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Tottenham Boss Bashes Players, Flexes Imaginary Muscles
Spurs, Spurs, Spurs. It's always something with you guys, isn't it?...

The Sports Illustrations Of Edel Rodriguez
Edel Rodriguez is an award-winning illustrator who uses a variety of materials to create graphic, colorful work that ranges from conceptual to portraiture and landscape. His illustrations are often sports related and have been regularly featured on the covers of TIME and Newsweek and in the pages of...

The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Oscars
Oh hey, the Oscars are on Sunday night! And congratulations to America’s celebrities for enduring another painfully long and arduous awards season. YOU POOR THINGS! Being shuttled from red carpet to red carpet, forced to wear nice clothes, asked the same dumb questions over and over again (“How’s...

One Weird Old Trick To Remove White Water Stains From Wood
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....

Irish Slider Falls Off Skeleton Sled, Climbs Back On, Finishes Run
We've seen this in luge before, but it's another thing entirely when you're headed down the Sanki Sliding Centre headfirst. Here's Irish skeletoner Sean Greenwood recovering from almost certain disaster—and inevitable serious injury, given he was going nearly 75 mph—to finish his run and avoid disqu...

Norwegian Speedskater Captures Majesty Of Olympic Flame
Norwegian speedskater Håvard Bøkko uploaded this picture of the Olympic flame to Instagram....

Paper Tiger
Dig this excerpt from Stanley Woodward's classic memoir, "Paper Tiger." It concerns Red Smith and the great horse racing columnist, Joe Palmer:...

Former NFLer: "Getting Banged In The Head Was Just Part Of It"
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...

North Hollywood Forty
I WAS sitting at the window of a ninth-floor room in the Stoneleigh Hotel the week before Hollywood Henderson's wedding, facing approximately north, reckoning by the Dallas Cowboys tower out on North Central Expressway. The clouds had closed back in after burning off for a while earlier in the day. ...

Our 20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2014
Now that all the year-end best-of lists are finally over, it's time for some lists that look forward rather than backward. 2014 has a lot to live up to; 2013 was one of the best movie years in recent memory....

Seven Uninterrupted Minutes Of Mike Woodson Making Faces
If you had no idea who Mike Woodson was, you would only need to watch this video to think, "This is a man who has coached J.R. Smith." ...

Jim Ross Calls Seventh Woods's Unreal Dunk
The 15-year-old phenom known as Seventh Woods threw down a magnificent dunk last week, but it was just missing something. Jim Ross was that "something." It's just better this way....

Bill Simmons To Produce Movie Starring Deadspin Commenter Jon Hamm
Here's an interesting piece of news from the Hollywood Reporter:...

Broadway Danny Rose: It's A Beautiful Thing
We're getting into a definite type of situation here......

Woody: All Schoolyard
I was always interested in gangsters and people don't associate me with that because of their image of me on the screen. They think I'm more intellectual than I am, because I wear glasses and I'm built slightly.But the truth is I came from the streets of Brooklyn. I'm not educated—I mean I was throw...

"Real America," Minus The Condescension: <em>Out Of The Furnace</em>, Reviewed.
When Barack Obama made his comment during the 2008 presidential campaign about some Americans clinging to "guns and religion" during hard times, he might have been referring to the characters in Out of the Furnace, the new drama from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. A subdued portrait of a blue-co...

Knicks Trade Pitch: Our Players Only Suck Because Of Our Coach
Only at MSG. Here's this, from an ESPN column about the Knicks ongoing adventures in trading Iman Shumpert: ...

