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Same Faces, Same Result: The Spurs Are Back In The Finals

The Spurs get the "boring" label because basketball is supposed to be hard. As San Antonio heads to its fifth finals since 1999, its fourth with its multinational power trio intact, you wonder if they've made some cosmic bargain, or discovered a real-life cheat code, because the alternative—that the...

The Last American Hero

And since we're talking classics, how 'bout Tom Wolfe's 1965 Esquire story on Junior Johnson? ...

People Will Say We're in Love

Here's Frank Deford's classic 1985 Sports Illustrated bonus piece, "The Boxer and the Blonde":...

Deadspin Up All Night: Where Do You Go

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy the weather. Things will be normal tomorrow....

This Video Is Accurately Titled "Tim Duncan Realizing He Has Arms"

The title of this video turns some otherwise mundane sideline footage of Tim Duncan into something great. Whoaaaa. What are these things, man?...

The Right Stuff

Over at Bronx Banter, Peter Richmond remembers his father:...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Wait For Nighttime To Come

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. No Game of Thrones tonight, for some reason, but we suggest you watch hockey or basketball or baseball, or go out, or go to sleep, or something. We'll all be in the office tomorrow....

Back On The Pony: Recovering Fatass Soundtrack

I'm saying I got back on the pony because calling what I did "getting back on the horse" is an insult to horses. Anyway, there is a mini-playlist that we will get to for your enjoyment and then next week, I am back on the horse, for real. We don't need this turning into Relapsing Fatass Soundtrack. ...

Gregg Popovich Is A Man Of Two Words

Well, he's a man of one word said twice, anyway. ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Fuck Me, I Guess

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Playoff basketball and hockey is on tonight, and baseball, too. We'll see you tomorrow....

Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome

Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did ...

Federer Joins Twitter, Promptly Asked About Eating Chocolate Off Tits

So, Roger Federer just joined Twitter. Hooray, right?...

How To Grill Cheeseburgers And Win Your Memorial Day Cookout

So you've got your grand Memorial Day weekend feast all planned, your spread of exotic, expensive victuals purchased and prepped and ready to be grilled and smoked and barbecued and so on. Brined chicken breasts and home-ground-spice-rubbed pork ribs and organic farm-raised fair-trade cockles; a ra...

Deadspin Up All Night: Take Me To The Tracks

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Please enjoy your long weekend. We'll be here for all of it....

Burneko: "It’s just, Christ, the barbecue dorks are insufferable. If you’re popping out from behind bushes, brandishing your snottiest 'Well, actually…' every time somebody dares to use the dread b-word to describe anything not cooked over a dug-out pit full of firewood, it’s possible you’re maybe m...

Here Is The KSK Football Foodie Summer Grilling Roundtable

Here's Sarah Sprague of KSK, Spilly of SB Nation, and me, talkin' grilling, Cro-Magnons, and about how the two of them are weirdos who eat corn on the cob with a knife:...

Bulls' Tedeschi Named NBA Athletic Trainer Of The Year

Chicago's Fred Tedeschi was named the NBA Athletic Trainer of the Year, as voted on by his colleagues in the NBATA. And why not? He had Derrick Rose cleared to play well before the start of the postseason....

The Straw That Stirs the Drink

Check out Robert Ward's infamous 1977 Sport magazine story about Buck Tater: "Reggie Jackson in No-Man's Land."...

Dead Calm

Really nice piece about Lynne Cox by Sarah Turcotte over at ESPN:...

Happy Bobday

Dylan turns 72. Illustration by Alex Fine, found via It's a Long Season. ...