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What to watch while you take the turducken to glorious new heights ...

• College Basketball: Coaches vs. Cancer Classic Final: Michigan vs. Duke (7:00 p.m., ET) What's not to like? [ESPN2]
• NBA: Houston Rockets at Washington Wizards (7:00 p.m., ET) Wax Arenas should be good 15 and 5. [ESPN]
• College Football: Fresno State Bulldogs at San Jose State Aztecs (9:30 p.m., ET) Great. Now I'll never tell these two schools apart. [ESPN2]
• NBA: New Orleans Hornets at Oklahoma City Thunder (9:30 p.m., ET). What's that noise? [ESPN]

5:05 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
201 views, 8 comments

Dan Patrick discusses Chinese Democracy with Rob Tannenbaum. Dan Patrick was 31 years old when Appetite came out. He's Mr. Hip. [Dan Patrick]

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Waxing off

Some Sweet, Sweet Charlie Weis Love, And Other Unconventional Sports Crushes

Once upon a time, a site called The Black Table had a regular feature entitled Waxing Off, in which women gathered in an online roundtable to discuss issues of the day, and also to make fun of Will Leitch's shoes. And so we got to thinking: With so many great female sports bloggers out there, why not import the idea here? It's just crazy enough to work. So behold: The latest edition of Deadspin's Waxing Off. We found some terrific female writers who were willing to pen short pieces on this week's topic: Unconventional sports crushes.

I think women are smart, don't get me wrong. But for the life of me I can't figure out how Lyle Lovett scored him some Julia Roberts. And Enza Sambataro dumps Ben Affleck for Kevin Youkilis? (room spinning, must sit down). OK ladies, explain yourselves. You have six posts in which to do so.

By the way, if you'd like to be part of the Waxing Off writing staff, email myself at Rick@Deadspin.com, or Mr. Daulerio at AJD@Deadspin.com.

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4:30 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Rick Chandler
1,946 views, 51 comments

Latest by Kid Canada: @Steve_U: Now it's time for my favourite part of the show! (Squinting)...huh...what's that say? TALK TO THE AUDIENCE?!?!?! Oh, god, this more »

High school football

Mississippi High School Football Game Goes All The Way To State Supreme Court

So here's a brain twister for you to chew over. Walnut High School in northern Mississippi has a playoff game tonight in the Class 2A quarterfinals—that is, unless lawyers for the parents of the team they beat the previous week can successfully petition the state supreme court to overturn a lower court ruling and put their school back in the playoffs. And all because of one of the most boneheaded refereeing decisions since, let's say, Sunday. More »

4:15 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
3,087 views, 39 comments

Latest by lastingsmilledge: @Craig Eshericks Mustache: Check your bluebooking! Purcell v. Gonzalez, 549 U.S. 1 (2006) PROCEDURAL POSTURE: Plaintiffs, residents, Indian tribes, and organizations, sued more »

Lakers vs. Suns wasn't all it was cracked up to be. [TalkHoops]

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Afternoon Blogdome

Afternoon Blogdome: Ram It All Night


Blogdome@deadspin.com dances a little funky, so watch it, girl.

• You sing too, Deacon?: Take heart St. Louis fans. Your current team hasn't done anything this bad. Yet. [YouTube] More »

3:30 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
1,352 views, 25 comments

The Big Lead has an excellent interview with ESPN's Bob Ley...who shares these thoughts about working with SportsCenter's Josh Elliot: "He’s disgustingly handsome and even more offensively tall - and never missed an occasion, on a stand-up two-shot to start our Sunday show, to step even closer to the camera to further distort his Yao Ming height advantage over his dumpy partner and resemble a marauding monster from a badly lip-synched science fiction movie. But I digress." [The Big Lead]

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NBA

Ron Artest Speaks the Awful, Unvarnished Truth

It's pretty rare to have an interview with Ron Artest that isn't entertaining, but the one he did in the latest issue of "King" magazine is unbelievably candid. Writer Thomas Golianopoulos was a former elementary school classmate of Artest's back at P.S. 122 in Astoria Queens, which evidently gave him a level of trust beyond most reporters. Artest answered his questions with even less of a filter than usual, revealing some pretty amazing stuff. Here are some of the most interesting/disgraceful/memorable quotes from "The Education of Ron Artest": More »

2:30 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By DAULERIO
7,507 views, 68 comments

Latest by MyMedSchoolKidCanBeatUpYourKid: Thank God he didn't have purple underwears more »

Espn commentary

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
2,321 views, 75 comments

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
13,941 views, 64 comments

Latest by ACMEsalesrep: I guess a "Who came first, the chicken or Zetterberg?" sign would get me kicked out of the arena, right? 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
3,210 views, 56 comments

Latest by Marth: @Jefferson Short Bus: Don't worry... I wasn't offended, just thrown for a loop. 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
3,277 views, 66 comments

Latest by T-dawg: @Gourmet Spud: Neat. Witty Seattle music scene puns on the post about how crappy our teams are. 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
3,788 views, 32 comments

Latest by Bazooka Tooth: No love for Florida (-84) against citadel? more »

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