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![That Time An Ass Exam Scuttled The Sixers' Chances Of Signing Pete Maravich](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/pyfufqfwohfmmvrnoogt.jpg)
![Remember When The Chicago White Sox Won The World Series?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/qr3s3qtcyubiigh1gifo.jpg)
![Remember When Marvin Harrison Was Implicated In A Shootout?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ofro4rjt2ndrmxkpta6h.jpg)
Remember When Marvin Harrison Was Implicated In A Shootout?
On Saturday, former Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison will be inducted into the pro football Hall of Fame. His induction will be met with the typical amount of fanfare, as writers will rush to remind you how crisp Harrison’s routes were, how durable he was, and how he was always a quiet competitor...
![The Modern Olympics Were Founded By A French Baron Who Was Sad That France Kept Losing Wars<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/wtdrqn4dka66bbvubs6s.jpg)
The Modern Olympics Were Founded By A French Baron Who Was Sad That France Kept Losing Wars<em></em>
If you were looking to create an object that was the perfect physical manifestation of the Summer Olympics’ contradictory relationship with the partially invented history they sprang from, you could do a lot worse than the Olympic Torch....
![Jim Brown Did Great Things; He Also Beat Women](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/cnidszzwqhbbac84hxrn.png)
Jim Brown Did Great Things; He Also Beat Women
For decades, Jim Brown has served sportswriters as a kind of shorthand for the type of activist an athlete should be. Just yesterday, Brown was upheld as an inspiration in William C. Rhoden’s farewell column in the The New York Times; name-dropped for helping receiver Josh Gordon return from his ind...
![Greg Jennings Is Retiring, So Let's Remember His Greatest Highlight](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/pa9wqsimsdqxaokd4bfb.jpg)
Greg Jennings Is Retiring, So Let's Remember His Greatest Highlight
NFL receiver Greg Jennings, who had a solid career and was a key cog in that tremendous 2010 Packers team, announced his retirement today. With Jennings leaving the league, now is a great time to look back and remember his greatest contribution to the game....
![Remember When Tim Duncan Almost Signed With The Magic?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/rdiwykhima5qmoywf74h.jpg)
Remember When Tim Duncan Almost Signed With The Magic?
Among NBA players who spent their entire careers with one team, only Kobe Bryant had a longer tenure with his than Tim Duncan. Duncan played 1,643 games for San Antonio, and no player and franchise are as synonymous as Duncan and the Spurs are. It’s easy to forget, then, just how close he came to le...
![The White Sox's Disco Demolition Riot Was Even More Insane Than You Thought<em></em><em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/gjoe3ulr5xse5auzofa6.jpg)
The White Sox's Disco Demolition Riot Was Even More Insane Than You Thought<em></em><em></em>
This month marks the 37th anniversary of the Disco Demolition riots, which took place at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1979. The White Sox and a local radio station put together one of the most ill-conceived, successful promotions in sports history, wherein they sold tickets to a doubleheader against t...
![Peja Stojakovic Was The Man](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/xn4hd4xcgbckg78dm42s.jpg)
Peja Stojakovic Was The Man
Peja Stojakovic’s 39th birthday is today. That’s a fairly arbitrary news peg, especially for a player who only made three All-Star teams and one All-NBA team, but Stojakovic is not just some Guy To Remember, a half-forgotten name to recall and then move on from....
![How Did Barbaro Really Get Hurt?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/nhjbn2m6xzkcnlzpiaxr.jpg)
How Did Barbaro Really Get Hurt?
As of today, it’s been a decade since Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, answered the starting bell at the Preakness Stakes, moments before jockey Edgar Prado pulled him up with a broken hind leg. Eight months later, he would die of the complications from that injury....
![That Time Two Cyclists Tried To Fix A Tour de France Stage And Royally Screwed Up](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/wc5xu7gh4tubshbw63tl.jpg)
That Time Two Cyclists Tried To Fix A Tour de France Stage And Royally Screwed Up
It’s the final climb of Stage 15 of the 2005 Tour de France, the queen stage of the last Tour Lance Armstrong will win before retiring. A small group featuring the General Classification contenders and a few hangers on is grinding up the Pla d’Adet, when Oscar Sevilla makes the first attack five kil...
![36 Years Ago Today, Dr. J Scored The Coolest Basket In NBA History](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
36 Years Ago Today, Dr. J Scored The Coolest Basket In NBA History
On May 11, 1980, in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Julius Erving drove around Mark Landsberger, who managed to pin him under the basket with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s help. But he easily evaded both defenders with the most audacious layup I’ve ever seen in the NBA, swooping up from unde...
![Remember When Greg Olsen And His Miami Teammates Made A Rap Song About All The Fucking They Did?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/fiyedbbhduwjqq0ivcut.jpg)
Remember When Greg Olsen And His Miami Teammates Made A Rap Song About All The Fucking They Did?
While at Super Bowl media day, the always brilliant PFT Commenter asked Panthers tight end Greg Olsen about his third leg. I didn’t get the joke, because I had somehow never heard of the Seventh Floor Crew. If you have, please feel free to ignore this blog post, but if you are ignorant as I was, get...
![Let's Relive The Time Sean Casey Got Thrown Out At First From Left Field](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Let's Relive The Time Sean Casey Got Thrown Out At First From Left Field
For no particular reason, former ballplayer Sean Casey went on the Dan Patrick Show today and talked about the time he got thrown out at first on a ball he hit to left field. We don’t really need a reason to relive this play, though, because it was a truly great moment in baseball history, and Casey...