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ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week

ESPN scours its message boards regularly to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comments, and presents them on their front page. Here is one of those comments ...

• "When the Hawks go 82-0 and the Celtics are 81-1, the Cs will have home court." — Bonzo_Bonham

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2:15 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Rick Chandler
3 views, 1 comment

Someone wants South Florida coach Jim Leavitt—the only football coach the school has ever had—fired, simply because he can't dominate the Big East. The guy beat Syracuse four times! What more do you want? [Jim Leavitt Must Go]

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Deadspin Deleted Scenes

Deadspin Deleted Scenes

We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another — usually because they're just so absurd or really lack even the most tenuous of news angles to give them the go-ahead. Other times it's because they're just absolute horseshit. But every Friday until we get sick of running them, we'll present to you some of these not-so-shiny gems. All items should be treated as [Sic'd]. Enjoy... More »

1:45 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By DAULERIO
3,368 views, 44 comments

Latest by HochuliApology: Wow Kevin Love dressed like a hip hop wigger like every other white kid from the rich suburbs of Portland more »

Reports says New Jersey-ite Al Harrington will be traded to the Knicks for Jamal Crawford and one of those little snow globes with the Empire State Building inside it. The move may also leave New York no choice but to play Stephon Marbury. Developing! [Newsday]

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Baseball

Experience The Fun Of Minnesota's U.S. Senate Election Recount With The St. Paul Saints

Here's comedian and senatorial candidate Al Franken throwing out the first pitch at a St. Paul Saints game earlier this season. It was a wise move on Mr. Franken's part, considering that the Saints' attendance that day was 12,450, and he's currently trailing in his U.S. Senate recount with Norm Coleman by only 136 votes. This appearance may have won him the election. At any rate, the Saints are proudly mocking the situation with their first promotional giveaway of the season: The Franken-Coleman Recount Doll (as seen below). More »

1:15 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Rick Chandler
1,648 views, 45 comments

Latest by lecoqsportif: @RootingForTheMeteor: Minnesote votes always wrestle with key issues. more »

FBI arrests man who threatened to blow up Bengals' stadium and an Indian casino. You bastard! We need that casino! [CBS Sportsline]

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NFL

Seattle Sports Are Pretty Depressing Right Now

"Lorin “Big Lo” Sandretzky has gone through more than most. A former strip-club bouncer, he has been beaten and stabbed and watched three people die in his arms. He nearly died himself on three occasions during an emergency operation and won the lottery. In the last year, he had two additional emergency surgeries to remove abscesses in his leg, was told he had diabetes and lost 134 pounds, bringing his weight to 419." It gets worse—he's also a die-hard Seahawks fan. More »

12:45 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
2,204 views, 58 comments

Latest by Jimbo: wahhhhhh, its been almost 3 years since we were in the Super Bowl, wahhhhh. more »

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to see the A-11 offense in person, Piedmont High plays host to Fortuna tonight at 7 p.m. in the first round of the NCS 2A East Bay playoffs. Or you can watch it live in streaming video here. [Maxpreps]

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College Football

College Football Preview: I've Got a Crush on Mike Leach


I’ve got a crush on Mike Leach. I don’t want to go on a date and eat cheese fries with him and watch planes take off from Lubbock or anything but I’m not going to pretend I don’t like him anymore. We aren’t in 8th grade. So I’m coming clean. My football team, the Tennessee Vols, has never had a coaching search in my life before and it’s perfectly normal for a grown man like me to have a coaching crush on another grown man. I’m not going to try and hide the fact that I get a little rush in my chest every time Texas Tech highlights come on or that I feel butterflies in my stomach when Mike Leach answers questions about his offense. More »

12:15 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Clay Travis
2,161 views, 25 comments

Latest by Yostal: I think what we learned from last night, is that maybe coaches from West Virginia just take a year to more »

Michigan beats No. 4 UCLA, bails out the auto industry and finds the Obamas a puppy all in one night. [ESPN]

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College Football

The MAAC: Where College Football Programs Go To Die

Astute college gridiron fans fans may be saying to themselves right now, "But the MAAC doesn't even exist anymore!" You're right! The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference still fields 10 Division I basketball team, but the Division I-AA (I refuse to write it) football arm disbanded after last season. So what happened to those orphan teams? Well, rather than find a new conference to join or tough it out as an independent, they all pretty much just gave up. More »

11:30 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
1,682 views, 15 comments

Latest by Don't Bring That Kool-Aid To This Gin Party: I bet Fairfield's glad they dropped their program years ago, or else, they'd be going Stag... yes, actual Fairfield joke. more »

Just the idea of Charles Barkley and Yao Ming trying to have a phone conversation is enough to make even the hardest of hearts (and the hard of hearing) smile. [YouTube]

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Nfl roundup

Fashion Choices Of The Damned, Brady Quinn's Pinky, And Cowher To The Browns?

• An Eagles Shirt? What? So Dieon Sanders interviewed Terrell Owens recently, and the conversation was shown during Thursday's halftime of the Steelers-Bengals game. Main question: Why is T.O. wearing an Eagles shirt? It's possible that Deion's incisive reporting skills ferreted out the answer, but I'm not counting on it. So I went to the American Eagle Outfitters site, and found this. So it's possibly just an innocent misunderstanding, and not a dig at his former team. Um, right. Next question: What's with Deion's sweater? My eyes! Get an eyeful of of these questionable fashion statements in the video below. More »

11:00 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Rick Chandler
4,510 views, 33 comments

Latest by Chamomiles Davis: Brady Quinn was examined by a hand specialist on Thursday Was it this guy? more »

Your Morning Video Wake Up Call

Santonio Holmes Gets The Pot Knocked Out of Him

The Deadspin Morning Video Wake Up Call will return for a brief period of time from today through the holidays. If you have any suggested videos to fill this space, email us. Subject: Morning Video Wake Up Call. More »

10:45 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By DAULERIO
6,802 views, 31 comments

Latest by Kim_Jong_Illin: @DorkimusPrime: Not exactly: [deadspin.com] more »

NFL

Richie Incognito Prefers Angry Boos To Quiet Indifference

Things are tough all over in St. Louis, what with the Rams playing out the string on a 2-8 season with the sinking realization that Jim Haslett is who we thought he was. Perhaps the only thing that could make it better is to have a nice public feud between players and fans over who is worse at their jobs. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
3,741 views, 35 comments

Latest by twoeightnine: Needs more Sharpie. more »

Morning Blogdome

Morning Blogdome: Gilbert Arenas Gets Waxed

Blogdome@deadspin.com needs a lover that won't drive it crazy.

• Hold still, Agent Zero: Blah blah ... Wizards bad ... blah blah draft pick ... blah ... "Arenas said Thursday at Madame Tussauds, where his wax figure was unveiled..." Wait ... whuuuut? [Black Voices + SI] More »

9:45 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
2,246 views, 43 comments

Latest by Aith: @HockeyMountain: Hey, what's on the dessert menu at these meetings? more »

Soccer

Unfortunately, They Can't Use Their Hands

In America you can't even have porn stars on your fantasy football team, but the attitude is a bit different in Denmark. Players for FC Copenhagen, a Danish Superliga team, have been promised two porn films for every game they win, courtesy of one of the team's sponsors, sex movie distributors BN Agentur (the team's mascot approves). More »

9:15 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Rick Chandler
3,461 views, 95 comments

Latest by josher71: @Magnakai Haaskivi: How right you are. more »

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