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Baron Davis Says He Wasn't Making A Smoking Gesture When He Made That Smoking Gesture
Baron Davis and his agent, Todd Ramasar, got smoke in their eyes over the suggestion that Davis had mimicked toking a spliff after knocking down a 3-pointer during the Knicks' loss to the Nets on Monday night. Davis first got high and mighty on Twitter last night in an attempt to clear the air:...
Former Virginia Lacrosse Player George Huguely Found Guilty Of Second-Degree Murder
Yeardley Love's murder occurred in May 2010, when a drunken Huguely, according to police, choked Love, his girlfriend, and slammed her head against the wall. He stole her computer (Huguely was also convicted of grand larceny) and left her there....
Glory Days: I Was Paul Pierce's Nightmare (In A Game We Lost By 58 Points)
Sports greatness takes place all the time, all over the country. Sometimes, as with our own Tommy Craggs, those moments of triumph are preserved forever, even if it's on a crappy videotape that's been forgotten about and no one's watched it for years. In this occasional series, we'll show the vid...
Is Steve Nash A Time Traveler?
When reader Sam sent us some old photos of sports teams, we were intrigued. Old sports photos are cool—especially seeing the uniforms of the day. Yet not being able to place where the photos were taken (or who might be in them) left us guessing....
Antawn Jamison Likes Playing With Kyrie Irving "Even Though He's A Dukie"
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Tobacco Road on the Cuyahoga....
Maybe Albert Pujols Abandoned The Cardinals, But He Took The Midwestern Mawkishness With Him
ESPN LA reports that Pujols is uncomfortable with the Angels' "El Hombre" billboards, because Stan Musial is the only person ever to be called "the man" before, and he's the greatest man ever to have lived, and Albert Pujols, mighty and moral though he might be, could never compare. "I still have th...
Italian Copy Editor Won't Let A Day Go By Without Offering An Apology For "Chink In The Armor" Headline
Anthony Federico, the editor behind ESPN's notorious Jeremy Lin headline, took to long-form Twitter today to apologize:...
Photoshop Contest: That Jerkoff Kid Behind Doug Gottlieb
We can't stop marveling at the brilliant juvenile hijinks displayed last night at the Kansas State-Missouri game by the young man sitting directly behind Doug Gottlieb, which our own Tim Burke so memorably captured in a .gif we posted this morning. But there's no reason for the fun to stop there; t...
Oscar Week: In Defense Of <i>Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close</i>
Tim Grierson and Will Leitch will be writing regularly on Gawker and Deadspin about movies, starting this week. We begin with defending the indefensible: praising the Oscar-nominated movie everyone seems to hate. Today, why you're wrong for hating Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Follow Grierson &...
Leonard Weaver Will Never Play Football Again
Leonard Weaver was coming off a Pro Bowl season and had just signed a three-year deal with Philadelphia, one of the richest contracts handed out to a fullback. It was his very first carry of the 2010 NFL season, and the play called for Weaver to go right. He went left instead, and his planted leg ...
Porto's Nicolás Otamendi Suffered Friendly Fire To The Face In Today's Europa League Match
If the first leg of the Porto-Manchester City Europa League round featured insult, then it figures the return trip to Manchester would feature injury—and this is a nasty one. Porto defender Nicolás Otamendi took a boot to the face in what appears to be a lost cause, as an early (first minute!) Man...
Bobby Jenks Is Not Fat Anymore
Chipper Jones might be fat. You know who is not fat? Red Sox reliever Bobby Jenks is not fat. The photo at right illustrated a Boston Globe story in January about Jenks's back surgery. He won't be ready in time for the first few games of spring training, but he will be newly svelte when he gets ther...
APSE Continues To Take Firm Stand Against Thing
Yesterday we brought you the breaking news that the Associated Press Sports Editors had released a statement about...something. No longer would they sit quietly by; as the gatekeepers of journalism, they had to draw a line in the sand and say "no more." It wasn't clear what they were against, but wh...
Help Us Identify These Hundred-Year-Old Sports Photos
A reader named Sam sent along some wonderful old photos, taken more than a century ago, of what appear to be local sports teams. Sam says the photos were in the possession of his late grandmother, but they have no provenance beyond that....
Professional Athlete Used Recreational Drug
Flame-throwing Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario—who missed all of 2011 and part of the 2010 season—faces a 25-game suspension at the start of this season because of a positive cocaine test, he told reporters today. Belisario said he couldn't leave Venezuela last year because he had tested positive ...
Brady Quinn Got Kind Of Screwed On His Tebow Comments
Yesterday, Yahoo writer Michael Silver's oral history of Tebowmania was published. We praised it for the sheer amount of reporting that went into it, but we also expressed hope that Brady Quinn's comments wouldn't be singled out—while we singled out Brady Quinn's comments. Nobody has been able to ta...
An Interview With The 160-Pound Test Proctor Who Is Challenging Musician Chris Brown To An MMA Fight
In 2009, entertainer Chris Brown was charged with felony assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna and sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service. The man behind the Twitter handle @ChrsBrwnChllnge, who hasn't disclosed his name besides saying that his initials are D.G., doesn...
Doug Gottlieb Talks, Kid Behind Him Says Something Else
Your morning roundup for Feb. 22. Image via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
One Winnipeg Fan Vehemently Disapproved Of Wayne Simmonds's Game-Tying Goal
"The Jets will have to settle for one point and another in a long line of learning experiences. Philadelphia's Jaromir Jagr scored with 43.6 seconds left in overtime on the Flyers' 55th shot of the game, giving them a 5-4 victory on Tuesday night at the MTS Centre. Holding a 4-3 lead in the final m...