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Here's Luol Deng Cheering On His Team From A Hospital Bed

This may end up being the defining image of the Chicago Bulls' season, which has seen the team struggle to hold itself together with spit and glue while somehow making a playoff run. ...

Manu Ginobili's Stumbling Heroics, In His Own Words

After a furious comeback, two overtimes, and 44 points from Steph Curry, the game that had everything came down to Manu Ginobili. But not before he nearly gave Gregg Popovich and Spurs fans a heart attack. ...

Lost Soul on Ice

Here are three first-rate hockey stories by Guy Lawson:...

It's A Celebratory Reacharound!

Deadspin Up All Night: Promises

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Chat your Monday night away here....

Angry Groundhog Causes Mayhem At Little League Baseball Game

The trouble began the way most trouble with groundhogs tends to begin: with a group of gawking children hoping to get a closer look....

Marco Belinelli's Giant Balls Earned Him A $15,000 Fine

Of all the people to finish off the Nets, who'd have guessed it would be Joe Johnson Marco Belinelli? But it was Belinelli's massive invisible testicles, whipped out in celebration after this clutch three, that got the NBA's attention....

Thin Air: In The Mountains With Steve Carlton, Armed Conspiracist

Originally published as "Thin Mountain Air" in the April 1994 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. The story appears in The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan published by Persea books. A postscript with thoughts from both the author and editor follows....

You'll Be Able To See The Bay Bridge From Inside The Warriors' New Arena

The Warriors have released updated renderings of their potential arena on the San Francisco waterfront. It's tough to give the interior of a basketball arena much character, but if the final product looks anything like the preliminary designs, this one is going to be sweet. ...

The Kings Agreed To Opt Out Of Revenue Sharing, Because The NBA Sucks

When the prospective ownership group led by Vivek Ranadive managed to convince the NBA's Relocation and Finance Committee to keep the Kings in Sacramento, we pointed out that the main incentive driving the NBA's decision was most definitely the city of Sacramento's willingness to build a new publicl...

F is for Fugazi

Dig this one: Nancy Jo Sales' 1998 profile of Vince McMahon for New York magazine....

Fart Interrupts Snooker World Championship Semifinal

Ronnie O'Sullivan is en route to his fifth snooker world championship title, but his win over Judd Trump in the semifinal was a real stinker....

We're About To Find Out Just How Great Kevin Durant Can Be

If there's one silver lining for basketball fans to extract from Russell Westbrook's season-ending knee injury, it's that we now have the opportunity to see Kevin Durant attempt to become something he's never had to be before: a transcendent superstar trying to singlehandedly pull his team through ...

I'm Tryin' to Get Money Like Felipe Lopez

So rapped the Beatnuts back in 1994. That's when Lopez was a big deal in New York. And that's around the time Susan Orlean wrote about Lopez for the New Yorker (actually, her profile appeared in the spring of '93):...

Here's A Dog Dressed As A Hot Dog, Eating A Hot Dog

Yesterday was the annual "Bark in the Park" day in Atlanta, the only time—other than when the Reds are in town—when ticketholders must show proof they've been vaccinated against Parvo and Bordetella....

Outdoorsman And TV Host Bill Dance Has A Spectacular Blooper Reel

Bill Dance has been imparting his knowledge of the outdoors as the host of Bill Dance Outdoors since 1968. He has also spent much of that time committing hilarious fuck ups while filming his show—fuck ups which have been compiled into one wonderful blooper reel....

Three Times Dope

Here's Shirley Povich's column on Don Larsen's perfect game:...

Why A <em>Boston Globe</em> Writer Didn't Vote LeBron James For MVP

Mystery solved. The lone writer who listed Carmelo Anthony first, denying LeBron James the first-ever unanimous MVP, was Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe. And he sounds almost...apologetic?...

Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco

My favorite thing about this, from Fast Company, is the subject tag. "Technology." Oh man....

So Maybe Dan Le Batard Wasn't The Guy Who Snubbed LeBron For MVP [Post Corrected]

UPDATE: OK, it appears we screwed up and jumped the gun. Dan Le Batard has yet to confirm or deny what player he voted for regular season MVP, or whether or not he even had a vote. We've just gotten word that he didn't vote for Anthony, and we sent Le Batard an email for comment, so let's see what h...