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JaVale Has Hidden Two Tickets To Tonight's Game In A Marshalls Store
Some folks relax before work by taking in some sights, others cool out by hanging in a department store chain known for off-price fashion and home furnishing choices frequented by your mom. To each his or her own. ...
Tom Coburn Wants To Revoke Sports Leagues' Tax-Exempt Charity Status
Last week Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma introduced an amendment to a bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act (the so-called "Internet tax") that would revoke the tax-exempt status of sports leagues. This is the news, and Think Progress has covered it nicely here. Also news, to most peop...
The Bulls Win 3OT Classic Against Nets And What The Hell Is This Photo
As we noted a couple of times (Nate Robinson scuffling! Nate Robinson banking in a 20-foot runner!) this afternoon the Bulls' 142-134 triple overtime win over the Nets was straight-up bananagrams and what on earth is happening in this AP photo....
The Lakers Starting Point Guard Was MVP Of The D-League
Andrew Goudelock played 41 minutes last night for the Los Angeles Lakers and scored 20 points. Only Dwight Howard and fellow brother-in-obscurity Darius Morris scored more. ...
The Final Seconds Of Overtime In Chicago Were Nuts
Nate Robinson—whose own mother would probably fight him, too—almost won the game for the Bulls with this ridiculous floating runner from just inside the three-point line. ...
Bulls Fans Break Out The Big Guns, Clothe Michael Jordan Statue
The Bulls and Nets are headed to overtime in Game 4 of their series and it is almost assuredly because of this little bit of Chicago voodoo....
Anibal Sanchez's 17-K Game Trumped Even Randy Johnson's 1992 "Hammer From Hell" Game
If we can indulge in a brief moment of Welcome Back, Baseball — still early enough in the season, right? — it’s a joy to watch a sport that puts the ball in the hands of the defense. Virtually any other sport you care to name turns a defensive player into an offensive player as soon as he takes poss...
Nate Robinson And C.J. Watson Wrestle In Chicago
Tempers flared in Chicago with seven minutes left in the second quarter as Nate Robinson and C.J. Watson got a little physical on a Brooklyn possession....
Messi Back To Scoring Ridiculous Goals, Bringing Ray Hudson To Orgasm
While Barcelona fell short of seizing La Liga today—they needed a win, and only got a draw, at Atletico Bilbao—it's hard to argue any viewer didn't get their money's worth when Lionel Messi danced amongst defenders in a demonstration of ball control that reminds anyone who might have forgotten that...
Stephen Curry And Jarrett Jack Are One-Upping Their Way Past Denver
It's the first round of the NBA playoffs, and a good series is kind of like finding a good mechanic you trust, but we've got it in Denver-Golden State. Nuggets-Warriors is the best series going and it isn't even close....
Manti Te'o Is Now A San Diego Charger
Well, it took a day longer than expected, but former Notre Dame inside linebacker Manti Te'o, whom we've enjoyed following over the past three months and change, has finally found himself an NFL home. He went with pick No. 38 to the San Diego Chargers, a real NFL team, albeit one with a doctor who s...
Here Are A Bunch Of Photos Of An Alligator At The Zurich Open
The AP has put out a bunch of photos of an alligator that's among the spectators at the TPC Louisiana in New Orleans, the site of the Zurich Open. Shhh. Let's follow the gator as it makes its way across the 14th fairway....
Who Hugged The NFL Commissioner Longest At Last Night's Draft?
We don't know if, as a child, Roger Goodell dreamed of one day being best known for embracing enormous men and then, later, taking money from them. The Draft Day Hug Era is at its peak, and like last year, we decided to find out who hugged the NFL commissioner longest....
Basketball Jones
If you are of a certain age you'll recognize the paintings of Ernie Barnes either from the cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" album or the credits of the TV show "Good Times." Barnes played professional football before he became a full-time artist. He died in 2009 at the age of 70. Check out his we...
The Goon Show
It'll come as no surprise that my favorite series at Grantland is the "Director's Cut" feature curated by Michael MacCambridge. He does a beautiful job and I'm always eager to see what gift he gives us next. Here's an especially good one—"The Making of a Goon," by Johnette Howard, which originally ...
Scouting Report: Roger Goodell
With the NFL draft now upon us, we feel it's only appropriate to present this scouting report on commissioner Roger Goodell. What follows are the assessments of various NFL players, plus one television executive, and one online dictionary. ...
This Hockey Brawl Featured Four Goalies Fighting Each Other
If a goalie fight is hockey's Holy Grail, this is drinking unicorn blood out of the Holy Grail while doing 90 in a Camaro Z28....
This Tweet About Patrick Kane Could Not Be More Inaccurate
Nice to see Kaner up to his old tricks. In Edmonton!...