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Barry Petchesky
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Deputy editor | Deadspin

If the Warriors come back and win this series the Raptors should point to this decision to call a timeout with your opponent down to one timeout with 3:05 left, rushing their plays, can’t hit a shot and reeling while your best player is playing lights out in a potential Finals clinching game solely because you don’t Read more

Toronto now desperately hopes it wasn’t a franchise peak too. Read more

Leaving Klay and Steph open on threes was the Raptors’ Achilles heel in that game.  Read more

That was such a strange call! I’m a dumb idiot man and even I was thinking,”wow, that seems like a dumb idiot move” when it happened. Read more

For these guys I think the game just moves slower for them. They can have these super human reactions and ridiculous athleticism, and what looks to us like light speed is for them no big deal.
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‘No way to prevent this, says sport where this regularly happens’?
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Happy coach calls for a pass 1st and goal on the one w/maximum Lynch in the backfield. Read more

Even Bruins fans have to deep down know that nobody should be shedding tears for them. No doubt this was a bad miss. Bruins have been the beneficiaries of that all playoffs, it was bound to come back around. Read more

I’ve got a great idea. We could call it: Video Assistant Referees. Read more

Just make it Deadspin’s version of The Onion’s mass shooting article Read more

If you yourself have any AL East-related poetry Read more

I have a really nasty hangnail on my left index finger.  Just typing this was agony.   Read more

How could Chara have answered the questions fully without using “You know”, “For sure”, or “Obviously”? Read more

Playing with an obvious and vulnerable injury? He’s lucky Marchand is on his team, not the Blues. Read more

This is actually kind of tragic. Now that the fawn has the smell of the Browns on it, it’s mother will reject it and it will end up dead. Read more