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Since Yesterday, DeMarcus Cousins Has Been Suspended, Fired His Old Agent, And Hired A New One That Has Bad Blood With Kings Management

Players switching agents generally creates only a tiny ripple of interest for fans, if that. They likely change agents or acquire new management more often than we realize, and when they do, it may not change the course of their career. DeMarcus Cousins, the most talented young big man in the NBA, c...

Kansas State Guard Angel Rodriguez's "Puerto Rican Temper" To Blame For His Third Foul, According To ESPN Announcer

The last time we wrote about Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez, he was facing chants of "Where's Your Green Card" from a brain-dead Southern Miss band. Sadly, the Wildcats' backcourt star can't escape comments about his ethnic background, as ESPN announcer Mitch Holthus made note of Rodriguez's "...

Boise State Horseface Is Somehow Scarier Than Other Horsefaces

Remember shirtless horse-man? He was somewhat of an amusing interlude, taking our mind away from a storm's impending devastation if only for a few moments. This Boise State horseface—spotted during the Broncos' exciting 28-26 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas win over Washington—is more disconcerting. Maybe it...

The Lions’ Lomas Brown Says He Deliberately Let QB Scott Mitchell Get Injured In 1994

If you've ever wondered why quarterbacks splurge on lavish gifts for their offensive lines, may we present Lomas Brown telling ESPN Radio that he let the Packers blow up his quarterback, Scott Mitchell, in a 1994 game. At the time, Mitchell was playing like, well, Scott Mitchell on a bad day (5-fo...

Kendrick Perkins Is Angrily Demanding That You Buy A Cubic Zirconia-Encrusted Thunder Pendant, So Get On That

Kendrick Perkins took some time out of his busy basketball schedule to star in a Tim and Eric sketch advertisement for a local jewelry store in Oklahoma City, Mitchener Farrand Jewelers—"the diamond guys on May" and your "official" NBA jewelry store in Oklahoma City....

Maaco's Las Vegas Bowl Ad Was As Shoddy As One Of Their Paint Jobs

Maaco—best known as the place to get your stolen ride resprayed on the cheap—is your of-late title sponsor for the Las Vegas Bowl (née California Raisin Bowl) and, owing to this honor, had prime advertising space early in the game's ESPN broadcast....

DeMarcus Cousins "Talked Back" To His Coach, Never Came Out Of The Locker Room After Halftime, Is Suspended Indefinitely [UPDATE]

DeMarcus Cousins didn't play the second half of last night's game against the Clippers, or even come out of the longer room after the half. Cousins was asked to stay behind because of, according to Kings coach Keith Smart, "conduct detrimental to the team." Smart declined to expand on that explanati...

Forbes's 2012 List Of The Most Valuable Teams In College Football Reads A Lot Like The 1936 AP Poll

Forbes's latest best guess at the most valuable college football programs is out, and if you're a Texas fan, congratulations: Your slavering devotion to the Death Star of the Big 12 has paid off once again. You're number one! Granted, you're in the "also receiving votes" category in the AP's poll of...

What People Said About the Piece of Shit Video Game the NRA Made Six Years Ago

Welcome back to "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere on the Internet. ...

Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Jim Harbaugh Or Pete Carroll?

The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...

Jacked Creature: In Praise Of Tom Cruise's Relentless Intensity

There are lots of perfectly understandable reasons not to like Tom Cruise. His attitude about antidepressants. The Oprah couch-jumping episode. That church he attends. And, outside of his personal life, he's made tons of questionable professional choices, yes....

Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Andy Reid Or Chan Gailey?

The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...

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Josh Hamilton Blames All His Late-Season Struggles On Quitting Tobacco

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Anaheim is getting a chaw-free Hamilton....

Serena Williams And Her Coach Had A Nice Boat Trip

Patrick Mouratoglou is Serena Williams's (French) coach. He's the shirtless man in this photo who isn't prune-shriveled. There are so many questions we have about the circumstances of this image, but we anticipate our questions remaining unanswered. So we will call your attention instead to the two ...

Resistance Is Futile. <em>Les Misérables</em>, Reviewed

As someone who hasn't read the Victor Hugo novel and is only vaguely familiar with the musical based on it, I can't say I went into director Tom Hooper's version of Les Misérables with any expectations or cultural baggage. I suspect that's part of the reason why the film worked for me—or, at the ver...

Police Are Investigating The Syracuse University Athletic Department's Media Director

Very few details are known at this time, but according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, the Syracuse police department and district attorney's office are investigating Roger Springfield, a former sportscaster and current director of media properties and productions for the Syracuse University athleti...

Former Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton Has Been Working As A Las Vegas Escort

Suzy Favor Hamilton was a middle distance runner, competing in three Olympics—most notably, the 1500 meters in Sydney, where she collapsed to the ground coming down the stretch. But she's probably best known for this 2000 Nike ad, in which a sports bra-clad Favor Hamilton outran a masked chainsaw-wi...

Ugh. Colin Cowherd Is (Statistically) The Best Pundit Of 2012.

Republished with permission from PunditTracker.com....

Former Racehorse Retires To A Quiet Life Of Painting

Metro was once a racehorse who won more than $300,000 in prize money at tracks like Saratoga and Belmont. These days, having retired with bad knees, Metro spends his days hanging around a stable in Rocky Ridge, Md., eating hay and dabbling in abstract painting....