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Baron Davis Finally Discusses Being Taunted By Donald Sterling: "I Didn't Even Look Forward To Coming To The Games"
When the news broke more than a year ago that Clippers owner Donald Sterling used to heckle Baron Davis from his courtside seat when Davis was still playing for him, Davis declined to comment. Reports at the time said Sterling's barbs included questioning Davis's shot selection and telling Davis he ...
Ike Davis Probably Has Valley Fever, New York Mets Continue To Be Incapable Of Catching A Break
Ike Davis has Valley Fever. Or at least that is what the Mets are saying Ike may have. In light of Mets team doctors' track record, though, it is probably safe to assume it's likely much, much worse....
Baron Davis Says He Wasn't Making A Smoking Gesture When He Made That Smoking Gesture
Baron Davis and his agent, Todd Ramasar, got smoke in their eyes over the suggestion that Davis had mimicked toking a spliff after knocking down a 3-pointer during the Knicks' loss to the Nets on Monday night. Davis first got high and mighty on Twitter last night in an attempt to clear the air:...
Oscar Week: In Defense Of <em>The Help</em>
Tim Grierson and Will Leitch will be writing regularly on Gawker and Deadspin about movies, starting today. We begin with defending the indefensible: praising the Oscar-nominated movie everyone seems to hate. Today, why you're wrong for hating The Help. Follow Grierson & Leitch on Twitter for more b...
Baron Davis Celebrates Hitting A "J" By Pretending To Hit A "J"
Your morning roundup for Feb. 21. Photo via Twitter. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Carmelo Anthony And Baron Davis Will Play For The Knicks Tonight
Remember these two injured guys with oversize glasses? Yeah, they're playing professional basketball for Jeremy Lin's team tonight, reports ESPN....
Carolina Panthers Linebacker Thomas Davis Attempting Comeback From Third ACL Reconstruction On Same Knee
Thomas Davis injured his knee during the second game of the season. An MRI would later reveal his third ACL tear on the same knee. Despite his ultimately unsuccessful attempts to come back from ACL reconstruction on two prior occasions, Davis thinks he is going to make history....
Now Lanny Davis Has Penn State Talking In Circles
Try to follow along: Tim Curley, the on-leave Penn State athletic director, told the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky that Cynthia Baldwin, Penn State's counsel at the time, was present as his lawyer when he testified in January of last year. But Lanny Davis, the attorney Penn State hired in ...
The Claim That Laurie Fine Had Sex With Syracuse Players Is Now In The Court Record
Don't say we didn't tell you about this two months ago. Now Bobby Davis has filed an affidavit in New York Supreme Court claiming that Laurie Fine, wife of Syracuse assistant Bernie Fine, semi-openly carried on sexual relationships with members of the basketball team, even comparing penis sizes with...
Has Rece Davis Driven Digger Phelps To The Depths Of Depression?
Maybe Digger Phelps spends the time before ESPN goes to air with its basketball version of College GameDay in quiet meditation. And maybe he uses an orange highlighter as his focus object, I don't know. But just as Notre Dame was polishing off an upset of undefeated and top-ranked Syracuse, the f...
Big Baby Depantses Self, Gets Called For A Technical
Is it depantses or pantses? Or just pants? Whatever it is, Glen Davis did it to himself a la Steve Lyons, and it earned him a technical foul—one about which he's visibly confused. [Sun Sports]...
Here's The Evidence That Alex Smith Really Did Throw A Playoff Game-Winning Touchdown Pass In The Final Seconds
Jim Harbaugh played for the win, and the 49ers delivered it for him on this Alex Smith-Vernon Davis touchdown pass with ten seconds remaning in the game—just a minute and a half after blowing an earlier lead. [Fox]...
The Raiders Have Fired Hue Jackson
Per Adam Schefter, they're letting Jackson go after one season in which they went 8-8. Al Davis might be gone, but the stability with which he ran the franchise in his later years lives on. [via]...
100 Percent Of The NBA's Asian-American Population Now Plays For The Knicks
The Knicks added Jeremy Lin to the roster last night in an effort to fix the fact that they have zero depth in the backcourt. He's the league's lone Asian-American player, and he's also the only Harvard grad in the pros. Get this kid a billboard....
Seth Davis Was On HBO's <em>Real Sex</em> 15 Years Ago
Back in May, we got a tip from a reader named Alex who, bored one night, found himself watching a rerun of HBO's Real Sex with some friends. If you're unfamiliar, Real Sex is one of the many proto-reality TV artifacts from the 1990s in which people wearing flannel shirts talked openly about penise...
Bernie Fine's First Two Accusers Have Retained Gloria Allred, Are Suing Syracuse And Jim Boeheim For Defamation
Former ball boy Bobby Davis and his stepbrother Mike Lang have filed suit in New York's State Supreme Court, but the man who allegedly molested them as teenagers isn't named. Instead, Davis and Fine have enlisted the services of Gloria Allred to represent them in a defamation suit against the univer...
Which Syracuse Basketball Players Had Sex With Laurie Fine?
One of the stranger aspects of that taped phone conversation between former ball boy Bobby Davis and accused molester Bernie Fine's wife, Laurie, is the apparent revelation that Davis had a sexual relationship with Laurie. He's not the only one—and there might be a sex tape to prove it, a media sour...
Big Baby Davis Got Arts-And-Crafty During The Lockout
In this video produced by Glen Davis's marketing company (and via TBJ) we get a look at how Big Baby spent his time off. Knitting, popsicle stick construction, model kits and the like. It's clever, but we're more taken with the rubber-faced Davis's reaction shots. He has a future in silent movies....
Syracuse Has Fired Bernie Fine
Bernie Fine has been "terminated, effective immediately" according to a statement released by Kevin Quinn, the senior vice president for public affairs at Syracuse University. The decision comes in the wake of new allegations surfacing against Fine as well as ESPN's report that Bernie Fine's wife, ...
"He Thinks He's Above The Law": Bernie Fine's Wife Secretly Taped On Phone, Admits "Bernie Has Issues"
Jim Boeheim may not be Joe Paterno, but things may be unraveling for him just as they did for Paterno. The wife of assistant coach Bernie Fine, Laurie Fine, allegedly had phone conversations with her husband's accuser, Bobby Davis, where she admitted she was aware of several of his transgressions. ...