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Don't Count Your Game-Winners Before The Buzzer Buzzes

You know that thing where a team recovers possession with time running out and thinks it has the game won, so a player hurls the ball up into the air in celebration even before the buzzer sounds? The video above is the cautionary tale: make sure that ball doesn’t come down with time left....

Sergio Llull Swishes Buzzer-Beater From The Opposite Three-Point Line

Sergio Llull was drafted by the Nuggets in 2009, but he’s stayed in Spain his entire career. Last year’s ACB Finals MVP nailed one of the longest buzzer-beaters we’ve seen all year today, giving Real Madrid the win over Valencia by a point, right after Valencia hit a kinda-sorta buzzer-beater of the...

Stephen Curry Hits Game-Winning, Record-Breaking Jumper From Mars To Beat OKC

Stephen Curry, whose fate (and ankle) we questioned just an hour ago, hit a last-second three from 30 feet out to dispatch Oklahoma City in a game it seemed the Thunder couldn’t possibly lose. It was Curry’s 12th three-pointer of the game....

Woody Paige: Peyton Manning Is Retiring [UPDATES]

The Denver Post’s Woody Paige, citing two unnamed sources, says Peyton Manning will announce his retirement this coming week....

Arkansas QB Trying To Stretch His Lil' Baby Hands In Order To Boost Draft Stock

I can’t imagine how stressful it must be to be a prospect at the NFL combine, where every aspect of your physical being is broken down and scrutinized in absurd detail, and the slightest deficiency can sink your draft stock. So it’s no wonder that Arkansas quarterback Brandon Allen is stressed out a...

Jim Harbaugh Gives Kirby Smart The "I Don't Even Know Your Name, Bro" Treatment

Who’s in the mood for a fresh college football coaching beef? Shut up, there’s nothing else going on....

This Full-Court Chest-Pass Buzzer-Beater Is Incredible

I can’t think of another shot quite like Josh Henderson’s 70-foot buzzer-beater at the end of the first half of Vanderbilt’s 87-74 win over Florida. The low angle of the damn thing makes it nearly impossible, like an inch off in any direction would have sent it careening into the stands. It’s like a...

"It's Still Real To Me Dammit"

Don Mattingly's Marlins Take A Lesson From Mr. Burns And Ban Facial Hair

Let’s all go back to 1992, when The Simpsons’ “Homer At The Bat” first aired. Mr. Burns recruits a bunch of ballplayers as ringers for his softball team, including Don Mattingly. Here’s a very good, long piece on the episode, and how it got made....

Wild High School Banked Buzzer-Beater Gets Perfect Wisconsin-Accented Call

Reader Joe sent this along with the note (warning?), “Yes, this is how we sound.” If you are also of the mind that thick Wisconsin twang is charming, well, strap in for the good shit....

Would-Be Nevada Game-Winner Thwarted By UNLV's Buzzer-Beating Three

Tonight’s MWC rivalry matchup between Nevada and UNLV went to overtime after a wild final five seconds of regulation that saw both teams hitting desperation three-pointers....

Cycling Guy Calls Out Other Cycling Guy For Getting Pushed Up A Climb By His Teammates

Cycling is just about wrapping up its preseason; the peloton is scattered across the Middle East, Southern Europe, and anywhere else with vaguely hospitable weather. The Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol has both too many names for one race, and also a decent crop of riders. Teejay Van Garder...

Brice Johnson's Full-Court Buzzer Beater Goes In, Fails To Beat Buzzer

If there is a perfect Deadspin highlight, it’s the extraordinary athletic play that achieves the impossible but has no impact on the game’s result. So here’s North Carolina’s Brice Johnson casually launching the ball the length of the court after the first half buzzer of the Tar Heels’ home game aga...

Christopher Bell Somehow Walks Away From Devastating Wreck On Race's Final Lap

Johnny Sauter won tonight’s NASCAR truck race at Daytona, but everyone’s eyes were on Christopher Bell’s #4 truck after it went tumbling due to a wreck on the race’s final lap....

Markieff Morris Doesn't Look Back, Even After He Slips Off His Hoverboard

The Suns traded Markieff Morris to the Wizards today, in what was the most significant trade during a dull NBA trade deadline. The forward, who openly said in August that he wanted to be traded, went through the parking lot on a hoverboard....

Russian Soccer Player Trolls Turkish Opponents With Vladimir Putin Shirt

Russia and Turkey aren’t on the best of terms right now, for lots of complicated reasons. Playing off these tensions yesterday was Lokomotiv Moscow’s Dmitri Tarasov, who revealed a Vladimir Putin shirt underneath his jersey during his team’s Europa League match against Turkish club Fenerbahçe....

How Tennessee’s Sexual Harassment Allegations Caught Up With Peyton Manning 20 Years Later

In 1996, the summer before Peyton Manning’s junior season at the University of Tennessee, with his Vols a national championship contender, associate trainer Jamie Whited—later Jamie Naughright, after her divorce—filed an employment discrimination complaint. In that complaint, filed with the Tennesse...

No One Showed Up To That Anti-Beyoncé Rally, Which Might've Been A Prank To Begin With

A whole bunch of Twitter eggs took offense with Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance of “Formation,” which used imagery inspired by the Black Panthers. It made excellent copy for the insatiable content mill which we all must feed—it’s good and healthy to make fun of stupid people—but it didn’t ...

Von Miller Explains Gravitational Waves On <i>Saturday Night Live</i>

Super Bowl MVP Von Miller made a guest appearance on SNL as Weekend Update’s science correspondent, and he’s not totally unqualified. As host Michael Che noted, Miller studied science at Texas A&M. (Poultry science.)...

Here's Stephen Curry's Half-Court Shot To End The All-Star Game That TNT Didn't Show

TNT was stuck on a shot of Kobe Bryant when Stephen Curry decided to heave up a half-courter to close out the All-Star Game, so you didn’t see it on TV. Here’s that shot....