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NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Divisional Round (Late Edition)
Below is your late betting info for the divisional-round playoff games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement is now included, and the money lines, over/unders, and bet trend have been updated. I've also added one extra data point: the over/under movement from the opening line. S...
Cherrypick Your Way Through 143 Years Of Baseball Stats
Did you know that Curt Schilling led the league in complete games from 1992-2001? That Tim Raines led the league in hits from 1981-87? That Fred McGriff led the league in home runs from 1987-95? All great stats to argue for your favorite player's HOF admission, made possible by the magic of cherrypi...
Bobby Valentine Suspected Ruben Sierra Of Roiding, Was Told To Drop It
Former MLB manager and current NBC baseball analyst Bobby Valentine opened up to WFAN today, expressing exasperation at Mike Piazza's Hall of Fame denial and suggesting that he suspected at least one player of steroid use as early as the 1980's....
Prep Star Who Survived Two Plane Crashes Returns To Court In Style
Austin Hatch, a 6-foot-6 senior forward who plays for Loyola High School in Los Angeles, Calif., hasn't played basketball since surviving a 2011 plane crash that left him in a medically induced coma. Last night, he returned to the court for the first time in over three years, and he brought the god...
Russian Poll: You Have No Choice But To Be Excited About The Olympics
This poll is currently on the front page of Sochi2014.com, the official page of the upcoming Winter Olympics. I'm pretty sure that if you select "Other," the FSB shows up at your door to whisk you off to a gulag. ...
Hey, It's Three Years (And A Day) Since Marshawn Lynch Went Beast Mode
Three-year anniversaries aren't usually news pegs. (Three years and a day, even less so, but hey, we were busy.) Saturday's Saints-Seahawks playoff rematch makes it a little more defensible. But let's be honest—we don't really need reason to want to revisit and marvel over Marshawn Lynch's incredibl...
Blake Griffin Did That Thing He Does All Over Poor Kris Humphries
Listen, Kris Humphries, if you don't know by now that standing in Blake Griffin's way is only going to get you a face full of elbow or balls followed by an emasculating stare down, then I don't know what to tell you. Just stay out of the way, man! ...
Reports: Jay Gruden Will Be New Redskins Head Coach
That's the word from just about everywhere. The Bengals' offensive coordinator, and one of the most successful players and coaches in Arena League history, is expected to be introduced later today....
Report: The Dolphins Are A Dysfunctional Mess Behind The Scenes
Even juicier than Black Monday in the NFL is the semi-regular "here's how truly screwed up this franchise was" post-mortem feature in a local paper. Yesterday, Armando Salguero in the Miami Herald gave us a peek into the power struggle that forced out Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland, and it's a ugly....
For Some Reason Louisville Has Intentionally Hired Bobby Petrino
Multiple reports, following Yahoo's Pat Forde, are saying that Bobby Petrino — liar, scoundrel, indifferent recruiter, proven winner — will be the new head coach at Louisville, the very program he ditched in 2006 for a short stint with the Atlanta Falcons....
Padres Legend Jerry Coleman Was The Yogi Berra You Never Knew
You'd better go to other people's funerals, else they won't go to yours. Even if you don't know the source of the quip — that'd be Lawrence Peter Berra, known to the world as Yogi — it'll follow its speaker to the grave. Like Casey Stengel, another of baseball's never-ending fortune cookies, Berra h...
Deadspin Up All Night: Everybody's Watching TV
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. You did good, folks....
Should Tre Mason Have Taken A Knee?
Over on Slate, Advanced NFL Stats' Brian Burke tries his hand at answering a classic armchair-QB question from Monday's national-title game: Should Tre Mason have taken a knee before that last Auburn touchdown?...
Chris Kluwe Says Wishing Unemployment On Mike Priefer Was "Too Harsh"
In his column alleging that Vikings special teams coach Mike Preifer used homophobic slurs and pushed him off the team, Chris Kluwe said he wanted to make sure Priefer "never holds a coaching position again in the NFL, and ideally never coaches at any level." He's backing off that a bit....
The Time Jayson Werth's Great Dane Peed On The Clubhouse Nats Logo
Washington Post Nationals beat guys Adam Kilgore and James Wagner did an AMA on Reddit today. There's more analysis and predictions than war stories, but Kilgore did share one delightful locker room moment from 2012:...
Tyson Vs. Ali
A performance piece at PS122 reviewed in the Times and also featured in the Wall Street Journal. ...
Bull Skating Is A Sport That Is Real And Awesome
You know the part in Westerns where a bad guy gallops off with some widow's or orphan's horse, so the roguish anti-hero tears after him on his own stallion, and when he catches up to him the two battle it out stride by stride until the anti-hero finally shoots the bad guy off and thus has to corral ...
Robin Lopez Has Some Mysterious Beef With The Raptors' Mascot
Willamette Week has a pretty great interview with Blazers center Robin Lopez, one of the smarter and funnier guys in the league. It's well worth your time, but I want to draw your attention to one cryptic exchange:...