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Time For Yet Another Team To Roll The Dice With Milton Bradley
Oh god, that's awful, I'm sorry. Let's try this again....
Belgian Cyclist Dies After Fall in Giro D'Italia
Wouter Weylandt was pronounced dead soon after a single-bike crash in a hilly stage of the Giro D'Italia, one of the three Grand Tours of cycling, and often the most dangerous....
Is This The Ultimate Insult To A Rival Team?
Your hated geographic rivals are suffering one of the worst humiliations in their 130-year history. What's a devoted fan who takes pleasure from the misery of others to do? Fly a goddamn airplane banner over their stadium....
An Update On Telling You Which Soccer Player Had An Affair With This Lady
We felt very bad last time. We hate blind items (though we did guess Ryan Giggs). But there's this thing in the UK where celebrities can get court-ordered injunctions against newspapers publishing items about their personal lives. They're called injunctions, and lots of celebrities have them, and to...
Hours After (Barely) Getting Punched, Manny Pacquaio Was Onstage Singing La Bamba
Do you ever get the feeling Manny doesn't actually like boxing? Between his political career, his singing career, and his not having broken a sweat in the ring in three years, it seems like there's always something he'd rather be doing....
Deadspin Classic: Kobe: <i>"We Are Going To Win This Series"</i>
Originally published earlier today, like seven hours ago....
Deadspin Classic: How Everyone Decided Delonte West Was Boinking LeBron's Mom
Around this time last year, everyone was seeking an explanation for LeBron James's poor playoff performance. They found it, in the form of a bizarre Gloria James/LeBron James/Delonte West love triangle. Happy Mother's Day, everyone....
Five Entries In Our Worst Golf Swing Contest
We've been highlighting and soliciting videos of the worst golf swings you've ever seen (Charles Barkley is still in the lead) and you people haven't disappointed. Here are five more nominations. Please keep them coming....
LeBron: "That's Retarded"
Not the word choice we would have gone with, but yeah, it kind of was....
Kobe: "We Are Going To Win This Series"
If the Lakers come back from 3-0, then everyone will remember this as one of the all-time great sports guarantees, up there with Mark Messier and Joe Namath. But it's not; it's just Kobe staying positive. The full quote: "I might be sick in the head or crazy or thrown off or something like that be...
Jared Allen Becomes The Latest To Complain About Those Kids And Their Bling
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Allen says the lockout is all for the young players, but they're ungrateful little bastards....
To Celebrate Willie Mays's 80th, Here's A Rare Photo Of The Catch
Mays turns 80 today, and it's amazing that one of the greatest all-around baseball players ever can still be known for a single moment....
The Search For The World's Worst Golf Swing Is On
Yesterday we had Cleon and Charles Barkley. Today's entry comes from reader Andrew, whose unnamed friend attacks his ball with such savageness that "even his wife screams" when he swings....
Rick Reilly Shuts Down Journalism School, Pisses On Journalism's Corpse, Makes Some Shit Up About MLK
Rick Reilly returned yesterday to the University of Colorado's J-School to deliver a speech to graduates. A 1981 alumni himself, Reilly sent out the last pure CU journalism grads, as the program converts to "journalism plus" next year. Gathered from reports by the Denver Post and Daily Camera, here ...
Hell No, Uncle Mo Won't Go
There are precisely six days a year that the vast majority of America pays attention to horse racing: the Thursday through Saturdays of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. (Add extra days for the occasional Triple Crown chance and any lovable injured/dead horses.) We're smack dab in the middle of ...
After Beaning, Reporter Will No Longer Urge Players To Take One For The Team
Last month, Kansas City Star blogger/reporter Lee Judge wrote that Wilson Betemit should have leaned into a pitch with the bases loaded in a tie game. It wasn't received well, as leaning into the pitch is easy for sportswriters to recommend, while they're sitting comfily at home....
Gus Is Gone!
Gus Johnson and CBS have parted ways. Sucks that he won't be around for the NCAA Tourney, but we'll survive. We'll still have Gus in our lives, doing boxing, football, olympics, whatever he chooses to do. It's not as if we only like Gus because of Len Elmore. [SI.com]...
Terry Francona: We Didn't Sign Carl Crawford To Hit Eighth
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: no one on the Red Sox is hitting, but some are hitting less than others....
OK, Maybe <i>This</i> Is The Worst Golf Swing Ever
Cleon "is a legend at our course," writes a reader who begs to differ with our characterization of Charles Barkley's swing as the worst. We're not sure. Cleon's lengthy lining up of the ball and ratcheting backswing are great, but the follow-through is a little too clean....
Mike Greenberg Is Getting A Sitcom; Or, Why TV People Think You're An Idiot
The sitcom will revolve around a cipher of a sports talk show host, who's alternately paired with a boorish former athlete co-host and a long-suffering wife, so essentially Mike Greenberg, because Mike Greenberg has a fascinating life and a lot of TV people think you will be interested in watching a...