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Heroic Chicagoan Escapes Tyrant Tow Truck
We are all born into and struggle against the confines of a system that denies our individuality and seeks to limit us. Some struggle more effectively than others....
Kelly Olynyk's Eye Is Pretty Messed Up
Celtics center Kelly Olynyk took an elbow to the face from teammate Shavlik Randolph during the team’s shootaround earlier today, and suffered a laceration above his eye. ...
Why Does The NFL Need To See Photo Evidence Of Greg Hardy's Abuse?
The NFL has not yet decided how to punish Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy—who was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend, Nicole Holder, in a bench trial last summer, but later had the charges against him dropped after paying her off to stop cooperating with prosecutors—for violating the leag...
2015 Payrolls And Salaries For Every MLB Team
Baseball is healthy and profitable and growing, and in 2015, the average major leaguer will make about $4.25 million—having nearly doubled in the past decade— according to analysis conducted by the Associated Press. ...
Hold On, Jim Caldwell Went For The Most 4th Downs Last Year?
Football Outsiders published its Aggressiveness Index results yesterday, and came back with a very weird result. Jim Caldwell went for a shitload of fourth downs....
When Harry Caray Was A Rebel With A Microphone
This piece was originally published in the October, 1968 issue of Sports Illustrated. It is reprinted here with permission from Cope's family....
Sage Steele Should Be In Jail
I'm gonna preface this by saying that I love Sage Steele. She's black and cool and smart and elegant. These are all good things, things everyone should strive to be. But....
Paiute Tribal Leader Faces Impeachment For Taking Redskins Gifts
A football autographed by Robert Griffin III ain't worth what it once was. But it might still cost a Utah tribal official her job. ...
NBA Court Factors: How Assists Aren't As Unbiased As You Think
There will never be any question over what it means to have scored 25 points, or recorded a number of rebounds, blocks, or steals. Sure, if we've learned anything in the age of analytics it's that raw stats can be misleading—they fail to account for pace or efficiency—but at least they are facts. Ru...
Yes, Flying Parents To The Final Four Is Paying Players
Back in January, less than a week before the college football championship game, the NCAA announced that parents of players who made this year's College Football Playoff or Final Four were eligible to receive $3,000 in travel expenses. Now, a number of ADs are pushing to make the program permanent. ...
Andros Townsend Waves Hi To Media Hater After Great International Goal
Andros Townsend isn't a great player, but then again, England aren't a great team, so it isn't too much of a surprise that the Spurs winger was called up during this international break, nor that he managed to blast home the tying goal in today's 1-1 draw against Italy. Well, not a surprise to us....
Jameis Winston Fat?
Jameis Winston has always been a stout quarterback, inviting comparisons to Ben Roethlisberger not just for alleged behavioral resemblances, but for physical resemblances as well. As Michael David Smith has noted, there’s definitely some boobage going on. Is Winston fat? I’d say he’s righhhhhht on t...
Report: NFL Team Monitored Jameis Winston On Airplane Flight
With college game film, the combine, pro days, private workouts, and interviews, you'd think NFL teams would have enough time to get to know draft prospects. They always want more, though, and they don't care what they have to do to get it. Per Yahoo's Charles Robinson, Jameis Winston's trainer Geor...
Eight Photos Of Coach K Sitting On A Lil' Stool
Not nearly enough has been made of the fact that for the Elite Eight game between Duke and Gonzaga, held on the raised court at Houston's NRG Stadium, they gave the coaches adorable little stools to sit on. So, here, via Getty Images and AP Images, are pics of Mike Krzyzewski sitting on his stool. (...
WrestleMania Was Ridiculous And Amazing
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us. ...
How To Make Friends With Other Parents Without Embarrassing Yourself
Hi, new parent. Welcome. So you have a kid now, and you may think sleepless nights and wide-arcing pee hitting you in the eye from an unencumbered baby penis are the worst things you'll face. But you are wrong. There is something else coming that could scare you into living in total obscurity in...
John Calipari's Deal Is Bad, Even For Players Whose Knees Survive It
Last week, I wrote about the ways that both pro- and anti-NCAA camps tend to miss the mark when talking about University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. He deserves less criticism for breaking NCAA rules and more for profiting from them, because even his “Players First” arrangement forc...
Small Child: Cam Newton Is Not Elite
Out of the mouths of babes come blistering takes....