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Barry Bonds Ready For His Closeup
If you've been watching ESPN at all over the last couple of days, you've seen the ads: The reality show "Bonds On Bonds" debuts tomorrow....
Amazon.com Has Your Potentially Flawed Merchandise
As many of you have pointed out to us today, Amazon.com made a bit of a mistake this morning, sending out an email to pretty much anyone who has ever bought anything sports-related on the site imploring them to be "the first to see our selection of NCAA championship products."...
Opening Day Television Snafus
So, opening day! You took the day off of work so you could stay home and take in all the first-day action. First up, Mets-Nationals ... "Baseball Tonight" is ending, so here we go! ... ESPN News? What?...
Blogdome: Yeah, But What's His Wonderlic Score?
• Not a bad day for Reggie Bush yesterday, not bad at all. [The Sports Frog] • Johnnie Walker, the official drink of the New York Yankees. [Copyranter] • ESPN is all over the dominoes beat. [Ninja James] • If Dr. Zaius predicted the American League East. [Surviving Grady] • All you could possibly wa...
It's Opening Day. Commence Wistful Laments For Days Of Yore
It's one of everyone's favorite days of the year: The day when George Will pulls a hamstring trying to come up with synonyms for "grass," "sunshine" and "purity." It's opening day! The first game of the day is at that baseball mecca Shea Stadium, with the Mets hosting the Washington Nationals. First...
Up-To-Date On Duke Lacrosse Developments (Or Lack Thereof)
We promised an update on the Duke lacrosse rape allegations today, so here goes. A roundup of latest events:...
We'd Suggest Always Betting The Under
We have a question. Why is Pete Rose scraping for a living here in the U.S. when he could just skip across the Atlantic and be a god? Soccer is where the real action is, friends. First, we have a report that most Premiership players are betting on games; or, as former Republic of Ireland striker T...
Yeah, Steroids Will Totally Ruin Your Life
It was pointed out when Yankees Meat Loaf impersonator Jason Giambi admitted to taking steroids in front of the BALCO grand jury that steroids worked out just fine for him. A year after it was confirmed by Giambi was taking steroids, he signed a nine-digit contract with the Yankees. Ask him, in da...
Adventures In Advertising
He may be an unspeakable cad in most parts of our great land, but San Francisco is still doggedly clutching Barry Bonds to its bosom. Call it denial, pride, myopia, whatever; from San Francisco's point of view, Bonds may be a cheater, but damn it, he's our cheater. For proof, let's head over to th...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Frozen Four marathon!: I love college hockey! (this will be only slightly more popular than the recent Matlock marathon). • 1 p.m. WNCAA championship with Charlie Creme: I won the golden ticket! Now where are the Oompa Loompas?...
The Best Way To Personalize Your Plates
Spotted by a reader on the Upper West Side of Manhattan this weekend. This is not our car. Oh, but if it were....
One Depressing Sports Weekend
We don't mean to overstate this, but Saturday was a disappointing an evening for college basketball as we can remember. It's not just that George Mason lost to Florida, or even that they lost so convincingly. Their legend had been secured simply by making it to Indianapolis at all; any mid-major w...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while having all kinds of troubles trying to sell your late father's sanitation business ... • Women's College Basketball: Turtle Mania! Maryland upends No. 1 UNC to reach NCAA title game. Will take on Duke. • NBA: And they call it the streak ... Carter's 43 lead Nets to 12th straigh...
Best Damn Sports Show Fight
So if you missed Friday night's episode of The Best Damn Sports Show (and how could you?), check about the above video. Tom Arnold and Michael Strahan get into kind of a little sissy chair fight. And Michael Strahan did not win. He's on the ground making noises like he's hurt, cursing at Arnold, who...
Week In Deadspin: Contracting The Bensons
• Officer Selig Fife is finally on the case. • "Bristol Is Big Ten Country" • George Mason Fever is a contagious condition, and if you don't stop scratching, it'll never go away. • Way too much information from Roger Clemens and Peter King. • The Duke lacrosse team story went from horrifying to "h...
Your NL East "Preview"
It is important to point out, before we start predicting our final division, that we have picked a team other than the Braves to win the division for five consecutive years. As if you needed any more assurance that our predictions are always wrong....
Leftovers: The Right Way To Pay Off A Ref
• It is apparently legal to bribe referees in Nigeria. Don't even pretend you're surprised. [ESPN] • Bring us the head of John Wooden! Seriously ... somebody bring it. [Yahoo Sports] • Scranton's sports columnist might very well be a pedophile. Seriously. [Delco Times] • We live in a great world whe...
John Wetteland Apparently Needs Some Cash
We knew that times were sometimes tough for former baseball players, but we never expected that former Yankees closer John Wetteland would resort to selling his 1996 World Series Ring on eBay....
It's A Final Four Pants Party
Obviously, the best story at this weekend's Final Four in Indianapolis is George Mason, but we've found the best story of that best story: It turns out that until this weekend, the George Mason fight song had no lyrics. Seriously; they had to write a whole batch just because the NCAA was asking fo...
Enhance Your Pud
So, should Barry Bonds be in the Hall of Fame if it's proven (again) that he used steroids? If he makes it, he won't be the first guy to use performance enhancers in Cooperstown. NPR's blog tells the story today of Pud Galvin, a 19th century pitcher for Pittsburgh....