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All The Angry Emails Sent To UCLA By Fans Who Hated The Ugly New Zubaz-Style Uniforms
Three weeks ago, Adidas rolled out special basketball uniforms for Cincinnati, Kansas, Baylor, UCLA, Louisville, and Notre Dame, to be worn in the teams’ conference tournaments. Each uniform featured Zubaz-like camo shorts, camo shoes, and three of the uniforms—UCLA, Louisville and Baylor—came with ...

There Was An Actual LIU Blackbird At Last Night's First Four Game Against James Madison
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Still Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket? Consult Our Handy Expert Metabracket
Presenting your 2013 NCAA Tournament Metabracket. Click the annotations to see which teams Nate Silver, Joe Lunardi, Seth Davis, Barack Obama, Matt Norlander, Jay Bilas, and Luke Winn picked to advance through each round. (Click the "Next" button in the lower right corner to see the Sweet 16 and onw...

NFL Player Sues Rolando Blackman For Running An Alleged African Gold Scam
Hey, what's four-time all-star and Mavericks legend Rolando Blackman been up to? Well...it's complicated. Just don't send him any money until this thing gets sorted out....

The Nuggets Don't Have A Star Player, But They Don't Need One
With last night's road victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder—a win that came on the second leg of back-to-back games—the Denver Nuggets quietly extended their win streak to 13. The Miami Heat, of course, have reached 23 straight wins with supernatural ease, and are understandably the bigger NBA...

FA Decides Not To Punish Callum McManaman For Inflicting Serious Knee Injury On Massadio Haïdara
Wigan's match with Newcastle United turned ugly this weekend when Latics forward Callum McManaman's reckless tackle on Newcastle's Massadio Haïdara left the latter with a season-ending knee injury. Things got even uglier in the aftermath....

Kendall Gill Suspended From Broadcasting Job After Trying To Beat Up Colleague
Pundit fight! Last night, former NBA player and current Comcast SportsNet Chicago Bulls analyst Kendall Gill started a physical altercation with Tim Doyle of the Big Ten Network, after Doyle made some disparaging remarks about Gill's analysis....

Joe Morgan And Family Find NIT Basketball Enthralling
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Infographics: Where Do High School Basketball Stars Come From, And Where Do They Go?
Last month, the McDonald's All-American Game released its 2013 rosters. The game is a showcase of some of the best high school talent in the country, which this year largely came out of Texas (five players), California (four), Florida (three), and North Carolina (two). Of these 14 players, only five...

Poor Dan Ellis Got Freight-Trained, Then Scored Upon
It's not supposed to work this way. Carolina goalie Dan Ellis was just minding his net and his own business, trying to wrest playing time from young Justin Peters in the wake of Cam Ward's MCL sprain. When—bam!—he gets bowled over by Ryan Callahan. Before he can collect himself, or scramble to his s...

Classic Screencap: Love Is In The Air (March 18, 2011)
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Atlanta Cheerleader Carted Off Court After Bizarre Injury
Between the third and fourth quarters of tonight's Hawks-Mavericks game in Atlanta, a Hawks cheerleader slipped and appeared to hit her head on the court....

Lady Who Filed Paternity Suit Against Michael Jordan Changes Her Mind
Pamela Smith, mother of Grant Pierce Jay—the kid with a YouTube account who said he was Michael Jordan's illegitimate son—has dropped her paternity suit against Michael Jordan. According to TMZ, Smith dropped the case at her attorney's urging....

Vince Carter Gets His Ankles Destroyed By Kevin Durant
Hey Vince Carter, you are old! Your ankles would really appreciate it if you would stay away from 6-foot-10 mutants like Kevin Durant from now on. ...

Cayce Pollard's Career As An ESPN Graphics Operator Didn't Last Long
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UCLA Freshman Jordan Adams Topped Off His Game-Saving Performance By Breaking His Foot On The Very Last Play
Last night, the UCLA Bruins advanced to the Pac-12 finals after winning a hard-fought game against Arizona, 66-64, in Las Vegas. The fortituous final play, in which Arizona missed a jumper and tip-in opportunity, may also have taken UCLA's season out behind the proverbial woodshed. ...

Dan Marino Got Out Of Jury Duty, And Some People Are Pissed
Dan Marino, like all American adults with a driver's license and no felony convictions, occasionally gets called for jury duty. He dutifully showed up at Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, ready to take on his civic obligations. That's when something happened that probably do...

The Deadspin Guide To Goalkeeping
Welcome to Dataspin, a weekly data visualization of whatever the fuck....

Why Is One Of The NBA's All-Time Greatest Scorers Working As A Crossing Guard Now?
Day after day, Adrian Dantley hangs out on a street corner in his hometown, like some cliché of a pitiful ex-ballplayer years after his athletic prime. But Dantley's neither a cliché, nor is he pitiful. He's a crossing guard....