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The Plays That Power The Creighton Offense, The Best In A Decade
Since the beginning of the KenPom era in 2002-03—college basketball's own little Copernican Revolution, during which the laws of the universe finally began to piece themselves together—there hasn't been an offense as efficient or as skilled as the 2014 Creighton Bluejays. But exactly how it operate...
We Have Found The Worst March Madness Bracket Ever
The regular "bad bracket" is boring. There's not much fun in mocking someone else's picks. We're all throwing darts at the same dartboard, after all. But the bracket you see above, which was sent to us by a tipster who is presumably in the same tourney pool, is something else. It's an impressive hot...
Inside The Barclays Center's Mysterious Meditation Room
In exchange for giving Forest City Ratner more than $300 million in public subsidies to build the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn (and that's not counting additional tax breaks and below-market land), the developer promised to give back to the community, including affordable housing, and new ra...
Soccer Broke My Brain
Check out this powerful story over at Aeon by Rebecca Ruiz: ...
University Of Tennessee Baseball Team Sprints To Clean Up Field
Tennessee's baseball team is 17-2 this season, which is nice, but it's not why we're here. We're here today because the Volunteers have an entertaining and simple method for cleaning up the field before a game: do it as quickly as possible. ...
Gerald Green's 41-Point Game Gets The <em>NBA Jam</em> Treatment
We like Gerald Green, because when his jumper is falling and he's springing up for huge dunks, he can make you feel like you're watching the real-life version of NBA Jam. So we fully endorse the Phoenix Suns turning his 41-point performance against the Thunder into a set of video game highlights. I...
Greatest Inbounder, Dumbest Guy, And Other Unsung Heroes Of Showtime
My interview with Jeff Pearlman, author of Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, which was recently excerpted on Deadspin. We spoke about Pearlman's complicated portrait of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the "historically dumb" Mark Landsberger, why Kurt Rambis was t...
Bystander Videobombs Local News Report By Fondling His Gut
Remember the Truffle Shuffle? Of course you do. Here's a bystander on KTLA in Los Angeles trying to do it behind reporter Doug Kolk, who was in Hollywood tonight covering the premiere of a film about Cesar Chavez....
NMSU Forces Overtime With Long-Range Three After SDSU Turnover
A wild night of overtimes got longer after New Mexico State scored five points in the final 15 seconds to force overtime against San Diego State....
Texas Beats Arizona State With Cameron Ridley Buzzer-Beater
Texas big man Cameron Ridley was in the right place at the right time as he gathered in Jonathan Holmes's attempted buzzer-beater and laid in one of his own to down the Arizona State Sun Devils 87-85 and move the Longhorns into the round of 32....
North Dakota State Upsets Oklahoma In OT Thanks To Bonkers, Tying Three
A night of overtimes continued as Lawrence Alexander hit a wild, off-balance three-pointer with twelve seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime against 5 seed Oklahoma and set up his North Dakota State Bison to win 80-75 after the extra period. The battle left NDSU coach Saul Phillips ready...
Ottawa's Ales Hemsky Scores One Of The Best Goals Of The Season
Ottawa Senators trade-deadline acquisition Ales Hemsky scored a beauty of a goal in tonight's game against the Lightning. The move is lovely, but the goal in its entirety is better....
The Atlanta Hawks Created An Enormous Paul Millsap Statue
Oh, hey there. Just Atlanta Hawks power forward Paul Millsap and his gigantic likeness hanging out, shooting the breeze....
High Schooler Shot In Leg, Hits Playoff Game-Winner Days Later
Chicago high school senior Tyquone Greer wasn't sure he could even play basketball again after a bullet went completely through his leg at a neighborhood party last week. But only nine days later, Greer sank the game-winning shot for Orr Academy High School (Ill.) over North Chicago....
Goalie And Ref Try To Save Their Dad, Who Is Fighting In The Stands
The fight itself is pretty wild, what with the real-life application of MMA maneuvers, but the participants put this over the top. Apparently, one of the gentlemen getting worked over in the stands is the father of not only the goalie trying to climb over the boards but also the referee trying to c...
Steve Francis Has Nearly Finished Transforming Into Kuato
This is...concerning....