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Clemson Bro's <em>College GameDay</em> Hijinks Enjoyed Best In Super Slow-Mo
College GameDay headed to Clemson for the second time this season, which meant an extra-taxing experience on the collective creativities of fans in the Greenville-Spartanburg area. Fortunately one of them decided to use his body, rather than a sign, for laughs. ...
You Know He's Going To Try, But Should Kobe Save The Lakers?
So... we would be remiss if we didn't note at some point before opening night how bad the Los Angeles Lakers are, or at least appear to be....
Deadspin Up All Night: Hot Sauce
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The weekend crew is on deck. Hope you have a good one....
The Milwaukee Bucks Made A Starbucks Drake Hands Video
I don't know if the #StarbucksDrakeHands thing is officially stale and unfunny yet, but this made me laugh. Ersan Ilyasova really steals the show....
Tom Terrific And His Mystic Talent
From Pat Jordan's 1972 SI profile of Tom Seaver:...
You Know How To Whistle, Don't You Steve?
On a fishing trip in 1939, film director Howard Hawks told Ernest Hemingway:...
Poor Bastard Reviews Regional Foodstuffs At Worst Possible Time
Hey, here's a fun, engaging, funny article about the signature foods of American cities that Deadspin regular Carrie Hunt And The Spoonerisms happened to write at the absolute worst moment in all of human history for doing that. Enjoy! I'm sure no one anywhere will be driven to a frothing rage by ...
LeBron Calls Out Former Celtics For Being Hypocrites About Ray Allen
When Ray Allen took less money to leave Boston and come to Miami—and win a championship—he took heat from his former Celtic teammates. Kevin Garnett "lost" his cell phone number. Jason Terry challenged his "willingness to stick with the tough times." Paul Pierce said he couldn't forgive Allen. Even ...
Paintings By Kids
There's some cool artwork by kids in this book by Yankee outfield Curtis Granderson....
Deadspin Up All Night: It's Not Fun To Watch The Rust Grow
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. FOOTBALL tonight. And baseball. And hockey....
Why Injured Athletes Like Gronk Aren't Allowed To Be Cautious
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
The Great American Menu: Foods Of The States, Ranked And Mapped
What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!...
Today In Unfortunate Ad Placement
We know Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce are getting up there in years, but the inadvertent layout of today's print edition of the New York Daily News is being less than subtle about it....
Science: Bacon Is The Ultimate Ingredient
While we always knew it within the thickening walls of our heaving hearts, Wired.com has managed to prove it empirically: Bacon does, in fact, make (nearly) everything better....
The World Needs This Picture Of Yao Ming Standing Next To Muggsy Bogues
We've long gotten a kick out of looking at pictures of Yao Ming standing next to people and things that are much shorter than him, but this is the picture we've been waiting for. It's just Yao and the shortest player in NBA history chilling on a Shanghai balcony, looking like two principal cast memb...
The Playmaker Gives Up The Ball
Paul Solotaroff profiles Jason Kidd in the latest issue of Men's Journal:...
Talk Is Cheap
I love to talk but when it comes to writing I've learned that you can talk a story out before you’ve finished–or even started–writing. Some talking is good because it helps formulate your thinking but it can go too far....
GQ
Up North Trips gives us some of GQ's basketball covers. I remember most of these issues well—from our man Peter Richmond's heyday at the magazine. ...