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Camellia Bowl Official Injured By Object Thrown At Him By A Fan
Tonight's Camellia Bowl in Montgomery came to a screeching halt tonight when a fan launched a projectile that struck the side judge and left him unable to fulfill his duties....
Here's A Mutant Hybrid Of Everyone's NFL Playoff Projections
With the NFL playoffs just a few weeks away, there are a lot of playoff probabilities going around. Functionally, these all do more or less the same thing. So instead of churning out our own—which, face it, we are probably not going to do better than what's already out in the world—we're mashing eve...
There Were A Lot Of Buzzer Beaters In the NBA Tonight
Look, the NBA season is too damn long. Even I, an NBA junkie that watches at least 200 games a year, can see that. Too many teams are tanking, too many teams are on energy crippling back-to-backs, and too many teams have injuries to fully showcase 82 games of high-quality basketball. Among the numer...
Hurdler Kristi Castlin Tells You How To Not Get Fat Over The Holidays
Kristi Castlin is a very good hurdler. How good? The 26-year-old Atlanta native beat American record-holder Brianna Rollins in the 100-meter hurdlers in the spring, breaking Rollins' two-year winning streak. It came down to the thousandth of a second—Castlin's 12.571 seconds to Rollins' 12.576—and w...
Brooklyn Nets Pay Tribute To Superfan Who Passed Away
The Brooklyn Nets honored the life of recently deceased superfan Jeffrey Vanchiro—known as Jeffrey Gamblero—tonight with a video tribute, as well as t-shirts that the whole team and many Nets employees wore. Vanchiro passed away Sunday, after suffering serious injuries when he fell out of a second s...
Credit The Bills' Defense, Because Their Offense Sucks So Hard
The Bills pulled off an upset of sorts yesterday at home, beating the 10-win Packers, 21-13. Buffalo now has its first eight-win season since 2004; the defense should be largely thanked for that....
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Nets Superfan On Life Support After Two-Story Fall [Update]
Nets superfan Jeffrey Vanchiro, also known as Jeffrey Gamblero, reportedly suffered severe brain damage and fractured his spine after falling from a second-story window at his father's house in Queens Saturday night....
Wofford Upsets N.C. State After Wiped-Away Buzzer-Beater
The Wofford Terriers beat North Carolina State today for the first time in 80 years after a buzzer-beater from Trevor Lacey was wiped off the board following video review....
Santana Moss Goes Crazy On Refs After RG3 TD Called Back, Gets Ejected
Robert Griffin III ran for a diving touchdown as time expired in the first half against the Giants today. Or at least, it looked like he had. After the play was reviewed, head official Jeff Triplette announced that Griffin had lost possession in the air, and therefore it was ruled a fumble out of th...
How CBS And The NFL Teamed Up To Screw <em>Wheel Of Fortune</em> And <em>Jeopardy!</em>
In January, CBS acquired the rights to air NFL Network's Thursday Night Football through the first half of the season. That slate turned out to be some of the shittiest professional football ever put on television, and it was a financial catastrophe for the Tiffany network. But prime-time nation...
Pete Prisco Very Adamantly Does Not Understand Probabilities
The most impactful decision in tonight's heinously boring Thursday Night Football contest between St. Louis and Arizona came with 6:10 left in the game. St. Louis, down 12-3, had 4th and goal on Arizona's 1-yard-line. In a situation where the Rams needed both a touchdown and a field goal to win, Jef...
This Is Probably The Worst Jump Shot You'll Ever See In The NBA
Something remarkable happened in the fourth quarter of last night's game between the Bulls and Nets: Cory Jefferson tried to play basketball while on an LSD trip....
BBWAA Recommends Increasing Hall Of Fame Ballot Limit To 12 Players
The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted today to recommend to increase the number of players they can vote for on their Hall-of-Fame ballots from 10 to 12. The non-binding, band-aid half-measure passed "overwhelmingly."...
TCU Got Screwed, And That's The Point
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're covering LeBron and Kate, toilet coffee, jar monkeys, and more....
Blake Griffin Was His Old Bad-Ass Self Last Night
One of the crappier things about the early part of this NBA season is that for much of it, Blake Griffin hasn't really looked like Blake Griffin. Too many Clippers games have seen Griffin floating around the perimeter, turning in uninspiring performances heavy on the mid-range jumpers and light on t...
ESPN Duped By Fake Ken Rosenthal Twitter Account
At 1:12 a.m. ET, Jon Heyman broke the news that the Oakland A's had traded Jeff Samardzija to the Chicago White Sox: ...
Video: Art Briles Confronts Bob Bowlsby Over Big 12 "Co-Champs" Snub
Reader Alex L. sends along video he shot of Baylor coach Art Briles confronting Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby following the Bears' win over Kansas State on Friday. Briles said he was angry at the conference's insistence on co-champions—something he (accurately) predicted would strand Baylor on t...