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Trouble Is My Business
“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”...

Deadspin Up All Night: Spin It Back To Me
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I do believe the night shift is about ready to rock....

Fred Smoot Is Back With More Disgusting Sex Lingo
Fred Smoot, who is best known for double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, has seemingly stumbled into a new career: coming up with disgusting euphemisms for oral sex....

Karl Malone And Enes Kanter Caught A Tiny Fish
Enes Kanter went fishing with Karl Malone. Karl's wife posted this photo, captioned "His first fish." Fishing with Karl Malone is better than hunting with Karl Malone....

Kobe Bryant Reduces Adult Fan To Tears
Kobe's on his annual China tour (these always get a little nuts), and his latest stop in Shenzhen brought one man to the brink of hysterics. And keep in mind—he only saw Kobe from a distance....

Worst Games Of The 2013-2014 NBA Season
Wednesday, October 30, 2013: Boston Celtics at Toronto Raptors...

How The Hell Do I Make Ribs?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...

Brooklyn Cyclones' Jackie Robinson Statue Defaced With Racist Graffiti
Overnight, someone spray painted the statute outside the Cyclones' Coney Island ballpark with swastikas and racist slurs, including the words "die nigger."...

Friday Night Tights
Michael J. Mooney's 2010 New Times story on women football players:...

The Killing of Gus Hasford
A monster story from the late Grover Lewis:...

Shabazz Muhammad Sent Home From Rookie Program For Having Girl In Room
USA Today reports that Timberwoves rookie Shabazz Muhammad was sent home from the NBA's Rookie Transition Program today. Why? Because he had *gasp* a girl in his room, and unauthorized guests are strictly forbidden at the transition program....

How I Broke The Biogenesis Story: A Chat With The Man Who Scooped MLB
We're joined by Tim Elfrink, managing editor at the Miami New Times and the man who first uncovered one of the biggest scandals in baseball history. Ask him how the story came together, what he thinks of MLB's investigation, the state of alt-weeklies, and anything else that comes to mind....

Punches Thrown At Packers Training Camp Fight
There’s no NFL tradition more dependable than the practice fight in the week before preseason play begins. The Packers did their part this morning with not one, not two, but three separate scuffles on the same drill—the last and biggest culminating with Jermichael Finley exchanging right crosses wit...


Vikings Owner Zygi Wilf Likely To Pay Huge Sum In Fraud Case
Here's a quick reminder that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam isn't the only NFL owner to have had his name linked with some shady business dealings. Vikings owner and real estate mogul Zygi Wilf is now on the hook for what could end up being tens of millions of dollars after losing a civil suit to former ...

Cancer Sucks. RIP, Babe
When most of us think of Babe Ruth, if we think of him at all, we think of the booze-liking, pussy-loving, dinger-slamming manchild with the Mr. Incredible physique (massive upper body perched atop those incongruously skinny, even dainty little legs). But after all these years, and all the stories t...

Victor Oladipo And Cody Zeller Posterize Their Fellow Rookies
The posterizing meme lives on, thanks to NBA rookies and former college teammates Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller. ...

Can I Have Your Autograph?
Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...

Mind The Gap
From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...

Legends Of The Fall
Fight fans as well as movie fans will enjoy this—George Kimball’s wonderful piece about Budd Schulberg’s memorial service back in the fall of 2009....