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Former Division II Quarterback Found Dead In Michigan Woods
Cullen Finnerty, a former quarterback for Grand Valley State University and a three-time Division II national champion who was briefly a member of the Baltimore Ravens, was found dead Tuesday night by rescue workers who had been looking for him since he went missing on Sunday. Finnerty's body was fo...
Saints Receiver Joe Morgan Busted For Alleged DWI
The Earhart Expressway is a pretty damned busy highway. It's three lanes in either direction, and runs from New Orleans to the suburbs, and sometimes a Saints receiver passes out in his car in the middle of the road on a Saturday night....
Nobody Can Hijack A Playoff Game Quite Like An NBA Referee Can
With 1:20 left to play in last night's Heat-Pacers game, LeBron James received the ball on the left wing, stared down his defender, and then casually dropped a 28-foot three-pointer. It was a heroic shot, the kind of shot that NBA fans live to see in the playoffs, and it set the tone for what should...
Toots Shor Among the Ruins
Another sure shot: Joe Flaherty's 1974 Esquire piece on Toots Shor:...
Sportsnet's Hockey Twitter Account Has Been Hacked For Five Days
Dear Sportsnet: You are a popular and respected Canadian sports network. It is the NHL playoffs. Your Hockey Central Twitter account has been hacked and tweeting out obscene links to porn spam since Saturday. Fix yo shit....
Let's Watch LeBron's Block In Super-Slow-Motion
Goddamn, that was just absurd. When you consider just how routine and expected LeBron James's displays of dominance of have become, it's really a wonder that he can still surprise us with plays like this....
With A Little Luck And A Gigantic Glove Save, The Kings Carry On
Hockeywood is halfway to putting out a sequel, and the script looks a lot like last year's: timely goals from unlikely sources, defense that doesn't take a breather, and a Conn Smythe-caliber campaign from Jonathan Quick in net....
When The Yankees Face The Mets, It's Duckface Supreme
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Everything Went Wrong For The Heat, And The Pacers Won By Only Seven
The Indiana Pacers beat the Miami Heat tonight, 99-92. But before everyone pulls out the André Extra Dry and talks about how Indiana is going to do it and how the Heat might have finally met their match and how much of a clinic in hustle stats and team cohesion and bench spirit the Spurs-Pacers seri...
LeBron James Blocks The Absolute Shit Out Of George Hill's Layup
That's not fair, man. ...
Ambush Highlights Everything Wrong With Video-Fightin' Bros
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Pillsbury Beatdown," from njon437, who apparently joined to post this lone video. Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: the previously mentioned "Streetfight in...
Lance Stephenson Is Pulling A Miami Heat On The Miami Heat
The Indiana Pacers are up at halftime over the Miami Heat, 48-47, in the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals. This is your open thread. Knock yourselves out....
Here's The New Shaq Soda We've All Been Waiting For
So Shaquille O'Neal tweeted today that he partnered with AriZona Beverage Company to release a soda line. After countless hours of grunt work and delibration peppered by brief, magical moments of marketing genius, Shaq's new soda will be called Soda Shaq....
Here and Now
Ali. The Greatest. There is an entire body of sports writing devoted to him. For more than a generation it's as if every writer worth his or her salt had to tackle him at one point. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: Think It's Safe To Say
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Greg will be with you shortly....
Watch Boston Marathon Bombing Heroes Throw Out Tonight's First Pitch
Marathon Bombing survivors Jeff Bauman and Carlos Arredondo were on the mound tonight to throw out the first pitches for the Red Sox game against the Philadelphia Phillies....
Let's Listen To Joey Votto Scream "Fuck!" Over And Over Again
Joey Votto was struck out by Ubaldo Jimenez in the first inning of yesterday's Indians-Reds game. He was not happy about that, as evidenced by this torrent of fucks. Enjoy all the fucks....
Tim Duncan Is In The Middle Of A Remarkably Messy Divorce
As the ageless and unflappable Tim Duncan turns in another incredible playoff run, reports and court documents indicate the Spurs star has played this postseason while dealing with an ugly divorce from his wife of 12 years—and spent the regular season concerned about allegations of infidelity on her...