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The Fab Five Are Still Shit-Talking Christian Laettner
Did everyone watch "Fab Five" last night? If you're like us, you were most excited by the teaser of Jimmy King calling Christian Laettner a "bitch." Turns out he wasn't the only one with choice words for the face of that era's Duke team....
Meet Tim Lincecum, Fashion Icon
Your morning roundup for March 14, the day Rebecca Black beat out Unblinking Cricket Fan for Next Big Internet Meme....
Here Are Your NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament No. 1 Seeds
The NCAA Selection Show started a few moments ago. They've announced the No. 1 seeds. Here they are:...
A Longtime Holdout Joins <em>Madden</em> This Year
Soldier Field, one of the more storied venues of the National Football League, has never appeared in the Madden NFL series, or any other NFL series. It's always been a generic venue under the name "Chicago Stadium," or "Chicago… [Kotaku] ...
George Karl Wanders Around Colorado Wearing Nuggets Gear And Granting Sidewalk Interviews
Before last night's game against the Pistons, Denver Nuggets Coach George Karl went out for some Mongolian BBQ, talked to "Adventure Mix TV," debated the timing and strength of St. Patty's Day celebrations, blasted Woodrow Wilson's legacy, went home and took a nap. Then, his team went out and won ...
Nebraska-Omaha Wrestlers Win National Title, Lose Program
On Saturday, the University of Nebraska-Omaha won its third straight Division II national wrestling championship. A few hours later, the wrestling coach was notified the program would like cease to exist on account of UNO moving up to D-1. Football's gone, too....
Your Pre-Selection Final Four College Basketball Open Thread
In the waning hours before brackets start getting filled out, the lone question amid four conference championship games is whether Penn State, Dayton or Richmond would get into the NCAA Tournament with a loss. Penn State and Richmond both look good, but today's likely a play-in for Dayton, which fi...
Costumed Man Gets Publicly Shamed For Messing With Canadian Dance Team
Your morning roundup for March 13, the day Villanova probably gets the tournament bid it in no way deserves....
Washington Wins Pac-10 With Buzzer-Beater, Gus Johnson Loses His Shit
That's the Huskies' Isaiah Thomas with the jumper to nip top-seeded Arizona in overtime, and take the Pac-10. Gus Johnson melting down? Must be March! (Now's the time we remind you that CBS refuses to put Gus on the Final Four.)...
Tonight's The Night We Celebrate White People Who Jump, Rap And Win
It's been a pretty groovy weekend for the Fredette Boys, hasn't it? Jimmer dropped 52 for BYU in the Mountain West semis and brother T.J.'s auto-tuned ass remained in play for the attention that only NPR features can bring about from Caucasia and beyond....
Here's Video Of The Princeton Men Beating The Harvard Men At The Buzzer
Deadspin's own Dicktern was at Yale today to tweet his observations as Princeton earned the automatic bid with a 63-62 win thanks to Douglas Davis's clutch buzzer-beater. It's official: Vikram wins, and Princeton is smarter than Harvard at basketball....
MLS Wants To Give The Mets Owners A Team, For Some Unfathomable Reason
Grant Wahl of SI chatted with MLS commissioner Don Garber on Thursday, and New York's most beloved and comically destitute real estate barons came up in conversation....
Your Stony Brook, Harvard/Princeton And Many More College Basketball Open Thread
Stony Brook tipped off with Boston University at 12:02 p.m. for the uh, um, er, America East bid to the NCAA tournament. The highly anticipated brainblast between Harvard and Princeton at Yale goes off at 4 p.m....
Florida State Thought They Beat Virginia Tech Last Night, Until The Replay Said They Didn't (Updated)
This play was referenced in the Wake Up Deadspin post, but deserves a closer look. Florida State came really, really close to beating Virginia Tech in the ACC quarterfinals last night, but then the replay showed the purported game-winner didn't leave Derwin Kitchen's hand until just after the buzz...
Color Guy Bares His Soul After San Diego State's Game-Winning Layup
Marty Fletcher has always been a Gay guy. Watch him tell you all about it while footage of San Diego State's D.J Gay's game-winning layup against UNLV is replayed during CBS's post-game wrap-up. Next up up for Gay guy: SDSU vs. BYU for the Mountain West title....
Here's Video Of Men Dressed As Women Fighting Inside A San Diego Taco Shop
Your morning roundup for March 12, a day of nuclear-plant explosions, talk of Supermoons vs. the Pacific Plate, recovery efforts and aftershocks....
Unblinking Cricket Fan Makes Impressive Bid To Be Next Big Internet Meme
Here's your weekly reminder that the cricket World Cup is still going on in India. This unidentified fan, on hand to see Bangladesh lose to the West Indies last week, challenges you to a staring contest. Or a mustache-twitching contest. But you'll lose in both....
NFL Talks Break Down, And Football Seems A Long Way Away
The NFLPA no longer exists. You can check it in the customized 404 message that went up on their website at 5pm....
Diamond DeShields Is A Six-Foot 16-Year-Old Who Can Dunk And Be Female At The Same Time
It's true that men and boys who are younger and shorter than Diamond DeShields dunk a lot, and that they don't automatically get national attention for it. We're promise we're aware of that. This isn't a Stern call for league integration, this is a basic call for appreciation of the fact that DeSh...
A Brief Reminder That Kevin O'Neill Is One Of College Basketball's All-Time Dickheads
Whatever went down last night between USC coach Kevin O'Neill, his wife, and a 60-something Arizona booster at an L.A. hotel — and reports so far seem to rate the proceedings somewhere between a barroom shoutfest and Antietam — it is worth noting that O'Neill has been a unabashed prick for so long a...