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Seven Scenes From The Life Of A Quiet Champ
Dig Pete Dexter's 1980 Inside Sports profile of Larry Holmes:...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Will Remember You
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. This is cheating, but whatever. RIP. ...
Here Are The NBA All-Star Starting Lineups (Yep, Kobe Made It)
The NBA just announced the starters for the All Star Game. Looks like Kobe's in, and, uh, LeBron's playing center? ...
We'll Pass, Thanks
This Colorado catering company's bad luck wasn't the unfortunate typo. It was having it spotted by a professional copy editor....
Kevin Durant As The "Slim Reaper" Is Terrifying
Kevin Durant's month-long rampage through the NBA has earned him a menacing new nickname: The Slim Reaper. The artist behind pixelfucks.com ran with the idea and created the image above. ...
A Treasury Of Your Terrifying Poop Stories For Super Bowl Bye Week
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
John Ed Bradley Remembers Peyton Manning As A Young Man
My man John Ed Bradley recalls meeting Peyton Manning in this sweet essay for Sports Illustrated:Sports Illustrated:...
J.R. Smith Plays Air Guitar While Enjoying A Very Chill Tune
At some point during last night's 76ers-Knicks game, J.R. Smith helped a young girl get through her cover of a popular Lumineers song. This is incontrovertible proof that despite the fact that the Lumineers make vapid, insufferably folksy music that appeals to the lowest common denominator of human...
Everybody Loves The Sunshine in Bonnard's World
Pierre Bonnard....
Shoals on David Stern: "And that's why your retirement is both sad and in some sense, a relief. There's nothing quite like the softening of authority figures, like those presidents who voters want to have a beer with, or prize-winning novelists playing Boggle. At the same time, the feeling that I've...
Exploitation Was Duke Ellington's True Genius
Last month, Adam Gopnik wrote an absorbing review of Terry Teachout's new Duke Ellington biography in the New Yorker. It's only available to subscribers but I wanted to share this part:...
The West Is OKC's Until Kevin Durant Says Otherwise
In the four weeks since Russell Westbrook's arthroscopic surgery, the Oklahoma City Thunder has fallen from 23-5 (.821) to 33-10 (.767) — that is, the team has racked up half its losses during just 15 games. Westbrook's major stats this season (21.4 points, 6.0 boards, 7.0 assists, 1.8 steals) all t...
Deadspin Up All Night: Good Kid
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy the snow, if you're near some....
Is Josh Smith The Worst Three-Point Shooter Of All Time?
The Detroit Bad Boys blog has an interesting and fundamentally unsurprising post about Josh Smith and his catastrophic shooting this season. So we thought, Why not pile on? Here are a few ways in which Josh Smith is even worse than he seems in an article that concludes he's the worst three-point sho...
Greg Oden Blocks Jeff Green's Dunk Attempt At The Rim
It's been six days since Greg Oden played basketball(!) and didn't disintegrate. Good news: Greg Oden is still playing basketball! And he's meeting Jeff Green at the rim and swallowing up dunk attempts....
Ricky Rubio Practices Bounce Passes With Little Girl During Game Delay
Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio might be one of the most pleasant NBA players today, and this clip is just more evidence of that....
The Sordid End of David Meggett
Here's the latest from my pal Greg Hanlon. This one's over at SB Nation Longform and it's a tough story: The Sordid End of David Meggett: ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Toucan Sam
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Catch you on the flip side....
The <em>Inside The NBA</em> Guys Crack A Kellen Winslow Joke
Judging by this clip from last night's episode of Inside the NBA, allegations of Kellen Winslow's alleged public masturbation incident in a Target parking lot did not escape the attention of Chuck and Shaq....