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Before Pierre The Pelican, There Was Terrifying King Cake Baby
Earlier this week, the Pelicans announced that they'd be redesigning the head of Pierre to make him "less scary". This is disappointing, not only because pelicans should look scary, but also because it spits in the face of New Orleans's proud tradition of nightmarish mascots....
Seven Scenes From The Life Of A Quiet Champ
Dig Pete Dexter's 1980 Inside Sports profile of Larry Holmes:...
J.R. Smith Plays Air Guitar While Enjoying A Very Chill Tune
At some point during last night's 76ers-Knicks game, J.R. Smith helped a young girl get through her cover of a popular Lumineers song. This is incontrovertible proof that despite the fact that the Lumineers make vapid, insufferably folksy music that appeals to the lowest common denominator of human...
Sherman-Crabtree: Watch And Listen To Their Mic'd Up Highlights
Showtime's Inside The NFL equipped Richard Sherman and Michael Crabtree with microphones for Sunday's legendary NFC Championship, and the matchup proved to spark Sherman's interview heard round the world. Here are the highlights from what both said during the game....
The Sordid End of David Meggett
Here's the latest from my pal Greg Hanlon. This one's over at SB Nation Longform and it's a tough story: The Sordid End of David Meggett: ...
Surfing Footage Shot By A Drone Justifies The Existence Of Drones
See, not all drones are terrifying machines that rain death from above. Some of them are just chill little quad copters with camera's attached to them that are perfectly suited to capture surfers doing awesome things. This drone is cool with us, bro. ...
The <em>Inside The NBA</em> Guys Crack A Kellen Winslow Joke
Judging by this clip from last night's episode of Inside the NBA, allegations of Kellen Winslow's alleged public masturbation incident in a Target parking lot did not escape the attention of Chuck and Shaq....
Two Tough Mothers
Here's Charlie Pierce's 1991 Sports Illustrated story on Bettie Taylor and Bonnie Lindros:...
Shane, Come Back: The No-Stats All-Star
From Michael Lewis' 2009 New York Times Magazine profile of Shane Battier:...
Jim Harbaugh Drops Ernest Hemingway Line In Postgame Interview
The man had just lost a football game. He did not know what to say, how to make it clear. Now he would never use the plays that he had saved to use until he knew enough to use them well. At least his khakis fit. They always fit, and they always made sense. Eight dollars is what they cost....
Ann Wilson Puts Barracuda Spin On "Star-Spangled Banner"
The Seahawks went with Ann Wilson, lead singer of Heart, for the pregame national anthem. Anthem traditionalists might hate the creativity on the climax, but this is Ann Wilson. She can do what she wants. The crowd's building cheers towards the end were pretty cool, too....
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Roundup: Your Best Clark The Cub Photoshop Contest Submissions [NSFW]
Clark the Cub may very well go down as the best Photoshop contest subject in Deadspin history. We asked you to do horrible things to him, and you came through. Here now is your best work....
Vladimir Putin Warns Gay Olympic Visitors To "Leave Children Alone"
Good news, gays and lesbians planning to go to the Sochi Olympics! Russian President Vladimir Putin says you won't be arrested and thrown into prison as long as you keep your gay away from the children....
How Many Ads Are In Your College Sports Broadcast?
In O'Bannon vs. NCAA, the defendants made a stunning claim. Collegiate athletes cannot be paid for appearing in televised games, the NCAA argued, because those games—like, say, the Vizio BCS National Championship—are First Amendment-protected news programs, and not commercial broadcasts....
Big Trouble With A Capital "T"
"The Gulf Stream," By Winslow Homer (1899)...
The History Of How We Follow Baseball
The history of how we follow baseball. ...
No, Fans Won't Stop Watching If College Players Get Paid
Defending itself in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit, the NCAA has made some stunning claims. One, backed by an NCAA-commissioned poll, is that people so hate the idea of paying players that they will stop watching college sports if amateurism ends. In the filings, ex-CBS Sports President Neal Pilson estimat...
No, Paying Athletes Won't Bankrupt College Sports
The NCAA's biggest and most bruited argument against compensating players is that athletics programs couldn't take on the additional burden of player salaries without going bankrupt. The argument has a certain appeal to a certain kind of fan, the one who thinks sports took a turn for the worse at ro...