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Bristolmetrics: Jeremy Lin's Knicks Got More <em>SportsCenter</em> Coverage Last Week Than All Of Men's College Basketball Did
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke....

Inspired By Jeremy Lin, Dr. Ruth Talks About Taking It To The Hole
Finally, Dr. Ruth has weighed in on Linsanity and she's done so in typically Ruthian fashion. As a big time Knicks fan, Dr. Ruth has been enjoying the emergence of Jeremy Lin and used the frenzy as a perfect segue to talk about sex....

The Heat Didn't Contain Jeremy Lin; They Smothered Him
Jeremy Lin had his first game that you can't spin as something other than outright terrible, and everyone wants to know how it's done. Sebastian Pruiti took a hell of a look at the possibilities for guarding Lin, and nailed it: the double-team off Lin's favored pick-and-roll. The Mavericks ran the e...

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:...

Confessions Of A Fan Photographer: The Abyss Gazes Back!
Republished with permission from The Classical....

Baron Davis Celebrates Hitting A "J" By Pretending To Hit A "J"
Your morning roundup for Feb. 21. Photo via Twitter. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Some Of Your Favorite Deadspin Article Subjects Are In Attendance At Tonight's Knicks Game
The Knicks are getting their faces kicked in at MSG right now by the Nets, but there are some special celebrities in attendance, including those bros who sat by the visiting team's bench in Detroit and Jack Blankenship, the Alabama weird-big-face guy. No Jenn Sterger sightings, sadly....

Carmelo Anthony And Baron Davis Will Play For The Knicks Tonight
Remember these two injured guys with oversize glasses? Yeah, they're playing professional basketball for Jeremy Lin's team tonight, reports ESPN....

Bristolmetrics: <em>SportsCenter</em> Said "Lin" More Often Than "If" Or "But" Last Week
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke....

Where Is The Black Jeremy Lin?
Is Jeremy Lin unprecedented? William Rhoden takes a whack at the question in The New York Times today:...

Linsanity Reaches Its Cultural Apex With <i>Teen Wolf</i>-Inspired Song
Mark Safan, if you were unaware, was the man responsible for the song "Win In The End" that fittingly scores the final moments of the quintessentially nonsensical 1980's film Teen Wolf. As luck would have it, someone remembered all of these facts and decided to get Mark on board with a new Jeremy ...

There's Linsanity In The Garden After Jeremy Lin's Steal-And-Dunk
The Knicks came back from a 12-point deficit with the help of this Jeremy Lin steal-and dunk, capping a 9-0 New York run. [ABC]...

J.R. Smith Poses Quite The Philosophical Dilemma
On the one hand, one would have to be out of his mind to get a haircut like this on purpose. On the other hand, can one really do anything on purpose without a frontal lobe? So, which came first, the lobotomy or the haircut?...

ESPN Once Again Shares Headline Space With "Chink"
Here, courtesy of @mforbes37, is ESPN's latest appearance in international headlines. Thanks to my pathetic unilinguality, the very thing ESPN would like me not to associate with it is the only thing I can read....

<em>Saturday Night Live</em>'s Linsanity Cold Open Officially Exhausted The List Of Lin Puns
If you missed Saturday Night Live tonight (or if you live on the West Coast where it hasn't aired yet) here's the actually-okay cold open, which gives Linsanity the full treatment, with a heavy nod to last night's ESPN.com unfortunate turn of phrase. [NBC]...

"What About His Eyes?" Other Moments In Media Stereotyping Or Racism About Jeremy Lin
Last night's unfortunate turn of phrase used on ESPN.com's mobile site gives us reason to examine a few other ill-advised media moves when it comes to discussing Jeremy Lin. The above comes from WNYW on Thursday morning, and features anchor Greg Kelly (recently cleared on some unsavory criminal c...

Linsanity Has Tripled The Price Of Knicks Tickets
The Knicks host the Hornets tonight, and it's the second of the five games on their current homestand. Want tickets? Good luck. Hell, even for Knicks road games scheduled more than a month from now, there's already little from which to choose. There are always tickets to be had on the online resale ...

MSG Is Going Back On The Air
After seven weeks of dickwaving, Time Warner Cable and the MSG Network have reached a preliminary agreement that will return MSG to the 1.1 million households that have been blacked out. It's tempting to thank Linsanity, but the reality is more prosaic: the sides hammered out a compromise only under...

The Renaldo Balkman Experience, In Nine Seconds
As the the odd man out after J.R. Smith signed with the Knicks, Renaldo Balkman's second chapter in New York comes to a close. We'll always treasure our time together, so take this opportunity to look back on Balkman's last play as a Knick: just giving the ball to Sacramento's Isaiah Thomas for an...

J.R. Smith Chooses The Knicks And The Money
When last we left J.R. Smith in China, he was starting international incidents and breaking Stephon Marbury's ankles. Today Smith announced he's choosing the Knicks and their $2.5 million exception....