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Dwyane Wade And His Sons Are Trayvon Martin
Dwyane Wade, who Sharpied "RIP Trayvon Martin" and "We Want Justice" on his shoes in the wake of Martin's 2012 shooting, is still taking up for the slain Florida teen, this time on one September cover of EBONY....
Greg Oden Will Try To Revive His Career With The Miami Heat
Former first overall pick Greg Oden hasn't played in an NBA game since December 5, 2009. He's had four major surgeries on his legs since then. On Friday, Oden announced that he'd be signing with the Miami Heat. What better way to gently come back than by joining the defending champions?...
Chris Bosh Gets No Respect In The Russian Nesting Doll Game
According to the Reddit user who spotted these nesting dolls while visiting Russia, Bosh's doll was the smallest one in the set, coming in behind both Ray Allen and Mario Chalmers. That's some cold shit, Russia....
The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
Dig Mark Bowden's 2012 story for the Atlantic:...
Chris Bosh's Baby Has A Much Better Life Than You Do
Have you ever seen a baby chill so hard? No, you have never seen a baby chill so hard....
It's Been 40 Years Since The Great Soap Box Derby Cheating Scandal
It's been called "Watergate on Wheels." It drew the attention of Walter Cronkite and the New York Times. It was a sports cheating scandal involving a child, and it's been an object of occasional fascination ever since, from newspaper articles to trivia questions to a television documentary. This sum...
Report: Greg Oden To Decide Between Heat And Spurs
It's not often that a 25-year-old seven-footer with world-beating potential comes on the market, and it's even rarer for the two suitors in the mix to both be defending conference champions. But that's exactly the situation with Greg Oden, who will work out for teams this week, and according to one ...
The Talented Mr. Tynan
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."...
Watch Dwyane Wade's Ex-Wife Make Her Case On Chicago's Streets
There's now video of Dwyane Wade's ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches, ranting about child support and judges and such. h/t Wayne Dade...
Dwyane Wade's Ex-Wife Is Having A Meltdown In Downtown Chicago
A tipster just sent along the picture you see above. That's Dwyane Wade's ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches, in the middle of what appears to be some kind of meltdown. Our tipster tells us that he briefly overheard Funches ranting about "$90 million contracts" and "houses on the water." Earlier this month...
"I Don't Like Excess"
From Isaac Chotiner’s 2008 Atlantic interview with Jhumpa Lahiri:...
Diamond Nuggets
From Roy Blount, writing for the Atlantic back in 1997:...
Greg Oden Brought His Swag To Last Night's Justin Bieber Concert
Greg Oden is looking at Dallas, Miami, San Antonio, and Cleveland as potential landing spots for his NBA comeback. But that's not the real Greg Oden news that's out there today. Turns out he's a Belieber!...
American Beauty
Here is Pauline Kael’s 1966 essay on Brando for The Atlantic:...
Kanye West Was At <em>The Decision</em> And Fell Asleep
Fansided has a very detailed account of one former ESPN studio stage manager's experience on the set of LeBron James's Decision, which is three years old today. The most revelatory passage concerns Kanye West, who was not only present for some reason but also fell asleep while LeBron And Jim Gray ga...
The Ravens Tried To Troll The Heat And It Backfired
The Ravens' official Twitter account posted the above photos earlier today, comparing the apparent crowd sizes at Miami's championship parade on Monday, and the Ravens' Super Bowl parade back in February....
LeBron Nearly Beheaded A Couple Times During Heat Parade
Miami's championship parade was today. Double-decker buses. Tall men. Overpasses. Tragedy repeatedly and hilariously averted by inches....
Heat Celebrate Title With Pat Riley Dancing, Dwyane Wade's Deodorant
Erik Spoelstra, with his hat to the back, took a moment at the Heat's championship celebration to say that Miami "parties better than any other city in the world." Sometimes, that includes Pat Riley dancing. Or "dancing." Maybe malfunctioning?...
Miami Heat Nation Encompasses More Than Brats, Ghouls, And Idiots
When the Miami Heat won its only LeBronless title, in 2006, I was living outside Fort Lauderdale. My building fees included basic cable, which was enough to get just about every Heat game and virtually nothing else worth watching. My girlfriend at the time could tolerate basketball well enough — bet...
Game 7 Ratings Were Predictably Bananas
The ratings are in: 26.3 million viewers watched the Heat beat the Spurs last night, the second-most for an NBA game since 1998....