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Since the NFL shut down the infamous "NFL4Her" portion of its Web site, it has been difficult to find a place where women sports fans can congregate. Fortunate, the fine folks at FemmeFan have alerted us to their presence. Like many gay/women sports fan sites, it's pretty much a straightforward sports commentary site with occasional comments about abs and crotches. For example: More »
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From the fine folks at Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer comes the concept of human hamster races at Wake Forest. More »
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From the great sports fan behavior chroniclers at Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer comes the tale of James Henry Smith. He is — or, was, rather — "one of the biggest Steelers fans in the universe," say his friends. As if to prove it, he was buried in his recliner, all decked up in his Steelers garb. How decked up? More »
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Right now, half the country is looking at this picture and saying, "Hey ... did I go to college with that guy? More »
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Meet Brad Wackerlin. He lives in Lake of the Hills, Ill., is 33 years old and hey, sorry ladies, he just got married. He is also unnaturally obsessed with former Cubs first baseman Mark Grace. How obsessed? Well, he has 2,000 different Mark Grace baseball cards, runs two Mark Grace Web sites — MarkGrace.com and Grace Collector — and even details Grace's cameo appearances on other people's cards. More »
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Remember Ken Hill? The Expos/Cardinals/Rangers/Red Sox pitcher was the type of guy who always destroyed your fantasy team; the year you drafted him high, he collapsed, and the year you didn't draft him, he'd rock on somebody else's team. (He was also the ace on that great 1994 Expos team.) More »
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Following up on a story in the Louisville Channel, ESPN's Darren Rovell digs into the news that Hooters might be sponsoring Little League teams. A Hooters rep — we wonder if the spokesperson has to wear those tanktops — said very few parents have complained; in fact, since the story broke, restaurants have been flooded with horny dads wanting the company to sponsor their kid's team. More »
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Here's a perfect example of how powerful ESPN is. Last night, Albert Pujols, while chasing a foul ball down the first base line, was grasped by a drunken Philadelphia fan in the front row. Pujols kept his cool, glowering at and lecturing the man before giving the ball to a kid next to him, because Pujols is a great guy who, as ESPN always reminds us, loves the Down Syndrome kids. But where's the news reports about the incident? There aren't any. We've yet to find a mention of it in any newspaper or blog this morning. Either the whole press box missed it or it was a much smaller deal than this morning's SportsCenter thought. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108785&view=rss&microfeed=true This is always fun: At a girl's rugby game — little girls are playing rugby? — in Rohnert Park, Calif. on Saturday, a parent punched a referee in the face when he was told to move his Camcorder off the field. Not a big deal, right? Refs are getting decked at kid's games all the time; that's why we have kid's sports! Well, thing is, the opposing team's coach held the crazed parents down, ostensibly until police could arrive, when he was attacked and kicked by his opposing coach and "six to eight bystanders." He was treated for "several head injuries" and was knocked unconscious. "I never saw them coming," Craig Stewart, the coach, said. "They took the boots to me. They just started kicking me in the head and the face." In a completely unrelated story, right afterwards, the opposing teams started fighting, a rugby cat fight. And you know the funny thing? They didn't even televise the game! What's the point of fighting, kids? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108755&view=rss&microfeed=true One would think Oakland would be the only place they would be nice to Jason Giambi. Nope! Authorities have announced that Eric Anduri, the fan who dumped a beer on Giambi during a game Saturday, will be charged with battery, public intoxication and — our favorite — "throwing an object on the field." (We're not sure what the maximum sentence for that "crime" is; we imagine it involving a dunking booth.) Giambi handled the situation "admirably," says his manager, which was probably wise; heading into the stands and bashing a fan with his bat is probably the only thing that could hurt Giambi's image right now. More »
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