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Aaron Craft Hits Three-Pointer With 0.5 Seconds Remaining To Down Iowa State
Iowa State's upset dreams came to an end as Ohio State's Aaron Craft made penance for a series of missed free throws in the clutch and hit a near-buzzer-beating three-pointer to give the second-seeded Buckeyes a 78-75 win. ...
The NHL Is NHL 94-izing Highlights
This is Patrick Kane's spin-o-rama from Chicago's 8-1 thumping of the Stars last weekend, given the NHL 94 treatment....
This Is Literally The Greatest Florida Gulf Coast University Dunk City Rap Video Featuring Bambi You Will Ever See
That is a stone-cold fact....
There Are Some Lakerbro Wannabes At The Cal-Syracuse Game
Give it up, bros. You'll never be as good as the original....
Deadspin Up All Night: Keep On Coming Back
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We're around for tonight's steadily intensifying tournament schedule, and Sean's here tomorrow for more of the same. Go 'Zona. ...
Four High School Basketball Players Suspended For "Their Involvement In Pouring Urine" In The Other Team's Water Cooler
Great euphemisms in this one, a story about a basketball player peeing, into a cup probably, and her friends pouring the pee into their rival's water cooler prior to a basketball game between the schools....
A Conservative Estimate Says That The Average Indiana University Basketball Player Is Owed Around $156,000 For This Season
People that want to preserve amateur athletics often say that student-athletes are compensated, contrary to appearances, because just about everyone on a top tier sports team is getting an education on an athletic scholarship (even the kids at Harvard, these days). If they get a free ride, isn't tha...
Here Are Some Photos Of Marshall Henderson Out Drinking After Yesterday's Win
Marshall Henderson had an exceedingly Marshall Henderson day yesterday. As you probably know by now, he started off Mississippi's upset win over Wisconsin one of 13, a ratio that would shatter the confidence of even the steadiest shooters. Of course, Henderson isn't "steady" so much as "cartoonishly...
Tree-Poisoner Harvey Updyke Will Spend Six Months In Jail And Five Years On Probation
Harvey Updyke, the Alabama football fan that, in 2010, poisoned two oak trees that figure prominently in Auburn athletic traditions, and then essentially confessed to the act (a Class-C felony in Alabama) unbidden on Paul Finebaum's radio show, accepted a plea deal on Friday. While Updyke will get c...
Those Plucky FGCU Basketball Players Live On An Actual Beach
You may think "Hollywood Upstairs Medical College" or "Ponzi scheme" when you hear "Florida Gulf Coast University," but that's not fair: FGCU—which looks like what you see above—is very much a real place, with documented students, and classes, and dorms and stuff. Indeed, that picture, provided by C...
Shabazz Muhammad Is Exactly One Year Older Than We All Thought
Yesterday, as UCLA was gearing up for its first tournament game (an upset loss to Minnesota), the Los Angeles Times published a profile of the father of Pac-12 freshman of the year Shabazz Muhammad. The piece revealed, among other odd things, that he had been lying about his son's age for some time—...
Deadspin Up All Night: Celebrate With Dom
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. La Salle upset Kansas State in the second round this afternoon, and we wanted to share Dom's excitement with you. Enjoy the games....
Bruce Weber Tried His Hardest To Call Timeout In The Final Seconds Of KSU's Loss, But Nobody Was Listening
La Salle upset Kansas State today, driving Deadspin writers into a frenzy and ruining brackets for those of you foolish enough to trust Bruce Weber to do anything right. He did, for what it's worth, try for a last-second strategy play. Too bad nobody noticed....
What Happened In The Game? We Called Every Tourney Team's Local Applebee's To Find Out
The Applebeat was born when two writers without smartphones needed to know the score of an NBA playoff game. "Every town has an Applebee's," we thought. We tracked down an Oklahoma City Applebee's number with the assistance of an underworked 411 operator, and then, thanks to the establishment's frie...
Some Cool Guys Showed Up At A Pick Up Game And Did Impromptu Play-By-Play
It's kind of amazing that we haven't seen something like this before, this being the internet and all. Nick and Scott from Hooplaha.com recently took a trip to a public basketball court, and they came equipped with microphones, hilarious fake names, and a spirit for the game of basketball. ...