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A "Demented-Looking" Laurence Fishburne Mocked Rob Ford To Raptors Fans
Actor Laurence Fishburne attended last night's Clippers-Raptors game at the ACC in Toronto, and he ended up seeing a hell of a game. (A historic one, even!) He was also allegedly really drunk (err, "tired and emotional"):...
How Mizzou Failed An Alleged Rape Victim Who Killed Herself
An Outside the Lines investigation into the alleged rape and subsequent suicide of former University of Missouri swimmer Sasha Menu Courey has raised some serious questions about the university's role in letting Menu Courey slip through the cracks. Everything about this story will make you feel like...
Colorado Viewers Miss Six Minutes Of AFC Title Game, Learn About Santa
Somehow this flew under the radar all week, but it turns out Broncos fans in Colorado Springs missed much of the first quarter during Sunday's AFC Championship game due to technical difficulties on KKTV—during which Tom Brady was frozen on their screens for nearly six minutes. Even stranger, the CBS...
Map: Which States Produce The Most College Basketball Recruits?
Mode Analytics, which previously mapped out where college football players are from, has turned its attention to the much more timely sport of college basketball. The map above shows which states have produced the most current D1 players, relative to their college-age male populations....
Maps: Which Of Our Readers Were The Biggest Homers In The HOF Vote?
Thanks to your input, the Deadspin HOF vote—revealed earlier this month—was generally agreed to be pretty decent. That might be letting some of you off the hook a little easy, though. We've given MVP voters plenty of crap for their homer votes; who, among our readership, turned out to be the biggest...
The Extra Point Is On Its Way Out
It may not happen next year, it may not happen within five years, but it will happen, and the NFL's top man is on board: Roger Goodell says the Competition Committee has a number of proposals to do away with the extra point, and he's a fan of one in particular....
An Oral History of Kurtis Blows' "Basketball"
Dumb fun from SB Nation. ...
100 Charts For AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes
Just in time for Oscar announcements, Nathan Yau of Flowing Data has made mini-charts for all of AFI's top 100 movie quotes. While not every quote lends itself perfectly to visualization, there are plenty of gems. Here are some of the best:...
Kyle Lowry Gave Some New Shoes To That Fan Who Got His Ganked
You might remember the time the most cold-blooded and badass Bulls fan in history mercilessly snatched away two of Kyle Lowry's shoes from an eager Raptors fan named Alan Vale. Now you don't have to feel a tinge of guilt while laughing at that GIF, because Lowry and the Raptors tracked Vale down and...
Check Out These Bizarre Spinning Field Graphics
In a series of weird graphics, designer Taylor Holland takes vectors of various sports fields and rotates all the individual elements around and around and around. The results are kind of mesmerizing, although not without the occasional unfortunate swastika....
Keyshawn Johnson Has, Uh, Changed
So Justin Bieber's house got raided today, no doubt bringing joy to neighbor Keyshawn Johnson who has beef with the obscure underground death metal singer. The interview you see here, though.. that's not Keyshawn Johnson....
America, The Beautiful
Dig these beautiful photographs by William Albert Allard....
Drake Celebrates "Drake Night" By Reading The Raptors Starting Lineup
On Saturday, the Toronto Raptors celebrated Drake Night, because Drake is the Raptors' new global ambassador and Drake can apparently make them do whatever the hell he wants. Drake....
Asian Crap Threatening Chicago, According To ABC Affiliate
Even though Asian Crap is a danger to the city of Chicago, fear not. The city has a plan to deal with its Asian Crap....
Who Is America Rooting For This Weekend?
Below are four maps showing which team in each of this weekend's games has more Facebook fans in every county in America....
Do Colder NFL Games Have Fewer Penalties?
While watching some insanely frigid football last weekend, one Deadspinner wondered if there were fewer flags in cold NFL games, the result of referees deciding, consciously or not, to speed games up and get the hell off the field. Without scrutinizing hundreds of hours of game tape we can't really ...
Cherrypick Your Way Through 143 Years Of Baseball Stats
Did you know that Curt Schilling led the league in complete games from 1992-2001? That Tim Raines led the league in hits from 1981-87? That Fred McGriff led the league in home runs from 1987-95? All great stats to argue for your favorite player's HOF admission, made possible by the magic of cherrypi...