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Blues: St. Louis Woman Grows Different Kind of "Playoff Beard" To Show Her Support (PHOTO)

We're big fans of the "Grow one for the team!" Blues Beard-A-Thon charity effort in honor of the playoffs. It can be fun to look at some of those pretty weird beards out there. This gal, however, wins the weird beard award. By a long shot. Broadcaster Kelly Chase tweeted out this photo yeste ... More >>

March Sadness: Mizzou Fans, You Got Owned By This Guy

Feeling blue about last night's loss, Mizzou fans? School spirit not making you feel any better? Don't worry, we got you covered. Just remind yourself how tough the competition was! This guy: More misery below!

RIP The Sporting News -- After 126 Years, Finally Irrelevant

The Sporting News has never had a swimsuit issue. For most of the first century of its existence, it didn't even have color photography. Instead, it had box scores. Lots and lots of box scores. And a special section for participants in fantasy leagues. Yes, TSN, founded in St. Louis in 1886 by the ... More >>

The Mystical Monk-Baked Fruitcake that Enraptured Williams-Sonoma and Enraged Deadspin

Gut Check is not typically a consumer of fruitcake. Or of Williams-Sonoma products for that matter. Thus, we heard about the $39.95 Williams-Sonoma fruitcake via Deadspin. Right there on the Haters Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog, sandwiched between the European Cheese Hamper and the Found Grai ... More >>

Game Changer: Chris Kluwe is prying open America's last closet: major league sports

[VIDEO] Classy Cubs Fan Mimics a Double-Barrel Blowjob on TV, Gets Ejected

This occurred late Monday night, after a 3.5-hour rain delay at Wrigley Field caused the Cubs game against the Pirates to stretch well past midnight. At which point, in the ninth inning, we all got a refreshing taste of typical Cubs-fan behavior. We loved the conclusion reached yesterday by Deadspin ... More >>

Pro Sports Team Owners, New Stadiums and You

Writer Jeremy Repanich has an interesting piece about his time working for the Seattle Sonics over at Deadspin this afternoon. Included in his account of the team's final years in the Emerald City is an insider's view of then-owner Howard Schultz's unsuccessful quest to force the public to build a n ... More >>

Peyton Manning Tips Well, but Lucky Waiter Fired

NFL megastar quarterback and now former Indianapolis Colt Peyton Manning recently dined with some friends at the Angus Barn, a steakhouse in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to the receipt for the meal, which went viral yesterday, Manning left $200 on a $739 check, which already included a mandat ... More >>

Pujols' Agent, Dan Lozano, Subject of Unflattering Exposé

Damn, Dan! That's a story!​So, just who is the "super agent" representing Albert Pujols in his free-agency? His name is Dan Lozano and he's rumored to ply clients with prostitutes and alcohol in order to get them to sign on the dotted line. He's also a man who's reportedly hurting for money, ... More >>

St. Louis Concierge Confession Leaves Mind Reeling

Illustration: Mark AndresenA certain downtown hotel, we're told, is all to happy to set its guests up with escorts.​A recent comment left on the website Deadspin.com piqued our curiosity here at RFT and set our art department's mind a spinning. Here's the comment:

Sex Organ Cakes Left in Tony La Russa's Hotel Room?

deadspin.comThis tale takes the cake. Ba-ding, ching.​Maybe it's not the Rally Squirrel bringing the Cardinals good luck this postseason. Maybe it's the penis- and vagina-shaped cakes left in Tony La Russa's hotel room! Well, maybe. That is, if TLR even saw the cakes. Deadspin reports that the Car ... More >>

Spaghetti and Meatballs on a Stick? Nine Stick Foods Analyzed

On Thursday, Bon Appetit's blog writer Michael Singer lovingly classified Los Angeles food photographer Matt Armendariz's new book, "On a Stick!" in their "Kookery" category. They also included Armendariz's recipe for Deep Fried Spaghetti on a Stick. Was this necessary? Bon Appetit​ Sure, ... More >>

