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Central Michigan Basketball Player Nearly Crushed By Collapsing Hoop
Northern Illinois center Pete Rakocevic threw down a dunk during Saturday night's game, and as Central Michigan forward John Simons went to inbound the ball, everyone realized that the hoop was slowly collapsing. Simons was quick enough to get out of the way, but that was frighteningly close....

Marshawn Lynch: "Yes, I Was Expecting The Ball"
Marshawn Lynch, no fan of the NFL media, opened up more than he has to date about the end of the Super Bowl, and he did it, of all places, on TV in Turkey. ...

Elegant Giant Baby Joey Crawford Leaps Through The Air
You think Nikola Mirotic is going to take an improper free throw attempt? Not on Joey Crawford's watch. Look at Air Joey soar through the air as he foils a minor error in a game. Thanks for keeping us safe....

Sounds Like The Nuggets Have Given Up
It takes a village to create a middenheap as large and as foul as the 2014-15 Denver Nuggets. A poorly assembled roster, a coach who's in over his head, and a cheapskate owner have all combined to make this so much more special than just a typical lost season—the players may be actively sabotaging t...

Blackhawks Deny Rumors Of Locker-Room Strife
It's been a very weird week for the Blackhawks, which kicked off with a broken collarbone for Patrick Kane that will see their leading scorer out through May, closed with a pair of significant "we're going for it" trades, and in between saw some thinly sourced rumors take on a life of their own. It'...

Deadspin Up All Night: They Always Played A Slow Song
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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:...


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...


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...


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