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Mayor Of San Francisco Calls Steph Curry "Steve Curry"

While presenting Curry with the key to the city, no less. How many gorgeous three-pointers does a basketball folk hero have to sink before he gets some respect in this town? ...

Dipshit TMZ Photographer Is Not Worthy Of JaVale McGee's Time

What kind of dweeb finds himself in the presence of one of the most entertaining and personable players in the NBA, and then proceeds to waste everyone's time by bombarding that player with a series of idiotic questions and riddles? The kind of dweeb who works for TMZ....

Kevin Durant's Back Tattoo Has A Misspelled Word In It

Kevin Durant finally got around to finishing the massive back tattoo that he's been adding to over the years, and he posted a picture of a the finished product to his Instagram page. Impressive! But, um, that's not how you spell "mature."...

Jerry Colangelo Says He Punched A Bulls Fan During The '93 NBA Finals

The man in charge of USA Basketball once owned the Suns and the Diamondbacks, the WNBA's Mercury, and the arena league's Rattlers. He was also responsible for bringing the NHL to Phoenix. But if you were to say something nasty to his mom, Jerry Colangelo wasn't always above behaving like some beer-s...

Listen To The Evolution Of Rappers Referencing Alonzo Mourning

OK, so this is just brilliant, and I can't believe that nobody has thought to do this before. A rapper who goes by the name Young Braised created a track that contains every instance of former NBA star Alonzo Mourning getting name dropped in a rap song, running in chronological order from 1993-2012....

Skylar Diggins Got A Mercedes From Jay-Z's Sports Agency

Last month, former Notre Dame and soon-to-be WNBA superstar Skylar Diggins became the third athlete to sign with Roc Nation Sports, Jay-Z's latest vanity project/sports agency. Yesterday, the people at Roc Nation celebrated Diggins's graduation from Notre Dame by doing exactly what you'd expect an a...

Lion in Winter

In case you missed it, check out Wright Thompson's ESPN story on Michael Jordan at 50: ...

Kendrick Perkins Had A Historically Bad Playoff Run

If you want to find the most obvious reason that the Oklahoma City Thunder were unable to advance past the second round of the playoffs, your search will end with the words "Russell Westbrook." But Westbrook's absence wasn't the only thing holding the Thunder back. They also had a much bigger proble...

The Don

From the Phoenix New Times, here's Deborah Laake's 1993 profile of Jerry Colangelo:...

<em>Mike & Molly</em>, NBA Style: Part 1

You may have noticed that many of your favorite sports media platforms like to express ideas about the NBA through the prism of popular culture. Here's Grantland applying Game of Thrones plotlines to the NBA in a two-part series. Here's Sports On Earth turning players from the year's playoffs into a...

You Need that Spalding Touch

Fans of a certain age will remember this ad...it was in the back of almost every Marvel and DC comic for years. ...

Three 6 Mafia Member Is A Big Grizzlies Fan, Has Lots Of Guns

The Memphis Grizzlies have fostered kinship of sorts with the Memphis rap community. Al Kapone's "Whoop That Trick"—the most memorable song from Hustle and Flow—has become the go-to anthem in the team's arena, and now DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia is showing his support for the Grizz in his own special w...

Andrew Wiggins Commits To Kansas

We finally know where Andrew Wiggins will be tearing shit up next year. Maple Jordan announced this morning that he will be playing basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks next season....

Fired UT Employee May Have Had Inappropriate Relationship With Athlete

The University of Tennessee has fired its director of the office of student judicial affairs, Jenny Wright, after she refused to cooperate with an investigation into whether or not she was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a student-athlete....

Marquis Teague Tips Ball Into Own Basket, Exemplifies Bulls' Futility

This happened in the fourth quarter of last night's Heat-Bulls game, and it perfectly sums up the Bulls' Game 4 performance, which was like watching a bunch of dudes try to beat themselves to death with feather dusters....

Macklemore Has Beef With The Oklahoma City Thunder

Oh I'm sorry, do you not know who Macklemore is? Just try to remember the last time you saw an inordinate amount of white people dancing to a sax-heavy rap song while periodically popping their collars and/or brushing their shoulders off. That was a Macklemore song you were listening to....

Posterizing. All the cool kids are doing it....

Terrible Basketball Column Sends Us Through The Looking Glass

Writing parodies of a terrible sports columns is a thing that all the cool kids on the internet like to do these days. On Sunday, our friend @FanSince09 wrote one such column at Zoo With Roy about the Philadelphia 76ers' decision to hire the analytics-driven Sam Hinkie as their general manager. It w...

Here's A Special Bottle Of Woodford Reserve With Papa John's Name On It

If we've learned one thing about Papa John over the last few weeks, it's that he really likes to get faded. But what does Papa like to get shitfaced with? What's his drink of choice? Bourbon, apparently....

Eddie Jordan Didn't Graduate From Rutgers, Despite School's Claim [UPDATE]

On April 23, Rutgers introduced Eddie Jordan as the new men's basketball coach. Nearly three weeks earlier, ESPN had aired video of the previous coach, Mike Rice, calling his players "fucking faggots" and chucking basketballs at their heads. From the beginning, Jordan was presented a sort of institu...