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![There Is A Very Good Chance The Knicks-Nets Season Opener Won't Be Played Thursday [UPDATE #2]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/184bgdil7b8hvjpg.jpg)
There Is A Very Good Chance The Knicks-Nets Season Opener Won't Be Played Thursday [UPDATE #2]
Shiny new arena, shiny new uniforms, shiny new rivalry: Thursday night was supposed to be the beginning of an era in New York basketball, with the Brooklyn Nets opening up the Barclays Center against the Knicks, with all the appropriate pomp and celebration. Then Hurricane Sandy had to go and happen...

Demaryius Thomas Dressed As A Replacement Ref For Halloween
The regular officials have been back for five weeks now, making Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas's replacement ref outfit just as timely as the 37 Gangnam Style costumes you saw on Saturday. But we'll never not highlight a Halloween costume that has the potential to garner an NFL fine (Thomas appears to ...

In 1938, The Dumbass Hurricane Bros Were Badass Senior Golfers
Hurricane Sandy is the biggest storm to hit the Northeast since the 1938 New England Hurricane ripped through the region, killing hundreds and causing millions in property damage....

Reporter Breaks Down While Discussing His Attempts To Cover Hurricane Sandy
"I put my crew's life at risk": WNBC reporter Brian Thompson breaks down live on-air while discussing his attempts to cover Hurricane Sandy last night amidst the wreckage of his New Jersey beat. ...

Bryant McKinnie Sued For $375,000 In Unpaid Strip Club Bills
The Ravens tackle is being sued by, of all people, the father of rapper Trick Daddy. (He's also a bigtime South Florida strip club exec.) The suit claims McKinnie borrowed $375,000 in strip club expenses from Feb. 2009 to Sept. 2010, and has yet to pay back a dime....

Mikhail Prokhorov Is A Cartoon Character
The guy who owns the Nets and isn't Jay-Z sat down for a lengthy Q&A with the Post. He is every bit the caricature the internet has made him out to be. A sample:...

Dez Bryant And The Death Of Instant Gratification
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College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Poor Bob Stoops)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Sergio Romo Struck Out Miguel Cabrera With The Ballsiest Pitch Of The World Series
When Sergio Romo sealed his team's World Series victory with a strikeout of Miguel Cabrera, it was hard not to wonder what the hell Cabrera was thinking. On a 2-2 count, he watched an 89-mph fastball sail right over the middle of the plate, his season ending with his bat on his shoulder. Wainwright ...

Giants Shortstop Brandon Crawford Was An Adorable Little Voice Of Reason As A Child
This picture has apparently been floating around for a few weeks now, but it's news to us so maybe it's also news to you. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, this is a picture of a young Brandon Crawford with his father at a Giants game at Candlestick Park on September 27, 1992. At the time, m...
![Gronk Spiking Like A "Nutcracker Dude That's Guarding The House," Kissing The Jets Goodbye, And More: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/183ljcc5vyqjogif.gif)
Gronk Spiking Like A "Nutcracker Dude That's Guarding The House," Kissing The Jets Goodbye, And More: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATED]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here from Antonio Brown running in reverse to the Miami Dolphins kissing the Jets' season goodbye. We'll update the post as the later games conclude, so stay tuned. ...

"What A Man": Reactions To The University Of Arizona's Negligent Treatment Of Matt Scott's Concussion
There's little doubt that head trauma can result in vomiting: the Mayo Clinic lists "nausea or vomiting" as among the likely symptoms of a concussion, and 100 Questions & Answers About Head and Brain Injuries (available as an eBook through Google) spends a section speculating about the cause of po...

Report: OKC Has Traded James Harden To Houston
Everyone's favorite out-of-town NBA team just got approximately 40 percent less cool if Y! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski's reporting is accurate:...

Beer Of The Week: Cerveza Cucapa's Chupacabras Pale Ale
The weather is dimming, the days shrinking, and the bottle of Mexican-made English-style pale ale starts looking more seductive. It's called Chupacabras, by a craft brewer in Baja California called Cerveza Cucapa. (Twitter bio: "The only Mexican Beer that Doesn't need a lime to taste better, The Bes...
![USC's Marqise Lee Has Shattered The PAC-12 Single-Game Receiving Record [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/183hqu5srqgqtjpg.jpg)
USC's Marqise Lee Has Shattered The PAC-12 Single-Game Receiving Record [UPDATE]
There have been some great quarterbacks, great receivers and great passing offenses in the history of the Pac-12. Until today, no one had racked up more single-game receiving yards than Oregon State's Mike Hass, who careened for 293 on 12 catches against Boise State in 2004....

For Just $255, This Could Be Your View Of The Knicks-Nets Season Opener At The Barclays Center
Picture courtesy of A View From My Seat, which lets users upload photos of the sightlines at various arenas. If the $255 tickets selling on StubHub for section 225 (pictured above) strike you as a bit steep, why not move slightly to the left, over to the cozy confines of section 226, and pay only $2...

This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....

London Gets Gronked As Rob Gronkowski Spikes His Microphone At A Trafalgar Square Press Conference
London's a Patriots town now, folks. The fans at a Trafalgar Square press conference before the Pats' overseas game against the Rams got way more than the discomfiting noises we're used to back home. First, Brady got heckled:...

Here's Former Wide Receiver Ed McCaffrey's Super Cheesy Motivational Speaker Video, Featuring Ed's Thoughts On 9/11
It would be a slight exaggeration to say McCaffrey compares breaking his leg to 9/11 (see about 3:45 in), but he does say the two events are "forever linked together," which—correct us if we're wrong, anyone out there who immediately thinks of Ed McCaffrey's 9/10 broken leg on Monday Night Footbal...

Phil Coke's Story About Striking Out Miguel Cabrera Is Hilarious
Phil Coke jumped squarely into the postseason spotlight when he took over as the Tigers' closer during the ALCS. His newfound notoriety earned him an interview on the MLB Network's Intentional Talk last week, and he took the opportunity to tell a story about having to remind Miguel Cabrera that he...