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White Sox Beat Writer Goes Nuts On Minnesota
Sun-Times reporter Joe Cowley is a homer in a city of media homers. But his Twitterrhea explosion last night against the Twins and their fans was something else. Stereotypes about being ugly? Calling players jag-offs? Mocking the dead? Check, check and double-check....
Tremendous Johnson's Long Hard Road To Madden
Anyone can succeed with the NFL's actual superstars in Madden 11, but there's a certain joy in finding fictional prospects from franchise mode...Wait, is that guy's name really Tremendous Johnson? Time to investigate....
A Look Inside The NFL's Drug Testing Methods, Chad Ochocinco's Bladder
Mr. Ochocino found this note taped to his locker yesterday. It's just the high-tech, low-margin-for-error procedure we've come to expect from the NFL's steroid testing....
Anelka Laughs Snootily At French Ban
After being handed an 18-match ban, effectively ending his international career: "They are real clowns these people. I'm dying with laughter." Meanwhile, Ribery got a 3-match suspension, and is dying with whatever his underage hooker gave him. [AFP]...
Alabama Candidate Uses Horrible Photoshop To Gain Nick Saban's "Endorsement"
A Bessemer, Ala., mayoral candidate put a picture of her and Coach Saban on a campaign poster. It looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time....
Last Night's Winner: MMA's New "Quantum Physics" Division
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like MMA champ Matt Horwich, who showed in a post-fight interview that he's the smartest man in the world. That, or he'd just been punched in the head repeatedly....
Stories That Don't Suck: The Shot Heard 'Round The World And The Greatest Lede Ever Written
From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: a fitting memorial for Bobby Thomson....
The NCAA's Futile Effort To Fix The NBA Draft
The new NCAA President wants to change the rules on draft eligibility, proposing an MLB-style system. It's a noble effort. It's completely unworkable....
Women's Basketball Is First Among Unequals
It's a college hoops tradition: you play the women's game in the late afternoon, then the fans show up and you play the men's game. Is this a civil rights violation?...
Foul Ball Couple Update: Bo The Bailer's Ex Makes A Semi-Nude Preemptive Strike
After Bo threatened to release nude photos from their ill-fated relationship, Sara Saco-Vertiz beat him to the punch....
Roger Federer Playing William Tell Is This Week's Real Or Fake Conundrum
We're not sure if Federer nailing a can atop a lackey's head is legit or CGI. It seems...plausible? But, then, we fell for this one too....
Concussions Killed Lou Gehrig, Killing NFL Players
The drumbeat to address concussions in football just grew a little louder, with a new study that links brain trauma to a very ALS-like disease. Lou Gehrig himself may have contracted his namesake disease that very way....
Last Night's Winner: Dodger Stadium's Landlord, The Dodgers
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like Frank McCourt, who owns the stadium, yet makes his team pay an exorbitant amount of rent anyway. This is scumbaggery of the highest order, right here....
Jets Superfan, Giants Superdrunk Exchange Shoves
Because you asked for it (with your eyes. I can tell), here's Fireman Ed getting into it with an unsteady Giants fan. As always, the only acceptable rooting interest is for the meteorite....
Eli Manning Gets Bloodied
The Giants QB pinballed off of his own running back and LB Calvin Pace, before smashing his head on Jim Leonhard's facemask. The New Meadowlands turf is officially seeded with the blood of a virgin, as per the prophecy....
K-Rod Injured Himself Throwing That Punch, Out For Season
Rodriguez tore a ligament in his right thumb, meaning his father-in-law's face actually won the fight. It's about that time of the season for another memorable New York Post cover? [Will Carroll]...
Patrick Kane Is More Alcohol Than Man At This Point
It's apparently Patrick Kane week here at Deadspin. So please accept this dump of assorted drunken sightings of the Blackhawks hero tooling around with Jimmy Buffett, rocking the flat-brimmed Reds cap, and getting "iced."...
Foul Ball Couple Update: Bo "The Bailer" Threatens To Leak Intimate Photos Of Ex He Failed To Protect
All is not well with our favorite foul ball dodging star-cross'd lovers, Bo and Sara. We've got allegations of infidelity, and the threat of dropping nude photos. Join us, on As The Bo Turns....
Yankees Toss Limbless Boy In Water, Or Something
The Yankees kicked off their annual "HOPE Week" by treating 13-year-old Jorge Grajales to a pool party. Jorge is a quadruple amputee. Whatever, he still throws better than Knoblauch. [Journal News]...
Solving The Mystery of the $5 Floyd Landis Yard Sale Bike
We know a Kentucky man paid just $5 for Landis's road-used custom mountain bike, at the World Longest Yard Sale. But how did it get there? It literally fell off the back of a truck. We heard from the guys driving....