova scream, it is not an audible exhalation of breath during exertion, which is a grunt. According to the tennis rule book, a player can call a "hindrance" if disturbed by the audio track of an opponent. I once did so against an…

I wonder how Holland feels about this. I feel Putin/Blatter equals Hitler/Goebbels. Really, what could be a scummier duo than this.

BARCELONA SIGNS SUAREZ!!!!! Every act can be forgiven. Even Lebron.

Two sentences and I could not read another word.

I was waiting for all hell to break loose. I thought the protests during the Confederations's Cup were merely a warm up for the World Cup. The street action then was much more visible and serious. Now it is, I just don't understand, why Brazilians in the millions haven't shut this down. They have done nothing at…

After reading 500+ posts, this was my first belly laugh.

this will remind many people of Jaco Pistorious. Bad PR. Bang.

I want to go on the record. The US will not score a goal. If Ronaldo is fit, they lose to Portugal 4-0, Germany 3-0 and draw with Ghana 0-0. Altidore against Nigeria was a fluke. I watched perhaps 10 Sunderland games this season and he was more than useless, I dubbed him the BBS (big black statue) in the…

God Greg, what you, Deadspin, anyone who writes or knows anything at all about soccer are going to have to endure over the next few weeks melts the synapses. America is the most soccer ignorant country on the planet. You have my utter sympathy,

By the time the World Cup starts Brazil won't have a pot to piss in.

Technology is killing basketball as it has killed football.

The New York Times coined a word today on their front page, "microaggressions" , to explain the avalanche of perceived racial and other PC slights plaguing our current "culture". Let me add one. In defense of Andre Marriner both Ox and Gibbs are light skinned black men with hair cut very short and nearly…

Great story. Usually one hears only about old basketball players for all the wrong reasons. This was different and honest. Btw, Mr. Haywood had game.

Great gif. Save it for the draft when Silver announces, "with the 9th pick of the first round the Boston Celtics select Doug McDerrmot of Nebraska#

Isn't the entire NBA season a type of tank job. Because of the length of the schedule, the insane demands being put on the athletes bodies, players can't bring their A game every night. The elite teams will perhaps go 100% during the regular season in a game or two to assure home court advantage but other than that…

I love this. Unfortunately I am an Arsenal fan. The big fucking German is already painfully slow, he is already nearly useless. WTF is Wegner thinking.

Most of the NBA mails in their whole season. I get interested when the playoffs role around. This year, it was worse than ever, someone here aptly described it as a "panzer tank race to the bottom" with picking from the best draft class in recent memory the reward. Salary dumping has become a byzantine art form. …

meh.

Balotelli is the biggest head case in professional football. This is a guy who set his house on fire by shooting fireworks out his bathroom window, he ran up over $60,000 in parking fines because he insisted on leaving his Maserati where ever he wanted, e.g. leaving it running in the middle of the street when he went…

Yes, favorite indeed, the interactive Olympic calendar at Sports Interaction you cited above, is sadistic, did you actually figure anything out with it, or were you stoned and just liked the way you could play with it. It is psychedelic but if anyone can figure out how to work this whacko mandala please leave a clue.…