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Maurice Jones-Drew Allegedly Punched Out A Bar Staffer [UPDATED]

Jacksonville Jaguars running back and back-to-UCLA student Maurice Jones-Drew has been charged with battery after he allegedly punched and knocked out a bar staffer over the weekend at a beach bar in St. Augustine, Fla., according to police....

What If The President Were A Cokehead?

Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re covering big dicks, broken jaws, uneaten cupcakes, and more. Image by Jim Cooke....

PBA Hall Of Famer Parker Bohn III dropped by Holler House, a Milwaukee bar home to the oldest league-sanctioned bowling lanes in the U.S., to roll a few frames. (Paul Lukas calls it the holiest shrine in all of bowling.)...

SI's Richard Deitsch asked ESPN's incoming ombudsman Bob Lipsyte to talk about how much he watches/reads ESPN. "I go to more opera," Lipsyte said. This is going to be great....

Rob Ford Got A Football-Themed Cake For His Birthday

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has smoked crack cocaine, is celebrating his 44th birthday today. His staff brought him the lovely cake you see above, because crack-smoking Rob Ford still celebrates his birthday like a nine-year-old boy. Maybe he'll get to eat that cake in his race car bed tonight....

On Facebook, Rays Prospect Brags About Throwing Change At A Stripper

If you were to imagine the quintessential asshole baseball player, you'd probably end up with someone who looks a lot like Joshua Sale. Since getting drafted No. 17 overall by the Rays in 2010, Sale hasn't done much aside from earning a 50-game suspension after testing positive for amphetamines. Mor...

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TMZ: Keyshawn Johnson Chased Down Justin Bieber For Driving Too Fast

Where even to begin with this one? "BIEBER VS. KEYSHAWN: INTENSE SHOWDOWN At Singer's Mansion." Bieber. Versus. Keyshawn. Intense showdown. It's tabloid Christmas, thanks to TMZ. And it gets even better....

Brittney Griner Throws Down Two Dunks In Her WNBA Debut

Former Baylor superstar and all-around badass Brittney Griner made her WNBA debut for the Phoenix Mercury last night, and she made quite the impression. Griner, who became known for her ability to dunk while at Baylor, threw down two dunks in her first game as a pro and became the first WNBA player...

ESPN President's Memo: Support The Troops; Also, We're Firing People

Below is a memo from ESPN president John Skipper, sent companywide just before the Memorial Day weekend and forwarded to us by a Bristol tipster. "This is the only communication we've received from upper management this week that mentions the layoffs," our tipster writes. Happy Memorial Day!...

Down on the Corner, Out in the Street

From the SI Vault, check out Gil Rogin's 1964 story, "Confessions of a Stoop Ball Champion":...

The Ugly American

Here's a good sports-related scene from The French Connection II. ...

Scary Video From Under The Snapped Camera Cable At The Coca-Cola 600

On lap 121 of Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, a cable supporting an overhead camera snapped and fell across the track. Ten fans were injured, three hospitalized, and the race was red-flagged for nearly a half-hour after several cars were damaged. It could have been much worse, and the eyewitnes...

Indy 500 Winner Tony Kanaan To Reporter: "I'm Gonna Get Hammered"

If race car drivers are good for one thing, it's giving memorable post-race interviews. This one, from Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan, doesn't share the meandering goofiness of Brad Keselowksi's half-drunk dissertation on believing in oneself, but the two are united in spirit. The spirit of getting ha...

Indy 500 Fans Passed Out, Puking In The Back Of A Moving Truck

The Indianapolis 500 isn't just about the racing; it's also about drinking toxic levels of alcohol, and getting thrown in the back of a pickup truck like so much drunk lumber....

Same Faces, Same Result: The Spurs Are Back In The Finals

The Spurs get the "boring" label because basketball is supposed to be hard. As San Antonio heads to its fifth finals since 1999, its fourth with its multinational power trio intact, you wonder if they've made some cosmic bargain, or discovered a real-life cheat code, because the alternative—that the...

Nobody's Interested In Watching John Cena Wrestle Anymore

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The Last American Hero

And since we're talking classics, how 'bout Tom Wolfe's 1965 Esquire story on Junior Johnson? ...

People Will Say We're in Love

Here's Frank Deford's classic 1985 Sports Illustrated bonus piece, "The Boxer and the Blonde":...

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