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David Beckham Is Trying Rather Hard To Make It Clear He's Tough
In a promotional photo shoot with Reggie Bush and the New Orleans Saints, David Beckham definitively illustrates, once and for all, the differences between football players and soccer players....
The Exact Human Opposite Of Jim Nantz
Ron Jaworski? Please. This is your new MNF foil for Kornheiser....
Heath Shuler Will Always Be Heath Shuler
• Heath Shuler, still bad at sports. [Roll Call] • Rod Beck, what a closer should be. [Signal To Noise] • How the WWE screwed up the Chris Benoit "tribute." [Simon On Sports] • Today's Happy Gilmore moment. [Fox News] • Bulls not going after Kobe. [SI.com]...
About Those My Wish Segments ...
As you've surely noticed, "SportsCenter" is running its yearly "My Wish" campaign with the "Make-A-Wish foundation" all this week. We covered our thoughts on this little segment last year, when we said, "First off, it should be obvious that we have no problem with sick and/or needy children getting ...
Like NBA Stars, But Smaller And You Can Eat Them
One of our favorite old sports stories involves Doug Flutie, when he was at the height of his Bills popularity, and then-Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson. In the locker room before the game, Johnson, to presumably fire up his troops, destroyed a box of the Flutie Flakes cereal sold to benefit autism res...
Who Wants To Sex Yao?
• Meet the woman whom Yao shall impregnate. [The Big Picture] • All the CFL preview you can handle. [Boatman Blog] • If you're the general manager of the Pirates, you probably shouldn't have your own live call-in show. [BuccoBlog] • Hey, Yankees fans: Your prospects suck. [On The Show] • The all-bre...
Hey, Wimbledon's Going On, We Guess
Every year, when Wimbledon comes around, we wonder who, exactly, is sitting around in America and watching these matches all day. They go on all day in the middle of the most gorgeous time of the year; because it's in England, we always assume everyone has to use their rackets on their opposite hand...
The Gyroball Rock
A little late on this, but if you were wondering whether Daisuke Matsuzaka was blessed with musical talent, rest assured, folks, the guy has mad vocal skillz. And by "mad vocal skills," we mean, he warbles songs to warm your heart and soul. He's like the Japanese Oprah....
It's Raining Boxers! Hallelujah!
This man is Kelvin Davis, an American heavyweight boxer who was schedule to fight in New Zealand in a couple of days. He was out running across a bridge as part of his training and suddenly felt threatened by the oncoming cars. So ... he jumped off the bridge. It didn't work out well....
Stuart Scott Is The Broadcasting Equivalent Of Hudson Hawk
As Awful Announcing reported yesterday, tonight, ESPN will bring you a Very Special "SportsCenter" featuring Bruce Willis, Live Free Or Die Hard and all kinds of WACKY HIJINKS....
Hirshey: Down And Out In Barcelona
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
The Mets Show Some Midnight Funk
Anyway, after Shawn Green's walk-off homer last night, the Mets celebrated like crazy people at home plate. Specifically, Jose Reyes did his little boxer's dance at home plate and, most amusingly, Jose Valentin going all caveman on the ground with his bat. "Shawn homer! Shawn homer! Bash! Bash!" Tha...
Wimbledon, The Miming, Fake, Virtual Way
Perhaps you've been checking out what's going on at Wimbledon today. Perhaps. But if that's not quite rankling your fancy — a term we just invented — you can take solace in the virtual world. Over the weekend, the first ever Wii Wimbledon tournament was held at Barcade, a video game type bar in Wil...
Remembering Stephen A. Smith's Night Of NBA Draft Glory
To remind: The NBA Draft is three days away. To make sure you're appropriately fired up, we bring you this brilliant blast from the past, the fantastic Stephen A. Smith heckling video from last year's NBA Draft. HE LOVES THESE CHEESY DOODLES....
Whither Wrigley?
• About that whole impending Cubs purchase. [Fortune] • Marion Jones has no money. [The Sports Elitists] • Who broke up Dustin McGowan's no hitter yesterday? How about The Mighty MJD? [Cousings Of Ron Mexico] • Bill Simmons is wrong: Lots of people enjoyed the NHL Draft. [German Village Media] • The...
Israeli Baseball League Off To Roaring Start
We're not quite sure they're gonna quite reach the level of the Japanese leagues when it comes to a Major League Baseball farm system, but we have to credit the Israeli Baseball League — which just played its first game yesterday — for rather unbridled enthusiasm....
Nobody Cares About Your Fantasy Team
To keep the comments as fresh and outstanding as they've been up to this point, we've commissioned Commenting Guru Rob Iracane to write a bi-weekly Comment Ombudsman column. It runs every other week. This is that week....
Last Chance For Durant
• The academic resource on why the Trail Blazers should draft Kevin Durant. [Draft Kevin Durant] • More Erin Andrews, ESPN, and less sick children. [Wrigleyville] • The All-Star could-have-beens. [Wining The Turnover Battle] • Andruw Jones has devastated your fantasy team. [On The Show] • A poem abo...
China Insists That Boston And Philly Are Grand Places For The Chinese
The NBA Draft is now just three days away, and since everybody knows how the first two picks are going down, the main intrigue — other than the usual sartorial speculation — involves the three Florida players and Chinese mystery Yi Jianlian. He's either Dirk Nowitzki or Wang Zhi-Zhi, and he's either...