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What A Paralyzed Player Would Mean For The NFL

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....

Book Excerpt: Nicholas Dawidoff On The 2011 New York Jets

Over at Men's Journal check out this excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff's new book, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football:...

Cardinals Minor Leaguer Thinks Jon Lester Is A Cheater [Update]

The photo above was captured and shared on Twitter last night by Cardinals minor league pitcher Tyler Melling, who wondered if that greenish splotch on the inside of Jon Lester's glove is vaseline. ...

Man Arrested For Threatening The Mets

Aryn Leroux, a 42-year-old from West Haven, Conn., has been arrested and charged with second-degree threatening and breach of peace for allegedly sending a lots and lots of threatening tweets to Mets players, coaches, executives, and a "specific threat" to Citi Field....

Kevin Love Wins White Guy Award From NBA Executives

The NBA season is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Time for another preseason survey in which the league's 30 general managers answer various questions of varying degrees of inanity. You'll note that, way down at the bottom, the NBA asks an especially weird one:...

The Biggest Moments Of The NLCS And ALCS, Recreated With Legos

This is the work of our friends at SI Kids, and it's definitely the best baseball-themed short film featuring Lego men that you will see this week. Is Torii Hunter falling over the outfield wall still funny in Lego form? You bet it is....

Why Did The College Wrestling All-American Shoot The Duck?

This story is a couple of weeks old, but it somehow escaped the attention of our Ducks Desk. Ethen Lofthouse is a senior at Iowa who placed fifth at 184 pounds at last year's NCAA wrestling championships. One recent Friday afternoon, Lofthouse's neighbors noticed that he and his roommates were shoot...

Lahr and Buscemi: Who You Callin' Funny-Lookin?

John Lahr's first book was a biography of his father, Bert Lahr, Notes on a Cowardly Lion....

Jermichael Finley Regains Movement In ICU After Temporary Paralysis

Jermichael Finley is recovering in the intensive care unit of a hospital following a hit that left him unable to move his extremities in yesterday's game. ...

Dodgers Lose Game 6, Will Not Be Going To The World Series

The dream season came to an end for the Los Angeles Dodgers last night in Game 6 of the NLCS behind ace Clayton Kershaw. It was a terrible outing for Kershaw, who gave up seven earned runs on 10 hits and lasted only four innings. ...

Hanley won't start: Hanley Ramirez, bothered by a fractured rib since Game 1, will not start at shortstop for the Dodgers in tonight's Game 6 of the NLCS. Nick Punto will take his place and bat eighth. Don Mattingly hopes Ramirez can pinch hit but says Ramirez "doesn't feel like he can swing the bat...

How Long Can You Listen To This Cardinals Fan's Terrible Song?

48 seconds. I lasted 48 seconds....

St. Louis Cardinals' March To World Series Crown Delayed Somewhat

In what is surely a mere bump on the way to the third World Series title for St. Louis in the past seven years, the Cardinals did not beat the team they were playing Wednesday....

Anti-<em>Gravity</em>. <em>All Is Lost</em>, Reviewed.

1. I never got to write about Gravity in this space—Grierson took that for us—but I found it as terrific as most people did. Dizzying, awesome, disorienting, terrifying: It's earned all the praise it has received. But I couldn't get past one thing: Didn't the Sandra Bullock character's backstory se...

Will Ferrell Introduces The Dodgers Before Game 5 Of The NLCS

For what could be their final home game of the season, the Dodgers pulled out all the stops and had Will Ferrell handle today's player introductions. As one might expect, it was very Will Ferrell-y....

20 Minutes At Rucker Park

Nice piece by Flinder Boyd over at SB Nation Longform. ...

Charts: How Do You Build A Championship Baseball Team?

This season, the A's, Rays, and Pirates used front office wiles to build playoff-bound squads despite having minimal financial resources. Even with these feel-good stories eliminated, though, the four remaining teams still demonstrate that there are many good ways to build a competitive organization...

The Basepaths Are Where Nick Punto's Scrappiness Goes To Die

Last night, Nick Punto killed the last shot the Dodgers had at rallying back for a Game 4 win when he got caught leaning and was picked off at second base the seventh inning. It was precisely the kind of blunder that a veteran player like Punto is supposed to be immune to, and so the weight of his m...

Cruelty Unchained. <em>Twelve Years A Slave</em>, Reviewed.

1. Twelve Years a Slave is a devastating movie experience, one that will leave you shaking with anger. This is not an attempt to shed new light on the shame of slavery, or, heaven forbid, a winky postmodern re-imagining of slavery as a self-referential cinematic revenge fantasy. (After seeing Twelve...

Why Don't The St. Louis Cardinals Respect The Game?

After last night's loss to the Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLCS, a few Cardinals players expressed dismay at some of the exuberance that was displayed by a few Dodgers players. "Mickey Mouse stuff," one called it. We at Deadspin share the Cardinals' concern for the soul of baseball. We want to see the ...