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Kenneth Faried Topped Off His Big Game Last Night By Vomiting And Scaring Away His Teammates
Kenneth Faried played 29 minutes last night in Denver's win against San Antonio, posting 19 points and 11 rebounds. All well and good. But consider: According to the Denver Post, Faried was sick with a cold and flu. He sat the final seven minutes of the third quarter before re-entering at the star...

WWE's Daniel Bryan Tapping Out To A 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient Is Just As Adorable As It Sounds
Oh, this is great. WWE was in Pittsburgh to tape Raw last night, and before the show Daniel Bryan dropped by the hospital to meet one of his biggest fans, 7-year-old Conner "Stone Crusher" Michalek....

Christian Ponder And Samantha Steele Got Married
Early September-ish: Vikings QB Christian Ponder meets ESPN blonde lady Samantha Steele at a filming of College GameDay. Despite both having jobs that regularly take them around the country, they found time to start a relationship....

Yes, Jim Lampley's Glasses Have Real Lenses
It's recently become an odd topic of speculation that HBO boxing commentator and occasional bad decision maker Jim Lampley wears glasses on-air that don't have any lenses in them. This speculation, indeed, has come up inside the Deadspin offices. After all, they're so damn clear! There's no glare! ...

The 15 Or So Most Watchable Teams In College Basketball: An Occasional Ranking
An occasional ranking of college basketball teams on the basis of watchability and with very little regard to how good they might be....

Adrian Peterson's Lead Blocker Deserves Some Praise
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: AP averages 3.9 more yards per carry when Jerome Felton is blocking for him....

Quentin Tarantino, Slave To His Habits: <em>Django Unchained</em>, Reviewed
1. Django Unchained is giddily entertaining, powerful, confident filmmaking by a guy who keeps finding new tricks up his sleeve with every movie. It's a big, sprawling statement that throws everything at the wall and sees what sticks, which has always been one of the strengths of Quentin Tarantino, ...

Terrible Human Being Donald Sterling Ordered To Pay $17.3 Million For Being A Negligent Landlord
That Clippers owner Donald Sterling is a racist, cheap, and all-round rotten pile of puke is not newsworthy. But this latest line item on Sterling's ledger of awfulness certainly is: An LA jury has ordered Sterling to pay $17.3 million to actress Robyn Cohen, who had sued him because she lost most o...

This Might Be The Oldest Surviving American Soccer Footage
If you're interesting in the long, under-celebrated history of American soccer, I can't recommend enough the uploads from Youtube user "soccermavn." There are old ads, footage of NASL's glory days, and even video of the short-lived United Soccer Association. (Update: He apparently got lots of thes...

Photo: The Packers Fan Captured In Its Natural Habitat
The Minnesota-Green Bay game earlier this month that culminated a mass brawl involving a man in a purple sombrero has also spawned this gem of a picture, a self-shot of two visiting fans marred bettered by a photobombing by the Platonic ideal of a Packers fan....

Here Is A Gif Of Wade Boggs Attempting To Dance At Last Night's Oklahoma City Thunder Game
We're not sure why Wade Boggs decided to drop by last night's Spurs-Thunder game, but we're glad he did. In the fourth quarter, just before a Russell Westbrook free throw, the Fox Sports Oklahoma cameras found the baseball Hall of Famer in the stands—after which he boogied a bit in his seat....

Takeru Kobayashi Eating Hot Dogs In Slow Motion Is Just As Gross As You'd Expect It To Be
This video comes to us courtesy of Animal New York, and it features Takeru Kobayashi, everyone's favorite eater in exile, wolfing down 12 hot dogs in 60 seconds. In slow motion. It's pretty gross. Although we must admit that the musical score does add a certain artistic flair....

Jim Boeheim Closed His Press Conference Last Night With A Call For More Gun Control
Last night, Syracuse men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim earned his 900th career victory when his team defeated the University of Detroit Mercy 72-68. After the game, though, Boeheim seemed to have the tragedy in Newtown on his mind, as he ended with some spirited words about gun control. Boeheim a...

Dale Murphy's Son Drew His Dad This Heartwarming Cartoon
It's Dale Murphy's 15th and final year on the Hall of Fame ballot, and while his chances of getting in are slim, his children are doing their part to honor him the way they remember him. Tyson Murphy isn't a sports fan—he's an artist at Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer responsible fo...

Even Though The Colts Lost, Center A.Q. Shipley Picked A Winner
The Texans rolled past Indianapolis Sunday by a 29-17 score, and it left many Colts players to search for answers. Others, meanwhile, went digging for gold....

10 Sports GIFs That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
Deadspin published a feature last night that amplified the already-concentrated sense of dread among reasonable, well-meaning Americans. Some of you responded with emotional outbursts of hatred toward humanity in general. We feel you're owed something more uplifting today, so we've collected 10 spo...

Other Than The Part Where <em>Lincoln</em> Made You Horny About Roger Goodell, How Was The Movie, Peter King?
Peter King sat through eight hours of Wikipedia on film and reports back: ...

Here's What Happens When A Card Company Asks NBA Players To Draw Stuff
The...thing you see above is supposed to be the Texas Longhorns logo, drawn by Cleveland Cavaliers sophomore Tristan Thompson, who played college ball at the University of Texas. Instead, it resembles a morose man-bunny....

Colin Kaepernick Wrote A Letter To Himself In Fourth Grade Predicting That He'd Become A Pro Football Player
The adorable, hand-scrawled letter you see above was splashed on the screen during last night's Sunday Night Football broadcast and was written by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick when he was in fourth grade. It's a motivational letter in which young Kaepernick lays out his plans fo...

Report: London Fletcher's Family Involved In Altercation With Cleveland Fans, Aunt Suffers Heart Attack
Following the Redskins' 38-21 win over the Browns in Cleveland, several members of London Fletcher's family were reportedly involved in an altercation with Browns fans that resulted in three arrests and one hospitalization. Fletcher is a Cleveland native and this was the first NFL game he played in...