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Duke's Meaningless Last Second Free Throw Cost Vegas Millions

Last night's Duke-Utah game seemingly ended in a 62-57 win for Duke. With eight seconds remaining Utah's Jordan Loveridge missed a three-pointer, and the Utah players only half-heartedly tried to foul or tie up the rebounder, Duke's Quinn Cook. But with 0.7 seconds left a referee blew for a foul a...

How To Roast A Chicken, And Become A Grownup At Last

Roasting a chicken is the last threshold to full coming of age. Before you have done it, you are a fledgling. After, you are an elder....

Soccer Playing Doggies Are The Best Doggies

I'd like to see how he'd do against tougher shots, though. ...

Mr. Whammy Says LeBron Complained To NBA Security About Him

Mr. Whammy (real name: Bruce Reznick) is a 79-year-old Nets superfan who has had season tickets for nearly two decades. When opposing players take free throws he walks down from his seats to right below the basket and follows a very specific yelling and waving routine to try and make them miss. He...

Deadspin Up All Night: Take Your Silver Spoon And Dig Your Grave

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll be here all weekend for your sporting needs....

Zlatan Uses Powerful Hypnosis To Force Keeper Into Shocking Mistake

Some sort of devious eye magic only known by the most learned of warlocks is the only rational explanation for why Moldova's keeper decided to play an inch-perfect cross off of Zlatan Ibrahimović's forehead for the Swede to redirect into the goal (warning: autoplay video):...

Tank Top-Wearing Gronk Twerks In Miami

We have a new development in the Summer of Gronk, as enormous highlighter Rob Gronkowski is still wearing the same shorts from yesterday, but now has a matching tank top. Gronk went onstage during 3LAU's—I hate myself—set at Ultra Music Festival in Miami....

Harry Kane Scores In His International Debut, Is Soon To Be Crowned King

All week leading up to today's England-Lithuania Euro 2016 Qualifier, the only thing anyone could talk about was Harry Kane. Will he start? Should he start? Where will he play? How do we make more of him? Coming into the match, you'd have thought the season's Premier League breakout star would get e...

Jets owner Woody Johnson sold his Fifth Avenue apartment for $77.5 million. But don't worry: the Daily News reports that Johnson "never actually lived there, instead opting to stay in another of his homes at One Central Park West."...

David Ortiz claims he's been drug tested "more than 80" times since 2004. Hardball Talk notes that this means one of two things: Either Ortiz is lying about how often he's been tested, or that Ortiz is tested so frequently because he has tested positive before....

Aaron Hernandez's Fiancée Testifies, Doesn't Flip On Him

Aaron Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, testified in his murder trial today. Jenkins, who was indicted on perjury charges after her grand jury testimony, was granted immunity in January, leading some to believe that she might testify against Hernandez in order to avoid going to jail herself. Th...

Presenting: The In-Progress Deadspin Style Guide

I was terrified my first night writing for Deadspin. I wanted direction: somebody to tell me what to write about, how to write about it, and then to edit it when I was done. Instead, I was thrown into the deep end and basically told "if you see something interesting write about it, or don't, whate...

Russian Goalkeeper Takes A Flare To The Back Of His Head [UPDATE]

In today's Euro 2016 qualifier between Montenegro and Russia, a flare from the stands hit Russian keeper Igor Akinfeev in the head. Ouch. Here's another look:...

Phil Kessel Mad; David Booth Also Mad

Phil Kessel and David Booth got into a shoving match during today's Maple Leafs' practice. The brouhaha didn't escalate to punches, however, and teammates separated the two players....

Aw Hell, Kevin Durant Is Done For The Season

The Thunder announced today that Kevin Durant’s foot fracture has shown signs of “regression” and that he’ll have season-ending surgery next week to help the healing process. This sucks. ...

<i>AP Stylebook</i> Says No More "Dingers" [Updates]

At the American Copy Editors Society's annual meeting in Pittsburgh today, updates to and new entries in the 2015 Associated Press Stylebook are being revealed. This news will not affect you at all. But I think it's interesting, so go to hell....

Iggy Azalea Raps, Sounds Like A Sputtering Lawnmower

Not long ago, a Vine of Iggy Azalea rapping an indecipherable string of nonsense words began making its way around the internet. As it turns out, that Vine only captured the tail end of a much longer, even more indecipherable display of nonsense rapping. ...

How To Smoke Salmon: Mystical Alchemy From The Majestic West

Pity the poor East Coast rat racer. Look at him, pouring out of the subway with his sooty, bedraggled kin, lurching through ill-lit corridors, past dripping pipes and glaring widows just missing him with the splash of their chamberpots. There he is, spending $12 on a substandard turkey sub. Here h...

Report: Predatory UNH Basketball Staffer Often Recorded Naked Players

Scott Weitzell, a staffer on the New Hampshire men's basketball team, was accused in February of 2014 of secretly taking photos of players in the locker room after a game. He was fired a few days later, and when police searched his house, he attempted to destroy evidence. At the time, Weitzell r...

T-Pain Is Back

There was a time in the early-mid 2000s when you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing a T-Pain song, but then he pretty much went silent for the four years following the flop of his last album, Revolver. Today, he dropped the DJ Drama-hosted mixtape The Iron Way, and I think it's safe to say T...