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Select Your Own All-Time Greatest Jewish-American Basketball Team!
Hey, this is funnnn! It spits out customized scouting reports and everything. (My chosen ones, The Stars of David Stern, have "terrible" chemistry thanks to the "notoriously testy" Art Heyman.) Gregg Easterbrook should make one for the entertainment industry. [Tablet/FreeDarko]...
Joakim Noah Went Into A Steam Room With John Elway And Lived To Tell The Tale
During the Bulls annual "Circus Trip," two important events took place that may chart the course for the rest of the team's season: they shared Thanksgiving dinner together as a team, and Joakim Noah shared a hotel steam room with John Elway....
Man Arrested For Kicking Police Horse Outside Texans Game
A Houston man was arrested Sunday for kicking a police horse outside of Reliant Park, thereby making Andre Johnson's beatdown of Cortland Finnegan the second most lopsided physical altercation in Texas that day....
In Which We Veer Toward Animal Cruelty In Our Inaugural Lobster Roof Race
We received a LobsterGram, it's less delicious than a candygram, but it's more fun because it comes with live lobsters. We didn't know what to do with them (before cooking them) so we raced them on the Gawker HQ roof deck. Watch....
Happy Belated Birthday Vin Scully, Here's A Great Moment In Live-TV Parachuting History
During that famous Game 6 of the '86 World Series, a Mets fan parachuted onto the field with a "Go Mets" sign and a whole lotta balls. That Vin Scully—who celebrated his 83rd birthday yesterday—made a perfect call is gravy....
Worst Person In The World Steals Pat Burns's Wallet At His Funeral
While the late coach's ashes were being interred in a miniature Stanley Cup, someone broke into his widow's car and stole jewelry, 30 autographed jerseys and his wallet. [AP]...
Welp, We're Never Going Swimming Again
An underwater viewing window at a high school pool shattered, sucking a student and an instructor through the broken glass. The student remains hospitalized, but I think we're all traumatized for having read this. [Channel 3000, h/t ArkansasFred]...
Go Listen To Leitch And The FreeDarko Guys Stammer At Each Other Tomorrow
New Yorkers: Leitch is moderating a discussion with the FreeDarko authors from 7-8 p.m. tomorrow at the Strand. Drinks to follow. [NYMag.com, art by Jacob Weinstein via the FreeDarko store]...
Hockey Player's Face Gets Bloodied While Lady With A Pink BlackBerry Cover Sort Of Watches
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Boxer Shot And Stabbed By Husband So Burglar Sees Perfect Chance To Strike
On Tuesday, boxer Christy Martin was shot and stabbed, allegedly by her husband. She's still in the hospital. Her husband's still on the lam. So, some classy folk(s) decided the time was right to break in. [Orlando Sentinel]...
Felix Pie Throws Major League Tantrum In Winter League Ball
The one-time super prospect is working on his skills in the Dominican. The Orioles are thrilled with his shitfit development. [Bob's Blitz]...
So, Yeah, Auburn's Losing By A Lot
It's 24-7 Alabama at halftime of the Iron Bowl. We're 30 minutes away from the BCS shitstorm to end all BCS shitstorms. At least the NCAA could take their time with the Cam Newton investigation....
Ryan Zimmerman's Wedding Dance Should Be The Next Dougie
The Nationals' non-Strasburg franchise player attended the wedding of a high school teammate over the weekend, and it was was of those "wacky" ceremonies where the wedding party has choreographed entrances. Zim didn't let them down....
Cycleball Is The Sport Of The Future
Wired Playbook had something yesterday about cycleball: a niche sport that combines soccer, hockey, basketball, and bike riding to create a spectacle as absurd as it sounds. It's also amazing....
Get In The Sports Fella's Live Chat And Cause Some Trouble
The Sports Fella's live-chat is happening right now, so try and slip a question by his zombie horde of screeners, gang....
This Marginal NFL Player Has Impregnated This Horrible Reality TV Monster Lady
File this under things we wish we didn't know, and wish we didn't care about. But Kroy Biermann has knocked up one of the Real Housewives Of Atlanta....
Ducks Forward's Empty-Netter Seals Game (For The Oilers)
Anaheim's Corey Perry was just trying to set up a teammate in front of the net as the clocked ticked down. Instead, he ended up committing one of the biggest goofs in recent memory....
Here's Video Of The Knockout Of The Year Getting Delivered In Atlantic City Last Night
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Jim Leyritz Found Not Guilty of Felony Manslaughter, Guilty Of Misdemeanor DUI
Looks like a judge forcing the jury back into deliberations when they cried "deadlocked!" worked out well for former Yankee Jim Leyritz. From the Sun Sentinel ......
This Taurus Likes Long Manhunts, Smiling Perp Walks And Allegedly Shooting Football Players
The Hattiesburg American reports that a "massive manhunt" stemming from last weekend's "hunt club" shooting of a trio of Southern Miss Golden Eagle football players ended last night with Travis "Taurus" Brown's arrest....