December 1, 2010 – Every week, this recent Duke graduate will offer you a new reason not to hate the Duke Blue Devils, the bestest basketball team in the land. You are free to disagree. LAST WEEK'S GAMES: Duke 82, Kansas State 68; More »
December 1, 2010 – Every week, this recent Duke graduate will offer you a new reason not to hate the Duke Blue Devils, the bestest basketball team in the land. You are free to disagree. LAST WEEK'S GAMES: Duke 82, Kansas State 68; More »
November 23, 2010 – Every week, this recent Duke graduate will offer you a new reason not to hate the Duke Blue Devils, the bestest basketball team in the land. You are free to disagree. LAST WEEK'S GAMES: Duke 97, Princeton 60; More »
September 17, 2010 – In the last two weeks, while racking up more total yardage on his own than 86 teams, Denard Robinson, Michigan's dreadlocked, dual-threat quarterback, emerged as the early favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. More »
September 8, 2010 – The first time I heard of Derek Jeter, this young star emerging from the Yankees' farm system, I was an 8-year-old boy. He has never not been my favorite baseball player — More »
May 1, 2010 – Somewhere in Louisville, these owners of Noble's Promise are still in shock — ahem! — that Super Saver, manned by Calvin Borel, took the 136th Kentucky Derby on a muddy Churchill Downs track. More »
May 1, 2010 – Remember that awful Notre Dame promotional video we wrote about yesterday? Well, it only seemed awful because everyone interpreted it wrong. Actually, it was kind of brilliant. More »
May 1, 2010 – No. But if it were, you might not know! At least, that's sort of the premise of this follow-up about an army of sportswriting robots — you know, the ones that may just render sports writing obsolete. More »
May 1, 2010 – Every week, Tommy will excerpt a handful of stories - old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime - that he urges you to read for one reason or another. More »
May 1, 2010 – Sometimes, I wonder what we did in those dark years without the Internet and, more recently, without Twitter. Friday was one of those days, as I sifted through a Twitter search for a hashtag dubbed "WireDerbyHorseNames." Warning: More »
May 1, 2010 – For Dennis Rodman's DJing skillz during his live set at the Derby Pretty Party, which the Frazier International History Museum must have been duped into hosting.The revelers were likely terrified into dancing.
May 1, 2010 – Our basketball-crazed President is something of a health freak, apparently, so it makes sense that his young staffers are physique-obsessed, too. They go to the gym, play pickup basketball, field a softball team and play beer pong with David Axelrod. "An undercurrent of personal fitness runs... More »
May 1, 2010 – How do the Orix Buffaloes, a Japanese baseball team, greet their visitors? With something called "Porker Face." I hope there's video involved, too. [Orix Buffaloes, via Adam]
May 1, 2010 – In sports, everyone is a winner — some people just win better than others. Like every golfer at the Quail Hollow Championship not named Tiger Woods, all of whom might have some peace and quiet and golf-claps, for once. Woods, on the other hand, won't be playing golf this weekend, not after... More »
May 1, 2010 – Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. • Pau Gasol's putback with 0.5 ticks left gave the Lakers a 95-94,... More »
April 1, 2010 – The first game of Duke's season, against UNC-Greensboro on Nov. 13, was broadcast only on Fox Sports South, which meant that my friends up North had to wait another few days to get their initial glimpse of this year's team. "How do we look?" some of them asked, but I couldn't respond truthfully... More »
January 30, 2010 – Most people think of the 1896 Olympics in Athens simply as the first Olympiad. Some people think of the 1896 Olympics in Athens as a shining beacon of nude recreation. More »
January 30, 2010 – Earlier this month, Togo withdrew from the Africa Cup of Nations when Angolan separatists attacked its team bus with machine guns, killing two delegation members. More »
January 30, 2010 – There's going to be a whole bunch of men in drag on Bourbon Street tomorrow, none of whom will be spiffier than Bobby Hebert, wearing one of his daughter's sequined creations. More »
January 30, 2010 – What an action-packed and important day it's been for Barack Obama. He sat courtside at Duke-Georgetown (oh shush, all of you), told Clark Kellogg he was gunning for his job and his administration wants to finally pass reform that matters. Obama brought all his non-hoops-playing buds — More »
December 25, 2009 – Is there a better Christmas present than a freshly wrapped copy of Tony Parker and Eva Longoria lip-syncing along to "Summer Nights"? Actually, no. I don't believe there is. Even more good news: More »