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Chris Broussard Doesn't Know How To Spell "Memphis"
Prior to ESPN's broadcast of tonight's Celtics-Mavericks matchup, there was an odd whiteboard round-table discussion during which we learned analyst Chris Broussard struggles with the spelling of the Bluff City....
Of All The Great NBA Uniforms To Steal, Kuwaiti Pro Team Chooses The Wizards
If you were going to pattern your club after an NBA team, it'd have to be the Wiz, right, right? Al Kuwait, which plays in, yes, Kuwait, is getting some press after photos of their jerseys made the rounds. It's nearly identical to the Wizards' new jerseys, right down to the red white and blue repres...
Yao, Panda. Panda, Yao.
Yo, panda, real talk for a second: I cannot get enough of you posing with basketball players wearing the Official China Panda Blue Smock. It's like, they're so big and goofy and you're so little and fuzzy and greyscale, and they've always got that wonderful little smock to avoid rubbing their sweaty...
Expect To See A Lot More Of Jim Rome, As CBS Plans To Use Him For Nearly All The Sports They Broadcast
Details of Jim Rome's future with CBS emerged today when new boss Sean McManus showed up on Rome's radio show to discuss all the ways the Tiffany Network plans to exploit their acquisition....
Iowa Basketball Coach Fran McCaffery Loses His Shit, Berates Refs And Players, Slams A Chair
Your morning roundup for Jan. 11, the day we learned Siberia saved the animals. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Matt Garza Could Be Bound For Detroit
Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!...
At Least One New Packers Shareholder Received An Official Certificate From The "Green Boy Packers, Inc."
Last month, for just the fifth time in the team's 92-year history, the publicly owned Packers launched a stock offering for 250,000 shares in the franchise. Here's the official certificate that a fan named Arvind received in the mail recently, which boldly acknowledges him as a shareholder in the "G...
Deadspin Inquires: Was Floyd Mayweather's Dustup With Larry Merchant A Put-On?
We're creating a new feature, folks. It's called Deadspin Inquires. You send us a sports question to investigate. It could be a riddle, an enigma, an urban legend, or just something that's been bugging you. Did Sonny Liston throw the Lewiston fight against Ali? Was Bison Dele eaten by his brother ...
John Parr Updates His 1985 Hit "St. Elmo's Fire" For Tim Tebow
The song originally written to honor Canadian Paralympic hero Rick "Man In Motion" Hansen is now paying tribute to another athlete who's on a roll who's inspiring people worldwide. John Parr, who earned a Grammy nom in 1985 for "St. Elmo's Fire," released his updated version yesterday featuring ly...
There's A Four-Letter Word On The Four-Letter Network At The 3-D Party
Well that's unfortunate....
Surfing Bro Surfs On His Moving Car's Windshield
This dude, far as we know, has no real back story to him yet; he is just some dude who chose to climb out of his car sunroof on a country road and surf on the windshield in his surfer shorts while his fellow dude filmed from below. He is known on The Internet so far as "Crazy Dude," and that seems...
Barry Larkin Is In The Hall Of Fame
Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!...
Dustin Penner Is Out With Pancake-Related Back Spasms
The L.A. Kings winger missed Saturday's game, and is questionable for tonight. He's still trying to get over a recent onset of back spasms, triggered by an insidiously hearty breakfast....
Black-Hatted Mystery Man And Alleged Scorecard Meddler At Amir Khan Fight Identified
The boxing world was abuzz last week with the revelation that a gentleman in an extremely shady black hat might have interfered with judges' scorecards while ringside at the Amir Khan-Lamont Peterson fight in Washington, D.C. in December. At least that's what the Khan camp alleged. (Khan lost both h...
Todd Bozeman Is In Trouble Again, This Time For (Maybe) Hitting One Of His Players
That would be the same Todd Bozeman whose once-promising coaching career hit a snag when he was at Cal in the mid-1990s because he admitted he had paid a recruit's family $30,000. The affair kept Bozeman away from the college game for 10 years after the NCAA slapped him with a show-cause penalty, b...
This Is What It's Like When Your Bungee Cord Breaks While Hurtling Toward Victoria Falls
Australian college student Erin Langworthy went on a summer vacation to Africa, and decided to take the tourist plunge—literally—taking a New Year's Eve bungee jump from the Zambezi river bridge at Victoria Falls, along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe....
Last Night's Phoenix Coyotes Broadcast Featured Some Lady's Five-Hole
It's unclear where the blame falls for this shot that lingered for several seconds up this woman's skirt: on the director who zoomed in, on the woman for whom modesty seems not to be an issue, or on Fox Sports Arizona reporter Tyson Nash for wearing such a ridiculous outfit. Either way, it's a howl...
Professional Bowler Does Thing You Usually Only See From The Very Drunk
Josh Blanchard is a rookie PBA bowler. If he manages to have a long career in pro bowling, he's unlikely to ever live this moment down, from a World Championship qualifier in Las Vegas today....
NFL Wildcard Weekend Open Thread: Atlanta Falcons At New York Giants
Day two of the best weekend ever kicks off from New Jersey with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman guiding us through all the things they're not so sure wouldn't, shouldn't, couldn't or didn't happen....
Eli Manning and Matt Ryan: Post-Turnover Face-Off
The quarterback matchup today isn't just about who can throw for more touchdowns, it's also about who can make the most ridiculous face after giving one away to the other team. While the Manning face is certainly more renowned, Matt Ryan is certainly no slouch. In anticipation of today's head-to-h...