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Don't You Dare Ask Fran McCaffery About His Eye-Poking Player
Iowa's Adam Woodbury poked another guy in the eye yesterday, a thing that he's been doing far too often this season. After the game, a few reporters tried to ask Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery about all the eye poking. He was not having it....
Iowa's Adam Woodbury Can't Stop Poking People In The Eye
Okay, man, this is starting to get a little ridiculous....
The NBA Pulled Some Silly Shit With Its Player Of The Month Award
Ordinarily, the NBA's Player of the Month awards aren't worth talking or writing about, even among people who talk and write about NBA stuff. Oh no—Player X didn't win Western Conference Player of the Month for November, even though his PER was a smidge higher than some other dude's! Winning one p...
The Hawks Met Their Match In Anthony Davis
The Atlanta Hawks, a team that has swallowed up the rest of the Eastern Conference by playing a near-perfect imitation of Spursian super basketball, took their 19-game win streak to New Orleans last night to face Anthony Davis and the Pelicans. The Hawks may be an unrelenting monster, but they met a...
The Atlanta Hawks Are Too Good For Twitter
The Atlanta Hawks are good as hell, and they are currently riding a 17-game winning streak atop the Eastern Conference. In the early stages of the streak, whoever runs the team's official Twitter account thought it would be fun to add an extra "W" to the account's display name with each successive w...
The Hawks Had A Choir Introduce The Starting Lineup, And It Was Way Cool
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Atlanta Hawks brought in a full choir to sing the starting lineup before yesterday's game against the Detroit Pistons. ...
My God, My God, The Hawks Are A Fucking Juggernaut
The Atlanta Hawks led the Washington Wizards 87-77 after the third quarter yesterday, which isn't nothing as leads go, but, in its broad outline the game still had the feel of one whose outcome could go either way. The Hawks looked sharper, sure, but the Wizards had won the second quarter and got...
Hey, Guy, Just Shake Marc Gasol's Hand
After Tuesday night's game against the Hawks, Grizzlies center Marc Gasol was giving daps to fans as he headed into the locker room. One fan did not want any of Gasol's daps, though, and pulled the ol' pull-the-hand-back-and-rub-your-hair handshake prank....
Former NBA Player, Now Security Guard, Suspended After Choking Kid
One non-existent Deadspin Buck for anybody that can name the guy in the photo....
Joseph Fauria's Tweet About His Girlfriend And Russell Wilson Is...Odd
A little past midnight, Lions tight end Joseph Fauria tweeted about his girlfriend Erika Hammond and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, suggesting, well, something....
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Learns Painful Lesson About Tackling Rob Gronkowski
Packers safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is a rookie, and he still has many lessons to learn about how to survive in the NFL. He received an important bit of knowledge during Sunday's game against the Patriots, though: Unless you are, I don't know, J.J. Watt or the Incredible Hulk, don't ever try to tackle ...
Danny Ferry Apologizes To Magic Johnson For Racist Remarks
Danny Ferry and Magic Johnson had a meeting Tuesday night to talk about Ferry's racist comments, according to tweets sent out by Johnson. The on-leave Ferry called Johnson to set up the meeting and apologize, and it apparently worked as Johnson tweeted that Ferry deserves a second chance in the NB...
Iowa Loses In Miserable Fashion As Freeze-The-Kicker Move Backfires
That is a gif of pure misery. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz tried to pull the ol' "freeze the kicker" trick in the final seconds of the Hawkeyes' game against Iowa State this afternoon. The Cyclones missed the first kick, but had another attempt because of Ferentz's timeout. On the second try, Ferentz's w...
Carmelo Anthony Says Nobody Would Want To Play For The Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks haven't exactly been a free agent hot spot for NBA stars, and their recent scandal doesn't look like it will help, at least according to Carmelo Anthony:...
Here's The Full Racist Scouting Report On Luol Deng
WSB-TV in Atlanta has gotten its hands on the now infamous scouting report that Hawks GM Danny Ferry says he was reading from when he made racist remarks about Luol Deng while on a conference call with other members of the Hawks front office....