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So, Who Was That Little Guy Who Saved Duke Last Night?
There is something undeniably Duke about a team that was carried all year by star freshmen Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, and Justise Winslow having its championship season saved by another freshman named Grayson. There was Grayson Allen, storming out of the anonymity that comes with a season full of DN...
Duke Beats Wisconsin For Fifth National Title
We got a competitive national championship game, but not the one that we expected. In Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow, Duke has two players that are expected to go in the top 5 of the upcoming draft. But neither could stay out of foul trouble—they both finished the game with four—and seven minute...
Harry Caray Used To Just Make Shit Up While Calling Away Games
Yesterday on the The Stacks, we republished Myron Cope's great old profile of Harry Caray, written back when he was still calling games for the Cardinals and was known as a bit of a rebel in baseball circles. Even then, he was already considered the best play-by-play man in the game, in no small par...
When Harry Caray Was A Rebel With A Microphone
This piece was originally published in the October, 1968 issue of Sports Illustrated. It is reprinted here with permission from Cope's family....
Browns Fined And GM Suspended For Being Supremely Dysfunctional
Because it's only like the 16th most interesting thing to happen to the Browns in the last year, and because the Falcons are being punished—more harshly—at the exact same time, this latest Cleveland mini-fiasco threatens to fly under the radar. Do not let it. It's a perfect example of the team bein...
Ray McDonald Claims He's Going To Sue Woman Who Accused Him Of Rape
Former San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald has told ESPN that he plans on filing a defamation lawsuit against the woman who accused him of raping her last year. ...
DeMarco Murray Goes To The Eagles
DeMarco Murray reportedly went to Philadelphia with the goal to sign a contract, and he did. The Eagles gave the running back a five-year deal worth $42 million with $21 million guaranteed....
Report: DeMarco Murray Is Going To Philly "With The Intent To Sign"
ESPN's Adam Schefter lights the fuse on a potential free-agency bombshell that's been oddly quiet thus far, reporting that star running back DeMarco Murray is heading to Philadelphia as we speak and is planning to sign a contract with the Eagles:...
Draymond Green Roasts Dahntay Jones After Jones Bumps Him
The Warriors beat the Clippers 106-98 today, but the most intriguing part of the game happened after the final buzzer, when Dahntay Jones bumped Draymond Green during Green's postgame interview....
Messi Scores 3 But Suárez Leads Barça To Top Of La Liga In 6-1 Win
This is precisely the kind of game Barcelona were hoping to get out of Luis Suárez when bringing him in this summer, and the kind he's been delivering regularly as of late. With his combination of confidence, unceasing work, deadly finishing, and selflessness, he was able to will an unimpressive B...
Belmont Knocks Off Murray State In Bonkers OVC Finale
Belmont earned this year's first NCAA tournament invite when the Bruins ended the nation's second-longest win streak in knocking off Murray State via a Taylor Barnette three-pointer with four seconds remaining. The shot topped a madcap final three minutes in which Belmont lost two leads and found th...
Patriots, Rays, SF Giants Petition Supreme Court To Back Gay Marriage
Three sport teams are among the 379 large companies to join an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down state bans on same-sex marriage, claiming the laws negatively affect their ability to do business....
The Bizarre Spring Training Injuries Are Out In Full Force
The greatest spring training tradition—baseball players injuring themselves in weird-ass ways—has arrived early this year. First Michael Saunders stepped on a sprinkler head and tore the meniscus in his knee, and now Tampa Bay Rays reliever Ronald Belisario has fractured his (non-throwing) shoulde...
Lolo Jones Has Some Thoughts About <i>Fifty Shades Of Grey</i>
Lolo Jones, a famous virgin, is sick and tired of all you heathens failing to understand what God created sex for....
Cops: Brennan Clay Threw, Dragged, Choked His Wife
Police arrested Brennan Clay—the former Oklahoma running back involved in a triangle of chaos with his wife Gina D'Agostini and Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray—on the night of Jan. 27 for allegedly assaulting D'Agostini at her University Park, Texas home....
Ray Rice Apologizes To Baltimore
Ray Rice, hoping to resume his football career next season but understanding that it won't be with the Ravens, released a statement thanking the team, the fans, and the city of Baltimore, and apologizing to those he disappointed when he punched out his fiancée....
Louisville's Strength And Conditioning Coach Is Uncomfortably Intense
This is Ray Ganong, the strength and conditioning coach for the Louisville men's basketball team, and he a goddamn maniac....
Draymond Green Is A Taunting Goon, And He's My Favorite NBA Player
A lot of Golden State Warriors players are goons. Andrew Bogut is a goon. David Lee is a goon. Draymond Green is a goon. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson might run the most beautiful offense in the league, but the Warriors' goonery is an important component of their league-leading defense. But they...