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Nearly Naked Marco Belinelli Poses For <i>GQ</i> Italia Cover

Hey look, it's Marco Belinelli—with some strategically placed pom-poms covering up his twig and berries—naked on the cover of the Italian version of GQ. Here's the full cover:...

The Thunder announced that Russell Westbrook underwent surgery to repair that dent in his face. In medical terms, he had a "fracture to the zygomatic arch of his right cheek." Westbrook won't play tomorrow against the Lakers and will be re-evaluated afterwards, but it doesn't seem too serious. ...

Chris Sale Fractures Foot Stepping Off Of His Truck

I thought I'd already hit my quota of peculiar spring training injury stories for the day earlier, but thanks to White Sox pitcher Chris Sale, here I am again. ...

13-Year-Old Steph Curry Already Had Sick Moves

The Toronto Star found this video of a 13-year-old Curry (number 12) leading the Queensway Christian College Saints Grade 7 and 8 boys basketball team up against the school staff—and his father—during the 2001-02 school year. Not surprisingly, the team went undefeated that year:...

AEG Invokes Terrorism In Bid To Halt Rival Inglewood Stadium Project

Sports conglomerate AEG has pursued the construction of an NFL stadium in Los Angeles for over a decade, and it has become clear that they'll resort to a hilariously deplorable campaign of dirty tricks to ensure that a competitor's stadium doesn't get built. ...

This Is The Worst Shot I've Ever Seen

The above GIF features one of the 400 or so best basketball players in a world earnestly attempting to make a shot—I think—in a real live basketball game that counted in the standings and everything. It went about 20 feet too high, 20 feet too deep, and 20 feet too wide, but at least Alexey Shved is...

The Bizarre Spring Training Injuries Are Out In Full Force

The greatest spring training tradition—baseball players injuring themselves in weird-ass ways—has arrived early this year. First Michael Saunders stepped on a sprinkler head and tore the meniscus in his knee, and now Tampa Bay Rays reliever Ronald Belisario has fractured his (non-throwing) shoulde...

How To Make Arrabbiata Sauce, The Angriest, Loveliest Sauce Of All

Picture, in your mind, a mundane interaction between any two regular, essentially happy Italian people. One purchasing a packet of chewing gum from the other, for example. Can you picture it? The screaming, the wild gesticulating, the red faces, the flashing whites of crazed eyes and bared teet...

Happy Borussia Dortmund Celebrate Goal Batman And Robin Style

Borussia Dortmund players are happy again! Today's 3-0 victory over Schalke was their fourth straight in the Bundesliga, dragging themselves from the relegation zone to ninth in the table. Since they're finally confident that they'll actually score some goals, they're planning out elaborate costum...

Anthony Mason, who suffered a heart attack two weeks ago, died earlier this morning. Mason began his career in foreign countries and the US minor leagues, but rose to become a key member of the successful Pat Riley-led Knicks teams of the early 1990s. He was 48. [New York Daily News] ...

Russell Westbrook Literally Got A Dent In His Face

Russell Westbrook whirling dervished his way to a third straight triple-double last night, the kind of performance we've come to expect in his incredible February. But late in the game, as he tried singlehandedly to stave off a loss to the Trail Blazers, we saw something new: he got a goddamn dent i...

Gary Glitter, who still earns around half a million dollars a year in royalties from his music being played in U.S. sports arenas, will spend 16 years in prison for sexually abusing children....

Deadspin Up All Night: He Won't Leave Me Alone

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Enjoy your weekend!...

Extra-Cool Polar Bear Discovers Many Ways To Enjoy His Items

It is apparently International Polar Bear Day, and you should celebrate by watching this video of a very dope polar bear discovering all the fun things he can do with the weird crap the zookeepers decided to put in his habitat. ...

Kimbo Slice Wants To Show You His Romantic Side (It's His Dong)

Kimbo Slice—yes, that Kimbo Slice—and Ken Shamrock announced a fight this week on a June 20 Bellator card, so Slice made an appearance on Highly Questionable. When Papi asked for Slice's romantic side, the fighter pretended to take off his pants. That must have been a fun few seconds for Dan Le Bata...

FSU fans harassed the reporter who first learned of the allegations against Jameis Winston....

Jimmy Kimmel Got Some Doctors To Take An Educated Crap On Anti-Vaxxers

When Jimmy Kimmel isn't being a quasi-comedian whose life mission is to think up ways of lying to as many people as possible simultaneously in his quest for easily YouTubeable viral sensations that he can then sell ads against so as to turn a larger personal profit, the dude makes sense. The above c...

Red Hair Is The Most Contentious Hair

From ginger haters to redhead fetishists, red hair polarizes the populace. It's a high-risk, high-reward volatile substance that rocks the scales of attractiveness. No other hair color can claim as much. So what the hell is going on here?...

Orioles Augment Drills With Fake Crowd Noise; Neighbors Call The Cops

Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter came up with a fun new spring training drill by forcing his players to field pop-ups while piping loud-ass fake crowd noise through the stadium's PA system. Unfortunately, some sensitive baby called the cops on them:...

Remember When Shitting Birds Got A Kings Of Leon Concert Canceled? 

Let's take a little stroll down memory lane, back to the halcyon summer days of 2010, when Kings of Leon cancelled a show in St. Louis after just five songs because a bird shit in the bassist's mouth. Yes, Jared Followill (seen above, in much happier times) got Hot Carled by a pigeon. ...