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Beer Is The Official Lifegiving Liquid Of Cleveland, And More Stories You Weren't Supposed To See
The Super Bowl is a black hole of news; anything non-football is quickly sucked in, never to escape into the public consciousness. Sometimes that's no accident. Here are three stories that were designed to fly under the radar....
Trevor Winter: The Moonlight Graham Of Terrible NBA Players
Winter reminisces with Asylum about his five minutes in the NBA. "You have five fouls to give," Flip Saunders said before a game against Shaq, "and for every foul you don't use, we'll fine you $1,000." Mission accomplished. [Asylum]...
More Vanilla Ice With My NBA, Please: A Canadian's Perspective
Last night, at the Raptors-Nets game, Vanilla Ice inexplicably appeared as the halftime entertainment. Resident Canadian high-end potato salesman, Gourmet Spud, was in attendance. He filed this report....
Bill Wennington, Luc Longley, And Will Perdue Were Once Called "Bang Gang," T-Shirt Alleges
Could we talk about this t-shirt for a moment? Because it is so very wrong....
John Starks Wants To Help You Transition Out Of Your Pants
Starks on his new zippered-pants company: "Not just basketball, but tennis, soccer, track and field, whatever you have to do to be able to transition in and out of your pants, we want to be leaders in that space." [TrueHoop]...
Gilbert Arenas Addresses Gun Incident With Very, Very Serious Op-Ed
"I have done a number of things wrong recently," Arenas writes for tomorrow's Washington Post op-ed page. Chief among them: sullying his good name by writing for the Washington Post op-ed page. [Washington Post, via FamousDC]...
Just When Things Were Looking Up For Jayson Williams
The troubled former star's South Carolina house was burgled, with thousands in memorabilia taken, including Wilt Chamberlain-signed shorts and a Tupac handwritten lyric sheet. Someone made a G today but they made it in a sleazy way. [NY Post]...
Donovan McNabb Is So Totally Going To Dunk London Fletcher. Cannonball!
Update on the NBA-NFL rivalry: Kobe Bryant sells sneakers via gun violence whereas Donovan McNabb, cocktail umbrella behind ear, threatens Pro Bowl n00b London Fletcher (née Susan Lucci) with some badass hazing: "He'll get initiated at the pool bar." [USAToday]...
Robbie Alomar's Canadian Consolation
Forget Cooperstown; Alomar's heading to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame! To give you a sense of its prestige, his co-inductee will be Paul Quantrill. [Globe And Mail]...
Nike's New Kobe Ad Addresses The Timely Theme Of Gunplay
"I'll do whatever it takes to win games," Kobe says in the ad, which you can find in this week's Sports Illustrated. "I don't leave anything in the chamber." That Nike, always on the cutting edge. Full ad below....
Hedo Turkoglu: "Ball"
Maybe it's the noise, maybe it's the language barrier, but Hedo stymies TSN's Jack Armstrong with a nonsensical one-word answer. The answer to life, the universe and everything: "ball."...
Is Gilbert Arenas Crazy Like A Fox?
The odd thing about the announcement of Gilbert Arenas' season-ending suspension was the claim that he asked for it. Literally. Why would someone want to be suspended for a whole year? Obviously, he gets more money that way....
Greg Oden Bares His Soul After Baring His Pole
Oden held a press conference with Portland media, and did the right thing in owning up to the photos. Now that the news cycle has played out, maybe we can put Greg Oden's penis behind us....
Greg Oden Would Like To Apologize For His Appearance
"Those pictures were taken and sent over a year and a half ago. I've definitely grown since then." [95.5 The Game]...
Last Night's Winner: People Who Don't Play Football
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like athletes who are suddenly going to get a lot more attention now that football season is drawing to a close. You've heard of "sports," right?...
Javaris Crittenton Pleads Guilty To Gun Charge, Gets Probation
The Washington Wizards guard plead guilty to a misdemeanor weapons charge today—as opposed to the felony weapons charge handed to Gilbert Arenas—and will get one year of probation and a fine. Don't worry, it gets weirder....
Today's Knicks Giveaway: Cognitive Dissonance
The Knicks are at a 10-year-high, and among the tops in the league, in new season ticket sales. The selling point is hope for the future. The Knicks lost by 50 today. [NY Times]...
Glen Davis And The $25,000 Magic Words
For a Big Baby, Glen Davis sure knows a lot of grown-up words. (NSFW language, I guess)...
Thunder Owner Reaches Piddly Settlement In Frivolous Lawsuit
Clay Bennett will pay Sonics season ticket holders $1.6 million (the equivalent of Kevin Ollie), because he raised the price of tickets after the team moved to Oklahoma City. I'm not sure how that works, either. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]...
Most NBA Fans Still Don't Know How To React When There's a Transsexual On The TEE-VEE
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....