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SI.com Is So Nuanced You'd Never Notice
Here are some stats for you, via CBS MarketWatch: SI.com has 7 million unique visitors a month, far behind ESPN's 20.4 million visitors. This is a rather large discrepancy — Yahoo and Fox Sports are ahead of SI as well — but one that SI.com doesn't worry too much about....
NHL 94 Was More Complicated Than You'd Think
For those of a certain age, no video game had more cultural impact — and was played so often under the influence of MadDog 20/20 — than NHL '94. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not the game they're playing in Swingers; sadly, they had already eliminated the bleeding option by then, thus decreasi...
NBA Slogan Fever: We Love This CATCH IT!
We've always been amused by teams' dopey slogans for the season; the worst one we can remember is the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals' "Red Means Go." We have absolutely no idea what that means, and we sincerely tried....
If They Had To, Most Athletes Could Shoot You Where You Stand
You know, we love sports. (News, we know.) But you know what would make us love sports more? If more players were armed....
The View From Inside Rutgers Stadium
As we continue to sift through the empty cans next to the Vince Lombardi Memorial Rest Stop off the New Jersey Turnpike, we again salute the Rutgers Scarlet Knights for their historic and jaw-dropping 28-25 win over Louisville last evening. The video above — amazingly, posted within two hours after ...
Time To Go Nuts In Jersey
Every school, theoretically speaking, should have that moment when everything is perfect and right, one of those nights where all students begin a four-day orgy of drinking, unbridled celebration and Italian sandwiches. Tonight is that night for Rutgers, which is now one of the four undefeated teams...
Louisville. Rutgers. For ALL THE MARBLES.
We are truly living in a blessed age when the most important college football game of the week, one of the most important of the season, not only involves Louisville, not only is being played on a Thursday night ... but actually is being hosted by Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights, before tonight, have n...
Blasted Apart, With Just A Hint Of Juniper
Ladies and gentlepersons, we proudly introduce you to SeasonShot. What is it? It's a shotgun that saved you the trouble of having to spice your meat! You can blast a bird out of the air and lightly pepper it with coriander at the same time! We'll let the inventors describe it:...
Leftovers: NASCAR: Still White
• The whole blacks-in-NASCAR thing? Not working. [New York Times] • Dance, Saints fan ... DANCE! [The Fanhouse] • An outstanding collection of truly worthless baseball cards. [Joe Sports Fan] • This painting of Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager is making us giggle. [And Here Come The Pretzels]...
Jackie Christie's Less-Than-Exclusive Club
We haven't been watching much of the BET reality show "The Christies," about beleaguered NBAer Doug Christie and his wife Jackie, if just because the dysfunctional Christies relationship stopped interesting us a couple of years ago. (OK: We're also terrified of reality television. We accept that we ...
How To Deal With Angry, Suing Fans
Remember that A's-Rangers game from a couple of years ago, when Rangers reliever Frank Francisco threw a chair into the stands and broke some lady's nose? Well, that lawsuit in still going on, and it appears the Rangers are sparing no expense in their quest to discredit the lady's husband, whose hec...
Introducing The Deadspin Sportshuman Of The Year Tournament
Since Sports Illustrated is making its unveiling of the 2006 Sportsman Of The Year award into a two-month enterprise, we figured we could do the same thing. Therefore, we are introducing the Deadspin Sportshuman Of The Year tournament, where 16 nominees will compete for the sainted title. We've put ...
Blogdome: President Shuler?
• Already in Congress at the age of 34, Heath Shuler's future is so bright, he is required to wear protective eyewear. [Rich Kotite Banged Your Mom] • Funny thing about the new Diamondbacks uniforms? They don't say "Diamondbacks" anywhere. [High And Tight] • David Stern sure does like his rules. [De...
Dan Patrick, Celebrity Golf Interview Dork Dodger
We'll confess to having less of a problem with Dan Patrick than we do with some of the other Bristol folks; he's got a little smugness to him, but on the whole, we don't think he's one of the bad guys....
The Santa Clara 49ers Of California
Just a few days after the Oakland A's announced they're leaving the Bay Area for Fremont, the San Francisco 49ers dropped an even bigger bomb yesterday: They've given up on getting a new stadium and are heading to Santa Clara. Some city officials are holding out hope it's a power play to get a bet...
Welcome Back, Dwight Gooden
After seven months in jail — in a jail in Florida, no less — fallen phenom Dwight Gooden is scheduled to be released today. A time has not been announced yet. Gooden's jail time was intriguing because he could have chosen three years probation but decided not to, because another drug offense during ...
Fred Smoot's Blanket Coverage
We were just forwarded this shot, from an MSNBC gallery, from last Sunday's Vikings-49ers game. You might not be able to tell from the photo — perhaps you are distracted by the ass — but the defender on the play? None other than Fred Smoot....
The Return Of Ned
A profile in courage from Florida International University: Running back A'Mod Ned, the injured Panther who heroically joined the fray of the infamous Miami-FIU brawl from a month or so ago despite, you know, being on crutches, is expected to return to practice this week and could be able to retur...
A Closer Look At The Late Bryan Pata
As the college football world comes to terms with the tragic, awful death of Miami Hurricanes defensive tackle Bryan Pata, who was shot yesterday outside his apartment, details continue to filter in. The University has not yet announced if the team will play its game Saturday against Maryland....
Leftovers: Bo Knows Fight Songs
• Ah, the great Burger King college fighting song commercials. [Every Day Should Be Saturday] • Some fun elections over at KSK. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • Boise State tells ESPN to stick it. [Scout.com] • The BCS is hardly democratic. [The Fish Of Death]...