This photo of Larry David sitting court side next to some other celebrities at a recent Knicks game is amazing. While the other celebrities sitting next to him are laughing it up, Larry David's expression is a more accurate reflection of what the fans that day were feeling because the Spurs that day absolutely dismantled and crushed us.
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World Series MVP David Ortiz celebrating with the biggest champagne bottle I've ever seen.
This is the insane home-based workstation that GIF creator extraordinaire Tim Burke, a former professor of communications and speech who lectured on media theory and now Deadspin.com contributor, works from and where he quickly pumps out GIFs of noteworthy highlights (or lowlights) from various games. He spends approximately 100 hours a week here and monitors dozens of games simultaneously. He is able to view and record from 28 sources at once thanks to his 10 monitors which are then split into eight or more mini-screens.
In the understatement of the year Burke explained, "I am not able to do many other things."
His wife's response to all this: "I’ve done a lot of personal growth this past year."
[Insert GIF here of her rolling her eyes.]
Before he became famous as the head coach of the Miami Heat, coach Erik Spoelstra was just a lowly video coordinator as seen above. The position originally wasn't even guaranteed beyond that initial summer in 1995 when he started working in this role.
Two years later he was promoted to assistant coach/video coordinator. Then in 1999 he became an assistant coach/advance scout. He ascended to the top coaching position in April 2008 and also became the first ever Asian American to do so in not just the NBA but also of all four major American sports (football, baseball, basketball and hockey).
The dude also clearly found the fountain of youth at some point.
Also, in case any of you reading this is under the age of 21, what Spoelstra is posing with in this photo is something called VHS cassettes.
In 1974 attorney Dale O. Cox, a season ticket holder of the Cleveland Browns sent the above complaint and giving notice to his team.
The reply below sent by the Browns' 28-year-old general counsel, James Bailey is the best thing ever.
The Cleveland Browns would finish the season that year 4-10. Also both attorneys turned out to be graduates of University of Michigan Law School.
Wilt Chamberlain as a 17-year-old senior at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia in 1954. He would later move on to become a somewhat adequate basketball player.
I missed this little bit of trivia in high school poetry class. Jack Kerouac was once a star fullback on his high school football team before he broke his leg while a freshman at Columbia University during practice.
Speaking of writers and sports, I love this popular anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut.
Back in the mid-1950s, he was employed by Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that had jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper all morning and then typed, "The horse jumped over the fucking fence," and walked out, self-employed again.
Tony Hawk will be 
Phil Jackson's sketches of various basketball plays including the plays he drew up for Jordan’s final two plays against Utah in the 1998 Finals.
Marilyn Monroe 
USA gold medalist Tommie Smith and fellow bronze medal countryman John Carlos courageously raised their fists in a black power salute on the winners podium at the 1968 Olympics to express their solidarity for the Civil Rights movement and to protest the racial injustices of the United States. The moment and the photos became iconic. Today, a counselor at Palm Springs High School in California, John Carlos speaks about that moment, the aftermath and his feelings on it today.
When he and Smith struck their pose, Carlos feared the worst. Look at the picture and you'll see that while Smith's arm is raised long and erect, Carlos has his slightly bent at the elbow. "I wanted to make sure, in case someone rushed us, I could throw down a hammer punch," he writes. "We had just received so many threats leading up to that point, I refused to be defenceless at that moment of truth."
How many of us would have the courage?
We 
An interesting read from ESPN on how this iconic ferocious dunk by John Starks over Horace Grant and Michael Jordan in the playoffs transformed the NBA.
Over on the New York bench, a young assistant was startled -- not by the outrageous dunk, but by a strange mutation in Chicago’s pick-and-roll defense. What Jeff Van Gundy saw on that play would change the series, and inform the evolution of NBA defense over the next 20 years.
“That was the first time, late in the fourth quarter, that I had ever seen in the NBA any team force the ball to the baseline in the side pick-and-roll,” says Van Gundy.
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So I can check this off my bucket list. I had terrific seats earlier this week for the Knicks game versus the Sacramento Kings at MSG. We were seated 13 rows away from the court and I came prepared with a sign which happened to be photographed by a Getty Images photographer. Friends told me they saw it on Sports Center the morning after the game.
Here I am on ESPN's website and CBS New York's website.
A Manhattan collector 
It's still early, but one of my best decisions of 2012 was getting last minute (great) tickets to the Knicks game tonight agains the Utah Jazz where I along with fellow delirious fans (shout to @madbrows) at the Garden got to witness Jeremy Lin do some serious work, including the above game-saving last second 3-pointer.
Also Lin dougies.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pjyfMCTAqKU] Yeah, yeah Djokovic and Nadal's final match in the Australian Open was one for the ages, but the highlight of the entire tournament was this ball boy's lightning quick reflexes.
Best skateboarding photos of 2011, including the one above of gravity-defying Tom Remillard.