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Book Excerpt: Nicholas Dawidoff On The 2011 New York Jets
Over at Men's Journal check out this excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff's new book, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football:...

Photoshop Contest: Dan Snyder's Thumbs-Up
The Redskins tweeted out this photo yesterday, of owner Dan Snyder modeling his new Kevin Durant sneakers. Dan loves 'em. We love it too....

Greg Oden Dunked!
It was just four minutes in a preseason game, but those four minutes were Greg Oden's first NBA action in nearly four years. He had one bucket, a dunk on Al-Farouq Aminu, and was able to walk back up the court under his own power....

What Dana DeMuth's Blown Call Means For Instant Replay
The next time someone argues that instant replay will unacceptably slow down baseball, remember this: Between the umpire conference and Mike Matheny's argument, it took four minutes and 26 seconds to get an obvious call right....
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Cardinals Minor Leaguer Thinks Jon Lester Is A Cheater [Update]
The photo above was captured and shared on Twitter last night by Cardinals minor league pitcher Tyler Melling, who wondered if that greenish splotch on the inside of Jon Lester's glove is vaseline. ...

Woody On the Pleasures of Basketball
I was All-Schoolyard, tell her, Max....

And Now For Something Completely Different
Lord of the Bootsale gives us Dutch Barrel Organ. Niz Briz. ...

Report: The Rams Asked Brett Favre To Unretire
For fuck's sake, St. Louis, even Tebow would have been a better idea....

Another Bro Behind ESPN Set Takes Off Shirt, Pours Soda On Himself
Just days after Clemson bro Davis Toney made himself America's Sweetheart by clowning David Pollack behind the College GameDay set, it appears the stunt has been co-opted by corporate culture scavengers as a Dr. Pepper-clad gent performed a similar feat behind John Kruk on ESPN's Baseball Tonight....

Greg Oden Has Been Sighted Playing Professional Basketball
Tonight perpetual pine-rider Greg Oden, who was picked ahead of Kevin Durant in the 2007 NBA Draft, logged his first minutes in an NBA game since 2009. The Heat put him on the floor for almost four solid minutes. Oden, who was picked ahead of a guy who has scored more than 12,000 points in 460 caree...


NBA Finals Will Return To Boring Ol' 2-2-1-1-1 Format
After almost 30 years of using the 2-3-2 schedule in the Finals — giving the team with the worse record three straight home games — the NBA voted today to return to a schedule that would alternate venues for the final four games of a seven-game Finals. The 2-2-1-1-1 format is more "fair," according ...

Adam Wainwright's Moment Of Desperation, Captured For Eternity
Adam Wainwright struggles defensively....


William Harrison, Author Of Sports Dystopia <em>Rollerball</em>, Has Died
William Harrison, the author and screenwriter whose 1975 classic Rollerball semi-accurately foretold how the future of sport would suck, died Tuesday, just shy of his 80th birthday....

Deadspin Up All Night: Into The White
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The World Series starts in a few. Maybe check it out if you're into that sort of thing....

That Time Mike Matheny Took A Fastball To The Face And Barely Flinched
The World Series begins tonight, which means it's as good an occasion as any to look back at one of the more memorable moments from Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's playing career: The night a 90-something-mph fastball hit him square in the face and he barely reacted....

Here It Is: The Only Spurs Alley-Oop From The 2012-13 Regular Season
As we mentioned last week, the Spurs have had a league-low five alley-oop dunks in the last two seasons, and they had just one in the 2012-2013 regular season. Here it is. It's pretty sad, for a couple of reasons:...

World Series Games Are, In Fact, Becoming Impossibly Long
Baseball is a game of traditions: keeping score, drinking awful beer, mocking the loathsome St. Louis Cardinals, and complaining about how nearly endless World Series games are ruining the sport and alienating the children, who are our future. ...
