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NCAA Security In Indianapolis Escorted Mysterious Basketball Powerbroker "Worldwide Wes" Out Of A Credentialed Area, As Per Their Equally Mysterious Instructions

Oracular basketball shadow-agent William "Worldwide Wes" Wesley (profiled here, if you're unfamiliar with the man or his unique and sort of spooky aura) was in Indianapolis last night, likely following Oregon around because of his connections to Nike. He could only follow so far, because for the fir...

Metta World Peace Was Zonked Out On Painkillers After His Knee Surgery, And His Tweets Were Slightly Stranger Than They Usually Are [UPDATE: This Might Be Some Sort Of PR Stunt]

Update: This—part or all of it—is some sort of PR stunt, because in in this gilded age, even the most banal things are guerrilla marketing. A Deadspin staffer got this email yesterday, excerpted in part:...

Trey Burke May Have Hit The Equalizer, But It Was Mitch McGary Who Played The Game Of His Life

Florida Gulf Coast stopped scoring at the wrong time, while Louisville and Duke won by maintaining solid, boring leads, so the chatter last night naturally turned to Trey Burke's remarkable game-tying shot against Kansas. Michigan clawed back from a 14 point deficit in seven minutes, Burke scored al...

Trey Burke's 30-Footer Forced Overtime Against Kansas

Michigan erased a late 14-point Kansas lead to force overtime in Dallas when Trey Burke's mega-deep three-pointer tied the game with four seconds remaining. It's the 2013 tournament's first overtime game....

Nutshot Interrupts Michigan-Kansas Game Just As It Starts, Irritates Everyone

This Is Not How You Cage A Jayhawk

Bernie Fine Will Sue ESPN, Claiming Defamation

Former Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine is preparing a lawsuit against ESPN, and will claim the network defamed him when it reported claims of child sexual abuse lodged by two former ballboys. ...

Dufnering Is Now A Thing, Thanks To A Gaggle Of Silly Pro Golfers

Yesterday we posted a photo of golfer Jason Dufner visiting a community center and looking supremely downtrodden. Today, golfers all across the land are razzing Dufner, who's been chipper enough about the whole thing, by mimicking his pose. Dufnering! It's a thing! Bubba Watson, who Dufnered in the ...

Jeff Green Hugged His Heart Surgeon After Making Game-Winning Layup

Here's a wonderful picture of Jeff Green, moments after sinking a game-winning layup at the end of last night's Cavs-Celtics game, giving a big hug to Dr. Lars Svensson. Dr. Svensson is the man who performed open heart surgery on Green to fix an aortic aneurysm over a year ago, saving Green's life a...

Senators Owner Launching Forensic Investigation Into Erik Karlsson Injury

How do you forensically investigate an injury that is more than a month old? I don't know, but Eugene Melnyk is doing it, goddammit. Back in February, recently-reformed goon Matt Cooke took Erik Karlsson into the boards on a hit that left the Senators defenseman clutching his Achilles tendon. Cooke'...

Mr. T Scored From Center Ice, And It Might've Been The Greatest Moment In Hockey History

For the second straight Blackhawks game, a Chicago-native celebrity tried his hand at the "Shoot the Puck" intermission contest. But while Monday brought a rambling, possibly drunk Jim Belushi, last night saw a no-nonsense Mr. T show the puck and the United Center who's still the boss....

Hey Look, Some Hockey Parents Decided To Beat The Shit Out Of Each Other

When we last took a dip into the world of rage-y hockey parents, we saw a guy cheer the injury of a child before making violent threats toward another spectator, all while holding an infant in his arms. Today, we get to watch an entire group of angry hockey parents (dads and moms!) lose all sense o...

Marshawn Lynch Attends Cal Spring Game, Scores Touchdown

Well this isn't something you see every day....

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....

Arizona (Band) Beats Harvard (Band)

SHAKE IT!...

Talking Shit About Vince Wilfork's Wife Is Not A Good Idea [Update]

Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork loves his wife, Bianca. Anybody who watched this interview, which aired prior to Super Bowl XLVI, knows this. Vince Wilfork is also a very large man who makes his living by knocking the crap out of other very large men. So it's probably not a good idea to call...

NFL Player Sues Rolando Blackman For Running An Alleged African Gold Scam

Hey, what's four-time all-star and Mavericks legend Rolando Blackman been up to? Well...it's complicated. Just don't send him any money until this thing gets sorted out....

The Nuggets Don't Have A Star Player, But They Don't Need One

With last night's road victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder—a win that came on the second leg of back-to-back games—the Denver Nuggets quietly extended their win streak to 13. The Miami Heat, of course, have reached 23 straight wins with supernatural ease, and are understandably the bigger NBA...

Atlanta Cheerleader Carted Off Court After Bizarre Injury

Between the third and fourth quarters of tonight's Hawks-Mavericks game in Atlanta, a Hawks cheerleader slipped and appeared to hit her head on the court....

Tigers Woods And Lindsey Vonn Are Facebook Official

The high school cafeteria jock table nearly flipped over in pent-up anticipation today, when Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn—sports' 218th-hottest couple—made their relationship Facebook official. ...