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Luke Ridnour Has Now Been On Five NBA Teams In The Past Week
Luke Ridnour was traded three times in two days last week, but before he could start preparing for life in Oklahoma City, the guard was traded again today. Apologies to any Grizzlies, Hornets, or Thunder fans who bought Luke Ridnour jerseys....
Jon Stewart: Scalia Used The Old Man Dictionary To Write His Dissent
Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, much to the delight of a whole lot of people. Except of course, resident crank Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote a dissent that, from most reasonable folks’ perspective, sounded like nonsense....
Cats: They're Bad
You walk into a cat house and you know it right away: A crazy person lives here. No amount of vacuuming, air-freshening, laundering, or outright bleaching will banish the insidious juniper reek of feline; a cat house smells like a cat house, and for this we can be grateful, because it lets us know n...
Report: Increasingly Desperate Kings Are Trying To Lure John Calipari
We didn’t think it was possible for the Sacramento Kings to become a bigger mess than they already are, and yet here’s a new report from Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, which pulls back the curtain on a spectacularly broken franchise....
It's More Common Than You Think
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Marshawn Lynch Dives Into "End Zone" Full Of Skittles On <i>Conan</i>
The notably media-reluctant Marshawn Lynch has been popping up on TV a bit more in the offseason, and was Conan O’Brien’s guest tonight as the late night talker set up an “end zone” full of Skittles for the star running back to dive backward into. He even did his signature dick grab....
It's Time Again To Watch Alex Trebek Rap: Now, The <i>Fresh Prince</i> Theme
Alex Trebek is no stranger to rapping on Jeopardy!, and America’s favorite former Canadian took on the flow tonight when lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song turned up in a first round category. He got in one little fight, and his mom got scared....
Deadspin Up All Night: You Don't Have To Support
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Your Comic Book Movie Probably Doesn't Need An On-Set Therapist
Here is a headline about Suicide Squad, the upcoming movie adapted from the DC Comics title of the same name: ...
Cleancast: Meet The Mother-Daughter Professional Organizing Team
My guests this week on the official Ask a Clean Person podcast are the ladies of Done & Done NYC, a professional organizing and home staging company that mother-daughter team Ann Lightfoot and Kate Pawlowski founded four years ago. Their Operations Manager, Abby Lofberg — who has been Kate’s best fr...
Shia LaBeouf Why The Fuck What
What we have here is Shia LaBeouf and his rattail on like a riverbank somewhere, surrounded by a bunch of white people, rapping. Yesterday, the overstaffed People aggregator Gawker wrote about the performance, calling it a freestyle and even giving LaBeouf a legitimate, albeit uncreative rapper name...
How To Be A Good Person On An Airplane
Things are getting bleak in the skies. See this article in the New York Times about swapping seats on a flight:...
Meet The New Junior Raptors Mascots
The Toronto Raptors announced a new NBA D-League squad—Raptors 905—today, and with it came some new mascots. Several staffers here at Deadspin think they’re cute, but personally I’d have gone with something more memorable....
Bill Walton's Following Grateful Dead's Final Tour, And It's A Delight
NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton claims to have 854 Grateful Dead shows under his belt, so of course he’s going to follow the band around as it plays its five final concerts....
Cyclist Fight!
This happened just beyond the finish line at this weekend’s Longsjo Classic. Based on the bib numbers, the guy throwing the punches is named Jerome Townsend, and the dude getting popped is named Dave Warner....
Kobe Bryant Unbothered By His New Teammate Calling Him A Rapist
There was a mild kerfuffle following last week’s NBA draft, when some internet sleuth went spelunking into the Twitter history of Lakers draft pick Larry Nance Jr. and found this old tweet:...
LeBron Opts Out Of Cavs Contract, But He Probably Isn't Going Anywhere
The idea of LeBron James signing with a different subpar team every season and dragging them to the Finals would make for an entertaining project, but that probably won’t happen, even though James reportedly decided to decline his player option with the Cavaliers....
Did <i>True Detective </i>Really Just Do That?
Okay, so here we’ve got the last scene from tonight’s True Detective, in which an Unexpected Event of Great Significance happens, which I will be wildly speculating upon in 1.5 paragraphs or less, so don’t get all sassy with me re: spoilers. Okay....