Tony La Russa Named One of Ten Worst People in Sports

How could this guy be hated?​The editors of Deadspin have compiled a list that's sure to rankle some members of Cardinals Nation -- and probably earn a few nods of agreement from others. The sports website today names Tony La Russa as one of its "Top 10 Bad Guys in Sports." But Deadspin doesn't ju ... More >>

Point & Clique: The 2011 RFT St. Louis Web Awards

Baseball's Best Burger Clobbered by Meat Monster from Akron

Robin WheelerBaseball's best burger? Um, not any more.​And you thought Baseball's Best Burger would be hard to top. The Gateway Grizzlies are proud of their concessions, and we respect that. Last year we respected 'em so much that we sent a writer out to compare three of their offerings head ... More >>

Video: Man Sets Oyster-Eating Record (A Gut Check Public Service Announcement)

Yesterday Gut Check posted photos from a contest to eat a ridiculous concoction called "The Graduate." This contravened our general disapproval of all most/quickest eating competitions. As an attempt to right our karmic balance, today I present video from the Mobile Press-Register (via Deadspin ... More >>

Wainwright, Schumaker Caught Relieving Tension of Long Season

Quick, does it look like Cardinals players Adam Wainwright and Skip Schumaker are, um, gratifying each other here? H/T: Deadspin.Still, when it comes to great moments revolving sports and pantomime penis pulling, nothing tops the video of that Texas Tech bell ringer from a few years ago. Classic. Ju ... More >>

Nelly Does Not Endorse Alec Cortez For Your Baseball Team

Deadspin unearthed an instant classic this morning. Alec Cortez is a community college baseball player in California with aspirations of making it to the big leagues -- or at least some league above whatever he's playing in now.Cortez reportedly sent this awesomely cheesy video pitch -- set to Nelly ... More >>

Ryan Howard Bobblehead: Is It a Gnome or a Lawn Jockey?

Philadelphia Inquirer via Deadspin​Earlier this year the Philadelphia Phillies awarded St. Louis native Ryan Howard with one of the most lucrative contracts in the game -- 5 years, $125 million. Unable to top that, the Phillies' AA affiliate in Reading, Pennsylvania, recently honored Howard with t ... More >>

Last Night: Deadspin Founder Will Leitch Talks Really Fast, Meets with Adoring Fans at Left Bank Books, Gets Beer with Sportswriters

Fast-talker Will Leitch last night at Left Bank Books.​It's just after after nine o'clock Thursday night at Left Bank Books downtown, and Will Leitch is still going strong. The writer-turned-blogger-turned-writer-again is seated at a desk in front of cookbooks and to the left of glossy-covere ... More >>

The Arkansas School for the Deaf Isn't F-F-F-Foolin' Around

Armageddon it.​(Via Deadspin) This week, the Arkansas School for the Deaf joined the Great Plains Schools for the Deaf Conference. The Little Rock-based school is now eligible to compete against teams from states such as Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Missouri (specifically, the Missouri School fo ... More >>

From Father to Son

Will Leitch on Steve Bartman

​Will Leitch, hero of pithy internet sportswriters everywhere and close personal(ish) friend of mine, has an excerpt up from his new book over at his old stomping grounds Deadspin. The book is "Are We Winning?" It's a collection of essays and stories by Leitch about fathers and sons and baseb ... More >>

The Compendium of Sporting Dong

​Hot on the, er, heels of Greg Oden admitting he is indeed the man depicted in recently published nude photos, Choire Sicha of Deadspin and The Awl has his complete rundown of more athlete dick pics than you can shake a stick at. (So to speak.) 

