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Report: "Ball Boy" Who Took Footballs Into Bathroom Is An Elderly Man
The investigation into how numerous footballs used by the Patriots became deflated during the AFC Championship Game has focused on the Patriots-employed ball boy that took the balls from the referees locker room to the field. In-between he stopped off in what was at first ominously reported as "an...
Boris Diaw Buzzer-Beater Attempt Beans Gregg Popovich
It's probably a bad idea to hit your coach in the head with a basketball, but somehow that happened tonight as Boris Diaw's poor attempt at a first-half buzzer-beater instead hit coach Gregg Popovich in the head as Pop headed toward the locker room, no doubt disgusted by the Spurs' poor play. Pop di...
Splendor in the Short Grass
Here's Grover Lewis' famous Rolling Stone takeout on the filming of The Last Picture Show:...
The Beer Idiot: Mike's Hard Lemonade
Say hello to the Beer Idiot, an occasional Drunkspin complement hosted by our Kinja friend and yours BronzeHammer. Previously, he introduced himself here and waxed philosophical about Miller Lite here. Enjoy yourselves. ...
But Beautiful
These pictures of John Coltrane are brought to you by Past Print. ...
The Goal Keeper
Dig this 1970 painting by Charles Comfort, "The Goal Keeper." ...
Animated Short Imagines The San Antonio Spurs As A Commando Team
Here is a fun cartoon that comes from the creative minds at BallerBall, that imagines the Spurs—led by Pop, natch—as a wrongfully convicted commando team who subsequently escape prison and hide "in plain sight as the most boring team in professional sports." The whole seven minutes is like that, a...
Rae Sremmurd Have A Dumb Name And The First Great Pop Album Of 2015
So Rae Sremmurd are two yelping, early-twentysomething, pop-rapping Mississippian brothers who've earned a ton of comparisons to the '90s tween sensations Kris Kross, all of them unwelcome. Which is understandable: These guys are nearly twice as old (and ribald), determined to stick around for way...
Behold The Weirdest Pop-Rap Crossover Remixes Of 2014
The year 2014, which will mercifully conclude in a matter of hours, was not very kind to rap music, or at least rap music with designs on crashing the Top 40....
The 101 Most Popular Deadspin Posts Of 2014
Time to take a look back at our most popular posts of 2014. We have our own thoughts about what our best posts were, but these are the ones that brought in the most readers....
Steve Kerr Always Tells It Like It Is
The other night Andre Iguodala was pissed that the refs missed a travel call on Mike Conley, so he busted out the travel dance:...
California Split 40 Years Later
Kim Morgan recently sat down with Elliot Gould, George Segal and Joseph Walsh to talk about California Split, a movie they made with Robert Altman:...
The Day John Lennon Was Murdered
Via Cathal Kelly's Twitter feed, dig Jimmy Breslin's column about John Lennon's death:...
You're Never Too Old To Ball
Who says ballin' stops when you reach 65? Or even 70. Especially when you live in the land of milk and honey?...
The Richard Pryor Biography We've Been Waiting For
...And for a long time now, too....
Hollywood's Lovable Loser
Dig this gem from Brad Darrach, People magazine, 1974:...
Kurt Vonnegut's Elements Of Style
From the Paris Review comes this funski. ...