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This Lady Got A Giant Gary Payton Tattoo On Her Torso
Someone in Seattle is still having problems getting over the loss of the Sonics, and pouring her frustrations into creativity and self-mutilation. But here's the good news, guys: she's vulnerable and single! (We're assuming. Because of the giant Gary Payton tattoo and all.) [via IAmAGm]...
European Women's Chess Tournament Bans Excessive Cleavage
The introduction of a dress code limiting the cleavage of lady chess players at first seems repressive....
DadBoner Unmasked: Cracking The Internet's Biggest Mystery
Last week, we chronicled our efforts to find out the comic mastermind behind the great DadBoner twitter feed, an effort that was met with resistance by certain fans of the feed and by Karl Welzein himself, not to mention his fictional wife Ann Welzein. But that didn't stop tipsters from flooding us ...
Carmelo Anthony Did Not Want J.R. Smith On The Knicks
J.R. Smith has made quite the impression since signing with the Knicks last month. He's shooting 37 percent from the field and has already been fined $25,000 for tweeting a picture of the "girl with the biggest ass ever." But it's not like the Knicks weren't warned. The New York Post reports that Ca...
Scrappy College Basketball Team From Just Outside Of Boston Makes It Big
This is the front page of today's Boston Herald. Not the sports cover. The front page. All because Harvard got the spot in the tourney it knew it would get as of Tuesday. All Boston learned yesterday was that the Crimson would be playing Vanderbilt in Albuquerque in the first round, which is actuall...
Add Tim Tebow To The Quarterback Carousel, Thanks To Peyton Manning
Shall we catch up on the weekend in Peyton Manning? ...
Even George Karl Has Jumped Aboard The Messi Bandwagon
As NBA players sent messages of support to Ricky Rubio upon news of his ACL tear, Nuggets head coach George Karl showed his softer side by sporting an FC Barcelona shirt while meeting with the press yesterday. Karl's son Coby played with Rubio on Joventut Badalona after fizzling out in the NBA and ...
Danilo Gallinari Goes Crossover, Behind The Back, No-Look Pass
For a guy who stands 6-10, Danilo Gallinari is an exceptional ball-handler. Here he is last night with a reminder for the Grizzlies' Quincy Pondexter....
The Selection Committee Says Washington Wasn't Even Close To Being On The Bubble
Washington made a bit of history yesterday, when the Huskies became the first ever regular season champion from a Big Six conference to not make the tournament. Perhaps fans can take some sick sort of solace in the knowledge that it wasn't a close-run thing: at least six other teams apparently had a...
Opposing Team Pays Terrell Owens To Play Road Game, Promptly Knocks Him Over The Wall
Terrell Owens's contract with the Allen Wranglers stipulates he only has to play home games, but he's let it be known he can be enticed to hop on the metaphorical bus with the rest of his team if the opposition agrees to pay him separately. It appears that's what happened today, as T.O. took to th...
Clippers Broadcaster Michael Eaves Spends Commercial Break Talking About "Bums" And Naked Girls
The NBA's had some technical issues today in their network distributing the League Pass package and one of them let viewers in on the private thoughts of Los Angeles Clippers broadcaster Michael Eaves, who during a commercial break expounded upon the use of the word "bum" and addressed a too-quick...
The Prospect Of A Kentucky-North Carolina Championship Game Blew Several Of Dick Vitale's Fuses
Dickie V's one of ESPN's most polarizing personalities, with people falling either on the side of adoration of his positivity or dismissal of his antics. But we can't quite say we've ever seen anything like what happened at the end of ESPN's NCAA Tournament coverage, in which Vitale had a complet...
Deadspin Up All Night: Colors Everywhere
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The 2012 NCAA Tournament Bracket Is Here
We'll be doing a Tournament Pick 'Em most likely tomorrow but for now here is a downloadable version of the 2012 Bracket, hot off the presses for your enjoyment, scrutiny and pipe-dream gold mine. [CBS]...
Greg Jennings Tells SXSW Panel That NFL Players Really Do Care About Fantasy Football
As everyone knows, come this time of year Austin, TX is the Panel For Just About Anything Pop-Culturally-Imaginable Capital of the World. Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings was present for one such panel—on fantasy sports. During the round table discussion, Jennings admitted that players...
Florida State, Vanderbilt, And Michigan State Are Going Dancing, But They Would Have Been Anyway
This brings to a close our series highlighting teams celebrating their conference championships, and like most televised entertainment, it comes to a somewhat anticlimactic end. Sure, FSU won the ACC for the first time ever, and Vanderbilt won the SEC tournament for the first time since 1951 (thou...
NBC Stalks Tiger Woods's Car With A Blimp; ESPN Asks If Peyton Manning Was Riding Shotgun
Tiger Woods dropped out of today's final round at the Cadillac Championship, citing leg trouble before he drove away. In an apparent attempt to ascertain the degree of injury based on his driving, the Peacock Net tasked its blimp with chasing Tiger's car as it escaped Doral. It's unclear what's b...
"My Life Has Become A Walking Train Wreck": Checking In With Sean Salisbury
Things have not been great for the only true foil John Clayton has ever known. Times have been tough, and Salisbury now tells the New York Daily News that he's suffered from depression and low testosterone among other ailments. It all goes back to that whole penis picture business....
Rick Reilly Trolls Norm Macdonald And Norm Returns The Favor Tenfold
Yesterday, Norm Macdonald spent a good portion of the day live-tweeting golf. For those following Norm, it was probably good fun. His dry sense of humor probably plays really well with the golf crowd. Unfortunately, Rick Reilly was having none of it. The man responsible for—OK, so in this spot I w...
St. Bonaventure Is Going Dancing
The past ten years have been mostly forgettable for St. Bonaventure, the tenure's nadir being a 2-26 season in 2005 that came in the wake of scandal and suicide. Last season's 16-15 record was the first time the Bonnies finished above .500 since 2002, and their last NCAA appearance was in 2000....