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The Last Play Kentucky Ran Was Everywhere This Tournament

Kentucky didn't really have a great shot at winning, down six with 20 seconds to go, but the play it ran to get a late look was one we've seen over and over this year. ...

Hey Look, It's Kevin Ollie Going Super Saiyan

UConn won the NCAA men's basketball tournament last night, and coach Kevin Ollie made a cool face. Here's what it would have looked like if he was going Super Saiyan 3 instead. ...

Ronaldo Looks About The Same As A Shoe

Jesus Christ. A human being has never been distilled into a sports shoe more accurately than this. Including selling out in about 90 seconds. ...

Just What The Hell Is Real Plus-Minus, ESPN's New NBA Stat?

Just ahead of playoffs season, ESPN today announced a new stat for the NBA called "Real Plus-Minus." It's envisioned as furthering the idea of traditional plus-minus, except, that's sort of already been furthered. So what's going on here? ...

Cleveland Indians Fan In Redface Meets A Native American

For all the shit we give wrong idiot Dan Snyder, there's really no question that Cleveland's Chief Wahoo is clearly and by far the most ridiculous mascot in sports. A bunch of fans have been "de-chiefing" their gear for a few years now. This guy went the other way. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Darkest (Dim)

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How Many Times Does Clyde Frazier Say "Dishing and Swishing" Per Game?

From night to night, odds are Clyde Frazier is best thing going during any given Knicks telecast. Swoopin and hoopin may as well run on every graphics package. But is there a method to how Clyde dishes out the Clydeisms? Yes, actually. ...

Gooks Don't Get Redskins Joke

Wednesday's episode of the Colbert Report, a satirical television program in which Stephen Colbert satirically plays a conservative buffoon, featured a segment on actual buffoon Dan Snyder's Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, which was announced this week amid renewed protest against...

Sweet 16 Games At Madison Square Garden Are An Enormous Ripoff

This year, the NCAA tournament's East regional is holding Sweet 16 games at The World's Most Famous Home Of Bad Basketball Teams, historic(ish) Madison Square Garden. The price for one of the good seats? On average, $1,100. And that isn't even getting into the floor seats. ...

UFC Training Looks Inhuman Up Close

The New York Times has a photo essay by Cooper Neill on UFC's Johny Hendricks, during his training regimen and subsequent fight against Robbie Lawler on Mar. 15. As usual, UFC training is crazy. Oh, no big deal, just carrying some barbells around a football field. Check out the whole set at the Time...

Who Takes The Longest (And Shortest) Shots In The NBA, On Average?

Our friend Ed Kupfer from the Houston Rockets made another fun chart, this time plotting the average distance of field goal attempts (based on play-by-play data) against shots taken (min. 100 FGA). So, who shoots from the deepest?...

In College Basketball, The Rich Are Just Getting Richer—And Smarter

Hey, SportVU motion-tracking cameras are coming to college basketball. In fact, they're already there, the New York Times explains, in arenas at Duke, Louisville, and Marquette this season. This is good news for any number of nerdy, obsessive reasons, and laughable news because, once the technology ...

How do you survive an avalanche? You get a backpack that doubles as an "avalanche airbag," apparently. They've been around for decades, but have gotten a higher-tech makeover. Our friend Amanda Ruggeri has a look at them over on BBC. ...

I Don't Understand This Picture Of Chris Bosh At The Strip Club

Chris Bosh smokes a cigar while paying a dollar for services rendered, is as honest a caption for this photo as you can really get. Beyond that, who really knows. ...

MLBers Say Mike Trout Is The Best—But Not Worth A Historic Contract?

The new ESPN The Magazine has an anonymous survey of 143 current MLB players, and 56 percent of them peg Mike Trout as the best player in the majors. Miguel Cabrera got 26 percent of the vote, and Clayton Kershaw got six percent. But they don't think he's that much more valuable, which isn't exactly...

ThinkProgress and others take issue with Roger Pielke, Jr., a new contributing science writer at FiveThirtyEight, who was last seen on the receiving end of a six-page thumper of a White House response about his positions on the California drought. Give this some time, but it hasn't gone great out of...

Here's A Guy With Three Testicles [NSFW]

For the second time in three months, Reddit brings you an account of a guy blessed with a little more than the rest of us. Here's a guy with three balls. 2014 has been weird so far. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Heart Entire

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What if the NBA played a March Madness-style 32-team, single-elimination tournament? Over at ESPN Insider, Kevin Pelton used his true talent rankings and log5 projections to run the numbers. Spoiler: Philadelphia beats out the two college teams included to fill out the bracket—but not by much. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Eclipse/Blue

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