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Four Stories To Follow In A Pivotal New Year For Sports Video Gaming
2K Sports hasn't said specifically when its infamous exclusive pact with Major League Baseball ends, but it's a good bet that day comes on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. ...
Russian Dash Cam Captures Moscow Plane Crashing Into Highway
Earlier today, we reported on the airliner that crashed into a highway while attempting to land at a Moscow airport, killing at least four people....
Everything You Need To Know About New Browns Quarterback Thad "The Champ" Lewis
Per Mary Kay Cabot, Browns head coach until Monday Pat Shurmur announced today that third-string quarterback Thad Lewis would start against the Steelers in Week 17, as Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy are terrible "dealing with injuries." Lewis will be the Browns' 18th starting quarterback since 1999,...
Duke's Punter Kicked A Ball 79 Yards In The Belk Bowl
One week after being named to Phil Steele's Freshman All-America list, Duke punter Will Monday showed the world why Blue Devils fans have a reason to be excited at the prospect of a fourth-and-long. In the second quarter of tonight's Belk Bowl matchup against Cincinnati, Monday booted a ball that ...
Jabari Parker, The Nation's No. 2 Basketball Recruit, Committed To Duke For The Dukiest Reasons Possible
Well, Duke is still doing Duke things, apparently. If you thought the nation's top black Mormon whose father played in the NBA would commit to some other school—like Michigan State, say, or BYU—you were truly mistaken. He is the Dukiest Dukie that ever Duked. Consider this, from Jeff Benedict's stor...
Kenneth Faried Topped Off His Big Game Last Night By Vomiting And Scaring Away His Teammates
Kenneth Faried played 29 minutes last night in Denver's win against San Antonio, posting 19 points and 11 rebounds. All well and good. But consider: According to the Denver Post, Faried was sick with a cold and flu. He sat the final seven minutes of the third quarter before re-entering at the star...
The Houston Rockets Singing "The Dreidel Song" Is Simply Fantastic
When paraded one after the other, it's really easy to see which Houston Rockets were ready to bring the Hanukkah spirit and which ones were sorely lacking. (Good job, good effort there, Jeremy Lin.)...
The Yankees' Lineup Is Going To Be Very Sad And Old This Season
The Yankees finally made their big free-agent splash this week, when they signed Kevin Youkilis, an aging third basemen with bad hips, to fill in for Alex Rodriguez, their incumbent aging third basemen with bad hips. OK, maybe it was less a "splash" than a "thud." Youkilis was terrible last year, p...
The St. Louis Cardinals Just Traded For Subject 7 From The Duke Fuck List
On Tuesday, the St. Louis Cardinals traded infielder Skip Schumaker to the Los Angeles Dodgers for some guy named Jake Lemmerman. Who is Jake Lemmerman? The baseball record says he's nobody special, a 24-year-old utility infielder who's put up decent numbers in the minors and profiles as a solid ba...
Beer Of The Week: Coney Island Human Blockhead
First time I ever stepped onto Coney Island was to cover the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which is a lot of capital letters to ascribe to an event in which men and women choke down mountains of tube steaks on national television, yes, but indeed an event you should attend to if you consid...
Drew Gooden Got Three People To Throw Their Clothes In Their Toilets
Prior to the Milwaukee Bucks game in Chicago Monday evening, Drew Gooden held a contest to give away tickets. Gooden, formerly of the Bulls, asked followers to throw their Bulls jerseys in the toilet. The first one to send him a picture would receive his tickets to the game....
Arizona Quarterback Returns From Concussion, Promptly Pukes Again
Remember Matt Scott? He's the Arizona quarterback who unleashed a flood of vomit after a helmet-to-helmet collision against USC a few weeks ago. Wildcats coaches asserted Scott was fine and did not, in fact, suffer a concussion during that game—but he did suffer one the next week against UCLA. Tha...
This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....
John Calipari Thinks Little Of Duke's Acting Skills: "In The NBA, They'd All Be Suspended"
Kentucky went into halftime against Duke down two points, but that was fine by Wildcats coach John Calipari, who offered up the Blue Devils some post-NCAA career advice on his way to the locker room....
Tim Lincecum Did Handstands And Puked At A New York Club, And Other Unconfirmed Athlete Stories From Yelp Reviews
Yelp is a helpful website if you want overly critical reviews of small businesses from people who have no other outlet through which to voice their long-winded frustration. After digging through some of the criticsm, however, Yelp is great for another purpose: finding weird stories about athletes. ...
How ESPN Ditched Journalism And Followed Skip Bayless To The Bottom: A Tim Tebow Story
In October, Doug Gottlieb, a radio host and basketball analyst who'd decamped for CBS the previous month after nine years with ESPN, went on The Dan Patrick Show and dropped something of a truth bomb about his time in Bristol: ...
Until A Few Minutes Ago, Duke's Official Site Featured A Women's Lacrosse Player Wearing Blackface
The picture you see above is a screenshot from an article on GoDuke.com, the official site for Duke University athletics. In the photo are members of the women's lacrosse team, dressed up like the Little Rascals for Halloween. And wouldn't you know it, the one who dressed up as Buckwheat decided to...
Now A High School Football Coach, Luther Campbell Is As Boring As He Wanna Be
The New York Times caught up with former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther Campbell, who now coaches defense for a high school football team in the same Miami neighborhood in which he grew up. Among the revelations: Campbell might have five children with five different women, but he's now married to a law...
Bristolmetrics: Even John Kruk's Hindsight Is Terrible
This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
Hines Ward Likes To Pay For Sex With Women, According To Man Charged With Trying To Extort Hines Ward
A man who claimed to have evidence that retired Steelers receiver Hines Ward has a thing for soliciting prostitutes was arrested on extortion charges Thursday in Pittsburgh. The man, Joshua Van Auker, allegedly texted Ward's personal assistant on Wednesday with a threat to go public with whatever in...