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Notre Dame keeps highlighting HBCUs on national TV — who woulda thunk it?Sometimes, olive branches can be extended from unlikely sources. ...

<em>The Basement Tapes Complete</em> Gives You All The Bob Dylan You Can StandChronology imposes narrative when all else fails. So thank the tape-crawlers who've assembled Bob Dylan and the Band's The Basement Tapes Complete, the 11th volume of The Bootleg Series, Dylan and Sony Music's shrewd posterity-burnishing enterprise, for putting the thing together in as close to prop...

Songs From <em>The Last Waltz</em>, Ranked We're talking the film here, not the soundtrack or box set or whatnot. No poems, because the poems sucked. Thank you in advance for completely agreeing with this....

Remembering Hal Needham And The Birth Of Redneck Cinema

This here's a good one. From Stephen Rebello writing for Playboy:...

Here's The Balls-Out Levon Helm Grammy Awards Memorial Tribute Performance Of "The Weight"

First things first: as rock critic Steven Hyden said immediately after this performance, it only proved further that nobody could sing a song quite like Levon Helm could sing a song. Regardless, pulling together some superstars for a rockin' performance of "The Weight," that song cool guys sing at...

ESPN The Mag's Nudie Issue Has Finally Arrived

After months of speculation about which athletes would bravely reveal themselves sans clothing for ESPN's "Body" issue, the hard-heads at Belsky headquarters have finally leaked some of the covers all over the internet....

How Andrei Kirilenko Is Spending His Summer Vacation

There's so much absurdity in this little tableau that the fact Andrei Kirilenko is on a jet ski is probably the most normal thing about it....

A Signing Day For Everyone

Dan Shanoff, occasional college football columnist for Deadspin, reflects on college football's signing day today. Email him to let him know what you think....