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Cops Allege Former Wisconsin WR Marcus Randle-El Is Gun-Toting Abductor
An Amber Alert issued in Illinois at 11:45 p.m. Eastern time Thursday night named a Marcus Randle-El as the suspect in the kidnapping of his own three-year-old daughter. Local media reports that's the same Marcus Randle-El who played wide receiver at Wisconsin and is the brother of former Steelers p...
Here Are The NBA All-Star Starting Lineups (Yep, Kobe Made It)
The NBA just announced the starters for the All Star Game. Looks like Kobe's in, and, uh, LeBron's playing center? ...
Kevin Durant As The "Slim Reaper" Is Terrifying
Kevin Durant's month-long rampage through the NBA has earned him a menacing new nickname: The Slim Reaper. The artist behind pixelfucks.com ran with the idea and created the image above. ...
J.R. Smith Plays Air Guitar While Enjoying A Very Chill Tune
At some point during last night's 76ers-Knicks game, J.R. Smith helped a young girl get through her cover of a popular Lumineers song. This is incontrovertible proof that despite the fact that the Lumineers make vapid, insufferably folksy music that appeals to the lowest common denominator of human...
Shoals on David Stern: "And that's why your retirement is both sad and in some sense, a relief. There's nothing quite like the softening of authority figures, like those presidents who voters want to have a beer with, or prize-winning novelists playing Boggle. At the same time, the feeling that I've...
The West Is OKC's Until Kevin Durant Says Otherwise
In the four weeks since Russell Westbrook's arthroscopic surgery, the Oklahoma City Thunder has fallen from 23-5 (.821) to 33-10 (.767) — that is, the team has racked up half its losses during just 15 games. Westbrook's major stats this season (21.4 points, 6.0 boards, 7.0 assists, 1.8 steals) all t...
Is Josh Smith The Worst Three-Point Shooter Of All Time?
The Detroit Bad Boys blog has an interesting and fundamentally unsurprising post about Josh Smith and his catastrophic shooting this season. So we thought, Why not pile on? Here are a few ways in which Josh Smith is even worse than he seems in an article that concludes he's the worst three-point sho...
Greg Oden Blocks Jeff Green's Dunk Attempt At The Rim
It's been six days since Greg Oden played basketball(!) and didn't disintegrate. Good news: Greg Oden is still playing basketball! And he's meeting Jeff Green at the rim and swallowing up dunk attempts....
Ricky Rubio Practices Bounce Passes With Little Girl During Game Delay
Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio might be one of the most pleasant NBA players today, and this clip is just more evidence of that....
Watch The Auburn Band React Like Champions To The Iron Bowl Miracle
The unfuckingbelievable Iron Bowl happened nearly two months ago, but we feel compelled to share this video with you. Besides, you can never spend too much time thinking about that damn game. Here we see the Auburn band reacting as Chris Davis's insane, last-second field goal return unfolded before...
The <em>Inside The NBA</em> Guys Crack A Kellen Winslow Joke
Judging by this clip from last night's episode of Inside the NBA, allegations of Kellen Winslow's alleged public masturbation incident in a Target parking lot did not escape the attention of Chuck and Shaq....
Shane, Come Back: The No-Stats All-Star
From Michael Lewis' 2009 New York Times Magazine profile of Shane Battier:...
Some wonderful bastard at Reddit just uploaded a ton of classic SLAM Magazine photos to imgur. Almost 500 pages of Kobe, Artest, McGrady, AI, and the rest of the earlier SLAM era, looking awesome. Here's part 1, and here's part 2. And if you're in the mood, the same guy also put up two great galleri...
Keifer Sykes Is 5-Foot-11 And A Dunking Maestro
Green Bay guard Keifer Sykes may only be 5-foot-11, but his height does absolutely nothing to prevent him from throwing down ridiculous dunks. ...
Paul George Unleashed A Once-In-A-Lifetime 360 Windmill Dunk
You had better watch this dunk, because it's probably never going to happen again....
Joe Johnson's Pass Nails A Moving Fan Right In The Head
Joe Johnson gets a 10/10 for accuracy, and our poor victim gets a 8/10 for playing it pretty cool. Great job all around, guys....