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Nevada Wolf Pack
1. There Isn't Much Sex ... On Campus, Anyway. Terrence Green played basketball at the University of Nevada from 1999-2003. Lyndale Burleson is on the current Pack squad. Burleson is the little brother of Minnesota Vikings' receiver (and former Nevada standout) Nate Burleson the only Viking NOT to g...

Bradley Braves
1. They Have Eddy Curry's Old Sidekick. Patrick O'Bryant is Tyson Chandler if Tyson Chandler would have gone to a mid-major college instead of straight to The Association after high school. He's the Missouri Valley's Defensive Player of the Year, and the 7-foot, 260-pound sophomore is long, athletic...

The Sponsors Abide
Nihilists! Sponsors! Fuck me. We mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. Let us tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, we'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull t...

Uh, Today Obviously Kind Of Sucks
Obviously, our massive tech issues from yesterday have been anything but resolved; in fact, they're decidedly worse today. We're told this is happening to all the Gawker Media sites, so we're not alone in theis wilderness....

Excuse Our Virtual Dust
We're sorry about all the problems everyone is having getting into the site today, by the way. We've noticed, and we apologize. We're told it has something to do with "servers" and "FTPs" and all kinds of other terms we do not understand....

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.)...

We've Got Spirit, Yes We Doooooooooo ...
College cheerleading, an object of ridicule since it was discovered that our President did it, has new respect in our eyes. Southern Illinois basketball cheerleader Kristi Yamaoka, who fell 15 feet off of the top of a human pyramid onto her head on Sunday, suffered a chipped neck vertebra and a co...

The Ladies Love The Baseball
We always find it kind of embarrassing when major sports leagues make conscious efforts to try to cater to the female audience. From our experience, a woman is either a sports fan, or she isn't — you know, like the rest of the human population. League executives tend to think of female sports fans t...

Week In Deadspin: Talkin' 'Bout B-B-B-B-B-Basketball
• Man, can they ever lay down a dope beat in Kentucky. • If all soccer referees were like this, we'd watch games all the time. • Boobs! • We're previewing the crap out of the baseball season. • You don't have to be born to have Roger Clemens throw at you. • The NCAA's mascot is destroying everythi...

At Last, Bill Simmons Emerges Victorious
After resounding losses to Isiah Thomas and Mark Cuban, Simmons has scored his first win in our Curious Guy fight series....

We Are Invading Boston. Tonight. Beware.
For those in the Boston/Cambridge area who find themselves without proper nighttime entertainment this evening, we would like to cordially invite you to come hang out. We are reading from our novel Catch tonight at the Dire Reading Series in Cambridge. Yes, we know it's an art gallery. But they stil...

Hello, Advertisers!
As you can see, the sponsors all go to 11. Right across the board. 11. 11. 11. 11. They're one louder, aren't they? Most sponsors are gonna be playing at 10. You're on 10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up. You're on 10 with your sponsors. Where can you go from there? Where? Nowher...

Who Would Win In A Fight: Bill Simmons or Malcolm Gladwell?
After what had been a considerable hiatus, our boy Bill Simmons is cranking out his Curious Guy segments like crazy these days. We had David Stern just a week ago, and now, punching back in his weight class, he banters with "The Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell for, let's see, 5,000 words .....

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...

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...

Teach A Man To Fish... And He Will Bore Others On ESPN All Day Long
The "Super Bowl of Fishing" has put another day in the books, cutting the field down to 25 for tomorow's finale. For those of you who joined the Deadspin Bass Fishing Fantasy League, know that Luke Clausen is still in the lead with 44 total pounds of fishies. Terry Scroggins had the biggest haul o...

Week In Deadspin: What We Missed While Floating Around
It might seem strange for us to try to recap a week in which we watched absolute no sports whatsoever, but we're gonna give it a try anyway....

Brian Giles Remembers The Little People
Since we're not nearly the pop culture oddity barometer we wish we were, we were not aware of MiniKISS, the band consisting of "little people" who dress up like (and play the songs of) KISS. We're not sure what we can say here, except that we like the idea of the Gene Simmons equivalent having a ...

Get Them To Sign On The Line That Is Dotted
These are the new sponsors. These are the Glengarry sponsors. To you, these are gold; you do not get these. Because to give them to you would be throwing them away....

So, Did We Miss Anything?
After eight days floating around a tiny boat in the Caribbean sun, we are proud to say that we are back and, as they say, ready to rock. Our trip was most pleasant, thank you, and we even spent half an hour at the Nevis Sports Museum (apparently they play much cricket there)....