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Need Tickets ... Need Tickets ...
We were complaining, oh, two posts ago, about not enough fans being appropriately ecstatic about the conference championship games this week, but in the host cities, that's anything but the case. It's time for our weekly look at the most expensive tickets on eBay (those that actually have a bid) f...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you work out some dance steps to "Sweet Shaun Alexander" ... • College Basketball: North Carolina State at Duke. Honestly, do people around here even realize that the Panthers are still playing football? [ESPN] • High School Basketball: Episcopal (Pa.) vs. Neumann-Goretti (Pa.), at ...
We Pity The Grant Wistrom
We're noticing a rather bewildering lack of excitement about the conference championship games this weekend; it's almost as if fans have pretended they're network executives and are frustrated there are no New York, Boston or Chicago teams playing. Come on, guys! It's the NFL! It's for the Super B...
Leftovers: Es usted pollo, Estados Unidos?
• Castro talks a little World Baseball Classic trash. [Waveflux] • Someone showing sense for once: Hill eschews NFL, will stay at Fresno State. [MSNBC] • Duke set to match best start in 14 years, which is saying something. [News and Observer] • Marbury's 280-game streak may end — prompting '72 Dolph...
Commemorating Great Disasters
From the fine fratty lads at Thrillist comes an amusing collection of "novelty" T-shirts inspired by sports' lowest moments, or, at the very least, their most embarrassing....
Poll: Isiah Wins, But It's Closer Than You Think
Well, the results are in from our poll about a theoretical (for now) fight between Isiah Thomas and Bill Simmons, and, well, we're rather shocked: You give Simmons a lot better chance of winning this duel than we possibly could have though. Out of Deadspin readers, 46.2 percent of you think Simmo...
John Daly, Reality Television Hero
We've documented the comedic stylings of John Daly with much vigor around these parts, and now, apparently, inevitably, the world of reality television is now getting in on the act....
Blogdome: Fitting The Crime
• A strange, cruel and somehow fitting punishment for the guy who ran on the field in Cleveland. [World Chumps] • Buy your Peyton Manning, Choker merchandise! [Copyranter] • Man, we missed all kinds of things in that Steelers-Colts game. [The Best Sports Blog] • You think that "Sweet Shaun Alexander...
Blogdom's Best: Chicago Bulls
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NBA and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NBA ...
Saving DC From Further Pain
Now that former Redskins disaster zone quarterback Heath Shuler is ramping up his quixotic campaign for Congress — he's running as a Democrat in North Carolina — a group of concerned citizens/Washington Redskins fans have started a Web site devoted to not allowing him to come back to the DC area c...
The Ugliest Baseball Player Of All Time
Ever wonder who the ugliest baseball player of all time was? (This sounds like every after-the-fourth-beer sports-bar conversation we've ever had.) A deeply entertaining discussion is going on about this at Athletics Nation and, by all accounts, the ugliest player in baseball history had to have b...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Aussie Open with Pam Shriver: To put it bluntly, we want Roddick-Sharapova romance details. Come on, dish. • 1 p.m. NFL Draft Expert Mel Kiper: Throwing around those descriptions a little liberally, aren't we ESPN? • 4 p.m. Colle...
The Broncos' Secret Success Ratio
As evidenced by our 3-5 record of predicting playoff games so far (straight up, no spread), we're notoriously lousy at pigskin prognostication. It's not like this has been the easiest postseason to predict anyway; we can only think of one prediction system that would have led to a correct Steelers...
A-Rod Finally Stops Spinning
Honestly, we're starting to get a little embarrassed to even post about this, but hey, we're here, this is our job, this is what we do ... it's time for another Alex Rodriguez in the World Baseball Classic post. (We've covered this, let's see, here, here and here.)...
Blogging With Ben
As one might imagine, there's quite a commotion over at Ben Roethlisberger — Official Blog. The Steelers quarterback is pretty popular after that upset of the Colts, as is evidenced in the comments section of his latest post (actually, he didn't write it. He has a "team" that handles that). Here'...
The Long Road Of Sean Payton
If you missed it, the New Orleans Saints hired Cowboys assistant head coach Sean Payton to be its new head coach. We feel somewhat uniquely qualified to discuss this hire, because, by pure happenstance, we've been following Payton's football career since we were about 10 years old....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while folding and ironing your socks (sad, really) ... • College Basketball: The Indiana University knocks off No. 7 Illinois at the real Assembly Hall, to the tune of this. (Ed.'s Note: The person who wrote this has been fired, and also killed). • NBA: Now you may reveal the fact th...
Jake Plummer, Buzzsaw Soul Crusher
As we enter in to the biggest week of Denver quarterback Jake Plummer's life, leading up to the AFC Championship Game hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers, we feel obliged, as the only fans of The Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals on the planet, to ask: How in the hell is this guy a game away from ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that you still have NetFlix, but haven't ordered a movie since 2002 ... • College Basketball: Illinois at Indiana. The Big Ten showdown we've been waiting for, although we will sorely miss Lou Henson's hair and Bobby Knight's sweater. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Charlot...