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Classy Coach K Congratulates Mercer In Their Locker Room, With Class
Last night, reader Will sent the Deadspin staff this email, with the subject line "Dook":...
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Russell Westbrook Knocked Out Of Game With Knee Injury [UPDATE]
Russell Westbrook, whose knee injury kept him out of most of last year's NBA playoffs as well as numerous games this season, had to be helped off the court tonight in Toronto after suffering what the Thunder are calling a knee sprain. ...
CBS Announcer Andrew Catalon Drops "Polack" On Gonzaga Player
Gonzaga's Przemek Karnowski is from Poland. Late in the Bulldogs' 8-9 matchup with Oklahoma State today, he got fouled several times. CBS announcer Andrew Catalon decided to dub the Cowboys' strategy "Hack-A-Polack."...
​Sorcery And Witchcraft: How To Fold A Fitted Sheet
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check The Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her. ...
Presenting The 2014 Name Of The Year Bracket, A Shitavious Gruntfest
Name of the Year dates to the fall of 1982 and names taped to a dorm-room door on an Ivy campus: Dexter Manley, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Baskerville Holmes. The following spring, Hector (Macho) Camacho was elected the first Name of the Year. What can we say? The first basketball baskets didn't have h...
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Attending A Devils Game In A Zach Parise Jersey Sounds Like Hell [Updates]
Devils fans booed Zach Parise every time he touched the puck last night, in the star winger's first return to New Jersey since he signed with the Wild in 2012. So the mood was predictable hostile, but according to one Minnesota fan, the venom extended into the stands in an ugly way....
We Have Found The Worst March Madness Bracket Ever
The regular "bad bracket" is boring. There's not much fun in mocking someone else's picks. We're all throwing darts at the same dartboard, after all. But the bracket you see above, which was sent to us by a tipster who is presumably in the same tourney pool, is something else. It's an impressive hot...
High Schooler Shot In Leg, Hits Playoff Game-Winner Days Later
Chicago high school senior Tyquone Greer wasn't sure he could even play basketball again after a bullet went completely through his leg at a neighborhood party last week. But only nine days later, Greer sank the game-winning shot for Orr Academy High School (Ill.) over North Chicago....
Tyler Ennis's Bucket Mimics The Pretty Spin Move That Made It Possible
Tyler Ennis pulled off this nifty little move in the first half of Syracuse's second-round game against Western Michigan. Ennis spun his way around the Broncos defense and through the lane, dropping off a finger roll that spun its way around the rim and through net. ...
Quit Bitchin', Start Voting: Round 1 Of The Bitchy Bracket Continues
Read the intro here and start voting below. You have until 11 a.m. EDT tomorrow. Vote for the other half of Round 1 here....
Hitting The Note With The Allman Brothers Band
Last weekend I ran Grover Lewis' famous profile of the Allman brothers over at the Daily Beast....
Vote, You Whiners: Round 1 Of The Bitchy Bracket
Read the intro here and start voting below. You have until 5 p.m. EDT tomorrow. Here's where to vote for the second half of Round 1....
Who Are The Bitchiest, Most Defensive Fans In America?
Not long ago, our Billy Haisley wrote a post shitting on Major League Soccer. When you rip on American soccer, you can rest assured that a tidal bore of American soccer fanboy defensiveness is headed your way. It's almost as if they're all huddled together outside your house, waiting behind the shr...
How A UVa Fan Bluffed His Way Into The Huddle At The ACC Title Game
At halftime of Virginia's ACC tournament semifinal, Danny had an idea. He noticed all the Cavaliers staff members hovering around the team, and discerned what exactly gave them to the power to roam freely around the court: a suit with a Virginia-orange tie. One day and one trip to Walmart later, Dan...
What Are The Best Upset Picks In The First Round?
You may have noticed that the "expert brackets" we put together are mostly chalk, because they're picking the single most likely outcome of each individual game....
Your Last-Minute Bracket Cheat Sheet: What All The Smart People Say
The "first" "round" of the NCAA tournament is underway, and the deadline for bracket submissions is fast approaching. To help you out with your last-minute picks, we took a look a seven March Madness/college hoops models, and used them to build out seven different "expert brackets."...
Will We Ever See Another Two-Sport Athlete?
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson was a college infielder, and was drafted by the Rockies in 2010. After being acquired in the Rule 5 draft by Texas, he showed up at Rangers spring training to take some drills, and said, "I've always had the dream of playing two sports." Well, the quintessential two-sport...
The Knicks' Manly Seduction Of Phil Jackson
The New York Times has the official, Dolan-approved version of how the Knicks finally got their man in Phil Jackson, and it included a men-only party, following the Eagles on tour, and ATVing in the Coachella Valley. All in all, it was a very dudely courtship....
Reply Allpocalypse Ruins Deadspin Bracket Pool
Goddamnit, you guys....