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The Time I Went To Havana And Hooked Up With Castro's GranddaughterThe following is excerpted from The Domino Diaries: My Decade with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba, by Brin-Jonathan Butler....

The Please-Ignore-Our-Terrible-Movie Club: What It Means When A Movie Isn't Shown To CriticsThe big movie opening this weekend is Men in Black 3, as our nation's multiplexes bring us Josh Brolin channeling Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith asking you to forget that time he committed suicide-by-jellyfish. But there's another movie opening wide today though, that you haven't seen, and I haven't...

Deadspin's 2011 NHL Entry Draft Running DiaryWelcome to Deadspin's first and likely last annual NHL Draft Diary. Follow along with due reverence for the most thrilling pageant in all of sport....

Jim Carroll: The Bard Of The Hardwood

Carroll — junkie, author, schoolboy basketball star — died Friday of a heart attack while working at his desk. He was a hopped-up Holden Caulfield with a jump shot, and the closest thing basketball ever had to a poet laureate....

Jose Canseco Would Like To Tussle With Athletic-Types

Per Radar, it appears Jose Canseco is about to embark on his latest money-making idea'r and this time it involves two of his favorite pastimes: 1) Mixed martial arts, and 2) Shameless hucksterism....