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Until December, Havard Rugland was just some guy in Norway with a YouTube video that showed him kicking footballs in all sorts of crazy ways. It was fun while it lasted, but then the Jets gave him a tryout because they're the Jets. That didn't work out, and we all went back to forgetting about Havard Rugland. But now he's officially a Detroit Lion!Read more...

The last bits of the first three quarters of NBA games bring a lot of desperate shots. (Like the one above.) But many of them are released after the whistle. (Also like the one above.) Apparently players are self-conscious about their shooting percentages. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Slate's Josh Levin castigates the percentage-protectors and proposes a handful of new ideas.Read more...

A regular look at the awful children's programming you're forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. Image by Jim Cooke.Read more...

Here, in just over 30 seconds, is a perfect encapsulation of what makes the Oklahoma City Thunder such a frighteningly good team. Not only do they have a point guard who can recover from a defensive lapse with a brutal chase-down block, they also have a small forward who can corral the loose ball, streak to the other end of the court in three seconds, and drop the hammer.Read more...

At the start of the third period, Buffalo's Steve Ott faced off opposite Jeff Halpern. Steve Ott licked Jeff Halpern, or at last came very close. Maybe there's a reason Ott is eighth in the league in faceoff win percentage.Read more...

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Veteran angler Isaac Brumaghim was fishing from his kayak off Oahu on Sunday, minding his own business, reeling in a small fish, when—GIANT FUCKING SHARK OUT OF NOWHERE.Read more...

Mortal and philosophical enemies Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr will sit down together today and announce a pioneering partnership between the NHL, NHLPA, and the You Can Play Project (YCP), the latter a non-profit group formed last year to promote LGBT tolerance in sports.Read more...

Not a ton of excitement in last night's loss to the Astros. Right now on the team site, the highlights are "Kelly Shoppach's first home run as a Mariner," "Bobby LaFromboise strikes out two in his major league debut," and "Michael Saunders crashes into the outfield wall." Saunders will go on the DL with a sprained shoulder.Read more...

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We did our best to keep you abreast of Grambling State's historically awful season on the basketball court, but it turns out that the school's futility sometimes extends to the baseball diamond as well. Read more...

Getting caught in the air with nobody to pass it to is a Cardinal Sin for most basketball players. LeBron James is not most basketball players. Read more...

Is it cheating to call this the strangest postgame interview Metta World Peace has ever given, when it's tied for first with every other one he's done?Read more...

Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Chicago Wrigleyville Bacci Brawl." Tonight's commentator: Jamie Ramsay aka Varla Vendetta of the Windy City Rollers. (Coming next week: Steve "ESPO" Powers breaks down an arts-related street battle.)Read more...

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Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re covering Bond vs. Bourne, Russia, pubic hair, and more.Read more...

Do our eyes deceive us, or is that Sad Derrick Rose throwing down an impressive dunk before Sunday's Bulls-Pistons game? And he jumped off of his sad left foot! Read more...

When a franchise is as committed to shitting on its fan base as the Miami Marlins are, receiving a little animosity from those fans is to be expected. So it's not surprising that a group of Marlins fans staged a small protest at yesterday's home opener, nor is it surprising that the Marlins organization handled the whole situation in the most tone-deaf, bumbling way possible. Read more...

This has been floating around for a couple years, but it's news to us and there's no better time to share it than now.Read more...

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Remember DadBoner? Of course you do. DadBoner is a comedian named Mike Burns, and Motherboard hung out with him recently. Around the 13:20 mark he refers to our Drew Magary as "some guy," which is a pretty great burn.Read more...

The very first release from Diaw's Babac Films is this, a surprisingly hypnotic take on a dying meme.Read more...

Man goes to baseball game. Man spends nine innings consuming what must have been copious amounts of alcohol. Man sends forth a river of vomit while trying to leave stadium. Man saunters off like nothing happened. Man probably feels much better.Read more...

Novak Djokovic led Serbia to a big win over Sam Querrey and the U.S. in the Davis Cup yesterday, but at what cost?Read more...

This comes from yesterday's Blue Jays game. Keep an eye on the fauxhawked dude in the white shirt bottom left of the video. He's about to take a magical tour of the Rogers Centre.Read more...

This play is impressive enough at full speed, thanks to Griffin's ability to momentarily transform into Clyde Drexler and go gliding through the sky for a breakaway dunk. But then you see the slow-motion replay, and you realize that Griffin was planning on laying that ball in, only to change his mind upon realizing that his body wasn't quite finished flying. Read more...

Other than a few notable exceptions, racing movies are pretty much all total crap. Sylvester Stallone's Driven actually made me stop and reconsider all my life choices. But Ron Howard is coming to the rescue with RUSH, and the trailer is simply amazing.Read more...

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This happened yesterday in South Africa in a match between the Golden Arrows and the Kaizer Chiefs. The idiot got by security and found himself on the field/pitch running over 100 meters before he hit referee Lwandile Mfiki with his green vuvuzela.Read more...

Yesterday we showed you Nebraska's feel-good video, where the Huskers gave seven-year-old Jack Hoffman a memory to last a lifetime.Read more...

A weekly look at the iPod of a regular dude trying to run himself out of an early grave.Read more...

In the third quarter of Brooklyn's 105-96 win over Charlotte Saturday night, Reggie Evans's face ran into Michael Kidd-Gilchrest's head, jarring loose a tooth. Read more...

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In the Nebraska spring game, Red inserted an undersized but plucky tailback by the name of Jack Hoffman for a crucial fourth-down carry. It's worth mentioning that Jack is 7 years old and has suffered from brain cancer, and because the good folks at Nebraska realize what a bullshit deal it is to be 7 and to have brain cancer, they did the one thing well within their power: They handed off to Jack and helped him take it 69 yards to the house.Read more...

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In the annals of insulting sales pitches, this Adidas teaser—wherein John Terry, Demba Ba and Fernando Torres blue themselves—goes down as the most blatant. "Pre-order the new 2013/14 home shirt without seeing it," you're urged.Read more...

It was March 3, 1978, the sectional semifinals of the Indiana high school basketball tournament, in the teeth of what they call Hoosier Hysteria. George Washington was playing Northwest, a team it had already beaten twice that season. Washington was up, 61-60, and had the ball. A second remained. David Donald, a senior co-captain on the team, was inbounding from under the Northwest basket. The gym was erupting all around him—"crazy," as Donald would later describe it. "It was so loud."Read mo...

Maybe this is little more than CBS synergy, but it's still good to see Louisville's Kevin Ware talking instead of screaming.Read more...

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Lithuania lost to Great Britain, 3-2, during pool play of the U-18 world championships yesterday in Estonia. The Brits won on a short-handed goal with 32 seconds to play. Lithuania's Danielius Nomanovas did not take it well.Read more...

Drink it in. This is history.Read more...

I have an article in this month's GQ about my experience with a luxury abduction service, which I paid to kidnap me and hold me captive for 14 hours or so. (Here I am talking about the story on The Howard Stern Show, if you care to listen.) Given that Adam Thick, owner and operator of Extreme Kidnapping, was inspired by the David Fincher movie The Game, I had images in my head of an elaborate cat-and-mouse situation, wherein I would be kidnapped and then shuttled to six different exotic locat...

Poor Brandon Knight. First he gets his ankles mercilessly broken by Kyrie Irving, then he gets murdered live on television by DeAndre Jordan, and now this. It may be time to fake an injury and just sit the rest of the season out. Read more...