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The Brooklyn Nets Have Fired Head Coach Avery Johnson
As reported by Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski, Avery Johnson is no longer the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets, now with a 14-14 record, have been underwhelming during their first season in Brooklyn, and Johnson's firing comes on the heels of star point guard Deron Williams publicly complainin...
MLB Teams Are Getting New Batting Practice Hats. Some Of Them Are Neat. One Of Them Features A Screaming Indian
Uni Watch got its hands on the designs for the new batting practice hats that each of MLB's 30 teams will be unveiling in the coming months. Some of the hats are great, like this one, which brings back the A's old elephant logo. Unfortunately, the Atlanta Braves' hat looks like this:...
USC Was Way Late For The Sun Bowl Dinner, So Georgia Tech Got Pissed And Left
You think USC is excited to be spending New Year's Eve in El Paso, Texas, playing Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl? Oh, sure, Lane Kiffin might have arrived yesterday wearing a sombrero and something less than a smile, but two Trojans players have already apologized for insulting the city, and now the e...
Dwyane Wade Kicked Ramon Sessions In The Nuts
It's easy to still think of Dwyane Wade as the reckless, wide-eyed young star who led Miami to the 2006 title. But he's almost 31 now, a wily veteran with a bag of tricks—like straight kicking an opponent in the groin and playing it off like an accident....
Lane Kiffin Wearing A Sombrero? Lane Kiffin Wearing A Sombrero.
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College ShameDay: What's A Belk? Is AdvoCare Addictive? Answering All Your Questions About Our Shittiest Bowl Games
Our weekly college football shame index previews the shitty upcoming bowls. ...
Cash-Strapped Southern Miss Tries To Wring More Money Out Of Its Schedule, Considers Canceling BYU Series
Last month, we took a look at the University of Southern Mississippi football program and its athletic director, Jeff Hammond, who a year ago inherited a coach he never wanted and a multi-million-dollar athletic department deficit he had to fix. Last month, he addressed the former by firing coach El...
It Looks Like Kyrie Irving Had Himself A Nice Christmas (As Did The Two Ladies On His Lap)
Judging from the picture at the right, Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving had himself a pretty great Christmas. Irving tweeted the photo on Christmas day before deleting it and going into a totally inept mode of damage control:...
Hackers Take Over Steubenville High School Football Team's Website, Threaten To Release Personal Information Of People Involved In Alleged Rape Case
Hackers who claim to be from the groups Anonymous and KnightSec have taken over the Steubenville High School football team's website, posting a video and message demanding an apology from those involved in the alleged rape that took place in August involving players of the football team. If no one ...
![Merry Christmas, Parts Of A Chad Johnson Sex Tape Hit The Internet Today [NSFW]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/189h5495xmeohjpg.jpg)
Merry Christmas, Parts Of A Chad Johnson Sex Tape Hit The Internet Today [NSFW]
Unemployed NFL wide receiver and reality TV meme Chad Johnson has a sex tape, obviously, and parts of it are now on the Internet. Here's the description, from WorldStarHipHop:...
Crimson Tide Fan Surprises His Dad On Christmas With BCS National Championship Game Tickets
This dad was already elated to receive the same type of hat that legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant used to wear as a Christmas gift, but then his son told him to look inside the hat for the bigger surprise. Aww. Roll Tide....
Virginia Tech Cornerback Antone Exum Took Some Random Kids At Best Buy On A $470 Shopping Spree
The NCAA allows bowl participants to accept sponsors' gifts up to $550 in value, and for players competing in Friday's Russell Athletic Bowl most of that value came in a $470 Best Buy gift card. That's valuable potential swag for most college kids, but Hokies defensive back Antone Exum—caught up in...
It's Easier To Rout A Team When You're Making Catches Like This: Sunday Night Football, In Four GIFs
Seattle 42, San Francisco 13: In a battle of what Cris Collinsworth called two "top-end throwers"—i.e, two NFL quarterbacks, in this case Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick—it was Wilson who was the topper-end thrower; he looked like he had roughly twice the experience as a starter, which, oddly, ...
Daryl Johnston Is Wearing This Right Now
Top five weirdest things about that thing Daryl Johston is wearing, on his body:...
The Raiders Cost Oakland 200 Police Officers In A Startlingly Direct Way
We looked at the steady increase in taxpayer-funded stadium construction recently, and Sports on Earth wrote about what they term "sports welfare"—this week, Bloomberg explained a combination of those phenomena, and a notably clear example of the way sports franchises can factor into the zero-sum ga...
How Not To Vote For The Baseball Hall Of Fame, In Three Easy Steps
The results for the most recent Baseball Hall of Fame ballot will be revealed on January 9, 2013. As we draw nearer, there will be more and more ballot explanation columns from BBWAA members. Maybe they feel defensive about their choices, maybe guilty....
LeBron James Has Committed Two Fouls In His Last 299 Minutes Of Court Time
If you've played even rec-league basketbal, you know that desperate, flailing fouls are often the last resort of an overmatched defender. Despite an arsenal of chase-down blocks and consistent efforts to lock up the other team's best player, LeBron James essentially never finds himself in that posit...
Megatron Breaks The Record And Lions Fans Aren't Sure How To Feel: Saturday Night Football, In Four GIFs
Atlanta 31, Detroit 18: The above moment of celebratory uncertainty came before Calvin Johnson broke Jerry Rice's single-season receiving yards record—it came during a Falcons timeout while the Lions were down, in fact, which meant the confusion was sort of understandable—but it's appropriate consi...
Here Is A Child Wearing A "Detroit Fuckin' Michigan" Shirt On ESPN
How many places, exactly, are "fuckin'"? West Virginia is fuckin'. Baltimore is fuckin'. Even Amherst is fuckin'....
![Report: Former Major Leaguer Ryan Freel Commits Suicide At Age 36 [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18970v1t537j7jpg.jpg)
Report: Former Major Leaguer Ryan Freel Commits Suicide At Age 36 [Update]
Former utility player Ryan Freel, who broke into the majors with Toronto in 2001 and played the majority of his eight-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, committed suicide today. First Coast News in Jacksonville has the first report:...