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Heat Strokes, Game 2: Moon Over Miami
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, a regular contributor to NBA FanHouse and co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!), is keeping a game-by-game diary of the Heat's season — the one you're pretending not to care about....
Heat Strokes, Game 1: Should This Diary Be What You Want It To Be?
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, a regular contributor to NBA FanHouse and co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!), is keeping a game-by-game diary of the Heat's season — the one you're pretending not to care about....
The Invention Of Air: The Myths Of Young Michael Jordan, Deconstructed
There was a time when Michael Jordan was a very different kind of superstar, writes Bethlehem Shoals in this excerpt from FreeDarko's wonderful and wonderfully idiosyncratic Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History. That MJ was edgy and menacing, and he helped make embarrassing music that no one r...
Hakeem Olajuwon And Ramadan: A Statistical Analysis
FreeDarko's Dream Week comes to an end today—buy the book tomorrow—with a statistical analysis of Olajuwon's play during Ramadan that shows just how good he was. [Free Darko; photo via]...
Free Darko's Dream Week Continues, Now With Doodles
Free Darko's book-release countdown/Hakeem Olajuwon retrospective continues today with this Randy Kim submission. Check out what else he came up with and follow FD on their new Tumblr....
FreeDarko's Dream Week Is Off To A Rousing Start
In honor of their new book, the gang at FreeDarko has kicked off Dream Week, the most Hakeem Olajuwon-related theme week on the internet. It'll be an ongoing feature until the book is released later this month....
Care To See What A Female Tennis Player's Musculature Looks Like In Slow-Motion?
As part of their examination into how "power" has transformed women's tennis, the Times included a video gallery of several players returning volleys in slow-motion. It's as neat as it is intimidating and shaming. [NYT]...
Darko Milicic Is Bread From God, And Other Crazy Things David Kahn Believes
"It was like," Timberwolves GM David Kahn said yesterday, "manna from heaven." By "it," he of course means Darko Milicic, and by "manna" he does not mean "flaky white substance blanketing the ground," even though he should....
Erin Andrews Has Made It After All
It wasn't that long ago that everyone wondered how Erin Andrews could ever recover from her humiliating and scary stalker episode. Now she's rolling around in lingerie and letting people rave about her ass. Looks like she made it....
The Hedo Turkoglu Google-Commercial Parody Is Here To Creep You Out
This "parody" of those Google Search Story commercials is weird, to say the least, and bordering on bat-shit insane, to say more. While Turkoglu's been a bit of a disappointment this year, it's no reason to eat him. [YouTube]...
Crotch Punch Fulfills Every Crotch Punch's Destiny, Gets Immortalized On Videotape
Here's the video of Seton Hall's Herb Pope doing to Texas Tech's Darko Cohadarevic what a thousand youth baseball bats have done to two thousand youth-coach testicles. [YouTube, via TBL]...
Hedo Turkoglu: "Ball"
Maybe it's the noise, maybe it's the language barrier, but Hedo stymies TSN's Jack Armstrong with a nonsensical one-word answer. The answer to life, the universe and everything: "ball."...
Hedo Turkoglu Demands His Privacy When He's 'Trying To Chill'
The Raptors forward finds himself in an absurd public spat with a young Canadian woman who unintentionally snapped a photo of him at a club last week. Yes, that blurry, non-descript photo you're gazing at....
Freed Darko
Milicic and his 0.67 ppg is taking his basketball and going home to Europe after this season. We'd declare him officially a bust, but common consensus already declared that six years ago. [NY Post]...
The (Mobile) Internet Is For Porn
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Hedo Turkoglu Spurns Trail Blazers for Raptors
ESPN is reporting that Toronto is giving him five years and $53 million. In addition, he won't have those pesky playoffs ruining his summers....
Samuel Dalembert Loves, Loses
The Sixers were getting pounded by a Dwight Howard-less Magic team last night when Samuel Dalembert decided that an out-of-reach game would be a good time to get more intimate with Hedo Turkoglu....