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From New Zealand domestic competition, Central Districts' Bevan Small corrals the ball as he sails over the boundary rope, and flips it back to Michael Mason to save the six. Cricket! More »
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Joe Previtera, an Australian television cameraman known as "Joe the Cameraman," got his karmic return 12 years after his infamous "sledging" (or insulting, in cricket speak) of a cricketer during a 1999 match when he fell off of his Segway during an Australia-India test match yesterday. More »
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I'm not entirely sure what this is, except that it came on my ESPN3 feed immediately after the end of Baylor's 66-61 win over UConn in women's hoops last night. More »
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Meet Keegan Meth, who was just named "South African Airways Bowler of the Year" this week. Back in August, he was bowling for Zimbabwe in its cricket match versus Bangladesh when batsman Nasir Hossain's ball hit him square in the face. More »
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Edward Bevan, cricket announcer for BBC Sport Wales, nearly dodged a ball hit into the announcer's booth by a Somerset player on Monday. More impressively, he narrated its approach: "It's coming up, is it going to hit us?" Bevan manages, and then you hear the kind of glass-smashing sound effect you thought only came out of Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. More »
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Your morning roundup for April 3, the day it became clear that 16-year-old girls at meth labs hope you have rabies. More »
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One early spring day in 2007, a curious group of worshipers gathered at Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, an 11th century temple in Madhya Pradesh, India. They came not to pray for blessings for themselves or their families, but for something that at the moment seemed much more important. More »
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Your morning roundup for March 31, the day a Bellaire, Ohio chair mourns the obese man who sat upon it for the past two years, leaving more than skin behind. More »
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Young Sanjay Kumar Sen is trying to buy a ticket to the India-Pakistan World Cup of Cricket semifinal, but he doesn't have the 25,000 rupees (about $550) such a ticket commands on the secondary market. More »
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This post, written by Josh Burt, is republished with permission from The Spoiler. Go there often if you like soccer stuff. More »
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England's Monty Panesar, a notably terribly fielder, made an excellent snag. Snazzy, yes, but would it even make Web Gems? More »
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
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A troupe of traveling Thai Ladyboys have given cricket a go on their visit to Manchester. They learned that athletic tape wasn't intended for taping your junk between your legs, but it does the trick. [Metro] (H/T Tom K. Again.) More »
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The state of Victoria has rescinded Australian cricket legend Dean Jones's 2007 Father of the Year award after details of a nine-year affair with an "air hostess" surfaced. What sort of details, you say? Why a lovechild of course. More »
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Screw the worldwide economic meltdown! The Indian Premier League is expanding and two owners just paid $700 million for the right to buy in—or more than it would have cost to buy the entire league two years ago. More »
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Pakistan's captain was caught attempting to doctor a ball by biting it like an apple during a match against Australia. It's the sport's worst ball-related controversy since the Vaseline incident of 1976, which is just....ok, they're messing with us, right? More »
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It's 2009, and shark mascots still aren't permitted in a snooty British cricket club. Get PETA on the line — and dial the emergency number. It's urgent! More »
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Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap More »
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Cricketeer Jacques Rudolph plunks on a pigeon with a nasty flipper during this weekend's tea and bat action. Whatever the odds are of that happening, I guess you can cut them in half. [YouTube] More »
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"The medical board has reported that Shoaib Akhtar was suffering from genital viral warts and the wound needs further care and treatment for another 10 days," the PCB said in a statement."[GuardianUK] More »
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On the backchannels, Daulerio has charged us with launching a Deadspin I-Team investigation into the veracity of some suspiciously bottom-heavy photographs of the "Panamanian Cricket Team." More »
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Need more depressing sports news today? How about terrorists taking their stupid fight to defenseless cricket players? More »
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I'm told that this is newsworthy but I'm in a little over my head here. Anybody out there speak cricket? Supposedly some team of 11-year-olds in Britain got thrashed so completely that all of Europe is talking about it, but I have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Was it worse than this? Help! More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5014483&view=rss&microfeed=true Model Lara Bingle, the girlfriend of Australian cricket star Michael Clarke, has crashed another web site with her topless shenanigans. [The Daily Telegraph] More »
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OK, so this is a cricket story, and it's kind of complicated, so bare with us. Essentially, Indian cricket player Harbhajan Singh is accused of calling Australia player Andrew Symonds a "monkey," and the Australians, less than pleased, drew charges against Singh for the remark. (It's summed up well here.) More »
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The "Brad Pitt of cricket," Imran Kahn, has been thrown into prison by Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for speaking out against the government, and is now on a hunger strike. You thought American politics were a mess? Imagine if Tom Brady was thrown in the slammer for his political views, and then his hot girlfriend began a public campaign to get him freed. That's pretty much what we have here. More »
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The couple in this picture is ... hmm ... let's see ... "Simone Callahan" and "Shane Warne." He's apparently one of the best cricket players in the world. She's his wife. Well, for now anyway. More »
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Cricket is a man's sport. You don't tend the wickets without paying the price, as Engalnd's Dave Morrison shows here in that bastion of journalism integrity and excellence, The Sun. Actually I know nothing of cricket, or the British health care system, but one thing I do know: Dave gives the best erotic shadow puppet performances in all of North Yorks. More »
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In a story that, shockingly, was the lede story on CNN.com last night, Bob Woolmer, the head coach of the Pakistani cricket team, appears to have been strangled in his hotel room after his team's shocking loss to Ireland in the Cricket World Cup. More »
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Ben Foster, an inventor with a simple motto: Dignity, Always Dignity. More »
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Someone sent us this photo from sort of cricket match this weekend. We don't watch cricket — we know, like, one guy who does, and he doesn't know who Peyton Manning is, if that tells you anything — so we're not up on the rules. More »
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