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Matt Cooke And The Myth Of Reform
Colorado's two-way defenseman Tyson Barrie, who's been one of this series's best players, will miss the next four-to-six weeks with an MCL injury after this knee-on-knee hit from Matt Cooke. Cooke will miss some time too—he's got an in-person hearing scheduled with the league, which means his suspen...
Iggy Azalea's <em>The New Classic</em>: Not That Terrible, Not That Classic
Nick Young looks to be having the time of his life right now. The cocky L.A. shooting guard's style and humor were a bright spot for the struggling Lakers all season, and the artist otherwise known as Swaggy P finally made up for last month's hilarious premature celebration of a missed three, bowing...
Meb Keflezighi's Secret Weapon Is Ryan Hall
Meb Keflezighi may have done three things to win the Boston Marathon, but American record-holder Ryan Hall did a fourth: hold everybody back....
Seth Wold Actually Ran OK
Everyman Seth Wold, who ran with the elite men for the first few miles of the 2014 Boston Marathon, did not have various internal organs go into failure. Rather, after he'd gotten his fill of glory, he jogged it in for a respectable 2 hours, 49 minutes, and 43 seconds, finishing 927th. ...
Did ESPN Suspend Darren Rovell From Using Twitter?
Serial tweeter Darren Rovell is off Twitter, at least for now. ...
It's Been That Kind Of Night For The Warriors
Hilton Armstrong just didn't have enough left in the tank to finish the dunk and the Clippers grabbed the rebound and Hedo Turkoglu took all of four seconds before burying a three pointer. ...
Steph Curry Never Had A Chance On This Paul-To-Jordan Alley-Oop
Chris Paul was stuck for about a second and then he saw DeAndre Jordan just hanging out behind Steph Curry. Then there was a nasty oop....
Cop Trips High School Kids Rushing Field To Celebrate State Title Win
At the eight second mark of this video, you can see a dude in pink shorts and a visor in the lower right corner go sprawling to the ground. He was clearly tripped and when he turned around he saw Georgetown police officer George Bermudez staring down at him. ...
Guy Who Got Himself On TV At Start Of Boston Marathon Finished 927th
This guy, Seth Wold, ran fast enough to catch up to the elite runners in the Boston Marathon and actually was in the lead for a short while. After two-and-a-half miles, though, he slacked his and finished the race with an unofficial time of 2:49:43. ...
Durant, Perkins Heroics Force Overtime In Oklahoma City
This play, and everything about it, is absolutely nuts....
How Not To Announce You've Committed To Auburn, In One Tweet
Marquel Harrell, an offensive lineman from Fairburn, Georgia went on Twitter to announce that he was going to be an Auburn Tiger. There was just one problem: he didn't know the name of his new school. ...
A Shawn Kemp Dunk Reel Set To Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
These two minutes and 13 seconds capture the zeitgeist of the 90s better than perhaps any other random peek into that era. For a ten-year period, people stopped following rules and started throwing shit together and stuff like this was just...normal, everyday stuff. That's what NBA Inside Stuff did...
This, from Andrew Baggarly, is good: "When making comparisons between prospects and established players, have I tended to group them along racial lines? Did I once compare Jason Heyward to a young Willie McCovey because they have similar baseball skills, or a similar complexion? Have I ever been mor...
Three Ways Meb Keflezighi Won
Yeah, Meb Keflezighi won the 2014 Boston Marathon. But how did he break a 31-year American drought? A three-step attack....
Deadspin Up All Night: Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
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Hank The Dog Got A Hank House
Hank the dog has been having a swell time acting as the Milwaukee Brewers' unofficial mascot, but there's something he's been missing: a place to lay his little Hank head at night. Hank no longer has to worry about that, though, because the Brewers gave him a Hank House....
Raptors Blame ESPN For Shot-Clock Malfunction [Update]
The shot clocks blew out in the third quarter of Saturday's Game 1 in Toronto, which led to pure absurdity: the Raptors' PA guy counting down the shot clock while looking at a stopwatch held by an NBA official next to him. When it expired, he would literally say "Horn!", and it was the funniest damn...