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Derrick Rose Isn't A Villain; He's Just A Guy Who Keeps Getting Hurt
Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls are making every stop on the favored-son-becomes-selfish-pariah road map. ...
Angry Alabama Fan Drops The Best Burn On Colin Cowherd
Paul Finebaum welcomed ESPN radio personality and rat-faced gasbag Colin Cowherd onto his radio show yesterday, and the two did some chatting about Auburn's stunning win over Alabama in the Iron Bowl. Cowherd apparently had some not-nice things to say about Alabama during his segment. Big mistake, C...
Are you a basketball fan who lives in New York? Then you should probably go to tonight's Varsity Letters reading, presented by Gelf Magazine. Former No. 1 pick Billy McGill will be reading from his biography, and Paul Shirley will be reading from his book about his life as an NBA journeyman. They wi...
Luis Scola Does Not Appear To Have Control Over His Own Legs
Well, at least he didn't go full Bargnani....
Ricky Rubio Victimizes Nicolas Batum With A Magic Pass
We've all seen Ricky Rubio make plenty of amazing passes, but here's another one that is worthy of our attention and praise....
Deadspin 2013: All The Cool Old Stories We Republished This Year
The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth. Here are the best stories we published on it this year....
Ray Allen Spent His Whole Career Practicing That Amazing Game 6 Shot
Lee Jenkins has an awesome story about the last 29 seconds of Game 6 of the NBA finals and Ray Allen's incredible shot on SI.com today. It's full of great quotes from the game's principals, and it weaves together multiple perspectives without having to rest on the increasingly aggravating oral hist...
Pixar Animator Is Back With More NFL Sketches
Pixar animator Austin Madison's collection of NFL-related sketches was one of the coolest things we saw last year, and we are happy to discover that Madison has been making similar sketches this season. You can find all of them on Madison's website, but here are a few of our favorites....
Andre Iguodala Almost Made The Coolest Play Of The Year
The box score will tell you that Andre Iguodala's return to the Warriors last night was uneventful. Iggy came back from injury to play just 17 minutes and score two points while shooting 1-of-4 from the field. The box score will not tell you that he came this close to bringing the damn house down....
What The Hell Is Going On With Brock Lesnar's Pants?
This is former MMA fighter Brock Lesnar posing for a photograph with the founders of the Jimmy John's sandwich chain. Good god, what are those pants?!?...
Verne Lundquist Will Straight Up Steal Your Lady
Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch dropped his annual media awards column today, and there's plenty of good stuff in there for anyone who wants to take a look back at the best and worst of sports media from the last year. But nothing in the column is as delightful as Verne Lundquist's story about ...
Damian Lillard And Kyrie Irving Are Why NBA League Pass Exists
It's games like last night's heart-stopper between the Trailblazers and the Cavaliers that remind basketball fans just how spoiled they are. In an era that's blessed by the presence of megastars like LeBron James and Kevin Durant, it's silly to think that there's a whole secondary tier of stars who...
Deadspin 2013: The Meanest Things We Said About People
Like we do every year, we called a lot of people a lot of really mean names in 2013. Here's a collection of many of the mean things we called people this year....
Get Hourly Updates On Which NBA Team Is Tanking The Best
For fans of shitty NBA teams, the 2013 season is about little more than which team can manage to suck the hardest for a chance to draft Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker. Thankfully for those fans, TankingForWiggins.com exists....
Rob Gronkowski Now Has An Elf Costume To Go With His Sad Scooter
The Winter of Gronk continues its assault on the hearts of football fans across America. The days just keep getting colder and darker. ...
This Cycling Video Is Chock-Full Of Mind-Blowing Tricks
This video is amazing, but it may also depress you. Now you have to go through life knowing that you will never be as good at anything as these guys are at doing awesome things with bikes....
Ed Werder Doing A Segment With Spittle On His Lip Is The Grossest Thing
Being a Deadspin blogger means looking at a lot of really nasty stuff—horrifying snake bites, catastrophic injuries, gross dicks—but for some reason, nothing has ever grossed me out as much as Ed Werder's spittle just did. I don't know how to explain it, but I am shaken....
Paul McCartney Wants T-Shirt, Doesn't Get T-Shirt, Becomes Sad
Alternate headline: Your Aunt Mildred Tries To Catch The Bouquet At Your Sister's Wedding....
Postgame Quotes From Last Night's Knicks Debacle, Ranked
The Knicks did what they do best last night: they lost a game in hilariously inept fashion. While that's bad news for Knicks fans, it's good news for people who like schadenfreude. In that spirit, here are the best of last night's postgame quotes, ranked....