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We'd Say These NBA Finals Are A Bit More Entertaining Than Last Year's
We didn't get to make a pre-series prediction yesterday because we were being all wussy misty-eyed, but we would have gone with Lakers in five. Oops....
An Inconvenient Truth ... For The Lakers
My name is Matt McHale and Paul Pierce is the motherf—-ing truth. Quote me on that and don't take nothing out. Oh, and please visit Basketbawful. Enjoy!...
About Last Night
What you missed while using your binoculars to watch a bearded tit ... • NBA: Wheelchair basketball ... Pierce shakes off knee injury, leads Celtics over Lakers in Game 1. • MLB: Cole Hamels > Ken Griffey Jr. Phillies 5, Reds 0. • MLB: Please don't televise the draft again. Thanks....
Paul Pierce One-Leggedly Asserts Himself In Game One
As Paul Pierce lay underneath the basket, writhing in pain, a trainer ominously hovering, it appeared a Boston victory in this game, this series, was highly unlikely. Pierce gets carried off the court, still grimacing and immobile, in a manner that would suggest he'd either been stung by a Man O'War...
Everything In Its Right Place
So, obviously the news of today was rather jarring for those of us currently employed at this fine establishment. Not surprising, but jarring, nonetheless....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your robbery attempt is foiled by a rodeo clown ... • Major League Lacrosse: Philadelphia at Long Island (9:30 p.m., ET). I am so down with this. NBA Finals, you never had a chance. [ESPN2] • NBA: Finals, Game 1, Los Angeles Lakers at Boston (9 p.m., ET). Boston-area smugness ind...
NBA Finals Game 1: A Preview
Basketbawful has broken out the highest quality Wiccan spell components - coffin nails, dead sea salt, glory water, graveyard dirt, and a very phallic ritual candle - to uncover the darkest mysteries of tonight's NBA Finals (yes, Finals) game....
NFL's Steroid Dealing Snitch Found Dead
It was only a matter of time before this whole shady steroids-in-the NFL business got a little Dateline-like momentum, and today, it happened....
Singing The Praises Of The Lakers-Celtics Rivalry
Believe it or not, there was a time when the biggest problem that Isiah Thomas had was random Boston Celtics attempting to place shoes on his head. The year was 1987, and that's not just any Celtic, actually; it's the great Kevin McHale. The last year that Boston has been in the NBA Finals also happ...
Still Krazy After All These Years
So these three kids in Oakland Athletics Little League uniforms come up to me and ask who the manic little bald man with the drum is. They had seen me talking with him, but hadn't worked up the nerve to approach him themselves. "That's Krazy George, the most famous cheerleader of all time," I say. ...
A Note From Your Editor
We started this site on September 8, 2005, with a simple headline: "Welcome to Deadspin. We Come With a Pure Heart and Mirthful Disposition." We think that's still pretty much true; we try to keep our disposition mirthful at all times. But sometimes that's more difficult to do than others; this is...
Tiger, Phil, The Whole Gang
• The U.S. Open pairings should make for great TV. [The Sports Point] • The dumb things people do at sporting events. [Sportscrack] • When Hillary took over the Mariners. [Enjoy The Enjoyment] • Honor Terry Porter! [Blazers Edge] • Love for the Red Wings keeps flowing in. [My Brain Says Rage] • Lake...
The Law Finally Catches Up With The Cruzin Cooler
You may think that this is a free nation; where a man can enjoy a full day of holiday drinking and then drive home peacefully on his motorized cooler without being harrassed by the authorities. But you'd be wrong. A Whitehall, N.Y. man found that out on Memorial Day when he was pulled over while dri...
Media Approval Ratings: Frank Deford
We still can't quite get over Daulerio's interview with Frank Deford. This is still our favorite part:...
Duke Helps Ladies' Buttocks Feel More Comfortable
Because it's Thursday, and no Thursday is complete without some toilet humor, let's take a look at the great work done for women at the Duke football stadium....
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Chuck Klosterman Revisits The Lakers-Celtics Rivalry
Readers of Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs" will remember the particularly amusing essay about the Lakers-Celtics rivalry of the '80s. To quote:...
Strap In, Folks: The MLB First-Year Player Draft Is Today!
We love baseball more than just about anything else on earth, so we appreciate them trying, but sorry, MLB: We just can't get excited about the MLB First-Year Player Draft today. (It starts at 2 p.m. ET, so set your Tivos to "stun.")...
Call The Kids, It's Another Profanity-Laced Tirade!
Ah, to return to the halcyon days of March 31, when the Mariners were 1-0 and all was right with the world. But today they're 18 games below .500, having lost four straight and 12 of their past 15. The latest, a 4-3 5-4 loss to the Angels, prompted manager John McLaren to spew some choice profanitie...
Loving That Stanley Cup
As is abundantly clear around here, we're hardly the biggest hockey experts, but we're still human, which means we really love the Stanley Cup Trophy. So rarely is any piece of hardware treated with such reverence; heck, in baseball, they try to hump the damn trophy....