Boller's In for Up to Six Weeks as Rams Quarterback, Carrie Prejean Connection Now Unavoidable

With news that Rams quaterback Marc Bulger broke his tibia during Sunday's loss to the Arizona Cardinals, back-up quarterback Kyle Boller looks to start on Sunday in St. Louis against the Seattle Seahawks. (Here are Boller's 2009 stats.)While Deadspin beat us to the punch on this topic, Boller may b ... More >>

The Cardinals Will Lose to the Dodgers in Five

Leitch​The St. Louis Cardinals are not going to make it past the first round of the playoffs, according to a sports blog hero and admitted Cardinal fan.Will Leitch, founder of Deadspin and now blogger emeritus for the blog that ESPN loves to hate, gave that prediction today. However, this decade a ... More >>

The Return of Fire Joe Morgan

Just a quick reminder to everyone out there: today is the day the old crew from Fire Joe Morgan is running Deadspin. If you haven't already, pop over and witness blogging history. (There's a phrase you don't hear every day.) Last I checked, Ken Tremendous hadn't posted anything yet, but I'm wai ... More >>

Why the Rams Suck

Brenda Warner: Exhibit DD in the case of "Why the Rams Suck"​If you haven't read it yet, Deadspin is having its readers write NFL previews on the weaknesses of the league's 32 teams. Last week, a reader named "Adam S." critiqued the St. Louis Rams. Along with recalling the dark days of Rich Brooks ... More >>

Extreme Makeover: All-Star Edition: St. Louis is cleaning house for the midsummer classic, but is it, well, lipstick on a pig?

Artie Lange Destroys Joe Buck Live...

If you haven't heard yet, last night's debut of HBO's Joe Buck Live was hijacked by over-the-top comedian Artie Lange of the Howard Stern Show. From the looks of it, it was all Buck could do not to leap over the coffee table and strangle the potty-mouthed Lange -- whose gay jokes and rapid-fire f-bo ... More >>

Wrap-Up: Last Week's Most-Read Posts

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMickey Carroll's story came in at the fourth most-read last week.The blog posts come fast and furious, most of the time, here on Daily RFT, so if you missed the big ones from last week (May 4-10), here are the top ten most-read posts, courtesy of your friends at Google Anal ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 5.6

Major food firms see an improved economic outlook. (Dow Jones)Kansas City Royals broadcasters are fooled by an -- unintentional? -- Guy Fieri impersonator. (Kansas City Star)Deadspin has the video of the interview.And, in honor of tomorrow's opening of the much anticpated -- by, uh, me, at least -- ... More >>

The Five Most Offensive Cardinals-Cubs Shirts

The snarky commenters at Deadspin are loving this controversy-causing T-shirt worn by an always-classy Cardinals fan during one of the Cubs games last weekend. Apparently this was allowed to slide while the wearer of a relatively innocuous "Cubs Suck" shirt was forced to turn it inside-out when he e ... More >>

My Cardinals: Will Leitch, Blogger Superhero

Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could giv ... More >>

Josh McDaniels Gets Put in His Place

Over at Deadspin right now, the latest edition of the Deadcast (which, by the way, if you don't listen to on a regular basis, should be the #1 thing on your to-do list right now), has Michael Silver, a wonderful journalist from Yahoo! sports, laying a verbal beatdown on Josh McDaniels. Of cours ... More >>

Were All the Good Jokes About Darfur Already Taken?

Whew. Dodged a bullet there. I'm a bit of ratings whore.I was going to get all David Letterman on everyone and write a Top Ten list of jokes about dead boaters. Luckily, someone was dumb enough to set an example as to why that's a bad idea. Everybody, meet Mike Valenti. Mr. Valenti is a ra ... More >>

Keep On Rockering in the Free World

Sometimes a story comes along that makes you feel like everything is right with the world. And then, sometimes, at the very same time, another story comes along and makes you think that maybe we're all doomed after all. 

Cards Blog: Nice Line in Deadspin Comments Thread

Deadspin Commenters Extend Reach to St. Louis Restaurant Scene

Cards Blog: Nice Line in Deadspin Comments Thread

Competitive Eating as an Olympic Sport?

Anheuser-Busch: King of Beers, Bud of Joke

Anheuser-Busch: King of Beers, Bud of Joke

We're with You, Emo

Kitchen Safety Is No Accident

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Schlafly Pumpkin Ale

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Deadspin: Dead Wrong?

Oblique Strain

When a blogger fingered him in the Jason Grimsley scandal, strength coach Chris Mihlfeld found himself in a world of pain.