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Deadspin Up All Night: I Never Had It So Good
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin, and of R.A. Dickey. The night crew comes your way shortly, once we're all finished swingin'....

Mike D'Antoni Wants To Bring Back The Showtime Lakers
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: With Steve Nash as Magic Johnson....

Bristolmetrics: ESPN Buries The Eagles
This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....

Michael Bradley Scored A Goal With This Nifty Right-Footed Volley
The US and Russian men's national soccer teams fought to a 2-2 draw this afternoon in an international friendly at Russia's Kuban Stadium. Michael Bradley's impressive marker you see above knotted the game at 1-1 in the 76th minute. If his dad was still the coach, Michael definitely would have bee...

21-Year-Old Woman's Endless Christmas Wish List Will Make You Want To Punch Something
We reiterate that this person is not a child. She is 21, legally an adult, presumably with or on the verge of full financial independence. Each year the Massachusetts woman creates a wish list, filled with every conceivable thing she might want, and sends it out to her entire family....

The "Free Shabazz" Movement Is Underway At UCLA
Flea truly is our nation's greatest crusader for social justice. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist donned a homemade "Free Shabazz Muhammad" shirt while playing the national anthem Friday, and now it's a full-fledged movement. The other three members of UCLA's freshmen class wore their own "Free Sha...

Skew Yourselves: Nate Silver Is Here To Answer Your Questions
Nate Silver—the baseball analyst/metapollster/scary math witch who has given us both the PECOTA player forecasting system and the indispensable FiveThirtyEight blog—is in the discussion below, awaiting your questions. Go buy his book, The Signal and the Noise. We predict that you'll like it. ...

Kansas Newspaper Headline Aims For Optimism, Inadvertently Hits Comedy
We get it, Lawrence Journal-World. KU power forward Perry Ellis is just a freshman, and he's new to this. He's eventually going to figure out exactly what he's doing as the Jayhawks' starting power forward, but it wasn't like he was just pawing around in the dark during last night's loss to Michigan...

UCLA's Joshua Smith Raises Bar On Trend Of Airballed Free Throws, Airballs a Crucial Layup
UCLA needed help in beating UC Irvine 80-79 last night at Pauley Pavilion. That help came first in the form of the Anteaters' Will Davis missing free throws at the end of regulation that would have locked up a UCI win, and then in the closing seconds of overtime as referees swallowed their whistle...

Tuesday Night Fights: A Funeral Director Sees PPV Potential In A Rumble By A Casket
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Fight at a Texas funeral." (Editor's Note: RIP to the deceased.) Tonight's commentator: Joe Lombardo, CEO & Funeral Director at the Williams Lombardo Funeral Home in C...

Orlando Magic Cheerleader Falls On Head, Waves To Crowd As She's Wheeled Away
A scary scene tonight during the Knicks-Magic game when Orlando cheerleader Jamie Woode took a tumble and fell on her neck/head straight on the hardwood. After a brief delay, she was eventually wheeled off the court on a stretcher, waving to the crowd as she was taken to a waiting ambulance. She's...

Deadspin Up All Night: That's What I'm Waiting For
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Our man Erik will be with you shortly. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday night....

Bill Belichick Says Andrew Luck Reminds Him Of Cam Newton, Which Violates The No-Interracial-QB-Comparisons Rule, Which I Think Is In The Bible
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: Belichick must not have gotten the memo....

Vincible. <em>Silver Linings Playbook</em>, Reviewed.
1. She's a grieving cop's widow, prone to nymphomania, locked away in a shed behind her parents' home, profoundly damaged—not broken, but close. He's a bipolar basket case who nearly beat a man half to death for showering with his wife, the same wife with whom he obsessively wants to reconcile, even...

Rick Reilly's "I Had This First On Twitter": The Triumphal Dance Remix
When a live ESPN camera caught Rick Reilly ordering Stu Scott to credit Reilly's Twitter feed, it was an embarrassment for the former back-page Sports Illustrated writer. (Fellow panelist Steve Young was so disgusted he gives Reilly a "C'mon, man!" nudge.) We couldn't let it go with just the raw v...

The Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
(The 2013 edition can be found here.)...

The Case For The NFL Adopting Fantasy Scoring For Real
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Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Sometimes Monday Night Football features a good game. And then sometimes the Kansas City Chiefs travel to Pittsburgh. The Chiefs have had quite a year. Among major accomplishments the Chiefs can list getting smoked by the Chargers and Romeo Crennel having a firmer grasp on his career's shovel than h...

Deadspin Up All Night: Washed Up And Left For Dead
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Monday Night Football is really Chiefs and Steelers? Monday Night Football is really Chiefs and Steelers....

Is Metta World Peace Excited About A New Coach? “I’m Always Excited About Life In General."
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: One of the NBA's best interviews does it again....