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Stories That Don't Suck: The Epic Tale Of America's Greatest Ping-Pong Hustler
Occasionally, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: newly minted Man Booker recipient Howard Jacobson on ping-pong's "boldest adventurer," Marty Reisman....
Free Darko's Dream Week Continues, Now With Doodles
Free Darko's book-release countdown/Hakeem Olajuwon retrospective continues today with this Randy Kim submission. Check out what else he came up with and follow FD on their new Tumblr....
Cigar Guy Isn't As Fun, Photoshoppable When He's Not Wearing The Fake 'Stache
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Here's A Waving Otter To Clear Your Heads Of Dong For The Weekend
Aww, he thinks he's people. Go here for more dong-free sweetness....
Let's All Admire Umpire Hunter Wendelstedt's Rather Large Human Element
What you see here, courtesy of Brooks Baseball, is a plot of Hunter Wendelstedt's whimsical strikezone from yesterday's Yankees-Twins game. The red marks were called strikes; the green ones were balls. No, that's not how a strikezone is supposed to look....
People Are Definitely Boning At The Commonwealth Games
The bad news: used condoms are clogging toilets and pipes at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The good news, according to the organizers: At least people are having safe sex. [Reuters]...
That <em>ESPN The Mag</em> Story About Pooping Athletes Is Now Online
You've read the excerpts from David Fleming's epic about sporting incontinence. Now read the whole thing. It's fascinating....
<em>ESPN The Mag</em>'s Epic Tale About Pro Athletes Who Poop During Competition
Squished between the naked bodies of athletes comes this amazing story about some of their unfortunate bouts with uncontrollable gastrointestinal eruptions. Here are some excerpts from David Fleming's story, which will be online eventually. [UPDATE: It's online.]...
Possibly Soon-To-Be Dead Wrestler Of The Week Needs Some Work
Here's a Craig's List ad from one professional wrestler looking for promotional work in the D.C. area. Hurry and act now, before his heart explodes....
FreeDarko's Dream Week Is Off To A Rousing Start
In honor of their new book, the gang at FreeDarko has kicked off Dream Week, the most Hakeem Olajuwon-related theme week on the internet. It'll be an ongoing feature until the book is released later this month....
Weekend Winner: The Morons Of The NFL
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like Andy Reid, Jim Caldwell and Nate Clements, who proved that of all the metrics and intangibles required for NFL success, having a single goddamned brain cell is most important....
Field Trip: Simmons And Gladwell At The New Yorker Festival, Falling In And Out Of Love
Ever wondered how the chummy love-fest email exchanges between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons translate when the two meet face-to-face? Well, it's kind of like when a "certain kind of person" meets another "certain kind of person." I'll explain....
Wayne Rooney Is Not An Animal. Wayne Rooney Is A Human Being.
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Joe Morgan Drops A Zen Koan
"All individual awards," Joe Morgan says, "are team awards."...
This Is What Happens When Three NBA Players Appear On The Fox Business Network
Andre Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Russell Westbrook stopped by the Fox Business Network to promote NBA 2K11 and were ambushed by a strange British man who asked leading questions about paying taxes. Awkward and informative. [SB Nation, Free Darko]...
A Vigorous Defense Of Karen Owen, Duke Fuck List Author, Hero
I have to note something about that Duke Fuck List post that went up yesterday. I saw a lot of mean stuff written in the comments about Karen Owen. "She's a slut" was probably among the more common sentiments....
Duke "Fuck List" Author Gets Potential Book, Movie Deals
Oh the shame! Karen F. Owen (left, unsmudged), for all the hardship she's caused so many at this point, has piqued interest from some big guns in the movie-making and publishing worlds. A star is porn. Or born....
Duke Players Incensed, Paranoid Over "Fuck List"
The names of the players have been redacted. Plenty of emails came pouring in in the wee hours that looked like this:...
The Full Duke University "Fuck List" Thesis From A Former Female Student (UPDATE)
Update: Names redacted. Read here. So this is going to be bad. Or good, depending upon where some of the lacrosse, baseball, and tennis players rate on former Blue Devil Karen F. Owen's "Fuck List."...
The Vuvuzela Is Back, Baby!
Sales of the Vuvuzela are reportedly skyrocketing in India, meaning that bastard horn will make its reappearance at the Commonwealth Games, which are kind of like the Olympics for countries full of brown people that have an old white lady on their money....