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Man Who Starred In Summer Studio Flick About His Own Brand-Developed Signature Character: I Do Not Desire Fame
Kyrie Irving—a professional basketball player who last summer starred in a feature film about a signature character he developed in a marketing campaign with one of the world’s most prominent brands—wishes to make it known that actually he has no interest in using his basketball career to cultivate ...


Deadspin Up All Night: Fears Too Stupid To Mention
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Six Questions And Five-ish Answers On Larry Baer And The Giants
The San Francisco Giants put forth a statement Monday morning which declared that the team’s CEO, Larry Baer, is voluntarily taking “personal time away” from his job CEO-ing the baseball team as a result of being caught on video pulling his wife Pam off a chair in a public venue over a dispute over ...

Olympic Skier Caught With A Needle In His Arm During Blood Doping Raid<em></em>
Boy, it’d suck to be this guy. German and Austrian officials conducted a doping raid at the Nordic skiing world championships last week in Seefeld, Austria. Five skiers and four other people were arrested at the championships, while German authorities claim they also arrested the alleged ringleader ...

Olympic Skier Caught With A Needle In His Arm During Blood Doping Raid<em></em>
Boy, it’d suck to be this guy. German and Austrian officials conducted a doping raid at the Nordic skiing world championships last week in Seefeld, Austria. Five skiers and four other people were arrested at the championships, while German authorities claim they also arrested the alleged ringleader ...

Report: Warriors Plan To Add Ancient Pizzagater Andrew Bogut
The Golden State Warriors are planning to sign 34-year-old center Andrew Bogut for the remainder of the season, according to a Yahoo Sports report citing anonymous league sources. Bogut, who left the NBA when the Lakers waived him last February, has been playing professionally in Australia since Apr...

Report: Warriors Plan To Add Ancient Pizzagater Andrew Bogut
The Golden State Warriors are planning to sign 34-year-old center Andrew Bogut for the remainder of the season, according to a Yahoo Sports report citing anonymous league sources. Bogut, who left the NBA when the Lakers waived him last February, has been playing professionally in Australia since Apr...

Mario Balotelli Does Thing, Then Posts Thing On Instagram
Mario Balotelli is currently in the midst of one of the upswings of his notoriously yo-yoing career, which is good for all lovers of fun and hijinks. Yesterday, in just his sixth match with Marseille since fleeing there in January from the personal doghouse he’d been confined to at Nice (again, the ...

Mario Balotelli Does Thing, Then Posts Thing On Instagram
Mario Balotelli is currently in the midst of one of the upswings of his notoriously yo-yoing career, which is good for all lovers of fun and hijinks. Yesterday, in just his sixth match with Marseille since fleeing there in January from the personal doghouse he’d been confined to at Nice (again, the ...

The Obsession With Caster Semenya's Body Was Racist From The Very Beginning
A week before the 2012 Olympics, a group of researchers and academics gathered for the International Convention on Science, Education, and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, just over 400 miles north of London, where the Games were being held. One of those athletes was South African runner Caster Semenya...

The Obsession With Caster Semenya's Body Was Racist From The Very Beginning
A week before the 2012 Olympics, a group of researchers and academics gathered for the International Convention on Science, Education, and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, just over 400 miles north of London, where the Games were being held. One of those athletes was South African runner Caster Semenya...

Brett Brown Doesn’t Need To Instruct Ben Simmons To Miss Free Throws
The Sixers played the Warriors tough on Saturday night. Playing without Joel Embiid once again, Philly led by 14 points early in the third quarter and rallied back into the game after the Warriors blew by them. It was back and forth into the final seconds. Sure, Golden State ended up pulling out the...

Brett Brown Doesn’t Need To Instruct Ben Simmons To Miss Free Throws
The Sixers played the Warriors tough on Saturday night. Playing without Joel Embiid once again, Philly led by 14 points early in the third quarter and rallied back into the game after the Warriors blew by them. It was back and forth into the final seconds. Sure, Golden State ended up pulling out the...

Deadspin Up All Night: I'm A Lot Like You Were
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Nevada's Jordan Caroline Punches Glass And Wolf Pack Staff Members Confront Cops In Postgame Tunnel Fracas
The student section at Utah State were understandably happy when the final buzzer went off to make their team’s 81-76 upset over No. 12 Nevada official and celebrated the occasion with an old-fashioned court storming. Unfortunately, the event might have been the impetus for something from the visiti...

Deadspin Up All Night: The Future Freaks Me Out
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Deadspin Up All Night: The Future Freaks Me Out
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Tacko Fall Taunts Smaller Human With Incredible Reach
Unranked UCF’s victory over No. 8 Houston was huge for a number of reasons. The Knights snapped the Cougars’ 33-game home winning streak—the longest active streak in the nation prior to today—and beat the highest-ranked road opponent in program history. ...