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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...
University Of Tennessee Baseball Team Sprints To Clean Up Field
Tennessee's baseball team is 17-2 this season, which is nice, but it's not why we're here. We're here today because the Volunteers have an entertaining and simple method for cleaning up the field before a game: do it as quickly as possible. ...
Gerald Green's 41-Point Game Gets The <em>NBA Jam</em> Treatment
We like Gerald Green, because when his jumper is falling and he's springing up for huge dunks, he can make you feel like you're watching the real-life version of NBA Jam. So we fully endorse the Phoenix Suns turning his 41-point performance against the Thunder into a set of video game highlights. I...
NMSU Forces Overtime With Long-Range Three After SDSU Turnover
A wild night of overtimes got longer after New Mexico State scored five points in the final 15 seconds to force overtime against San Diego State....
Texas Beats Arizona State With Cameron Ridley Buzzer-Beater
Texas big man Cameron Ridley was in the right place at the right time as he gathered in Jonathan Holmes's attempted buzzer-beater and laid in one of his own to down the Arizona State Sun Devils 87-85 and move the Longhorns into the round of 32....
North Dakota State Upsets Oklahoma In OT Thanks To Bonkers, Tying Three
A night of overtimes continued as Lawrence Alexander hit a wild, off-balance three-pointer with twelve seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime against 5 seed Oklahoma and set up his North Dakota State Bison to win 80-75 after the extra period. The battle left NDSU coach Saul Phillips ready...
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....
Steve Francis Has Nearly Finished Transforming Into Kuato
This is...concerning....
I Sang Two National Anthems At An NBA Game And Did Not Start A War
Canada ruins everything. At least, it does when it comes to event planning your standard regular-season NBA game. As you probably know, any game that features an American team playing a Canadian team must include the singing of both "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada." If you look up into th...
Jared Sullinger Gets Sad About Ohio State Losing, Trey Burke Rubs It In
Jared Sullinger went to Ohio State, so he was understandably upset to discover that his alma mater just got upset by Dayton. Trey Burke went to Michigan, so he was understandably eager to push the retweet button....
Dayton Defuses Aaron Craft's Heroics With Last-Second Glass
Vee Sanford's runner off the glass delivered the Dayton Flyers a 60-59 upset over Ohio State that looked like a win for the Buckeyes after Aaron Craft's acrobatic drive to the hoop seconds before....
Raftery's Irish Accent Yet Another Reminder March Madness Is The Best
As if you needed another example why Bill Raftery is the best in the business, here you go....
The Deadspin Guide To March Madness, For Haters And Lovers Alike
There are a lot of things to love and hate about March Madness. This is how we feel about those things....
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....
Australian Child Freaks The Hell Out Over Baseball
Ahead of this weekend's series against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers took on a team of Australian all-stars yesterday. (Today? Tomorrow? Time zones are confusing.) One young fan proved that the incoherent desire for a baseball is something that can bring us all together. ...
The Giants (Stole) The Pennant
I was toolin' around Longform the other day because it's one of my favorite places on the web and found a link to Joshua Prager's 2001 Wall Street Journal article about the Giants in 1951. The piece was the basis for Prager's book The Echoing Green....
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....
Jalen Rose Actually Got Gregg Popovich To Smile
Gregg Popovich doesn't usually have time for this shit, but last night ESPN threw a bit of a curveball at Pop by having Jalen Rose interview him between quarters. Rose discovered the key to Pop's heart: talking shit about Avery Johnson....