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Ron Artest Presents The Art Of Dodging A Question
Ron Artest is suspended for Game 3 following his spontaneous clothesline job on J.J. Barea on Wednesday. After the Lakers' practice today, reporters begged him to take responsibility for leaving his team without their defensive specialist and trailing two games to zero as they head to Dallas tonig...
Wild Australian Horse Decides To Run Away From A Steeplechase Course And Over The Crowd
Your morning roundup for May 6, the day Willie Mays becomes an octogenarian....
Ron Artest Forfeits Good Citizen Award Right Into J.J. Barea's Face
Artest was ejected with 24 seconds left for this clothesline on J.J. Barea. Barkley thinks it's suspension-worthy; we're confident it's not, if only because LA is a bigger TV market than Dallas for any conference final....
In Mr. Jackson's First-Grade Class, Steve Blake Gets Chicken Pox; Kobe, Bynum, and Artest At Risk
Your Los Angeles Lakers are not invincible. Bynum's hurt his knee again, and now, in infectious disease news, Steve Blake has the chicken pox....
There Were No Fans Or Cars In Attendance At This Incredible High School Dunk Contest
These are the highlights to the first-ever Ballislife All American Dunk Contest, which by our first appraisal seems more impressive than both the McDonald's contest and the one that featured Kias and choruses a few months ago. A few names here you can expect to see in next year's college rounds: A...
Derrick Mason Says Roger Goodell Is A Joke For HGH Stance
This is not going to make America's $1 Commissioner very happy: Derrick Mason, Ravens wide receiver and an NFL vet so tenured that he debuted with the Tennessee Oilers, thinks Roger Goodell is a joke....
The Kentucky Wildcats Refused To Go Down Without A Fight Or An Internationally-Televised Nut Tap
Your morning roundup for April 3, the day it became clear that 16-year-old girls at meth labs hope you have rabies....
Short White Guy Wins College Dunk Contest
So ends the ballad of short white guy. Jacob Tucker captured our hearts, with his average height and above-average ability to jump and slam a basketball through a rim. And these were legitimately good dunks — no affirmative action here. But if you're wondering why such an athlete would be stuck in...
Your Jim Tressel Signing Things Photoshop Roundup
Maybe the real thing (as above) was funny enough for most of you. But those who thirst for the next level, who live to advance human progress—they sent in some doctored photos of the coach at his own personal signing day....
Photoshop Contest: Jim Tressel Signing Things!
We had some photos of Jim Tressel signing things at some kind of luncheon last week. Ohio State's alumni organization left Tressel in front of a matte backdrop. Easy pickings for Photoshops, plenty of source material....
Jimmer Left The Court With A Bandage On His Chin, But Kyle Singler Probably Saw His Mom Crying
Your morning roundup for March 25, the day rockhopper penguins fight for their oil-slicked lives....
Did You Know We Gave Away A Tim Tebow Autographed Football On Friday?
No? Well that's probably because you're not part of the Deadspin Facebook community, where dreams come true. Yes, thanks to a short essay about her love for Tim Tebow, one Lindsey Green walked away with a football signed by her hero courtesy of the fine folks at FRS energy drink....
Guy Who Won A Year's Worth Of Doughnut-Shop Coupons From The Astros Whines About The Tax Bill
When Bob Choate won a year's supply of coupons from Shipley's Do-Nuts at Astros Fan Appreciation Day in October, he "went up to the customer service window, fat, dumb and happy, and signed a form and picked up a fistful of certificates." Well, last month, the tax bill for free gluttony arrived. He ...
Unblinking Cricket Fan Makes Impressive Bid To Be Next Big Internet Meme
Here's your weekly reminder that the cricket World Cup is still going on in India. This unidentified fan, on hand to see Bangladesh lose to the West Indies last week, challenges you to a staring contest. Or a mustache-twitching contest. But you'll lose in both....
Front Row At The Spurs Game Is Awesome Until Ron Artest Spills Coffee In Your Face
This Spurs fan, identified only as "Bob," sure picked the wrong Spurs game to sit court-side for free in a white Oxford! Bob, to his credit, was very understanding about the coffee-in-face situation, even when Lisa Salters attempted to one-up him with yet another harrowing tale of gravity in the s...
Faster. Stronger. Smarter?
Da'Rel Scott ran a 4.34 40, impressive because he's 211 lbs. Stephen Paea benched 225 lbs 49 times, impressive because he's a human being. But the number most being talked about is 48: as in Alabama QB Greg McElroy's near-perfect Wonderlic score, amazing to many because he's a college football playe...
Fifth Grader Wins 500 Pizza Bucks With Half-Court Shot
At a Kennesaw State (Ga.) men's basketball game the other night, 11-year-old Cody Collins was challenged to drain a half-court shot during a media timeout, with Pizza For A Year at stake. He did it. But, if I were Papa John's, I'd challenge anyone to find irrefutable evidence that he didn't foot-fou...
And Here's The Inevitable Blake Griffin Kia Commercial
A lot of us really enjoyed the NBA Slam Dunk Contest last weekend, which brought back a little luster to an informal, if hotly debated demonstration of the sport's signature play. Well, the climax of the contest wasn't a contest at all, nor a schoolyard top-this played out on a grand stage. No, we...
The Naked Sledding Contest Was Just Held In Germany (NSFW)
According to the organizers of the "Naked Sledging Contest" in Braunlage, Germany, more than 400 people wanted to compete, but only 26 were permitted to do so. Competitors stripped near-nude and vied for a £1,000 prize by traveling a "90 metre long iced snowy piste." Decent coin, but earning the ti...
Lenny Dykstra Vouches That Charlie Sheen Is A "Rock Star" And "F-ing Genius"
It was always supposed to come to this: Lenny Dykstra singing the "exclusive" praises of his pal Charlie Sheen to Radar Online. But Lenny being Lenny, there has to be an endgame, and that endgame could very well be squatter's rights on a spare room at Sheen's L.A. mansion, where he was hanging last...