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MLBers Say Mike Trout Is The Best—But Not Worth A Historic Contract?
The new ESPN The Magazine has an anonymous survey of 143 current MLB players, and 56 percent of them peg Mike Trout as the best player in the majors. Miguel Cabrera got 26 percent of the vote, and Clayton Kershaw got six percent. But they don't think he's that much more valuable, which isn't exactly...
Baseball's Back! Here's An Animation Of Yasiel Puig Being Yasiel Puig
Well, baseball's back. And while the opening, off-continent series is self-evidently annoying for any number of reasons, this year it also means that Yasiel Puig is back. So here's a fun GIF of him doing work. ...
The MLB Regular Season Is Here, So Here's Vin Scully Speaking Australian
The Dodgers and Diamondbacks kicked off MLB's regular season today in Sydney, with L.A. taking Game One and Game Two underway now. Vin Scully is back, of course, and already giving us great sound bytes. Here he is introducing you to tonight's game with his attempt at speaking Australian....
Greatest Inbounder, Dumbest Guy, And Other Unsung Heroes Of Showtime
My interview with Jeff Pearlman, author of Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, which was recently excerpted on Deadspin. We spoke about Pearlman's complicated portrait of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the "historically dumb" Mark Landsberger, why Kurt Rambis was t...
Dodgers PR Boss Says MLB.com Writers Spin News The Way Teams Want
Speaking at a PR conference in Sydney, Australia—where he may not have expected word to get back to the States—Dodgers Public Relations Director Joe Jareck had some interesting things to say about how the team likes to disseminate its news:...
Vin Scully Met A Koala
The Dodgers made it to Sydney for their weekend series against the Diamondbacks, so here's baseball treasure Vin Scully being handed his complimentary koala, as is tradition upon arrival in Australia....
Richard Sherman Can't Stop Beefing With NFL Players On Twitter
If you thought an offseason spent as Super Bowl champion would soften Richard Sherman's edges, you thought wrong. Sherman's still out there, lurking on Twitter, ready to pounce on anyone dumb enough to insinuate that he isn't the best corner in the league. ...
Why I Thought About Murdering My NBA Coach (And Why I Didn't Do It)
Spencer Haywood, aka Weedie, aka Driftwood, had one of the most significant and controversial careers in professional basketball history, with a landmark Supreme Court victory at one end and a druggy, nearly violent washout at the other. His legacy is still very much in dispute. Last year, Haywood w...
Report: Kobe Bryant Has "No Interest" In Playing For Mike D'Antoni
You have to feel a bit for Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni, who was brought in to a bad team that didn't fit his style, but if various anonymously sourced reports have any validity, players don't have a ton of love for him either....
Blake Griffin Gets Way Up There For A Huge Putback Dunk
Sure, it's fun to watch Blake Griffin destroy another human being with one of his signature moves, but I've always had a soft spot for the ones he throws down when nobody's in his way. ...
MLB Sees First Play Overturned On Review
The first 20 instances of umpires invoking baseball's new expanded review resulted in the call being upheld. But yesterday in Tempe, the replay system finally earned its keep....
Down The Drain With Roger Angell
Over at the Nieman Storyboard Elon Green talks to Roger Angell about Angell's 1975 profile of Steve Blass:...
On The Anniversary Of His Death By DeAndre, Brandon Knight Dunks
One year ago last night, Brandon Knight got in the way of a DeAndre Jordan dunk and basically died. We haven't seen much of Knight since that fateful evening, but last night he marked the anniversary of the dunkpocalypse with a half-decent throwdown of his own. For that, we feel like he deserves a ...
P.J. Tucker Ejected For Punching Blake Griffin
Blake Griffin had a dominant 37-point performance in LA's 112-105 win over the Suns, shooting 14-16 from the field, but midway through the fourth quarter he and P.J. Tucker had themselves a wrestling match in the paint. Griffin and Tucker were a mess of limbs rolling around and it definitely looked...
It's Never Mitch Kupchak's Day
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Blake Griffin's Dunk Sums Up The State Of Los Angeles Basketball
This video from @CJZero is a beautiful microcosm of the current state of Los Angeles basketball. Sure, the Lakers have farted along all year while the Clippers are a high-scoring playoff contender, but Blake Griffin's dunk and the following reactions really represent the two teams' NBA seasons well....
Pau Gasol Does A Dad Dunk
If you were somehow able to coax your abnormally tall dad into lacing up his New Balances and participating in a driveway-hoops dunk contest with you, this is probably what would happen. Hiiinggghhhh, goddammit!...
What It Was Like Being The Only Virgin On Magic's Hypersexed Lakers
The following is excerpted from Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, which is available now on Amazon....
Carl Crawford's Slide Is Still In Offseason Form
Hey, it's early. He's still got plenty of time to work out the kinks....
Arizona Radio Host Advocates Beaning Yasiel Puig
The most irritating rivalry in baseball will continue into 2014, at least in the minds of some fans and at least one sociopathic radio guy....