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Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Clouds In Our Coffee
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. We're making this quick, after wringing the water out of last week's rankings....
More Than Anything, Kendrick Perkins Just Wants To Be Coached
Thunder coach Scott Brooks really knows how to get through to his players. Perkins's reaction really is priceless, likely because we wish more basketball players actually reacted with such authenticity....
James Harden And Jeremy Lin Are Free And Really Fun To Watch
Prior to this season, James Harden and Jeremy Lin were two players who'd never had the chance to write their own stories. In New York, Lin was pressed into service as both a humble standard-bearer and a basketball messiah, one whose actual abilities were obscured by the phenomenon he created. In Okl...
Jeremy Lin Apparently Still Doesn't Know Who His New Teammates Are
As an undrafted rookie out of Iona, Scott Machado knew he faced an uphill battle in trying to make the Houston Rockets. Machado wound up making the roster because the Rockets released veteran Shaun Livingston instead. But sometime before Monday's final cuts, Machado got a scare from Jeremy Lin, who ...
The NBA, On The Midnight James Harden To Houston Trade: "Wow"
Tweets compiled with the help of Samer Kalaf....
Report: OKC Has Traded James Harden To Houston
Everyone's favorite out-of-town NBA team just got approximately 40 percent less cool if Y! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski's reporting is accurate:...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Texas)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
Here's The Insane Suplex An Alabama Defensive Lineman Laid On A Missouri Running Back
Missouri was basically running clock in the closing moments of its blowout loss to the Crimson Tide yesterday. After a 38-minute lighting delay in the second quarter—which came with Alabama already ahead 28-0—and a full day of getting pretty relentlessly pounded by both the weather and an Alabama ...
Georgia Fan's Obituary Mourns "The Tragedy" Of Bulldogs' Loss To South Carolina Last Week
We all die. It may be peacefully as you sleep, a popped vessel that fades your dreams to black. It may be gradually over weeks, a diagnosed dénouement, a slow degenerative smolder that allows fear to give way to acceptance to give way to peace. It may be YouTubeably sudden, as the locomotive sheers ...
Texas, A 63-21 Loser To Oklahoma, Still Has Mack Brown Signed Through 2020
The Texas-Oklahoma game today was as lopsided as a wink. The Sooners tripled up the Longhorns, 63-21, a score that almost looks like a mercy killing after a 36-2 halftime advantage....
<em>NBA 2K13</em> Leaks The New OKC Jersey, And It's Spelled "Thudner"
Video games seem to be the new way to leak NBA jerseys, and it's probably not intentional. The league has to share the designs with 2K Sports so they can be in the game and ready for its release date, long before the "official" unveiling. We've seen it with Brooklyn, we've seen it with the tweaked K...
C.M. Punk Slugs Spectator On <em>WWE Raw</em>, But It Was Probably Worked [UPDATE: Maybe Not]
C.M. Punk has risen to become one of WWE's most prized assets by leveraging decent athleticism, quality mic skills, and an especially strong ability to work shoots. We're assuming that's what happened tonight, as Punk sledged a fan in the face during the closing seconds of tonight's episode of Raw...
T.I. Saving Scott Stapp's Life Through Shared Admiration For Alabama Football? T.I. Saving Scott Stapp's Life Through Shared Admiration For Alabama Football.
This paragraph will be the most important thing you read all day. It came out of Creed frontman Scott Stapp's mouth, in an interview with VH1. He's talking about T.I.:...
Watch Your Favorite Actors Humiliate Themselves In <em>The Paperboy</em>, The Worst Movie Of The Year
In 2003, Matthew McConaughey starred in a film called Tiptoes that went straight to video. It might seem odd that this film would go straight to video, considering its cast included McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale, Gary Oldman, Patricia Arquette, and Peter Dinklage. But then you see what the film was a...
Seth MacFarlane Hosting the Oscars? Really? A Grierson & Leitch Discussion
Yesterday, the Motion Picture Academy of America announced that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane would be hosting this year's Oscars. This was flabbergasting news, to say the least, and it took us a day to process it. We decided to talk it out, so that when we were done, it might actually make som...
Alabama Teabagger Gets Two Years In Prison
Brian Downing, arrested for teabagging an LSU Tigers fan in a restaurant on Bourbon Street after last year's BCS Championship game, pled guilty to two obscenity charges today and will serve a two-year jail sentence. He was able to avoid a trial and more extensive jail time by reaching a plea deal wi...
Motorin’: Your Highlight Reel Of The Most Night Ranger-Worthy Runs From College Football’s Week 5
Prompted by a discussion between Gawker's own Mobutu Sese Seko and Sports Illustrated college football writer Holly Anderson, we created this mp3 celebrating the best and only relevant moment of Night Ranger's musical career. We think it's worth using to highlight plays, so here's the best runs from...
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Not OK
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...
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Browns Center Alex Mack Has Blood On His Ass [UPDATE]
The Browns are, so far, managing not to embarrass themselves—Cleveland's within a touchdown of the Ravens in Baltimore as of this writing. More serious injuries notwithstanding, we are concerned about the health of Browns center Alex Mack, who appears to be bleeding from a place you really do not w...
Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: The Sack Of Troy
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...