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Syracuse Orange
1. The Real Slim Shady. Tattooed Orange frosh Eric Devendorf was born in Bay City, Mich., about 115 miles north of Detroit. He guards the perimeter in Syracuse's standard 2-3 while talking trash, which draws comparisons to some other white guy from Motown. Growing up, players labeled the 6-foot-4 co...
Pacific Tigers
1. They Have An Award-Winning Swede. Sweden's Christian Maraker is the latest international player who has contributed to the recent success of Pacific's basketball program. Maraker was selected as the Big West player of the year after averaging 17 points and nine rebounds this season. Maraker also ...
Jim Boeheim Hates Your Guts
In the type of game that gets us so freaking excited for the tournament next week we almost wet ourselves, Syracuse pretty much just clinched a NCAA tournament big by beating No. 1 Connecticut 86-84. The key, not surprisingly, was guard Gerry McNamara, who had 13 assists and hit a huge 3-pointer t...
Who's Got Bracket Fever?
We're just five days away from Selection Sunday — which, in combination with the season premiere of "The Sopranos," is pretty much more fun than any day should be allowed to be — and we're still working on our big NCAA Tournament Project. (All teams remain signed up for. Honestly, you guys rule.)...
OK, You Guys Freaking Rule
We are less than 24 hours into our big NCAA Tournament Preview Project, and hoo boy, have you guys come through so far. We're projecting — by "we," we mean Joe Lunardi, pretty much — 35 teams into the tournament so far ... and all 35 have been signed up for. We encourage you to check out the whole...
What's Going On With Zack Greinke?
For those of you who don't have your Google News Alerts set to "Kansas City Royals," you might not being paying close attention to a truly bizarre story involving Zack Greinke. The one-time Royals phenom, once called "the future of pitching" by Baseball Prospectus, has left the team for an unspeci...
Help Us Do The Best NCAA Preview Of All Time
Well, kids, Championship Week starts tonight, and you know what that means: The NCAA Tournament is tantalizingly close. We were trying to think of ways we could do the tournament justice, Deadspin-style, and we realized what makes this site fun is not us, but you. Who better to write about individ...
Talented, Entertaining, and Dainty... it's Ted Ligety's MySpace
I'll be upfront with you. The entire MySpace craze is lost on me. I don't know why so many people have them, I don't know what they're for, I don't know what they do. But when a gold medal skier posts pictures of himself like that one, I become grateful for MySpace....
Blogdom's Best: Indiana Pacers
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NBA and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom s Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NBA ...
Ali G Hooks You Up
If you're like us, you had only one thought as Sasha Cohen was accepting her figure skating silver medal on Thursday: How would Ali G describe it? Check out Ali G's possible take on Cohen's silver at The Sports Pulse — which includes the line: "Me is not into batty boy bruvers so Johnny Weir stop ...
Sasha Cohen: Superstar!
We haven't stopped smiling since we first saw this last night — everyone's darling ice bunny, Sasha Cohen, is apparently even more full of herself than we were led to believe. That is, if the lip-reading ability of one of our readers is on the mark. And why shouldn't it be? Our readers have never ...
Leftovers...
• Yevgeny Plushenko dresses up as a cartoon version of himself, and in muscle suit/speedo combination. He also has a 'Sex Bomb' exhibition program. I do not want to be around when that bomb goes off. [NBCOlympics.com]...
A Few More Dunk Faces
A few more Dunk Faces trickled in last night, and I thought I'd share them with you. The Kyle Orton dunk face appears to have been photoshopped by Kyle Orton himself, while drinking heavily. Not all of them are photoshopped with the skill of Picasso, but their hearts are in the right place. After th...
NBC Resorts to Child Porn for Olympics Ratings Boost
Or, at least, it would seem that way. Why else would the Olympic website feature some, um, questionable photos of figure skater Sasha Cohen? Hey, I'm no prude, but for the love of Jon Benet Ramsey this just seems a little...creepy. Maybe this is strategic network synergy? You know, NBC gets people...
Dunk Face Fever!: Gheorghe Muresan
Spinheads: Thank you so much for your overwhelming response to Dunk Faces. I am suggesting to the other members of the B-squad to carry on with this experiment as they are becoming more and more bizarre. I will put up a couple more today, but I apologize if any were overlooked. Please continue with ...
Dunk Face!: Ben Roethlisberger
More Drunk, er, Dunk Face submissions. Of course once the "Drunk" Face gets mentioned, Big Ben comes up. Alas, here we have this champion submission from a Deadspin Reader showcasing Steeltown's finest go-to chugster. Wave those Terrible Towels high!...
Dunk Face: New Mexico
The gauntlet has been thrown down. It didn't take long for the rash of New Mexico Dunk Face submissions. (Three in one hour, actually.) So, here he is in all his glowering, heat-packing glory. Surprisingly, this dunk face is very similar to Terence Stansbury's....
Dunk Face!: Eddie Sutton
Yes, creativity is abundenat today amongst the Spinheads. Here we have another reader submission for Dunk Face, this time with former Oklahoma State Coach and friend of Bill W. ,Eddie Sutton. Note the obvious alteration to the title. This Dunk Face gets a voting score of .224. May not make the cut....
Dunk Face!: Johnny Weir
First Dunk Face submission comes from Deadspin reader Mike from Boston, who catered to the world's fascination with the figure skating princess and put together this dazzling little photo for our enjoyment. We'll call this Dunk Face, "Sassy."...
Announcements: Tuesdays With A.J.
'Mornin. A.J. Daulerio back again for more Deadspin access-less, favor-less, indiscretion. We're 3/4 through the Will Leitch Caribbean Floating Adventure and he'll be happy to know that he's missed nothing while he was gone. The NBA All-Star Game was the uninspired half-court alley oop-fest it was s...