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Real Madrid Player Makes No-Look Buzzer-Beater
No, not the soccer club. With 0.4 on the clock, Real Madrid Baloncesto's Felipe Reyes caught a full-court inbounds pass and blindly tossed it up. It somehow hit nothing but net....
Jordan Weethee Follows Up Filthy Dunk With Unsettling Celebration
This is such a nasty, posterizing dunk—valiant effort on the charge attempt, bud—that it really needs no celebration. The story behind it is great, as well. VMI's Jordan Weethee missed all of last season with an ACL tear, the second such injury of his career. Dude is back, and running shit. Just le...
VMI Sophomore Pulls Off Flawless Dunk-Mean Mug Combination
Jordan Weethee of the Virginia Military Academy just did this during the All-Military Classic against the Citadel. The dunk is spectacular, but so is Weethee's I'm-feeling-myself-so-hard-right-now stare into the camera. ...
The Coach Who Exploded
Jonathan Mahler's latest for the Times Magazine is about basketball coach Mike Rice:...
So Who's This Andrew Wiggins Kid? An Explainer
You've heard about him, and maybe watched this ridiculous YouTube video, or this one, or this one, or this one. He's Andrew Wiggins, the 18-year-old basketball phenom who's already been called the next LeBron James. Last May, Wiggins committed to the University of Kansas, where he'll likely stay for...
Can Science Predict An Injury-Prone Future Draft Pick?
Freshman basketball phenom Andrew Wiggins’s college debut tonight for the University of Kansas is one of the most anticipated arrivals in a generation. When he steps on the court at Allen Fieldhouse against the University of Louisiana at Monroe, scouts from every NBA team will presumably be watching...
Mike Rice Is Trying To Become A Real Human Being
In The New York Times, our pal Jonathan Mahler has a great profile of disgraced ex-Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice. You probably remember Rice as the crazy guy in this video, the one firing basketballs at his players' heads and calling them faggots. Now, Rice is on the well-trod path that every d...
This Guy Lived Your Streetball Dreams
Three after three, against an increasingly incredulous and frustrated defense. This is how it always plays out in the head of the unathletic perimeter shooter during the walk to the playground, but rarely does it come true....
Dwight Howard Wants To Fight In The UFC For Some Reason
So Dwight Howard was backstage at a fight card in Houston recently and he talked boisterously, before Chandler Parsons and the world, about how he'd love to fight one day and would do it for $10 million and—and, who cares, right? It's Dwight Howard. We know he'll never fight. (Even if he did, it wou...
NBA Shit List: Andrew Bogut, The Honky Messiah
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Kevin Ware Hits His First Shot Back From Injury
It was just seven months ago that we were all staring at Kevin Ware's tibia. But last night the Louisville guard made an unexpected return to the court in the Cardinals' exhibition game against Pikeville, and racked up six points and four rebounds in 10 minutes of action, including this three-point...
NCAA DQs Colgate Kid For A Year For Playing Church-League Hoops
The NCAA has truly been on a run of first-rate justice lately. It penalized reigning Heisman winner and shirtless mugshot male model Johnny Manziel 30 minutes of playing time for maybe just maybe getting paid cash money for signing autographs. It spelunked around the University of Miami's most sordi...
NCAA To Oregon Basketball Players: Leave The Money-Making To Us
Yesterday, on the day its basketball team flew to South Korea for Friday's season opener against Georgetown, the University of Oregon announced that two of its players did not make the trip. Point guard Dominic Artis and forward Ben Carter, both sophomores, have been suspended indefinitely. Their of...
This Is What It Was Like To Play For The Qaddafis' Basketball Team
Excerpted from Qaddafi's Point Guard: The Incredible Story of a Professional Basketball Player Trapped in Libya's Civil War, which is available now from Rodale. ...
Fail Better
Earlier this year Jonathan Abrams has a piece about two veteran ball players, Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace:...
The Good Doctor
There is a long, engaging excerpt from Dr. J's new book (written with the talented Karl Taro Greenfeld) over at Grantland. Worth checking out, for sure....
Maybe This Is Why UCLA Hoops Once Sucked?
Hey, these Bruins are wearing boxing gloves. Surely there's some reasonable explanation, right? Ben Cosgrove runs it down at The Stacks......
Maybe This Is Why UCLA Hoops Once Sucked?
It's been two decades since they won an NCAA title. The glory years of John Wooden's titanic career are faded California dreams. But UCLA remains a nationally ranked team each and every season. This 1945 photograph, meanwhile, might help explain why Bruins hoops endured losing records for so many ye...
Eddie Vedder Is Mad At Those "Fuckers" In OKC For Stealing The Sonics. Also, Let's Watch Him Fall Down Over And Over Again
Here's aging dinosaur rocker Eddie Vedder at a recent concert in Charlotte, N.C., disparaging certain "fuckers" in Oklahoma City for stealing the SuperSonics from Seattle. Eddie Vedder is no friend of yours, residents of the Sooner State!...