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Young Allison Stokke Takes On Erin Andrewsness In An Epic Battle of Doability
With SHOTY in full swing, the results of In Game Now's "smoking hot pseudo athlete thing", and now the final round of The Big Picture's "Would you do..." Tournament of Champions, it's obviously online voting season for sports blogs. They are down to their final two contestants: The second seed, nubi...
ESPN Mag To Get a Sharapova-cized Makeover
Each year, ESPN "The Magazine" trots out special issues like the goofy jocks-are-in-charge issue one when they let a professional athlete play editor for the week. (Remember one year Matt Leinart did this. Yeah, it'll probably be a long time before he gets on the cover again.) This year the mag has...
When Blogs Go Too Far?: Yahoo! NBA Writer Calls Blogger After Perceived Threat
There's an odd but serious spat brewing between MVN blogger and Yahoo! Sports basketball writer Adrian Wojnarowski over an extremely disturbing post that has now extended beyond the web pages. Amir Panchmatia, of the "Cavalier Attitude" fan blog, posted an item in late October titled "Going American...
When All Else Fails For The Lions, Might As Well Have a Couple of Fat Guys Fight in the Parking Lot
The Deadspin Morning Video Wake Up Call will return for a brief period of time through the holidays. If you have any suggested videos to fill this space, email us. Subject: Morning Video Wake Up Call. From Sports By Brooks, comes this surprisingly mesmerizing video of a couple of shirtless chubster...
So What Was That Ugly Red Stain on the Field During the Jets-Titans Game?
Yesterday, KOGOD posted an update on the Jets-Titans game that featured what appeared to be an ominous looking giant blood stain in the middle of the field. It was speculated that Albert Haynesworth, who popped up from that spot and ran off the field clutching his face, had some sort of open facial...
Some Day, Somebody's Gonna Make You Wanna Turn Around And Say Goodbye
Last night was supposed to be a crowning achievement for Deadspin, LLP. The Phil Savage email story was scheduled to be on the late night SportsCenter, but was then axed by the producers because the night was was supposedly "heavy." I was even sent a copy of the opening to the segment: "Story on Spo...
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 th...
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 h...
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 absolut...
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. Hines Ward's post-game q-and-a on Holmes: "He was out of it. I was looking for the guy, ...
This Photograph Just Makes Me Want to Shampoo Something
Here's Joe Namath in his glory days, with Farrah Fawcett on the arm, shag carpet on the chest, and a glint in his eye that tells the world, "You're mine, baby." Who else can pull of that type of confidence with just a simple glance? George Clooney? Obama? Baby Mangino? Not many. With Leather picked ...
Michele Tafoya remembers a time when sideline women didn't have to be so pretty: “It was different, and it really wasn’t all long ago. I’m talking 10-15 years ago when you still felt this way. I talked to Robin Roberts about it and we remember back in those days that you thought ‘oh, better not put ...
Phil Savage Finally Apologizes For His Impassioned Expletive in E-mail Freakout to Fan
Well. Who would've thought a story like this could get so much attention? And, hey — even ESPN.com took off the web censors and let the AP's "as first reported by Deadspin.com" into its online copy. I'm flattered that they acknowledge our uncanny ability to carefully sift through our inbox. And now,...
Dim-Witted Donovan McNabb Sick Of Talking About Dim-Wittedness
Obviously, I'm not happy about how things in Iggle-ville right now, but given my state of euphoria after a Phillies championship it's tough to get too angry about the dumbfounding dipshittery that has crippled this football team this year. Granted, the recent revelations about Donovan McNabb's compl...