danmcquade
Dan McQuade
danmcquade
Staff editor, Deadspin

He could have avoided charges had he thought to bring some fries to throw on top. Read more

As a Jets fan, I find myself wishing, on average 16 times a season, that players had skipped an actual game. Read more

“He felt horrible. He did not intend on hurting anybody...which is why he brought it to a Padres game.” Read more

Thank goodness this won’t be an issue for the L.A. Chargers... Not drone crashes inside the stadium, but the chance one might hit a fan. Read more

I think this whole fad would go away quickly if we could go back to calling them “toy helicopters” instead of drones Read more

My wife who doesn’t watch wrestling in the least, asked me this morning who the hell Jinder Mahal is. It’s gotten a lot of people talking. Read more

The thing about Mahal’s win is that this is the kind of thing that Smackdown has been preaching since the brand split. (WARNING! INCOMING DISCUSSION ABOUT WRESTLING KAYFABE!) Read more

They have two main even level samoans who don’t wrestle in their bare feet! Read more

I was in a hospital waiting room in India back in 2008, and wrestling was on the TV. Doctors and nurses kept popping in or lingering around the door to watch it. Doctors and nurses watching professional wrestling while at work. Seems WWE is making a smart move here. Read more

I knew it was coming given the fact that Orton’s run with the title has been ho-hum. And you’re right about social media; it felt like following Twitter last night that the majority were behind Mahal. I just hope the SD Live writers treat this run better than Bray Wyatt’s subpar run with the title.
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I thought evil Foreigner meant they wouldn’t play “I wanna know what love is.” Read more

Alternate headline: Chair Bails Out Person Reaching Over the Wall for Live Ball. Read more

probably should have googled whether or not he has in fact died. he has not, but I assure you death will come for him Read more

When coach O was an assistant to Pete Carroll at SC, while I was a student there I heard he would get up at 2am and drive up from orange county chewing entire bags of coffee beans like it was sunflower seeds. So this does not surprise me. Read more

I haven’t had a Monster since college (a decade ago) but I vividly remember drinking like 2 or 3 of those 16-oz cans daily while working at a restaurant. I had an 8 oz sugar free Red Bull the other day and I could feel my heartbeat in my eardrums. Read more

This is pretty gross and distasteful, but at the same time... Read more

I think a focus on the runners as suggested could have been really engaging for the sport and distance running as a whole, specifically in the way Bill talks about it with the incremental time decreases. They still could have broken the record (on an unsanctioned course under ideal conditions with like no turns, Read more