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NBA Draft Prospect Skips College For China (And $1.2 Million)
Point guard Emmanuel Mudiay has the potential to be a lottery pick in next year's NBA draft, but he won't be spending a year in college before going pro. Mudiay's taking his talents to China for the required year between high school and the NBA, and he's getting a hefty chunk of money for his effort...
CFO Of Sterling Trust Says Clippers Sale Necessary To Pay Off Loans
When Donald Sterling dissolved the Sterling Family Trust, the entity that ran the Clippers, he was trying to prevent the sale of the team to Steve Ballmer. It's pretty simple: if the trust did not exist, it couldn't sell anything to anyone. Only, it might not be that simple. According to testimony f...
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Boston Celtics Sign Evan Turner, Because Not Enough People Hated Them
After a season in which their bottomed-out squad of plucky nobodies occasionally showed admirable spunk under first-year coach Brad Stevens, the Boston Celtics evidently decided they'd had enough of this not-being-hated-by-literally-everyone crap, and went out and signed ball-pounding avatar of hope...
Please Calm Down, Anderson Varejao Did Not Cut His Hair
Oh shit! Did Cleveland Cavs big man Anderson Varejao get rid of his beautiful Sideshow Bob hair? It looked so good, dude. Why'd you shear it off?...
Police: Donte Greene Apologized After Getting Tased In The Butt
Former NBA player Donte Greene was very apologetic after Miami Beach police arrested him on charges of disorderly conduct and battery over the weekend on South Beach. Maybe it's because he says he was defending his little brother, Dmetrique, from St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar. Or it co...
Brady Aiken's College Eligibility Might Be In Jeopardy
In addition to revealing the Astros as shitty jerks, the Brady Aiken saga has also reminded the world of the existence of one of the NCAA's silliest and most farcical rules: players like Aiken aren't allowed to hire agents for MLB negotiating purposes if they want to retain collegiate eligibility. T...
Matt Bonner Brings Larry O'Brien Trophy To New Hampshire For A Day
San Antonio Spurs bench player Matt Bonner is one of the few active athletes New Hampshire can boast about. (Sam Fuld's the other big name on that list, which should tell you something.) The Red Mamba grew up in Concord and played for the high school's basketball team, and look at him now, a two-tim...
Introducing The Three-Point Line Benefited Big Men Most
After the NBA introduced the three-point line in 1979, it would have been be intuitive to assume that guards, who shot a disproportionate amount of the new and more efficient three-point shots, benefitted most from it. But a new study from the Journal of Sports Economics claims that after the three-...
Big 12 Commish Is Full Of Shit About Pay-For-Play Killing The Olympics
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby spoke to reporters during a press conference this morning, and spent a good deal of time painting a bleak picture of the future of college sports. What does Bowlsby see on the horizon, in a post-O'Bannon world? Athletes unionizing! Massive program cuts! The death of...
We Really Need More Of This In NBA Advanced Metrics
ESPN Insider is doing something funny with its advanced nerds at the Las Vegas Summer League: The stat guys are talking shop with the players. ...
OK. I Think We've All Had Enough.
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Mitchum: Mr. Bad Taste And Trouble Himself
The latest Stacks reprint over at The Daily Beast gives Robert Ward's 1983 Rolling Stone profile of Robert Mitchum:...
Don't Burn The Garlic
I recently told a friend of my interest in telling stories with pictures and he recommended Cartooning, by Ivan Brunetti. This slim volume is a written version of a class Brunetti teaches on the cartoon format (he doesn't care for the terms graphic novel and I don't blame him). It is broken down int...
Police: NFLer, Former NBAer Arrested For Fighting Each Other At Club
July can be an easy time for professional athletes to find themselves in bad situations, with little happening in three of the major sports leagues and a summer to let loose. ...
Two-Tone Foreheads Are Back In Style
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Video Gaming On ESPN3 Is Like The Early Days Of ESPN2
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How To Grill Vegetables, And Make The Most Of Those Hot Coals
Albert Burneko is off. Your guest Foodspinner is friend of the program and Drynuary evangelist John Ore....
Idiot On The Field Evades Police, Gets Gerardo Parra Selfie
It was only a matter of time before these things started becoming regular. Here's your latest Idiot On The Field to use the opportunity for selfie-taking, tonight in Phoenix. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Wasn't I Lucky?
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