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Darren Daulton Is Freaking Insane
OK, we touched on this earlier, but it's really something that has to be brought up again: That "SportsCenter" feature on former Phillies hero Darren Daulton has shaken us to our very core....
Fun With Juxtaposition
We know this is more the realm of our George Clooney-stalking sisters at Gawker, but we couldn't help but notice this perhaps poorly placed headline-photo combination on the New York Times Web site....
Just Another Night At The Fleet Center TD Banknorth Garden
The thoughts of various individuals in this picture:...
Blogdome: The Lakers State Their Claim
• A big night in Los Angeles; maybe the Clippers don't own the place just yet. [The Association] • They're kind of cutting Ben Wallace a break, aren't they? [True Hoop] • If you ever had a question for NCAA head honcho Myles Brand, this is your chance. (Kind of.) [Double A Zone] • A soccer gambling ...
Game 6, RBI Baseball Style
If you needed any more proof that the Web is the greatest thing humans have been handed since we realized the caveman who won’t shut up about his fantasy baseball team could be hit in the head with a rock, here it is. A guy at the site San Diego Serenade spent hours syncing up Vin Scully’s audio fro...
The Dull Phil Mickelson
We tend to agree with The Mighty MJD: We have a hard time getting too excited about Phil Mickelson winning the Masters. He falls in that place now that's difficult for sports fans to follow or get behind: Completely lacking in storyline. Mickelson for years was the talented guy who could never win...
MLB.TV Not Quite As Cool As It Used To Be
We are longtime subscribers to MLB.tv. It only makes sense. We love the Cardinals, we don't live in St. Louis and we are on our computer pretty much all the time. It's also cheaper than MLB Extra Innings and, on the whole, runs on a programming system that doesn't kill our computer....
It's Hard Out There For A Garvey
When we were kids, there were two baseball players we were instructed to pattern ourselves after, examples of how the game provided structure and organization and produced quality, upstanding gentlemen who were beacons of Good American Values to us all. One stood for hard work, hustle and dedicati...
Week In Deadspin: Hello, Horsehide
• Florida won the national championship in a tremendously boring Final Four. • Anna Benson renewed our faith in romance. • We introduced the Daily Closer as baseball spread its yearly seed all over our loins yet again. It turned out not to be the best day for Derek Lowe. • Beware of Jenn Sterger's...
Leftovers: A Joyride From The Past
• The alleged victim in the Duke lacrosse case has a brush with the law in her past, when she took a cab driver's car for a "joyride" while under the influence of alcohol. Some say it brings up questions about her credibility, but we think it has as much to do with whether or not she was raped as th...
Well, Somebody Better Start Making Golic's Tux And Greenberg's Dress
Well, it looks like they're actually going through with this:...
Brett Favre Will Do Something, Someday, Maybe
We swear to God, we just got this news alert from ESPN.com about Brett Favre's "retirement" "plans."...
Opening Day At Wrigley
We received a call from a friend of ours about an hour ago, asking us to break into their email and look up some Evite information. Why? Because they were heading to a Wrigley Field Opening Day part just down the street from the old yard, and they'd lost the directions. Our friend is a Cub fan. We...
You'll Find A Pair Of Safety Glasses And Some Earplugs Under Your Seat. Please Feel Free To Use Them.
You sponsors have it real easy. We never had it like this where we grew up. But we send our kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich, and you're going to stay rich. But here's our advice to the rest of ...
Blogdome: Free Chicken And Biscuits, Baby
• If we were Grizzlies fans, we might get more excited about the chicken and biscuits too. [Talking To Nobody] • An imaginary conversation in which Shea Stadium doesn't handle the news that it's being torn down very well at all. [Faith And Fear In Flushing] • On redemption, steroids and forgiveness....
Brian Fuentes' Curious Entrance Music
If you've been bewildered by the "controversy" involving the use of "Enter Sandman" as the closer's music for both Mariano Rivera and Billy Wagner, we're happy to direct you to a closer's music story that actually has some teeth....
Kornheisers On A Plane
One of the most common questions we received yesterday, in the wake of the release of the 2006 NFL schedule, was: How's new MNF broadcaster Tony Kornheiser going to get out to Washington for the two games in Seattle? The notoriously airplane-phobic (and Cruiser-less) "PTI" host seemed to be in a s...
Army Women's Coach Passes Away
In an unfathomably tragic story, Army women's basketball coach Maggie Dixon, who took the Lady Cadets to the NCAA tournament this year at the age of 28, died yesterday afternoon of a heart arrhythmia. Dixon, the sister of Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon had no history of heart problems and, after all...
The Closer: Goodbye To Jimmy
Notes from a day of baseball ... • 1. That's All, Folks. The Phillies' Jimmy Rollins ended his hit streak yesterday, at 38 games, in a 4-2 loss to the Cardinals. (Who are 3-0, by the way.) We are big fans of Rollins — particularly when he shaves his head; he had some cornrows last year that were p...
Tiger Woods Successfully Completes High Five
As we congratulate Tiger Woods for finally figuring out the correct way to slap another man's hand with his own, we take a look at the Masters, which, for all its bluster and Carlyle Group vibe, is the one golf tournament we look forward to every year, even if it's just because it reminds us that ev...