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Here's Shawn Marion As The <em>Super Mario Bros.</em> Character You Never Asked For
First of all, it makes no sense because Bowser doesn't come anywhere near World 1-1, and Mario could never carry any cool stuff on his back, like, say, an NBA championship trophy. But that's fine, Dallas Mavericks CGI worker bees. You have fun with your green screen and rampant video game-revision...

Phil Jackson Has Put A Ginormous Diamond Engagement Ring On Jeanie Buss' Hand
Holy freakin' diamonds, Batman. Phil Jackson, who obviously knows a thing or 11 about acquiring rings, should never, ever be questioned in this department. Still, when it comes to the Lakers and larger-than-your-head rings, it's awful tough to beat the champ....

Deadspin Up All Night: This Will Be Our Year
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Fiesta Bowl's tonight. Burke and Erik will be hanging around in case anything exciting goes down....

Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Bill Belichick Or Mike Smith?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another....

Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Andy Reid Or Jim Harbaugh?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another....

Deadspin Up All Night: Better Late Than Never
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Erik's around tonight, so be sure to come back. Back at 'em again tomorrow....

Deadspin Up All Night: Champagne Wishes
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We're taking it easy (and hope you are too) but we'll be hanging around for the remainder of today's bowls, anything else, and back in action tomorrow. Watch this play, if you hadn't a thousand times already....

Deadspin Up All Night: Happy New Year
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Here's to a festive, safe evening—don't do anything too stupid, you guys—and to good health and happiness in 2013....

Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, John Harbaugh Or Mike Smith?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...

Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Bill Belichick Or Mike Tomlin?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...

Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend We Made Delicious Bean Dip
How To Make A Bean Dip: A Guide For New Year's Eve Partygoers Who Are Getting Too Old For This Shit | There's no way around it: When you first place your bowl on the food table, peel away the aluminum foil or plastic wrap, and are engulfed in a rising cloud of bean-steam, you're going to feel exquis...

Deadspin Up All Night: Oh The Sweet Refrain
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We've got the game of the century or something coming up so stick around and watch with us....

Deadspin Up All Night: Happy New Year
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Back at it tomorrow (with Sean) and around tonight for the bowls and what have you. Enjoy the Saturday....

The 15 Most Surreal Moments From 2012's Sports-Related Next Media Animation Videos
Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese animation company that produces short cartoons recapping the news of the day, has its best muse in sports, where the lines between good and evil lend themselves to pictures of angry video game characters, and events are just cartoonish enough to spark the overact...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Could Liken You To A Werewolf
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Watch the bowls and the mostly meaningless NFL games this weekend with the usual gang....

Our 25 Favorite Sports GIFs Of 2012
GIFs are one of the Internet's most polarizing elements; not only is there debate over the image format's utility (or, as anti-GIFfers argue, lack thereof) but over how to say "GIF" in the first place. (We're choosy moms.) Even GIF haters, though, can't keep themselves away from the sports moments ...

Which TV Market Is Getting Screwed This Sunday? An Analysis Of Week 17 NFL Viewing Maps
The NFL's regional programming rules are famously byzantine, but luckily the506.com cuts through the bullshit for you, providing weekly maps that allow us to answer the only question that really matters: Which fans are the most screwed this Sunday?...

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,...

<em>The Odd Couple</em>'s Oscar Madison, Everyman Sportswriter For All Time
Originally published in Bloomberg View....

UFC 155: The Clumsy Marketing Of Cain Velasquez, UFC's Brown Ambassador
For a long time, Cain Velasquez, who will fight Junior Dos Santos for the UFC heavyweight title on Saturday, was a rumor. He trained in one of the world's best camps, in San Jose, Calif., and stories would filter out about his freak inexhaustibility, about how he would spar with good stand-up fighte...