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Charles Barkley Not Amused By <em>Inside The NBA</em> Jam Session
Ernie, Kenny, and Shaq start their own mini-Stomp performance, having a ball as an unimpressed Chuck observes silently. Unlike everyone else, he is not entertained....
How A Boxer Could Use PEDs Right In The Middle Of A Fight
When someone mentions performance-enhancing drugs, what comes to mind? For me, it's an image of two 'roided out home run hitters embracing on a baseball field. But as Adrien Broner might have discovered on Saturday night, the world of PEDs—which we traditionally associate with anabolic steroids and ...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 16 (Late Edition)
Below is updated betting information for the Week 16 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included; major books still haven't opened yet for Steelers-Packers, awaiting a decision on Aaron Rodgers....
Do Native American Mascots Actually Cost Their Teams Money?
The "face of the franchise" debate in sports is always a curious one, because no matter how popular or talented a player might be, his face is not the one on the team's uniforms or merchandise. That is reserved for the mascot—the unnamed, disembodied heads adorning uniforms, as well as the Philly P...
Nene Will Hypnotize You With His Many Facial Expressions
Don't look away. Just sit back, and let your brain go quiet....
Croozon' With The Tooz
Pete Dexter and John Matuszak—a good combination:...
This Basketblogger Twitter Fight Is The Dumbest Thing You'll Ever See
This afternoon, the Deadspin staff was down in the dumps when we saw the dumbest thing ever come across our Twitter timelines. Two basketbloggers, CBS Sports' Matt Moore and Other Dude J. Doug Hatings, were in a full-throated, yet silent spat about... bullying? And Omer Asik, somehow? I mean...what...
Chart: Who Has The Hardest World Cup Draw?
With the world cup just six months away, The Guardian has put together a great set of charts comparing the relative schedules of each qualifying team, based on their opponents' FIFA rankings. As you can see above, by this measure the U.S. has the third-hardest schedule, just behind Ghana and Austral...
Verne Lundquist Will Straight Up Steal Your Lady
Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch dropped his annual media awards column today, and there's plenty of good stuff in there for anyone who wants to take a look back at the best and worst of sports media from the last year. But nothing in the column is as delightful as Verne Lundquist's story about ...
The NFL+Phish=Bad Vibes
Phish meets the NFL. Dogs and cats, living together. Two of Peter Richmond's favorite things collide and he doesn't dig it:...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 16 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 16 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these these game, and add info for Steelers-Packers, which hasn't opened yet....
Bootsy Collins Made A Christmas Song About Peyton Manning
We have Sports Illustrated Kids to thank for this, which is fairly ironic seeing as how it's very unlikely that any kids who see it are going to know who the hell Bootsy Collins is. ...
On-Field Idiot Kicks Player, Gets Stomped On By Two Others
In European soccer, where idiots on the field are tolerated more than they are here, sometimes the only modicum of justice can be meted out by the players themselves. At least that's what two Besiktas players must have thought when they decided to stomp out one fan who reportedly kicked their teamma...
Croatian Player Banned From World Cup For Pro-Nazi Chant
Last month, defender Josip Šimunić celebrated Croatia's World Cup qualification by leading fans in a call-and-response chant made famous by the nation's fascist puppet regime that ruled during World War II. FIFA has now banned him for 10 matches, which will extend through the World Cup....
Eli Manning Makes A Late Push For The Interception Record Books
When we last checked in on Eli Manning's quest for the single-season interception record, the Giants QB had thrown 17 interceptions through 10 games, but was tapering off and seemed in danger of losing the league lead to Geno Smith. We wrote at the time that they'd need a Tarkenton-level meltdown to...