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Somebody Has A Friend In ESPN's Search Tag Department
Our pal Bucky at Animal New York informed us of a most amusing Google game this morning. For whatever reason, if you happen to type the term "big dick" into your Google search engine, the first entry that comes up, inexplicably, is the ESPN bio of Vancouver Canucks wing Richard Park....
The Woe Of The Eagles Fan
There was a moment last night, during the Eagles' season-crushing 21-20 loss to the Cowboys, when you really grasped just how difficult it must be to be an Eagles fan. Ordinarily, we scoff when fans of successful teams complain about their suffering; we root for the Arizona freaking Cardinals, so ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking your kids to the movies to see animated chickens ... • NFL: Cowboys rally to down Eagles in fourth quarter. We're gonna keep our distance from Eagles fans this morning, just to be safe. • Your eventual NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool bracket, Day One: Duke handles Boston...
If You Can Read This, We're Working.
Your eyes are not fooling you; for some strange reason this morning, the headlines on all of our stories are not showing up. We're writing them, we're posting them, they're just not making it to the site. We assure you, however, they are absolutely brilliant....
Last Call For Athlete Run-In Stories
We'll be picking our winners in our athlete run-in stories contest, where the best athlete run-in stories win a free copy of The Education Of A Coach, the new David Halberstam about Patriots coach Bill Belichick....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your clothes slowly go out of style ... • College Basketball: Preseason NIT, first round, Boston University at Duke. Wave your blue and white tubie things. [ESPN2] • MNF: Dallas at Philadelphia. Right now ABC must be loving that decision to suspend T.O. [ABC] • Islanders at Penguins...
Leftovers: Can You Hear Me Now?
• Oil Can Boyd indicted on phone threat charges. [Where's McCarver?] • Orioles cut ties with Palmeiro and Sosa, and they're not too thrilled with Steve Reed (6.61 ERA). [The Baltimore Chop] • Maddon to coach Devil Rays. Poor dope. [] • Kurt Busch suspended. It's a NASCAR thing. [Slobokan's Site O'Sc...
Now Blogging For NHL.com ...
Off Wing Opinion beat us to this, because they're really into hockey and we can't even wear skates without falling down. Apparently taking a cue from MLB Blogs, NHL.com has added a new blog section to its site. But those who run hockey have a much better idea of what works online; whereas the sig...
Today in Oddjack
Oddjack is on our good side today, because they're getting us fired up for college basketball. • Everything you might possibly need to know about trends and stats for the upcoming college basketball season. • If you can figure out who is actually playing, you could be on tonight's Eagles-Cowboys gam...
Alex Rodriguez Wins Even MORE Fans!
MLB.com just announced that Yankees third baseman/lipstick model Alex Rodriguez has won the American League MVP award. We salute A-Rod on this "victory."...
Oskee-Wow-Wow
We are honored — since we've mentioned it only sparingly, though expect that to change as college hoops gets going — that so many of you have noted that we are proud graduates of the University of Illinois and have asked our opinion of the NCAA ruling that the Chief Illiniwek nickname and "symbol"...
Jerry Rice's Tragic Downward Spiral
Our continued sympathy for legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice and the incredible difficulty he's having dealing with post-football life is well-documented, but it hit a new level today: It appears Rice, in a Rodman-esque publicity ploy, will appear on the second season of "Dancing With The Stars."...
Rodman's Diligent Representation
Just to make sure we knew they weren't messing around when Dennis Rodman agent Darren Prince blasted us in hysterical fashion last week, the Rodman camp sent us another blistering missive over the weekend....
Blogdome: Being Bill Callahan
• You think your job is tough? Trying being the coach of a Nebraska team that isn't very good. [Flak] • Mehmet Okur is more of a Muppet than you think. [J.E. Skeets] • The Miami Heat have now retired two numbers, and neither player played for the Heat. Hmmm. [Student Of The Game] • All kinds of madn...
The Soccer Fatwa
Well, we suppose it was inevitable: Saudi Muslims have declared a fatwa on soccer. It's all documented in this article from the International Herald Tribune, which we found through the groovy blog Ole, Ole. Portions of the fatwa, which the Herald Tribune translated from Arabic: In the name of God...
Blogdom's Best: Pittsburgh Steelers
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL 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 NFL ...
Shoot At Anything That Moves!
We don't mean to get too red-state, blue-stateish on you, but you wouldn't help but notice the lede stories on ESPN Outdoors' Web site today....
How Not To Keep Your Small Paper Job
For a year and a half, back in the nineties, we worked on the online copy desk for a sports magazine, on the late-night shift. A large part of this job involved being the only person in the office at 1:30 in the morning, waiting for an interminable Padres-Pirates game to end, playing Minesweeper a...
Frerotte's Frothing Wife's Limp Gesture
One would think that when one's husband once missed a significant chunk of the season after willing slamming his head into a wall on national television, one would have a better sense of one's humor about criticism of one's husband. One would be wrong....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: I think by now that you realize all of our fantasies revolve around the Panthers cheerleaders, don't you? • Noon. WNCAA BB with Charlie Creme: Is this the sequel to Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...