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Here's Dennis Rodman Singing "Happy Birthday" To Kim Jong-un
Despite yesterday's mini-mutiny, the game between the Rodman-led former NBA players and a team of North Korean all-stars went off without a hitch today. The NBAers lost the game, because they'd like to return home, but before tip-off Rodman led the crowd in a serenade of Supreme Leader for his birth...
Texas Booster Says Charlie Strong "Would Make A Great Position Coach"
Nearly everyone thinks Texas did right when they tapped Charlie Strong to be their next head coach—everyone outside of Texas, anyway....
Seven Former NBA Players Join Dennis Rodman In North Korea
Dennis Rodman has recruited some allies on his latest basketball diplomacy trip to North Korea. Rodman's team will be playing a team of North Korean all-stars on Wednesday, "a birthday present" for BFF Kim Jong-un. ...
Jon Gruden Begs NFL Teams To Stop Firing Coaches Just For Him
Five NFL coaches lost their jobs on Monday, just the latest round of mass firings aimed at clearing out possible jobs for Jon Gruden. A year earlier, NFL teams fired seven coaches in hopes that Gruden would want to move in. Some teams would apparently consider Gruden's younger brother, Jay, on the w...
Report: The Knicks Have A Very Knicks Plan For How To Stop Sucking
The Knicks are so bad. After getting massacred by the Thunder on Christmas day, the team that won 54 games last year—which, god, how the hell did this team ever win 54 games?—is sitting at 9-19 and reportedly ready to go back to the drawing board. And what's on the drawing board? "Make all the good ...
Bill Simmons To Produce Movie Starring Deadspin Commenter Jon Hamm
Here's an interesting piece of news from the Hollywood Reporter:...
North Korean Prison Camp Survivor Writes Open Letter To Dennis Rodman
Dennis Rodman is back visiting his buddy Kim Jong-un on yet another PR trip—PR for Rodman, for the Irish betting company that's sponsoring his trip, and for North Korea itself. It comes days after a massive and deadly purge of perceived challenges to Kim's power, and as an American citizen has langu...
Jerry Jones On Why The NFL Is Like The Oregon Trail
From Jerry Jones's interview on 105.3 The Fan, as transcribed by Dan Steinberg at DC Sports Bog (because for some reason this was in response to a question about the Redskins):...
Completely Operational. <em>Her</em>, Reviewed.
1. "Don't knock masturbation," says Woody Allen's Alvy Singer in Annie Hall. "It's sex with someone I love." Her is many things, but at its heart, it's a clear-minded, alternately romantic and fatalist look at what, precisely, we are falling in love with when we are "falling in love." Falling in lov...
MLB's Biogenesis Documents Are So, So Dirty
As more and more comes out about MLB's Biogenesis investigation, we're forced to conclude this whole thing is just an Elmore Leonard novel. After the arrest of a man accused of breaking into whistleblower Porter Fischer's car, here's where it now stands: MLB bought Biogenesis documents from a guy wh...
Shawne Merriman Took Off In The Middle Of An Interview On ESPN2
Former Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman came on Highly Questionable this afternoon, purportedly to discuss the 11th Annual Lights On Foundation Coat Drive. The Lights On Foundation is a Merriman charity and it fights homelessness. ...
Jon Gruden Has His Hands Full With Mike Tirico
It's probably a safe bet that Mike Tirico's inner monologue is something along the lines of Yup, this is going to be on the internet....
Listen To Jacoby Jones Right After Mike Tomlin Got In His Way
The Ravens' site just put up footage from the Baltimore sideline right after the Mike Tomlin screwed with Jacoby Jones's return. It's pretty great. ...
Slap Me Five
A few years ago at ESPN the Magazine, Jon Mooallem wrote a piece on the history and mystery of the high five:...
Mike Tomlin Steps Onto Field, Prevents Jacoby Jones From Scoring TD
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin sees Jason Kidd's staged soda spill and raises him an "'accidentally' step onto field and prevent Jacoby Jones from reaching the end zone on a kickoff return."...
Todd Jones Does Not Believe Todd Jones Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Todd Jones, who had a lengthy and perfectly respectable career as a reliever, has some thought on his appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot:...