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High School Basketball Team Pulls Off Rare 17-Point Play For The Win (UPDATE)
Your team is down by five with 12 seconds left and has just committed an intentional foul. Game over? Not if you can find a way to get eight technical fouls called on your opponent....

Hansbrough Still Undefeated At Cameron Indoor, MIMI!
I'm not sure exactly how the whole Tyler Hansbrough-as-a-Muppet phenomenon got started, but Duke fans took it to a new level last night....

Insufferable Team Beats Irritating Team In Annoying ACC Rivalry
North Carolina clobbers Duke at Cameron Indoor, then burns Krzyzewskiville to the ground and enslaves its inhabitants. [USA Today]...

Andy Kennedy's Wife Still Not Getting Any
As you may recall, the wife of former Cincinnati basketball coach Andy Kennedy is claiming that a pending lawsuit against a cab driver is so traumatizing that it's affecting the couple's sex life....

The Darryl Strawberry Story Makes Bad Athletes Fun Again
You know what the saddest part of the A-Rod steroid scandal is? It's taking attention away from the impending release of a way more entertaining baseball tell-all—the autobiography of Darryl Strawberry....

Back To Bitches: Tales From Westminster
Once again, Deadspin has deputized Barry Petchesky as its professional pooch reporter to cover the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show mess. Here is his day two report....

And Here's How You Really Know The Brett Favre Era In NYC Is Officially, Blessedly Over
Remember this photo of an overexcited Jets fan prancing around Manhattan on a balmy August afternoon with his homemade Favre jersey soon after the news broke that Brett!Brett!Brett! was coming to town?...

How Would You Debase Yourself To Get Duke-UNC Tickets?
Yes, it's Duke-North Carolina day again—have you heard? It's the greatest rivalry in sports!—and that means it's time for more tales of sad college students and their miserable shame-filled lives....

Um, Wasn't Roy Williams Traded To The Cowboys?
Behold, the Detroit Lions 2009 Team Calendar. I hear that October features Matt Millen. [The World Of Isaac]...

Brett Favre Plans To Exit This Mortal Coil
Ed Werder says Favre's told his agent to inform the Jets that he plans to retire. Again. Rachel Nichols is being dispatched to Hattiesburg, Mississippi immediately. [ESPN]...

Would It Have Hurt Her To Lez It Up Just A Little?
Former Central Michigan player Brooke Heike is suing the school because, she says, she lost her scholarship for not being a lesbian. Just another example of an athlete not being able to follow simple instructions....

Screening Fail On ESPN2 Interactive Tuesday
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]....

Schedule Div. II Power Academy Of Art At Your Own Peril
So this was a pretty amusing basketball box score sent to me by a friend: Final, University of San Francisco 74, Academy of Art 28. I wish I could have attended that matchup of titans....

The Imminent Return Of Charles Barkley
The Round Mound Of BJ Hound will return to his rightful place in the TNT analyst chair after NBA All-Star weekend. [SI]...

Stanley Pringle Still Ignoring Your Creative Taunts
As basketball nicknames go, The Library Masturbator is probably greater than even Dr. J or Black Mamba. Man, I hope Stanley Pringle makes it to the NBA....

Peter Gammons Regrets Not Sticking Up For Roberts
SI writer Jeff Pearlman criticized ESPN's Peter Gammons for the way he handled the Alex Rodriguez interview, accusing the venerable baseball writer of "softball questions and limited inquisitiveness."...

PETA: Dog Master Race To Rise Up, Annex The Sudetenland
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show got underway on Monday, and of course PETA was there to add an air of dignity and understatement to the proceedings, as the photo indicates....

Yeah, I'd Imagine Vitamin Water Ad People Can't Be Too Happy With This (Update)
At an NCAA athletic conference on January 15th, it was revealed that some VitaminWater flavors contain "impermissible or banned substances", which could lead to suspensions for some athletes....

It Could Have Been Worse ... His Name Could Be Bill Laimbeer
Huskies guard Isaiah Thomas was named that because his father, a Lakers fan, lost a bet to a Pistons fan regarding the 1989 NBA Finals. [Arizona Daily Star]...

So Ben Roethlisberger Actually Did Have Broken Ribs During The Super Bowl
That Italian fella over at PFT wins one for the little guys again. Florio initially reported that Big Ben had secret X-rays on his ribs, but everybody doubted him. [PFT]...