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The Hardest Hit In Last Night's Maple Leafs-Flyers Game Was In Warm-Ups
Dion Phaneuf and Mike Komisarek were dutifully going through their warm-ups before last night's game in Philadelhpia when they collided. Hard. Neither player was injured, and the Leafs went on to win, 3-2, which I guess is why the announcers are so comfortable giggling about it on-air....
High School Player Hits Winning Shot To Clinch Perfect Season, Then Dies
This is hard to comprehend as real but several real media outlets are reporting it as true: Wes Leonard, a 16-year-old player on the Fennville High School basketball team in western Michigan, died after scoring the winning layup in Fennville's victory over Bridgman on Thursday to end his team's perf...
We Are All Dave McKenna XXVIII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit is worth as much as the players' health is to owners demanding an 18-game season....
A Brief Video History Of Physics Not Applying To Basketball
Last night, West Virginia upset No. 16 UConn in Morgantown, 65-56. Alex Oriakhi went to the line with the game tied and just a few minutes remaining the first half, and he took what was mostly a nice-looking free throw, especially for a big man. But the ball bounced around the rim a few times befo...
Undercut On Breakaway Dunk Leaves High Schooler Temporarily Paralyzed
Alex Etherington, a 6'5" small forward at Hamilton Heights High School in Indiana, had an open look at the basket just minutes into a game against Peru High on Saturday. The score was just 2-0, but a Peru player still attempted to stop Etherington's dunk attempt with a vicious undercut push from b...
A-Rod Is Still Being Hand-Fed Popcorn
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Rodriguez wants you to believe he has a sense of humor....
Elijah Dukes Is In Jail For Slapping His Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend
"Dukes, 26, was arrested Wednesday on charges of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman and driving with a revoked or suspended license... He was being held without bond." The rap career must be on hold, then. [AP]...
Derrick Rose Will Miss A Three-Pointer Just So He Can Dunk On Your Head
The Bulls blew a 19-point lead and committed 17 turnovers in an 83-80 loss in Atlanta last night. Derrick Rose didn't shoot particularly well — he was 5-for-21 from the field and had 12 points and 12 assists — but he did make up for it when he missed....
Alabama High Schooler Makes Chris Bosh Look Like An Efficient Marksman
Rare is the basketball game a team wins when its leading scorer goes 1-of-21 from the field. This helps explain why Sand Rock High School failed to advance to the Alabama state high-school finals last night. The Gadsden Times worked the phrase "horrendous shooting" into the first two words of its g...
We Are All Dave McKenna XXVII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit croaks like a Silver Spring toad. On this fine evening, we bring you McKenna himself, who has become a vector for loathing in the DC area. You migh...
It Must Be March If The Cubs Are Fighting Each Other In The Dugout
After giving up a six-run inning courtesy of a handful of errors, Carlos Silva returned to the dugout and got into a fight. It was broken up, he was removed from the game, and kept away from reporters afterward because he was "not in the right frame of mind to talk." Cubs Spring Training, people! [C...
Deadspin Presents An Interpretive Rendering Of Cal Ripken Jr.'s Young Adult Book
We received an email from Cal Ripken Jr.'s publicity team at Random House, which will release his three-CD audiobook, HOTHEAD, next Tuesday. HOTHEAD (the caps are apparently intentional) is about a Babe Ruth League shortstop named Connor Sullivan and is "loosely based on challenges Ripken himself ...
Strap In For Helmetcam Video Of This Terrifying Downhill Bike Course
This video's actually from the 2010 Valparaiso Cerro Abajo race through the narrow, mountainous streets of Valparaiso, Chile. But we're just seeing it now, and you need to see it too. Grab your Dramamine....
U Of Memphis Dance Team Member Goes Apeshit After Winning National Championship
The University of Memphis hip hop dance team won the Universal Dance Association's college title in January, after this riveting performance at ESPN's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando. When the results were announced, they were excited. Overwhelmingly excited. But YouTube commenter justinky...
We Are All Dave McKenna XXVI
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit disappears down an Iraqi spider hole. Today: D.C. Sports Bog remembers a few of Clinton Portis's words upon his arrival to Washington and into the ...
Front Row At The Rodeo Is Awesome Until An Angry Bull Jumps Into Your Lap
This 2,000-pound bull ditched his rider, cleared a five-foot barrier fence, and jumped into the stands at a rodeo fundraiser in Williamston, N.C. on Saturday, Feb 19. An older couple was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, but no one was seriously hurt — including the bull, who was brought o...
Here's Derrick Rose Going Between The Legs To Joakim Noah
This is one of Rose's nine assists in Chicago's 105-77 drubbing of the Wizards last night. It's also, you'll notice, a one-year Calipari point guard schooling a younger one-year Calipari point guard, John Wall, in the NBA fast break. Rose finished with 21 and 9; Wall had 9 and 10....
The First Look At The Mustachioed Mopper From Texas
Your morning roundup for March 1, the day Charlie Sheen rode a mercury surfboard on the media tsunami....
We Are All Dave McKenna XXV
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit goes out the window like Blanket Jackson. Today: an excerpt from a recent post in Legal As She Is Spoke, a New York Law School blog, which calls Sn...
The IOC Was This Close To Owning Santa Claus
Saturday, the Russian Olympic Committee announced the results of voting for the 2014 Olympic mascots. (They picked a snowboarding snow leopard, and a fluffy bunny and cheerful bear. They're boring.) But one of the 10 nominees didn't even make it to voting. Ded Moroz ("Father Frost"), the Russian ver...