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Grand Master
Spring brings with it a bum's rush of new sports books. This year, one of the most prized titles comes from the distinguished Library of America—American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (edited by Dan Okrent). Smith is our most venerated sports columnist and we'll have much more on him and this...
Is There Any Joy In Sweeping These Lakers?
"Let's try for a miracle," Mike D'Antoni told his undermanned, overmatched team before Game 4. "Why not?"...
Jets Release Tim Tebow
Our long National Football League nightmare is over. The Jets have done the inevitable and released Tim Tebow into the wild. When you love something, you have to let it go....
This Heckler At Staples Center Really Wants Matt Bonner's Attention
We don't know why this gentleman, presumably a Lakers fan, wants the attention of Spurs big man Matt Bonner. (Perhaps he suspects Bonner of having gotten him pregnant.) Regardless, he is very close to TNT's court mic, which we've isolated here....
Security Guard Celebration Is An Homage To Rasheed Wallace
It's natural to focus on all the Knicks celebrating Raymond Felton's huge, buzzer-beating three at the end of the third quarter of today's Boston win. Melo is pumped up. So is Tyson Chandler. Steve Novak is undoubtedly doing a very subtle and very intense discount double check that we just can't see...
Jason Terry Prolongs Celtics-Knicks Series
At the end of the first half, Boston owned a 54-35 lead over the Knicks. With 1:18 left in the fourth, Raymond Felton gave the Knicks their first lead of the day at 84-82 on a pull-up jumper just inside the key. Kevin Garnett immediately tied the game and after a couple misses from Carmelo and anot...
Memphis Radio Hosts Play Terrible Basketball Game Against "The Ribs"
Chris Vernon and Gary Parrish are radio hosts in Memphis. The Memphis Grizzlies provide halftime entertainment that includes a group of geographically-significant-food costumes called "The Ribs." Chris Vernon and Gary Parrish played The Ribs in a game of basketball at halftime of the Grizzlies 104-8...
The Lakers Starting Point Guard Was MVP Of The D-League
Andrew Goudelock played 41 minutes last night for the Los Angeles Lakers and scored 20 points. Only Dwight Howard and fellow brother-in-obscurity Darius Morris scored more. ...
GQ's Look At The MBA For NFL Players Is A Portrait Of Hubris And Fear
Belly-up pro athletes are among the world's saddest washouts, in part because you can't blame them for their own gruesome collapses. It’s a surreal deal: You’re invincible as a kid, invincible as a young man, a millionaire before you know how to file your own taxes and then an undereducated, slow-mo...
The Final Seconds Of Overtime In Chicago Were Nuts
Nate Robinson—whose own mother would probably fight him, too—almost won the game for the Bulls with this ridiculous floating runner from just inside the three-point line. ...
Bulls Fans Break Out The Big Guns, Clothe Michael Jordan Statue
The Bulls and Nets are headed to overtime in Game 4 of their series and it is almost assuredly because of this little bit of Chicago voodoo....
Brian Burke Is Suing Internet Commenters
Brian Burke's time as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs came to an end when he was fired in early January. Almost immediately after, rumors began circulating that his personal life played a major role in Toronto's decision. ...
Nate Robinson And C.J. Watson Wrestle In Chicago
Tempers flared in Chicago with seven minutes left in the second quarter as Nate Robinson and C.J. Watson got a little physical on a Brooklyn possession....
"I'm Coming To Kill You": OKC Ball Boy Not Happy With Westbrook Injury
When Russell Westbrook went down earlier this week with a potentially season-ending knee injury, basketball fans everywhere sighed loudly. Crazy, stupid and crazy-stupid people shouted at Patrick Beverley, the man who ran into Russell Westbrook's knee during the second quarter of Game 2 between the ...
Taste Test: Popeyes Rip'n Chick'n. Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?
It began, one imagines, as a simple question, posed conspiratorially around a gleaming boardroom conference table in an upper floor of AFC Enterprises headquarters in Sandy Springs, Ga.: Why settle for chicken fingers, when you could have an entire horrifying rheumatoid chicken hand that you grimly ...
Brian O'Nora Was Probably Puking Because He Swallowed His Chew
The Mets and Phillies experienced a brief delay in the first inning last night thanks to what is being variously described as Brian O'Nora's "flu like symptoms" or "illness." In all likelihood, however, the delay was probably due to Brian O'Nora vomiting up his chewing tabacco. ...