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The Secret Of Phil Jackson's Success: He Never Stopped Questioning
You've seen Peter Richmond around these parts a time or two. He is the author of some of our favorite magazine stories, and for his most recent book he found a subject worthy of his sensitive and searching style: Phil Jackson. The book is called Lord of the Rings, and it's available now. We spoke wi...
ESPN Has Received $260 Million In State Tax Breaks In 12 Years
ESPN has been in Connecticut since its inception in 1979, transforming Bristol from a doorbell-manufacturing town with a borrowed name and little else to the roosting place of the Worldwide Leader in Sports. In return, the state has been very forgiving to ESPN come tax time....
This Little Soccer Fan Is Not Happy With Her Parents' Prank Gift
Oh man. These Portuguese parents, who trolled their Benfica-supporting daughter by giving her a shirt from rival team Porto, will think twice before crossing their kid again. That ice grill she hits them with is something fierce....
Spider-Man Fights Batman And Robin In Ridiculous MMA Match
I don't have any information or context to provide to help you make sense of how this video came to be. The best I can do is this message board thread that has live play-by-play of the action, but it isn't necessarily all that helpful. ("No one in the crowd. Including us, know what the fucks going ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Weekend Wars
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Hope you had a great Boxing Day....
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 17
Below is your betting info for the final week of the NFL regular season. Aaron Rodgers status was settled a bit early this week, so all 16 games are included....
The Holiday-Themed Sneakers NBA Players Wore On Christmas Day
The Christmas Day games aren't just a blessed excuse to ignore your relatives; they're also one of the most high-profile stages of the year, meaning you get a faceful of custom Nikes on the court. ...
Eli Manning At A Restaurant, Looking At Something
In most photos, Eli Manning is a perpetual seven-year-old. But in this covert photo taken at a restaurant with his presumed daughter, Manning—nah, he still looks like he's seven years old....
Which Premier League Teams Score (And Concede) The Most Gift Goals?
Not all goals are created equally. In fact, some aren't created at all, but offered up by the defense like a teriyaki sample plate. Here's a quick look at who's benefited (and been harmed) most by this sort of goal. ...
Alvaro Negredo's Goal Won Man City The Biggest Game Of The Season
Whenever you have, coming into today's games, six teams within six points of the league leaders, nearly every week will bring a matchup that seems like the Game of the Season. But while many of those earlier competitions ended up being cagey affairs with both sides playing to avoid defeat, today's M...
Aaron Rodgers Is Back For A Win-And-In Week 17 Game
The NFL hasn't been the same without Aaron Rodgers. ...
The Houston Oilers Had Two (Mostly) Openly Gay Players In 1993
Two players on the 1993 Houston Oilers were gay, and their teammates knew and didn't care, according to the Houston Chronicle. ...
A Decade After <em>Moneyball</em>, Have The A's Found A New Market Inefficiency?
Originally published on Baseball Prospectus....
"Dad Gets College Football Tickets For Christmas" Video Has A Twist
So, videos of college football fans getting tickets for Christmas are popping up all over, as they do every holiday season, but this one stands out for the elaborate scheme. It's on par with the final minutes of a soap opera....
Ronda Rousey Curses On <em>SportsCenter</em>, Asked To Enter "Cuddle Tree"
UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey went on SportsCenter today for a predictably ridiculous interview in which her Saturday bout against Miesha Tate was treated less like a title fight than as an opportunity to see two saucy broads who really don't like one another going at it. The best p...
Why That Dumb AIDS Tweet Was So Captivating
Will Leitch, senior writer at Sports On Earth and founder of Deadspin, is doing his yearly fill-in for Drew Magary on today's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo. (Here is 2011's version, and here's 2012's.) Leitch has written four books. Find more of his business at his Twitter feed....
Tim Howard Gets Red Card To End Everton's 2013 Unbeaten Home Record
Everton only needed to win or draw each of their last two matches at Goodison Park this year to go all of 2013 unbeaten at home. Their match against Southampton on Sunday was always going to be difficult to navigate, but today the Blues, in fourth place, hosted last-place Sunderland in what was expe...
Hellmann's Mayo Is 100 Years Old, And People Like It A Lot
Many fun things will catch your eye in this celebration of Hellmann's mayonnaise from Slate, on the occasion of the product's centennial. A professional chef referring to the stuff as a "gateway mayonnaise," which inevitably conjures forth imagery of shifty-eyed condiment dealers stalking schoolyar...