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Zambia stunned the Ivory Coast yesterday in winning the African Cup of Nations after a 17-minute 8-7 penalty shootout. More »
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The New Yorker has a little dispatch about 林疯狂, or linfengkuang, as it's unfolding on the Chinese mainland. Apparently, the hoop-heads there have been tracking Lin for some time. In the last fortnight, however, they've caught Linsanity. And Linsanity in China isn't quite the same as it is here: More »
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Centre County (Pa.) Judge John M. Cleland ruled this morning on a number of pretrial motions from Friday's hearing in the Jerry Sandusky case. And the big winner was Jerry Sandusky, whose trial can begin as early as May. From the Patriot-News of Harrisburg: More »
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Mario Manningham's sideline catch in the Super Bowl was a virtuosic use of space. But the only way to watch it was in two dimensions. While 3D movies have spread everywhere, and TV manufacturers are aggressively pushing 3D TV, the NFL is sticking with two-dimensional production for its biggest game. More »
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"Baseball Boyfriend" is a new app that enables members of CBS Sports' fantasy baseball league to "have a Baseball Boyfriend off to the side" for a mere $2.99. Sexist? Not according to the woman who dreamed this whole thing up. More »
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The subtle jabs started with last week's NMA animation showing Jeremy Lin throwing flaming basketballs at Yao Ming, and the Taiwanese media outfit released a new video today that plays up Lin's heritage with the prominent inclusion of the flag of the Republic of China. More »
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"Yet while population geneticists and sociologists have been battling over the meaning of times in the 100-meter dash, Asians have been making their own argument about where they fit into the world of sports. And they've been doing it through pure, old-fashioned physical superiority. The fastest man in Major League Baseball is Asian. The most eagerly anticipated NBA rookie in years? Asian. The world's greatest golfer, the quickest pro hockey player, the most precocious relief ace? Asian, Asian, Asian." [Slate] More »
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Yoyoyo Jeremy, More »
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Your morning roundup for Feb. 13. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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0. Basic Twitter Check More »
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We've no idea why he's there or how he scored a second-row seat, but Giants WR Victor Cruz will be disappointed to learn the Grammy Awards no longer present a Best Salsa Album award. (It was folded into the Latin Grammy Awards.) More »
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Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. More »
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Well, it had to happen, didn't it? In this day and age of instant analysis and constant coverage, overkill is only a long weekend away for most stories. Jeremy Lin captivated the hearts and minds of New Yorkers and sports fans everywhere one week, and the next, Buzz Bissinger is comparing him unfavorably to John Starks. He's not entirely wrong, but in asking people to calm down and put things in perspective, Buzz blows the hype way, way out of proportion. More »
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That is a pretty sick goal. Going top shelf like that is no easy feat, but let's get to the bottom of what we're all puzzling over. What's the back story on the long hair? More »
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You are unlikely to see as perfect a soccer goal as this for a very, very long time. Cristiano Ronaldo, who's hoarding goals at such a clip it's as if he's trying to make every Spanish soccer fan forget the name Messi forever, finished a natural hat trick against Levante with this shot, his 119th tally for Real Madrid and the 4000th in the club's history at the Santiago Bernabéu. [ESPN Deportes] More »
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Three consecutive bogeys in today's round of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am had critics convinced Tiger didn't quite have the swagger back, but this nifty Bob Tway-style bunker shot was vintage—as was what he said to playing partner Tony Romo afterward. [CBS] More »
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Lute Olson, a name often mentioned in the same breath as John Wooden, will now be mentioned in the same breath as backwards Game hats and conch shell necklaces. That's right, a press release from Pi Kappa Alpha informs us that the Silver Fox is now a member of the fraternity known collectively as the Pikes. More »
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We did a post yesterday on Richard Nixon's 1972 efforts to forever sustain the NFL's policy of blacking out teams' home games in their local markets. The NFL rejected Nixon's bargain, and so, from 1973 on, only those games with unsold tickets 72 hours prior to kickoff would be blacked out. That rule still stands. More »
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While we were deprived any beagles in last week's Puppy Bowl, NBC viewers were treated to two of them this afternoon. Returning from break late in Washington's game against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden, NBC dropped this quick promo for the Westminster Dog Show which gets underway tomorrow at MSG—a rare and delightful bit of cleverness amongst the usual drudgery of unrelated network programming promotion. [NBC] More »
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Here's a fun photo essay of a car that defied gravity for one brief moment before crashing behind a retaining wall. The driver, Mike Austin, was competing in the "top alcohol dragster" category when his 200 mph-moving car soared off the race track. More »
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Even before the non-handshake took place, tension was high at Old Trafford. According to police, the Manchester United fanzine Red Issue, being distributed before kickoff, featured "a Ku Klux Klan-style mask, with the words 'LFC Suarez is innocent' printed below." More »
