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Losses By Oregon, Kansas State Ensure All-SEC Title Game
Welp, it happened. Kansas State, once thought unbeatable†, loosed the SI-cover-jinx-aided mother of all bedshits Saturday. Call it the revenge of the Southwest* Conference: Texas A&M downs the No. 1 Crimson Tide last week, Baylor (editor's note: LOL) conks the Wildcats this week. This is agonizingly...
Report: Andrew Bynum Hurt Himself While Bowling
Andrew Bynum will finally play for the 76ers when ... oh, who fucking knows? Bynum hasn't played or practiced this season because he and his haircut were traded to Philly this summer with chronic knee problems. The injury that had kept him sidelined was a bone bruise in his right knee, and Bynum has...
Charlotte Bobcats Commit A Chris Webber, Escape Minnesota With A Win Anyway
The hapless Charlotte Bobcats won in spite of themselves tonight against the Timberwolves 89-87, needing a Kemba Walker score in the final seconds to seize a lead partially frittered away when Reggie Williams called a time out the Bobcats didn't have and incurred a technical foul....
UCLA's Joshua Smith Raises Bar On Trend Of Airballed Free Throws, Airballs a Crucial Layup
UCLA needed help in beating UC Irvine 80-79 last night at Pauley Pavilion. That help came first in the form of the Anteaters' Will Davis missing free throws at the end of regulation that would have locked up a UCI win, and then in the closing seconds of overtime as referees swallowed their whistle...
Belgian Basketball Player Makes The Worst Play In History
Taking a shot at your own basket is a bad thing to do. Taking four shots at your own basket is an even worse thing to do. Missing those four shots is an incredibly—well I guess that's actually kind of a good thing to do....
A Philadelphia Team Is In The Big East West
Sorry, it was physically not possible to make that headline any less confusing while remaining factually accurate. The Big East, in the midst of major realignment, is going to look a lot different next year. Commissioner Mike Aresco announced today that the 12-team conference will be split into two ...
Steelers Fans Are Inescapable And Terrible
I have been broadcasting to you live from Walt Disney World all weekend and, man, Steelers fans are everywhere. Even here, at the tiny little corner of a bar at my resort. This woman was so loud and so pro-Pittsburgh and only asked once what was the score. Immediately after I stopped recording her...
Virginia Tech Receiver Marcus Davis Doesn't Feel Like Blocking. Ever.
In the above compilation of last Thursday's Florida State-Virginia Tech game, Virginia Tech receiver Marcus Davis (wearing the No. 7 jersey, and highlighted with a white arrow in the video) seems to not agree with the concept of blocking for his teammates. Maybe it's a diffusion of responsibility (E...
Girl Takes Volleyball Spike Off The Face, Ricochet Takes Out Spectator
The timing on this is remarkable. Taking a spike off the face seems part of the cost of doing business in volleyball, but having a renegade volleyball track you down on the sidelines and take you out is something else entirely....
Liverpool Fans Get Drenched When Faulty Sprinkler Goes Off At Halftime
"You know what would be fun? A football match," one might say to a friend. "Let's get tickets and go," a friend might respond. "It'll be a nice day and there would be absolutely no chance of us getting soaked to the bone by some random, malfunctioning sprinkler positioned right at the edge of the pi...
UMass DB D'Metrius Williams Spent Halftime Retweeting Compliments Beat Writers Paid Him During The First Half
Via Matt Sussman at Hustle Belt, here's what UMass freshman defensive back D'Metrius Williams's Twitter feed looked like today during halftime of the UMass game against Bowling Green:...
Beyoncé To Perform At Super Bowl Halftime Show, Has Spawned The Greatest Lede In History
From the Associated Press:...
Bud Selig's New, Random Postseason Knows The Soul Of Baseball Better Than You Think
Out of the 22 playoff games in the first two rounds of the MLB playoffs, 12 have featured at least one team on the brink of elimination, and six of those will have been sudden death for both teams. Bud Selig's new postseason format puts a lot more weight on single games, which has led many players, ...
Joba Chamberlain Left Tonight's Game After Getting Nailed By A Flying Bat Shard
Well, here's another odd chapter in the continuing career of Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. Matt Wieters led off the top of the 12th with a soft single to left field, but a shard from his broken bat struck Chamberlain, who was still on the mound, and the Yankees reliever had to leave the game in ...
We're Searching For The Greatest Clip In <em>College Gameday</em> History
Back when I was going to school in the early 1990s, watching College GameDay was one of the highlights of my week. It still remains a rare diamond in the ESPN shitpile, left relatively unchanged since the early days of Chris, Lee, and Kirk (adding Desmond Howard to the mix was bullshit). But the sho...
A Grieving Rex Ryan Believes That If The Jets Make The Super Bowl, Darrelle Revis's Knee Could Be Ready
Which stage of grief is denial? Right, that's Stage 1. On Monday, when a really, really sad Rex Ryan announced that Darrelle Revis had indeed torn his ACL, the Jets coach said he wanted to talk to his star cornerback before putting him on season-ending injured reserve....
The NFL's Replacement Referees Will Not Be Missed, But They Did Entertain Us
Here's a greatest hits compilation that surfaced on YouTube within minutes of the news that the NFL and its referees had come to agreement on a new labor deal. Seeing all these lowlights strung together in one sad clip after another does give an appreciation for the unprecedented levels of suckitu...
Sign Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades now, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to head off the end of times, but declines to quietly cede to SI the scoop on the biggest event in world history....
Kentucky Freshman Misses Dunk In Most Farcical Way Possible
Nerlens Noel is the prized pupil in John Calipari's newest crop of one-year athlete-students. Last night, Noel and a few other Wildcats players swung by the area where hundreds of fans had camped out for tickets to Big Blue Madness. They even played some pickup with a few children, at least until ...
Jeff Kent May Have Torn A Knee Ligament Falling On A Raft In The Opening Minutes Of <em>Survivor</em>
Former MLB second baseman Jeff Kent is no stranger to weird, improbable injuries, having famously claimed he broke his wrist while washing his truck. (Turns out he fell off his motorcycle while he was popping wheelies and the Giants were none too happy.) So of course, it's weirdly fitting that Ken...