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Michael Jordan Reportedly Banned From Swanky Country Club For Wearing Cargo Pants On The Golf Course
Retirement has not been kind to Michael Jordan's fashion sense, and now Jordan's curious wardrobe choices seem to have gotten him banned from La Gorce Country Club in Miami. The New York Post has the story, in which anonymous sources claim that Jordan arrived at the golf course wearing cargo pants,...
And Now Louisville Is Headed To The ACC
After Maryland decided to ditch the ACC for the Big Ten last week, the ACC was expected to move quickly to add a 14th member. That happened early this morning, when the ACC voted to add Louisville during a conference call. From SI.com:...
Zach Randolph Failed A Simulated Sobriety Test In The Grizzlies' Locker Room Today
About an hour ago, Grizzlies small forward Rudy Gay tweeted out a video of Zach Randolph undergoing what appears to be a simulated sobriety test, complete with a set of drunk goggles and a big yellow line to walk along....
"She Was Not Dressed As A Prostitute," And Other Highlights From The Time Andray Blatche Invited Two Radio Hosts To Tell Him How Awful He Is
Andray Blatche and the Washington Wizards just can't get away from each other. Blatche, now with the Nets, took a jab at his former team last night when he asked reporters what the Wizards' record was. Then he got into it on Twitter with Wizards fans and reporters who still had grievances to air ov...
JaVale McGee Converts An Alley-Oop While Getting Fouled And Never Actually Touching The Rim
What, you think JaVale McGee is going to just throw down a normal, ho-hum alley-oop? Don't be silly. Only our man JaVale could rise above the rim, get his arm hooked while trying to slam the ball home, and then still somehow get the ball to go through the hoop without ever actually getting his han...
High School Teacher Goes Bananas After Sinking Three-Pointer At Halftime
David Cutler is a history and journalism teacher at Palmer Trinity school in Florida—he's not a basketball player. So his form on a 44-footer, taken at halftime of a game last week, left something to be desired. The result did not, nor did his reaction....
D-III Player's 138 Point-Game Is A Sham Record And Shouldn't Be Celebrated By Anyone
Jack Taylor, of the Grinnell College Pioneers, scored 138 points in a game last night, against Faith Baptist Bible College. It's a mindblowing number, shattering the old NCAA mark of 113, and it's being trumpeted as one of sports' all-time individual achievements. It is not. It is bullshit. It is ju...
An Exclusive Interview With The Lakers Bros From That GIF
Surely you've seen this GIF by now, featuring the two greatest bros to have ever attended a Lakers game. We were so enthralled by it that we made it our mission to discover the identity of those two bros and do whatever we could to become bros with them. We succeeded: both bros, Ryan and Brian—who a...
Division III Basketball Player Scores 138 Points In A Single Game
Jack Taylor is a 5-foot-10 guard at Grinnell College, and last night he scored 138 points in his team's game against Faith Baptist Bible. Division III ball is essentially a somewhat glorified high-school game, but still, 138 points! That's insane, and Taylor now has the NCAA single-game scoring rec...
Despite Taking Top-Ranked Indiana To Overtime, This Georgetown Fan Had To Lash Out With The Double Bird
Indiana dispatched Georgetown last night 82-72, but not without a bit of trouble. The Hoosiers were unable to put away the Hoyas in regulation, and needed the extra five minutes to keep their undefeated season going. Even in the best moments of Georgetown's night, though, it seems there was one fan...
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Don Nelson, Drunk On His Own Genius (And Scotch)
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Deadspin I-Team: Who Are Those Amazing Lakers Bros?
OK, these guys have now become way too internet famous to not be identified. We must know who they are. How did they afford those seats? Are they brothers, or just bros? Did they wear matching t-shirts to the game and buy matching jerseys to wear over them?...
Butler's Rotnei Clarke Hit A Wild Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer To Defeat Marquette In Maui
While the Butler Bulldogs failed to make the NCAA tournament last year after back-to-back national championship game appearances, it seems the Hoops Nation magic hasn't left the tiny squad from Indianapolis. Rotnei Clarke, the embattled Arkansas transfer, erased a two-point Marquette lead at the M...
I Can't Stop Looking At This GIF Of These Two Lakers Bros
This happened at yesterday's Lakers game. I can't stop watching it. I mean, just look at this fucking guy. The emphatic whipping off of the sunglasses, the backward hat, the arched eyebrow, the curl of his lips as he unleashes what was surely an epic bro-yawp, the fact that he was wearing sunglasse...
100 Thoughts About 100 NCAA Teams From The Basketball Prospectus Guide To The 2012-13 Season
The following previews were taken from College Basketball Prospectus. Buy the book as a PDF for $9.94. It's also available in paperback. For more, check out the Basketball Prospectus website....
Jerry Reinsdorf Will Basically Bribe DePaul To Move To The United Center
DePaul's in the market for a new basketball arena. Currently they're way out at the Allstate Arena, next to the airport, but they'd really like to be closer to campus, or at least somewhere in Chicago. Rocky Wirtz and (especially) Jerry Reinsdorf want them to make the United Center their home, and t...
Here Are The Three Flops That Have Led To NBA Warning So Far This Season
Just before the season began, the NBA outlined its new procedure for curbing flops, the habit of exaggerating contact that ran over Jeff Van Gundy's dog when Van Gundy was only a young boy....
Rick Majerus Is Retiring Due To Heart Problems, So Let's Remember His Career The Way He'd Want It Remembered
Rick Majerus will no longer be lumbering up and down the sidelines at St. Louis University: He's been forced into retirement by a heart condition. The nature of Majerus's exit has led to a bunch of staid and somber reflections on his life and career, with passsages like this, from USA Today:...
The Ballad Of The Other J.R. Smith, Web Designer And Recipient Of Much Of The Praise And Scorn Meant For The Knicks' J.R. Smith
Via Trey Kerby, the above mournful tweet, from J.R. Smith, the web designer (and, as his Twitter bio puts it, "NOT A BASKETBALL PLAYER"). If you're wondering how the other J.R. Smith can tell basketball season has started up, well, social media really has a way of putting people in touch with their ...
"I'm 38 Years Old, Baby": Things Rasheed Wallace Said, Did, And Pointed At During Last Night's Knicks Game
Rasheed Wallace: lover, fighter, hilarious training camp invitee, and talker of the best trash in the NBA. On Tuesday, he yelled "Yeah, Aflac!" at Aaron Afflalo after Afflalo bricked a free throw; last night, he yelled everything at everybody after they did anything. Here is your courtside Sheed exp...