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NBA D-League Player Zeke Upshaw Dies After Collapsing On Court
Zeke Upshaw, the Grand Rapids Drive player who collapsed on the court during a game Saturday, has died. He was 26....
Deadspin Up All Night: Wild Is the Wind
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NBA Developmental League Player Collapses Unconscious On Court During Play
Zeke Upshaw of the Grand Rapids Drive, a team in the NBA’s developmental league, collapsed on the court in the closing moments of Saturday’s tilt against the Long Island Nets, and had to be taken from the court on a stretcher and rushed to a nearby hospital....
Deadspin Up All Night: Midnight Sun
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As Bad News Goes, Steph Curry's Injury Update Is Good News
The alternate headline for this blog is “As Good News Goes, Steph Curry’s Injury Update Is Bad News”—you can choose for yourself whether to be a glass-is-half-full sort on this. At any rate, the update on Steph’s busted knee is in:...
Caroline Wozniacki Says Unruly Fans Threatened Her And Her Family During Miami Open
Monica Puig came roaring back after a dispiriting first set to beat Caroline Wozniacki, 0-6 6-4 6-4, in a Friday Round of 64 match at the Miami Open. Highlights make it seem like the crowd was broadly pro-Puig, which makes sense—Puig is American, by way of Puerto Rico, and lives in Miami, whereas Wo...
This Ridiculous NBA Season Can At Least Serve Up A Lot Of Hilariously Unwanted Final Scores
A fun thing to track, this time of year, is NBA games that produce outcomes that, purely from a standings perspective, are catastrophic for both teams. This season offers plenty of potential on this front: 18 of the NBA’s 30 teams are firmly in the playoff picture; all but the top two of each confer...
Deadspin Up All Night: I've Got To Get To Know You
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Tom Hallion Puts On A Ridiculous Spring Ump Show With Five Silly Ejections
Spring training is long. By this point, just about everyone is tired of it. Umpire Tom Hallion was apparently especially tired of it Thursday. Hallion ejected five guys—in three separate incidents, none of them particularly meaningful—in yesterday’s Tigers-Phillies game....
Thank God, Auston Matthews Is Back
Young Maple Leafs sensation Auston Matthews returned to the team Thursday night after a month-long layoff due to a shoulder injury, suiting up for a 5-2 win at league-leading Nashville. It didn’t take long for Matthews to satisfy our cravings for some pretty, self-assured stickhandling....
Deadspin Up All Night: It's No Mystery
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. A friend informed me today that former NBA player and new Evansville head coach Walter McCarty is also an R&B artist, so you’re going to listen to one of his songs. It’s not bad!...
Myles Turner's Big Dunk Created A Great Bench Reaction
A strong slam in the middle of a game is nice, but it’s even better when it causes witnesses to briefly lose their minds. Last night, Pacers big man Myles Turner sent his teammates into hysterics:...
The Raptors Scored 79 Points In One Half And Still Couldn't Beat LeBron
The official best team in the Eastern Conference, the Toronto Raptors, went up tonight against the actual best team in the East, LeBron James. And despite an absolutely scorching start, Toronto came up short in Cleveland yet again....
Ronald Acuña's Stupid Demotion And The Things We Don't Even Notice Anymore
Let’s do the first things first: barring catastrophic injury or equally catastrophic organizational cynicism, Ronald Acuña will be playing left field for the Atlanta Braves sometime fairly soon. This is because Ronald Acuña, who is the consensus top positional prospect in the minors, looks for all t...
Deadspin Up All Night: We Lied
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