Thank you, Diana, for this last bit of joy from this site. Much love to you and all the staff, all the way back to Leitch, for making this place what it was.

I remember Jezspin as one of the best days on Deadspin. That’s all.

Will Leitch gave me my commenter account on Deadspin longer ago than I would care to admit. I was working horrible, boring, dead-end office jobs, had ample time to kill, and loved the erudite, intelligent, incisive sportswriting that cut through the bullshit. I also loved how that model could easily be applied to…

Shouts to the FedEx Forum DJ for dropping The Gap Band right after Crowder hit that shot, too. Banger.

I guess this makes Bob Pollard the Springsteen of Ohio? I’m into it.

I can come to the office and blast Eliminator and Out of the Blue while looking sternly into everyone’s eyes if that is necessary.

Nonsense. The Soviets won the war.

Yep!

I learned yesterday that apparently in American football you can do a scrimmage kick during regular play like in Canadian football and recover your own team’s kick.

“Vandegrift High School” come on this cannot be real

Professional tip: Never tell a bouncer or a bartender, joking or not, that your ID, or your friend’s ID, is a fake. It’s a great way to get your entire party tossed.

Cheers! Thank you.

I’m heaps of fun. The Olympics, even the early ones, are surprisingly easy to search despite the wide range of sports on display. Another fun fact: Tug-of-War was contested from 1900 through 1920.

This article is wonderful, but there are a couple of super-pedantic quibbles: croquet was held at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, while roque was contested in 1904 in St. Louis. 

Jaguars Junction is currently a 15-car pileup.

The only plausible deniability I can conjure for the Pac-12 refs in this case is that the leaper in question was clearly attempting to jump in between two players, using his arms on two players’ shoulders in an effort to get up, which isn’t a penalty as written. However, when #40 on MSU falls backwards, #15 of ASU…

HULU HAS (almost) LIVE SPORTS

Virgo season baybeeeeee

ah crap lol you’re right

same energy