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Cobb County And The Braves: Worst Sports Stadium Deal Ever? | VICE Sports
The Atlanta Braves are moving to a new ballpark next spring, and … and really, that’s it as far as the good news goes. The latest debacle to emerge from the team’s abrupt decision to abandon their...
View ArticleHey Warriors, You Are Choking Shitbags
Today is Cleveland’s day, and I join with the rest of America in obnoxiously glomming onto the city’s moment even though I don’t deserve to. (In fact, I have spent much of the past decade joyously...
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Wales in, Northern Ireland out: Brits in NY see soccer turn EU vote upside...
The football was predictable. Nil-nil at half time, little drama. The politics were a different story, shock still reverberating from the Brexit vote among fans of all stripes at an ex-pat pub in New...
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Tony Hawk (Old) Can Still Pull Off His Famous 900
GIF Seventeen years ago, extreme sports ambassador and titular Pro Skater Tony Hawk pulled off the 900 revolution at the 1999 X-Games. The trick involves rotating the board two and a half times while...
View ArticleWomen in baseball vs technology by Chung Wong • Findery
This may seem strange, but i have often wondered which industry is more progressive promoting women: technology or men’s baseball. The answer may surprise you. At the Los Angeles Dodgers, in 2003, 21%...
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Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor – The...
Where all that Olympic money goes Its members call it, with an almost religious conviction, “the Olympic Movement,” or “the Movement” for short, always capitalized. At the very top of “the Movement”...
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Ban the Olympics
My opinion: The Olympics are boring and bad and nobody actually cares about them. The professionalized version of sports events staged at the Olympics are in almost every case more competitive and...
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The Daily Beast’s Olympics Grindr stunt is dangerous and unethical.
Athletes (not featured in the Daily Beast article) at the Olympics. Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a...
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Officials Don’t Know Why the Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green [Update: They...
The Olympic diving pool on August 8 (left) and the Olympic diving pool on August 9 (right) Image: AP As the women’s synchronized diving teams took to the pool in Rio de Janeiro today, they were...
View ArticleHere’s Simone Manuel’s Medal Ceremony, Since NBC Didn’t Air It [Update]
NBC couldn’t be arsed to show you Simone Manuel’s monumental medal ceremony after becoming the first black American woman to win an individual swimming event, as they felt it was more important to air...
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As They Head to the Olympics, Women’s Soccer is Fighting to Win Equal Pay |...
Members of the US Women’s National Soccer Team are pushing for higher pay. It is as traditional as the Olympic flame: For two weeks every two years, media outlets actually care about female athletes....
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The Pettiest Posts We Never Published
Photo: Paul Sancya/AP One recurring complaint about Deadspin is that we’re too mean. We’re certainly snarky, abstruse, and too easily pleased with ourselves, but the notion that we’re too mean is...
View ArticleSarah Robles Wins The First U.S. Weightlifting Medal Since 2000
Robles, who is Mexican-American, said before the games that she wanted to inspire other Latinos. “As an Olympic athlete, I represent all Americans, but representing Latinos and Latinas is a great...
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Gabby Douglas calls social media critics ‘hurtful’ after ending Olympic career
RIO DE JANEIRO — Gabby Douglas had just completed the last routine and last post-competition interview of her Olympic career, and her eyes were puddling up with tears after someone asked her about the...
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Larry Buendorf, the protector of Team USA – SportsBusiness Daily |...
SBJ/Aug. 15-21, 2016/On The Ground in Rio USOC exec Larry Buendorf has spent the last 23 years protecting Team USA, and the 23 years before that protecting the president. Photo by: BEN FISCHER / STAFF...
View ArticleRio 2016: Gabby Douglas’s Olympics experience fits the pattern of how we...
Four years ago, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Gabby Douglas became the first black American woman to win gymnastics’ most prestigious title: Olympic individual all-around champion. She was 16...
View ArticleA Chinese swimmer mentioned her period like it was no big deal. Because it...
Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui defied a major sports taboo, and won legions of internet fans, for doing something pretty simple: actually admitting that she was on her period, and that it was affecting...
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Rio Olympics 2016: China’s Olympic darling Fu Yuanhui taught her country...
When China’s favorite swimmer Fu Yuanhui openly mentioned her menstrual cycle on Sunday (Aug. 14) at the Rio Olympics, it was the first time many Chinese people realized it is possible to swim while...
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Graphic Snapchat post latest misstep for ex-MSU star Draymond Green
Draymond Green.(Photo: Thomas Shea, USA TODAY Sports) HOUSTON – Draymond Green says he accidentally posted a graphic crotch shot on his Snapchat account, the latest misstep for the Golden State...
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Twins Finish Marathon Hand in Hand, but Their Country Says They Crossed a...
Photo Lisa, left, and Anna Hahner in the women’s marathon Sunday. The twins finished 81st and 82nd, in times well off their personal bests. Credit Sergio Moraes/Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO — The Olympics...
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