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Every White Basketball Player Gets Compared To Larry Bird

This week's SI cover on the left; the Nov. 28, 1977, cover on the right. While we're doing throwbacks, here's Josh Levin in 2005, on the folly of white-on-white hoops comparisons. [Slate | SI.com]...

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Gregg Popovich channels his inner Naismith: "Sometimes in timeouts I'll say, 'I've got nothing for you. What do you want me to do? We just turned it over six times. Everybody's holding the ball. What else do you want me to do here? Figure it out.' And I'll get up and walk away. Because it's true. Th...

A Guide To Kinja's New Look

Things are different. Want to talk about it? See below....

Deadspin Up All Night: 'Cause I Don't Need A Friend

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Deadspin Clean Person Jolie Kerr, author of a forthcoming book, is all up in your New York Times....

Worthwhile project: "Disappointing Moments In Cleveland Sports Coloring Book." [Kickstarter, h/t Same Sad Echo]...

Friends of the site Adam Pash and Ellen Flaherty have made this cool thing that won't in any way be used by randy teenagers for the purposes of displaying genitalia. [andtheniwaslike.com]...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Never Asked For Your Crutch

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Lamar Fires Pat Knight, Who Was A Loser And A Bully

Bob Knight's kid was shitcanned Sunday morning. The last time you gave a thought to the guy was probably two years ago, when Knight interrupted his own player, Mike James, during a press conference and told him, "You don't have a clue what it takes to win." The rant that followed earned him the wors...

Deadspin Up All Night: Using My Mind And My Imagination

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A-Rod has dropped his lawsuits against MLB, Bud Selig, and the MLBPA, meaning his 162-game suspension will stand. A reminder: Baseball's war on drugs is an immoral shitshow. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: We'll Sing All The Songs From Way Back When

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"On the face of it, there's nothing stopping more North American teams from being fan-owned—nothing, that is, except for the intransigent opposition of the major sports leagues." [Sports on Earth]...

"By 2017, you won't merely be ready to acknowledge that Bud Selig is the greatest commissioner of all time. You'll be ready to hand him the Nobel Peace Prize," writes ESPN.com's Jayson Stark, who is a crazy person. [ESPN] ...

Sources: ESPN <em>First Take</em> Boss In Talks With NBC To Produce <em>Today</em> Show

ESPN vice president Jamie Horowitz, the midwife of Bristol's "Embrace Debate" era that made us all a little dumber, has been approached by NBC to take control of the Today show, according to two sources. A deal appears likely, we're told, though Horowitz still has to extract himself from his contrac...

Volleyball goes to war: "Volley ball is a very suitable game for keeping women physically fit during this world crisis, when women are expected to play an important part and vital part in defense." [USA Volleyball]...

Shoals on David Stern: "And that's why your retirement is both sad and in some sense, a relief. There's nothing quite like the softening of authority figures, like those presidents who voters want to have a beer with, or prize-winning novelists playing Boggle. At the same time, the feeling that I've...

"If one of these guys became a drug addict or was killed, well, then you got something": Take some time to read Jason Guerrasio's excellent Hoop Dreams oral history on The Dissolve. Read it even if you're like me and you reflexively click "close tab" whenever you see the words "oral history." It's r...