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What Happened To Caster Semenya?
Caster Semenya, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 800 meters who became famous during the very public and deeply botched handling of questions concerning her gender, is reportedly set to tie the knot with girlfriend Violet Raseboya, a fellow runner....

Worst Godzilla Ever: Why Japan Hated (And Murked) The '98 U.S. Remake
If you hated what Joel Schumacher did to Batman with 1995's Batman Forever and (especially) 1997's Batman & Robin, the Christopher Nolan trilogy that followed didn't just offer good movies; they were cathartic release, a reclamation. This buffoon had taken one of the great characters in the American...

Alex Cora's Great 18-Pitch At Bat
My pal Jon Weisman revisits the memorable 18-pitch duel between Matt Clement and Alex Cora that took place 10 years ago today:...

Sad NBA Promotion: Bucks Send Ping Pong Balls To Fans
I don't think I understand this. The Milwaukee Bucks, who finished with the worst record in the NBA this season, sent these ping pong balls to a select group of fans because...something....

Hooligan Invades Pitch, Throws Pathetic Punch At Player
After a game between Zenit St. Petersburg and Dinamo Moscow, a Zenit fan rushed the field and attempted to sucker punch Dinamo defender Vladimir Granat. He didn't really succeed....

The Weekend's Best Sports Photography
[It's been a busy few days: basketball and hockey playoffs, the end of the Premier League season and even some motorsport. Here's a selection of some of this weekend's best sports photography. Cherish this. Soon we'll only have baseball. Oh, and the World Cup. In Brazil. Above, Paul Pierce gets a fl...

Donald Sterling: "I Don't Know Why The Girl Had Me Say Those Things"
More than two weeks after the release of leaked audio that led to him losing the Clippers, Donald Sterling has broken his media silence, and he insists he's not actually as awful a person as his words, deeds, and decades of evidence would suggest....

Marshall Henderson Has Very Dumb Thoughts About Michael Sam
Marshall Henderson is a periodically electrifying college basketball player who is a lot of fun to watch. He is also just one of the legion of mouth-breathing morons and homophobes who revealed themselves to be mouth-breathers and homophobes in the wake of Michael Sam kissing a man on national TV....

Grieving Marty St. Louis Thanks Teammates After Scoring On Mother's Day
Martin St. Louis's mother died unexpectedly on Thursday. After flying home and speaking with his family, he decided his mom would have wanted him to play in Game 5. But Game 6 promised the full emotional wringer, and with his father and sister in the stands, on Mother's Day, St. Louis scored the gam...

Adorable 101-Year-Old Lady Throws Out First Pitch
A 101-year-old grandma named Kitty Cohen (top-notch grandma name, by the way) threw out the first pitch at yesterday's Blue Jays game. She made the most of her opportunity. ...

Shelly Sterling Wants To Keep The Clippers; Everyone Else Wants Her Out
Donald Sterling's estranged wife has moved quickly to position herself as a victim, and sat down with Barbara Walters for a soft-focus interview in which she announced her intention to hang on to her portion of the Clippers—and, if she gets her way, her husband's portion too....

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Sidney Crosby Reaches The Boiling Point
If these playoffs will be remembered for anything, it'll be for players squirting each other with water bottles and spearing each other in the nuts. Last night's Game 6 between the Rangers and Penguins had one of each, both focusing on a frustrated, frustrating Sidney Crosby....

Omaha TV Station Features Some Very Odd Storm Coverage
Violent storms hit Nebraska Sunday, leaving 20,000 without power in Omaha alone. NBC affiliate WOWT invited viewers to submit storm photos to its Facebook page, and the station aired several of them during live coverage last night. One of them was, uh, really weird....

Henrik Lundqvist Subtly Sprays Water On Sidney Crosby While Skating By
Water bottles are the latest method of harassing opponents in the NHL, apparently....

Charles Barkley Doesn't Care About CNN's Donald Sterling Interview
After Ernie Johnson plugged in tomorrow's Anderson Cooper interview with disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling on CNN, Charles Barkley let everyone watching the halftime show know that he didn't give a shit about what Sterling had to say, even if it was on a fellow Turner network. Would you expec...

Deadspin Up All Night: How Does It Feel?
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Moms....

With Poor Decisions By Both Teams In Final Minute, Clippers Tie Series
The Los Angeles Clippers overcame a 16-point deficit in the fourth quarter to topple the Thunder and turn the series into a best of three, though the final 30 seconds of the game involved a mess of bad choices by both teams....

Richard H. Lee Duffs An Easy Shot Not Once, But Twice
The 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass was one to forget for poor Richard H. Lee, as he whiffed twice in a row during the Players Championship....
