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Here Are Your 2018-19 NBA All-Stars

Rudy Gobert was robbed, get LaMarcus Aldridge outta my face....

Brianna Decker Will Get Her Prize Money After All, Just Not From The NHL [Update]

In what can only be described as the smallest of hat tips to diversity and inclusion, U.S. women’s national team hockey player Brianna Decker was brought out to demonstrate the premier passing drill at the NHL All-Star skills event on Friday. While the league never bothered to show her demonstration...

Here Are All The NBA Players Who Got Exactly One All-Star Starter Vote From Their Peers<em></em>

This evening, the NBA announced the starters for the forthcoming all-star game, players selected by fans, the media, and, most importantly, their fellow NBA players. There were no undeserving selections, as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid, Kyrie Irving, and Kemba Walker will start ...

Derrick Rose’s Bullshit Redemption Story Might Make Him An All-Star

Every year, the NBA releases the first round of All-Star Game fan voting as a way to drum up excitement for its yearly showcase of the best players in the league. This season’s first batch of voting holds few surprises; among the top vote-getters are LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Steph Curry, and... ...

Gleyber Torres's Video Isn't The Best Way To Watch Aaron Judge's All-Star Game HR, But It Is The Funniest

Gleyber Torres thought he was taking horizontal video of his teammate Aaron Judge’s dinger in last night’s All-Star Game. He was not. Good effort, though....

Many A Dong Was Blasted Into The Night In The 2018 All-Star Game

Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game started slowly. It was a 2–2 game headed into the eighth inning, and the most memorable part of the game, to that point, had been the broadcast team prompting Mike Trout on two separate occasions to discuss the weather. All four runs had been scored on solo dingers,...

Serving Up A Three-Run Homer Is Somehow Only The Second-Worst Part Of Josh Hader's Night<em></em><em></em>

Brewers reliever Josh Hader pitched just a third of an inning during Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game, and allowed a mighty three-run Jean Segura tater that put the American League ahead in the eighth. His hair was perfect, but it was otherwise not a great night for Milwaukee’s closer. But getting ...

Rich Dauer, Astros Coach Who Nearly Died During 2017 Championship Parade, Joins All-Star Game Coaching Staff

This is very cool. Rich Dauer has been out of baseball since he collapsed during the Houston Astros championship parade last November and nearly died of an acute subdural hematoma. He had to undergo emergency brain surgery, and endured a lengthy recovery process; the closest he’s come to baseball si...

Put Ichiro In The Home Run Derby!

Here are two facts. 1) MLB may struggle getting marquee players in the Home Run Derby this year, with many of the best sluggers and biggest names reportedly not interested....

It Sure Sounds Like The NBA All-Star Draft Will Be Televised Next Year

Giddy after the success of the 2018 All-Star game, and seemingly convinced of the connection between the format changes and the competitive spirit of the contest—and girded by the apparent encouragement of players—Adam Silver sure made it sound like it’s a foregone conclusion that next year’s All-St...

The All-Star Game Was Worth It

That was a hell of an All-Star game! It had highlights, it had drama, it had by-God competition, it had a genuinely memorable finish. It also had a lot to overcome, in order to salvage what was otherwise a really uneven, occasionally bizarre and baffling weekend of events. It delivered, and in the p...

Rehearsal Footage Shows Fergie Unsure About "Star-Spangled Banner" Rendition Before Disastrous Performance

Pop singer Fergie struggled with her, erm, unique take on “The Star-Spangled Banner” even before her widely mocked performance of it before last night’s NBA All-Star Game, rehearsal footage acquired by Deadspin reveals....

Words Cannot Begin To Describe The Horror Of Fergie's All-Star Game National Anthem

Something insane and terrible happened before tonight’s NBA All-Star Game. No one will ever be able to explain it to my satisfaction. Even in the context of the NBA’s disastrous, shriekingly awkward pregame nightmare, Fergie’s national anthem was an absolute abomination. A goose being strangled in y...

These Dudes Have Recorded A Rap Tribute To The NBA All-Stars For 13 Straight Years

The important thing to bear in mind when assessing anything that happened in 1989 is that, from the perspective of 2018, the thing being assessed happened in a different world. That world still had people in it, which meant it had about equal amounts of vicious awful dumbassery and goofball beauty, ...

The Dunk Contest Is Bad Again

It is with great sadness and more than a little frustration at having stayed up to watch the stupid thing that I must report that the NBA dunk contest, which looked for a few years there like it might be good again, is, in fact, bad again....

Ha Ha, Look At These Two Chumps Who Got Picked Last For The NBA All Star Teams

Part of the discussion around the NBA’s new All Star format, where the teams are selected via a draft by the top two players in fan voting, is whether the draft should be televised, or otherwise broadcast, or in any way made public. You see, that was not done this time around, and so fans (and playe...

Russell Westbrook Mistakenly Thought He Was Picked Last In The All-Star Draft, So He Went Out And Scored 46 Points

Russell Westbrook went off last night, scoring 46 points and adding six boards and six assists in the Thunder’s 121-112 victory over the Wizards. Westbrook, it seems, was playing angry. And his teammates appear to have been happy not to disabuse him of his motivation....

Kevin Love Definitely Got Picked Last, Huh?

They Should Leave Andre Drummond Out Of All-Star Games More Often

Andre Drummond is having the best season of his career, thanks in huge part to improvements as a free-throw shooter and passer, but it wasn’t enough to earn him his second All-Star selection. On Tuesday, he took his frustrations to Twitter:...

Here Are All The NBA Players Who Got Exactly One All-Star Starter Vote From Their Peers<em></em>

The NBA is doing something slightly different with their all-star game this year, where the two top vote-getters from each conference will serve as captains and draft a team of their fellow starters. They won’t broadcast it, which defeats the purpose, but whatever, LeBron James and Steph Curry are t...