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Join The Deadspin Pants Party Pool!

Leitch — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:33:28 EDT

We are exactly three weeks from the start of the college football season — LSU is at Mississippi State in ESPN's opener — and that's sooner than we realized. Which means it's probably time to put together our Pants Party Pool.

As always, we'll be using ESPN's fantasy format, because they don't limit you to 50 participants. It's a confidence pool — 10 points for the game you're most confident in, so on — and the first week's games include Illinois-Missouri. (You will recognize the familiar site of Juice Williams about to be sacked in the picture above.)

Anyway ... join the Deadspin Pants Party College Pick 'Em Pool. The winner will receive a bunch of books written by us, a free post and any tickets we might have lying around here. So join in now. It's never too early.

Deadspin Pants Party College Pick 'Em Pool [ESPN Fantasy Games]

Last Call For Pool Entries

Leitch — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:45:07 EDT

This picture, of Germany and Costa Rica fans this morning already revving up, proves once again: We are all in the wrong country for drinking over the next month. That said, we're only a little more than an hour away from the start of the World Cup, which means if you're wanting to enter our Deadspin World Cup pool, this is your last chance.

Remember, we have, like, prizes and stuff, including a full post to be written by the winner.

And be ready. We're just an hour away. Which means every single person in that picture up there has at least thrown up once already.

Join The Deadspin World Cup Pool [ESPN Games]
Contest Prizes [Deadspin]

Last Call For Athlete Run-In Stories

Leitch — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:15:01 EST

We'll be picking our winners in our athlete run-in stories contest, where the best athlete run-in stories win a free copy of The Education Of A Coach, the new David Halberstam about Patriots coach Bill Belichick.

We'll need all entries by tomorrow at noon, and we'll be featuring the best posts throughout the week. Send all entries to tips@deadspin.com.

We will accept stories of basic cable reality program hijinks with clients of Prince Marketing Group, but, well, we wouldn't hold your breath on them winning. Good luck, all.

Tell Us Your Best Athlete Stories And Win A Book [Deadspin]

Tell Us Your Best Athlete Run-Ins, And Win A Book!

Leitch — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:00:44 EST

Hey, look, it's the first-ever Deadspin contest. The fine folks at Hyperion Books just shipped a big stack of copies of David Halberstam's new book The Education Of A Coach to Deadspin World Headquarters, and we're here to give them away. We've read the book and think it's really good, actually, even though it has a blurb from Bob Costas on the front who, as we all know, pees sitting down.

Anyway, we're gonna have a little contest here to win a free book. All you have to do is send us in your best athlete run-in stories. Whether you saw A.C. Green getting a lapdance, Scottie Pippen sprinting out of a restaurant to skip out on the check, Jose Canseco escorting an old lady across the street ... whatever. Think Gawker Stalker, except with athletes, hopefully doing something stupid. Anonymity, as always, is guaranteed. The best stories will be published on Deadspin and will win yourself a shiny new book.

So, send 'em in to tips@deadspin.com. The juicier the story, the better. Good luck, yo.

The Education Of A Coach [Amazon]

(A reader informs us that the correct term for someone who sits down to pee is a "sitzplinker." That's fantastic. We are now referring to Bob Costas exclusively as "Bob Sitzplinker.")