Kellogg's recent dumping of Michel Phelps as its spokesman had at least one unexpected consequence: The sudden appearance of about 3,800 pounds of cereal at the San Francisco Food Bank. Kellogg's, one of the many corporations to tell Phelps to get out and stay out as their spokesman after his love o...

More than two and a half years ago I wrote about the inevitable collapse of China’s luxury malls. A brief reminder: Anyone who’s walked around Shanghai’s more prosperous areas (and Beijing’s as well) is well familiar with the glut of luxury stores, with Bulgari and Gucci boutiques everyw...

So Michael Phelps enjoys partying. He got caught with a bong once and admitted to it. So fuckin’ what! Get over it! This is another thing that sickens me about the media. I’m 100% positive and I KNOW that most all famous people party hard. That means, smoking weed, drinking hard and gett...

Michael Phelps, the Olympic star and icon, has been caught smoking a bong by the News of the World tabloid newspaper. Turns out, it is true that Michael Phelps is indeed in the picture smoking pot from a large pipe called a bong. You think sports athletes are never into drugs and alcohol, always bei...

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap. Here's something you may have missed from the Beijing Olympics; NBC's complete coverage of Spanish diver Jenifer Benitez. Yes, the not-safe-for-workness follows the jump. Way to go...

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We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another. (NSFW) It's usually because they're just so absurd or really lack even the most tenuous of news angles to give them the go-ahead. Other times it's because they're j...

So, the next few days will be chock full of end-of-year retrospectives. We'll do our own as well. Today: The Beijing Olympics. • That Olympic Torch Run sure was fun, wasn't it? • Opening ceremonies included fireworks, fake children. • The Chinese could not beat Kerri Walsh and Misti May-Treano...

Filed under: Marketing and advertising, Business of sports, Entrepreneurs This post is part of our feature on Money Winners of 2008 . See all 20. It wasn't like Michael Phelps hadn't done well for himself by the time he got into the swimming pool at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was pulling in betwe...

Hugh Pickens writes "With the Olympics due to start in less than three weeks, Beijing is cranking up antipollution measures by yanking cars off the roads, expanding mass transit and marvelous work hours in a bid to meet its pledge of a 'green' Olympics. Beijing has gone on a pocket money spree, relo...