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Bill Belichick: Still The Best
Bill Belichick is taciturn, curmudgeonly, ruthless, secretive, quite possibly evil, and we're going to miss him so much whenever he decides to hang up the hoodie. The Patriots coach was one of his rare expansive moods when speaking at the NFL meetings this morning, and when Belichick is on, there's ...

The Amazing, Vivid Sports Artwork Of Mickey Duzyj
Mickey Duzyj is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn. The Detroit native's work has been featured in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, ESPN, Esquire and Grantland. ...

Kevin Love Is A Broken Man
This is what a lost season looks like....

Report: Senior FIFA Members Tried To Halt Corruption Probe
Every time FIFA does something right—like forming an independent investigation into allegations of corruption surrounding the votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups—it manages to shoot itself in the foot. Reports out of Switzerland claim that "senior FIFA power-brokers" attempted to derail the inves...

Paul George Says He Was Not Catfished, But Knows Who Sent Dick Pics
Paul George talked about his genitals today and denied that he was Catfished. While George says the story itself—that a man duped him into sending penis pictures—is fake, he does not deny that it's his dick we've all seen. All he's saying is that he's not directly responsible for it being part of t...

The Organizers Of The Qatar World Cup Are Very Mad At Us
Below is an email that just popped into our inbox, from Paul Hughes, head of international media relations for Qatar's Supreme Committee of Delivery & Legacy (!). That makes him the main flack for the outfit that's overseeing the 2022 World Cup, which one international group expects to kill more peo...

Poll: White People Don't Want College Athletes To Be Paid
A poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News finds that a sizable majority of Americans are opposed to paying college players. Well, white Americans. ...

Marcus Smart Did The "Right Thing" And Look Where It Got Him
Remember when Marcus Smart was the best story in college basketball? A top-three pick who opted out of a historically weak draft and into a historically loaded one, turning down millions because he wanted to improve and he wanted to win at Oklahoma State, he was Everything Right About the Game. ...

How Michael Vick Shaped The Modern NFL
Last Friday, Michael Vick signed a one-year deal with the Jets. He'll be 34 by the time the season begins. The following is excerpted from Deadspin's Big Book of Black Quarterbacks. This entry is written by Kyle Wagner....

ThinkProgress and others take issue with Roger Pielke, Jr., a new contributing science writer at FiveThirtyEight, who was last seen on the receiving end of a six-page thumper of a White House response about his positions on the California drought. Give this some time, but it hasn't gone great out of...

Baylor Bears Celebrate Their Upset By Messing Up Craig Sager's Hair
Baylor destroyed Creighton in a 30-point blowout yesterday, and the six-seeded Bears celebrated their upset of the third-seeded Bluejays as all momentous occasions should be celebrated: by screwing up Craig Sager's hair-do. ...

Cuonzo Martin's Vols post #Sweet16Selfie
Straight off their 83-63 win over Mercer Sunday night, Tennessee head coach Cuonzo Martin posted this selfie of his elated team. The win moves UT into their first Sweet 16 appearance since 2010, and has helped save a lackluster season for the third-year coach....

Who Will Be The Bitchy Cinderella? Round 2 Of The Bitchy Bracket Begins
So the first round of the Bitchy Bracket is done, and we're ready to move on to the second round of voting. Before starting in on voting, though, let's take a brief look at the first-round results, which saw all sorts of touchy fanboys knocked off, including some that, honestly, deserved less respec...

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. ...

Report: Qatar's World Cup Expected To Take More Lives Than 9/11
"Qatar is a country without a conscience," begins the International Trade Union Confederation's recent report on the working and living conditions of the 1.4 million migrant workers living in Qatar, many of whom are there to build stadiums and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. After reading thr...

More Cowbell!
We just couldn't get enough of Stanford's enthusiastic cowbell player, so we took things to their logical and cliched conclusion with the help of Blue Öyster Cult....

She Didn't Care For What She Saw
Send stories, photos, and anything else you might have to [email protected]....

Seattle CBS Switches From End Of UNC-ISU To Mudslide Presser
Four are confirmed dead and 18 still missing due to mudslides in Seattle, so this is not even in the same plane of existence as something like the Heidi Game, but viewers tuned in to the finish in the UNC-Iowa State game had absolutely no idea what was happening in an already confusing ending when ...

Yes, Officials Got The Call Right At The End Of UNC-Iowa State
While the end of North Carolina-Iowa State was a shitshow, it was a fair one. Even if you give the Tar Heels every benefit of the doubt, the rules were interpreted correctly given the scenario. We're going to try and illustrate why here....

Iowa State Beats North Carolina In Frantic, Bizarre Finish
Iowa State came back to beat North Carolina in an exciting final few minutes that were totally undercut by the final seconds. The last play of the game for the Tar Heels, like the final minutes, was totally out of sync. The Cyclones took the ball with 16 seconds left, advanced up the court and Deand...