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Deadspin Up All Night: Ride It Out
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Tim's around for any March Madness stuff you might miss, or hope to just watch again and again. Till tomorrow....
The Blazers Have Cut Greg Oden
It was only a matter of time, really, once word got out last month that Greg Oden would again need knee surgery, and this time on the knee that hadn't been bothering him in the last two-plus years. But now that Portland has committed to building up by tearing down—the Blazers sent Marcus Camby to Ho...
Snowmobiling Across A Body Of Water Looks Just As Thrilling As It Seems Like It Would Be
It's called snowmobile skipping, and apparently it's a thing. The idea is to develop enough speed to hydroplane across the water's surface. The person armed with a camera while doing it here, on Stoney Lake in Ontario, Canada, succeeds brilliantly. That said, YouTube's got plenty of other videos th...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Finish-Bolting-Dinner Games
No more slack in the brackets; the staggered start times are clumping together now. At 6:50, you get Western Kentucky against Kentucky. Then it's VCU and Wichita State at 7:15, quickly followed by West Virginia and Gonzaga at 7:20, with South Dakota State and Baylor at 7:27. Keep the comments flowin...
How A Career Ends: Physically, I Just Didn't Have It Anymore
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: former basketball player Rick Robey. Robey was a fourth-year senior when Kentucky beat Duke 94-88 on March 27, 1978, to win its first national championship in...
One Of These Two Men Will Win Name Of The Year
Courvoisier Winetavius Richardson. Taco B.M. Monster. Two men enter. Two men leave, but one wins a funny name internet contest. Vote now. [NOTY]...
The Southern Miss Band Chanted "Where's Your Green Card?" At Kansas State's Angel Rodriguez
Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez was born in Puerto Rico, but don't tell the Southern Miss band that. (Maybe they don't know Puerto Rico is in the United States either, anyway.) Here's what it sounded like on the court late in the first half of their matchup today in Pittsburgh. [TruTV]...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sneak-Out-Of-Work Games
Here comes the second batch of the first round, starting at 2:45 with BYU-Marquette. As national productivity dwindles on toward zero, we get UNC-Asheville against Syracuse at 3:10, Long Beach State and New Mexico at 4:10, and Harvard-Vanderbilt at 4:40. To the comments, while you're still sober eno...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Pretend-To-Still-Be-Working Games
Here come the Murray State Racers and the rest of your early-early games, starting with the 12:15 Murray State-Colorado State tipoff. At 12:40 Southern Miss meets Kansas State, at 1:40 it's Davidson and Louisville, and at 2:10 your college basketbinge is fully underway, with Montana against Wisconsi...
Bulls Fans Never Did Much Care For The Presidency Of Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Summer of '68 still looms large in the memories of politically-minded Chicagoans....
HBO Cancels <em>Luck</em> After Third Horse Dies During Production
It's nothing but fun and ratings until the horses start dying....
Deadspin Up All Night: Go Fish
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Still time to join our bracket party....
This Is What It Looks Like When A Baseball Team Takes Cover During A Gunfight
A running battle between state police and a group of gunmen broke out outside a Mexican League game in the northern city of Saltillo, interrupting a game between the Saraperos and a local youth team. Fans and players ducked for cover, but there were no injuries reported inside the stadium. Police ki...
Tell Me When It's Over: A New Feature
Tomorrow, with the help of our pal Rob Trucks, we're launching a series in which we talk to retired athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. We'll start with a batch of conversations with former March Madness heroes, from the '57 North Carolina Tar Heels to the '98 Kentuck...
Mario Gomez Had A Messi-Like Four Goals In Yesterday's Champions League Match, But Says "I'm No Messi"
Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez snuffed out Swiss side Basel's underdog dreams in the UEFA Champions League with a four-goal performance yesterday (courtesy a lot of help from Franck Ribery). Coming so soon after Lionel Messi's five-goal CL spectacular, comparisons were inevitable. Nonsense, says Gom...
Just A Reminder That Knicks Ticket Prices Are Still Going Up
In the wake of the latest Knicks' meltdown and salting of the earth, we thought it worth the time to ask Madison Square Garden if season ticket prices are still going up as planned next year—an average of 4.9 percent, with most of the increases in the upper levels....
The IRQ Car Decal: Noble Or Horrible?
I hate Euro Decals. HATE THEM. They are the fucking scourge of the highways: one goddamn SUV after another with some precious OBX circle sticker planted somewhere above the trunk handle. People like slapping Euro decals on their car because they like letting you know where they spend their leisure t...
Bronze Medal Ping Pong GOD Bravely Resigns From Goldman Sachs
By now, you may have already heard of Greg Smith, an executive director at Goldman Sachs who resigned his post today, and did so the way all filthy rich people do: via New York Times op-ed. And the greatest thing about Smith's editorial is that he manages to tuck his entire resume into the column:...
Chicago Bears WR Brandon Marshall Accused Of Punching A Woman In Club FIght
It was reasonable to assume that the Dolphins parted with Brandon Marshall, for a discount price, to make Peyton Manning happy. It's the same sort of roster-baiting the Titans are engaging in with their very public courtship of guard Steve Hutchison. But things can have, like, more than one reason, ...
Northwestern's Attempted Halftime Buzzer-Beater Didn't Go In The Basket, But It Did Hit Somebody In The Head
Northwestern's consolation for missing out on the NCAA Tournament was hosting one of tonight's opening NIT games against Akron. While they missed this attempt to score before the halftime buzzer, I'm pretty sure knocking the ESPN camera assistant's hat off is worth a couple hundred tickets at a N...