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A Delivery-Truck Driver From Oregon Predicted All The Linsanity
Ed Weiland's May 2010 forecast for Hoops Analyst examined Lin's two-point field-goal percentage and RSB40 at Harvard, among other factors. "Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA," Weiland wrote, "and possibly star." [WSJ]...
A Clearly Linsane Mike Tyson Curses, Talks About His 3,000 Pigeons During MSG Interview
Mike Tyson was MSG Network's special halftime guest during tonight's broadcast of the Kings-Knicks game, and the interview was about as much of a trainwreck as you'd expect—though interviewer Jill Martin's somewhat to blame (at one point it sounds like she interprets Tyson's answer to "What sport...
Even At Starbucks, Mark Jackson Gets Asked About Releasing Jeremy Lin
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: The Warriors coach says he's happy with Steph Curry, thanks very much....
All The Pop Culture References From Bill Simmons's Earliest Known Column
We're diving back into the Bill Simmons archive, a previously undiscovered treasure trove of Sports Guy material from AOL Digital Cities. Today's is a special one, as it takes us more than two decades back in the Simmons oeuvre. It was originally written in the fall of 1989, when Simmons was a sopho...
Colin Cowherd's Awkward Interview With Kate Upton Ended Equally-Awkwardly [UPDATE]
ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd found himself talking to a dial tone today on The Herd With Colin Cowherd after Sports Illustrated cover model Kate Upton hung up on him following a series of invasive and creepy questions. Update: see below....
Ricky Rubio, You Should Buy This House
Last week, out of the blue, we received an email with the subject line "Home for Sale."...
Introducing Glory Days: Send Us <em>Your</em> Greatest Sports Moments
The scene: Kenney Gym in Urbana, Ill. A winter's evening in 1996. University High School trailing DeLand-Weldon 57-50 with 38 seconds to go. A skinny kid from Uni, No. 22, knocks down a three-pointer. Then, after a foul and a missed free throw the other way, he nails another one. DeLand-Weldon mak...
Play Fantasy Basketball Tonight For Free, Win $500
Fantasy freaks: DraftStreet.com has created an exclusive safe haven in which Deadspin readers can participate in a one-night NBA fantasy league. The salary cap contest happening tonight is Deadspin's inaugural foray into DraftStreet-land, and there's $500 cash up for grabs....
Dear MSG And Time Warner Cable: Eat A Bag Of Salted Dicks
Linsanity reached a fever pitch last night, and judging from Twitter, all of North America saw it happen. Not me. I can't watch the most exciting thing to happen to the NBA in years, and I can't watch any Knicks games because I live in New York....
Mark Sanchez Asked Santonio Holmes To Be His Valentine On Twitter Last Night
So noted greaseball Darren Rovell tried to steal Mark Sanchez's alleged valentine, Kate Upton, away. Presumably the Sanchize took this personally, offended that his belle would even loiter for minutes in the company of a charlatan like Rovell....
Stop The #SILINSANITY! Great Moments In <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Crapping All Over Its Cover With A Twitter Hashtag
If you can't be first, at least be the most inane. That's how Sports Illustrated is handling the challenge of being a weekly magazine chasing the fast-moving phenomenon that is Jeremy Lin. Instead of running a nice, straightforward dead-tree cover of the Knicks' new point guard attacking the Lakers...
TCU's Upset Of UNLV Triggers Saddest Court-Storming Ever
Your morning roundup for Feb. 15. Photo via SportsGrid. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
George Mason Won On A Buzzer-Beating Three-Pointer, Too
George Mason downed rival (and reigning Final Four participant) VCU with a Sherrod Wright 30-footer as time expired in a matchup between rivals in what's quietly become one of the NCAA's best college basketball conferences....
When Valentine's Day Role-Playing Games Involving Public Nudity and Duct Tape Go Awry
"A Portland (Oregon) couple was jailed for disorderly conduct Tuesday after a role playing incident led witnesses to believe a woman was being held against her will in a car. ... Witnesses reported seeing a Subaru Legacy leaving the parking lot with a naked female who was tied up in the back with d...
Someone Just Tried To Disrupt The Best In Show Judging At Madison Square Garden
We have practically no information about this, other than that a woman with a sign tried to rush the stage as Best In Show was about to be announced at the Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden. Twitter rumors say the sign said something about PETA, but we don't really have any con...
Fifty-Something College Student Can't Fathom Why His "Hot-For-Teacher" Essay Upset His Hot Teacher
Joseph Corlett is 56 years old. And Joseph Corlett attends Oakland University in Rochester, Mich. Well, he did attend that esteemed academy. Seems as if the university elders and others just didn't get an essay he wrote for "Advanced Critical Writing" class....
Jeremy Lin Hits Game-Winning Three-Pointer With 0.5 Seconds Left
Linsanity lives, as Jeremy Lin (after tying the game with a hoop-and-the-harm three point play) won it for the Knicks with this three, giving him 12 points in the fourth quarter (27 for the game) and the Knicks their sixth straight win. [TSN]...
If You've Ever Wondered How They Advertise Zambonis, Here You Go
Here's a new TV spot from Austrian firm AST promoting their new WM Evolution zamboni—err, Eispflegemaschine—with a Mario Paint soundtrack and some utterly ridiculous CGI at the end....
Here's What An Own-Goal Header Off An 80-Yard Assist Looks Like
You probably already know that Once Caldas and Itagüi Ditaires drew their Liga Postobón match at two goals each in Colombia this weekend....
C.C. Sabathia And His Wife Are Spending Valentine’s Night With Dinosaurs And Twitter
C.C. Sabathia's wife tweeted the above photo of her and her husband at New York's American Museum of Natural History a few minutes ago, adding this:...