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2014 Name Of The Year: The Sweet 16
We had a polling malfunction last week: The Bulltron and Sithole polls inexplicably closed early. Our bad, and thanks for letting us know on Twitter so we could re-open them; we might not have caught the error otherwise....
Drake's New Song Is A Big Shout Out To Johnny Manziel
The Johnny Manziel-Drake bromance continues apace. "Draft day, Johnny Manziel / Five years later, how am I the man still?" begins Drizzy's newest song, giving rarely seen prominence to the athlete-shout-out portion of a rap song (poor Andrew Wiggins gets second billing). ...
Steph Curry Did Something Ridiculous Last Night
Steph Curry does ridiculous things all the time, but it feels like it's been a while since we've had vintage Curry highlight to drool over. So click play on the video above, and get to drooling....
Man Takes Chainsaw To The Neck, Somehow Survives
Even though this is just an X-ray of a chainsaw in someone's neck, and not an actual photo, it's still pretty damn horrifying. The craziest part is that the guy who took the chainsaw to his neck is still alive....
Deadspin Up All Night: Concrete Schoolyard
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. It's sort of warm here; we're into it....
The Lone Avenger: <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</em>, Reviewed
When Marvel pooled its superhero talent for 2012's The Avengers, the rationale was obvious: If Iron Man or Thor or the Incredible Hulk could top the box office solo, just think how massive a summer blockbuster with all of them would be. And although the result was indeed a mega-hit—it's the all-time...
How Would An NCAA Union Actually Work? A Guide For Perplexed Pundits
The real triumph of the decades-long propaganda war against organized labor isn't best seen in the ever-declining rate of unionization, or ever-increasing income inequality, or even the way the word "union" functionally works as an epithet. It's seen, instead, in the fact that so many otherwise smar...
I Bandwagoned The <i>How I Met Your Mother</i> Finale, Which Sucked
I have a nasty habit of jumping into popular TV shows at the last moment to siphon off a bit of counterfeit emotional payoff without putting in the years and years of tedious buildup. I did this with Lost (not bad!). I did this with Breaking Bad (I REGRET NOTHING). And last night I did it with Ho...
Dirk Nowitzki Gives Conan O'Brien A "Texas Citizenship Test"
Conan O'Brien is taping his show in Dallas this week, and last night he invited Dirk Nowitzki onto the show to test just how much of a Texan Conan really is. It's a pretty funny bit, but mostly it's just a reminder that Dirk is awesome and that the NBA will be a much worse and humorless place when ...
The Heroes Of My Youth
More baseball because this is a time for spring and baseball on the brain. Check this out, from one of my favorite writers, a memoir piece by Paul Hemphill about growing up watching the Birmingham Barons:...
Deadspin Up All Night: Run Like Troy Aikman
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The NBA Is Now Making Officiating Memos Public
This is a genuinely neat thing that bodes well for NBA fans who are hoping to see a little more transparency from Adam Silver's NBA. The league has made public an official memo containing guidelines for how referees should be calling verticality plays....
Aaron Harrison's Game-Winner Made $329,166 For His Coaches, AD
Aaron Harrison's game-winning three that put his team into the Final Four may very well end up being the iconic shot of this tournament. It was also a shot that that put a lot of money in a lot of people's pockets, and none of them is named Aaron Harrison....
The Homecoming Of Willie Mays
Slide on over to the Daily Beast and check out this terrific 1972 Esquire story on Willie Mays by Murray Kempton:...
Deadspin Up All Night: Fall Back
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Are your brackets all trash, or were you (a loser) like me, picking Florida all the way?...
Arizona Bro Takes So Many Pepper Balls To Chest Before Being Restrained
Police were called in to contain rowdy Arizona students after the Wildcats lost to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight last night, but all the beanbag shots pepper balls in the world couldn't take one dude down. (For a little while, anyway.)...
How To Fry Brussels Sprouts, And Learn To Love Them At Last
You think of Brussels sprouts and you think of misery. When you were a kid, some damn do-gooder grownup nuked a frozen bag of them in the microwave , and scooped a bunch of them onto your plate next to your delicious SpaghettiOs, and laid some bullshit on you about how eating them would make you gro...
Deadspin Up All Night: We All Feel Dead, Man
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Canned Beer Is The Best Beer
Although I've recently moved into an apartment with three ceiling fans, seven windows, and a bedroom door, I do not consider myself a wealthy man. But every Thursday, my wife comes into a little bit of money, and if I time the transaction just right, I can occasionally buy something useful before sh...