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Creighton fell to Wichita State 89-68 last night—the 15th-ranked Bluejays' third loss in a row—and the slow meltdown of the perennial MVC powerhouse was made clearly evident in this incident late in the first half. Creighton star Doug McDermott's erratic play earned him a nasty tongue-lashing from head coach (and dad) Greg McDermott, one that didn't seem to help the team dig out of their hole. More »
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The Asian American Journalists Association asks, and Whitlock delivers...something. In his short, yet somehow rambling "apology" Whitlock tells readers he fell victim to the perils of racial stereotyping due to a genetic trait passed on by his mother. Richard Pryor gets thrown under the bus, too. Most bizarrely, Whitlock equates rooting for Jeremy Lin to rooting for Tiger Woods. I'm sure he means Tiger Woods of 2012, who—one could at least argue without looking silly—is almost an underdog these days. More »
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Your morning roundup for Feb. 12, the day we occupied Palin. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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We're not entirely sure what it is Dirk Nowitzki shouts after hitting the dagger to ensure tonight's 97-94 double-OT win over Portland, but it sure looks like the same thing that earned Kobe Bryant an unprecedented $100,000 fine last season. More »
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h/t to Casey More »
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With word tonight of Whitney Houston's death, we'll take this opportunity to highlight one of the best renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner—Houston's National Anthem performance in Tampa before Super Bowl XXV. More »
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Calling Jason Whitlock's controversial tweet "inappropriate on so many levels," the Asian American Journalists Association has called for the Fox Sports columnist to issue an apology. More »
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Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Tim's gonna hang around to see if any other wildness ensues later during Kentucky-Vanderbilt, and tomorrow he and Sean will carry you through the first Sunday of the NFL offseason. Enjoy your night. More »
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Pebble Beach Golf Links (among the other courses associated with the Pebble Beach Pro-Am) is one of the most desired courses on Earth for hackers to play. Today's CBS broadcast of the event regularly referred to it as "The World's Best Golf Course." Yet for some competitors in the Pro-Am, CBS golf commentator Jim Nantz would have you think playing the event was an enormous sacrifice—in particular Bill Belichick, who surely must have been paralyzed with depression following Sunday's Super Bowl loss, but courageously "honored his commitment" to do something for which nearly every golfer on the planet would sell an internal organ. [CBS] More »
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Mark Little flicks the joystick and opens a special developer's menu in Major League Baseball 2K12. The screen jumps to an empty ballpark, with a few lines representing the trajectory of a pitch and the timing of the batter trying to hit it. Little starts fooling with some ratings, creating a situation involving a high-contact hitter with not much pop. More »
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This is presumably a Michelin promo video for this weekend's Rally Sweden WRC event in Värmland, but for whatever reason there's video interspersed of a side event which features people drifting their farm tractors. I've never seen this before, and I come from farm country where it snows a whole lot. Maybe we just didn't know then that such a thing was possible. More »
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A few months back, Reilly, who was new on Twitter, tweeted Colin Cowherd a photo of his wife in a gross interoffice "scoreboard!" incident. On Friday he posted a blog entry about the Twitter contest he's starting. He managed to work his wife in. More »
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Former Deadspin contributor Sarah Kogod overheard what she called a "heated conversation" between LeBron James and a Wizards fan last night. She then spoke to the fan, got his take, and tweeted what he had to say, which included a threat from LeBron: More »
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NBA Hall-Of-Famer David Robinson decided to take in today's Kansas State-Texas game, but even at 7'1" his view could be blocked by an old woman who stood up when he was sitting. [ESPN] More »
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Linsanity met some real insanity last night at the Garden. The basketball cognoscenti has zeroed in on Kobe's postgame tip of the cap to Lin's sudden greatness, but the dong-texter formerly known as Ron Artest has also weighed in with his thoughts. And, like much of what's floating around inside the head of Metta World Peace, those thoughts were at once hilarious and batshit crazy. So much so that Ken Berger of CBSSports.com dispensed with trying to summarize them and just transcribed the entirety of the interview. More »
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What appears to be New York Knicks superstar Jeremy Lin's Xanga—chinkballa88.xanga.com, naturally—popped up on Reddit earlier this week, but somehow we missed it, and now it's password-protected. Drat. More »
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A virus better known for causing epidemics on cruise ships is blamed for making 229 attendees of the Washington State Cheerleading Championships sick with vomiting and diarrhea. More »
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It's hard, in 2012, to imagine anyone being upset about Redskins games not airing on local television. Presumably it would be a treat for the long-suffering fans in DC. More »
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Kentucky basketball fans have invaded Nashville in an attempt to overwhelm Vanderbilt fans ahead of today's matchup between the Wildcats and Commodores, one which ESPN chose as its College GameDay site of the week. (They're not-so-cleverly calling it "Occupy Memorial.") More »
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