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To Watch Tonight
What to watch until Terrell Owens gets around to badmouthing you ... • College FB: Toledo at Ohio. Rockets vs. Bobcats in Buckeye Battle. [ESPN2] • NBA: Cleveland at San Antonio; Minnesota at Seattle. That first one may be a preview of the NBA Finals, or not. [ESPN] • Boxing: Junior middleweights, S...
This Week In Foreign Sports
Their terminology is confusing, they're often not allowed to touch the ball with their hands and occasionally royalty shows up to watch for a few minutes before heading back to the castle. It's weird sports from other lands, which when you get down to it, are no more ridiculous than ours. News it...
Leftovers: Spackler Makes His Move
• Bill Murray offers GM job to Theo Epstein. Then he awakes the next morning and offers him the job again. Then again ... [Chowdaheads] • Ali "may have only months to live." Please don't go and leave us with just Tyson and Larry Holmes ... [This Is London] • Favre may not return if Packers fire Sher...
Stevie Franchise's Charming Nickname
In response to our Steve Francis-Cuttino Mobley item from earlier today, a "lowly paid" source "familiar with the Rockets laundry room" sends us a depressing tip:...
Today in Oddjack
The weekend's football picks won't be up at Oddjack for another hour, but there's plenty to keep yourself busy until then. • Weird looking New Yorker writer is all kinds of help in NBA betting. • Ray Allen and Bruce Bowen are totally getting in a fight, you just know it. • Your daily line on weird t...
Revisiting Felix Heredia
A fascinating, oddly chilling read from "writer" Tiffany Battista was just sent to us, and we had to share it with you. Essentially, it details a night three years ago when Mets reliever Felix Heredia — who was suspended for steroids last month — woke up Battista (who was with a friend in his hous...
Fun With Sparky, The Ice Girls ... And Satan!
We're not saying that the NHL is pulling out all stops to try to bring fans back, but ... well, we'll just let a reader explain what they found in their mailbox the other day....
Tom Brady's Existential Crisis
Honestly, does "60 Minutes" interview anyone but athletes anymore? This week's winner of the Steve Kroft Sweepstakes is Tom Brady, who waxes philosophic on his career so far, and what's coming up. He actually goes a little Theo Epstein/Bill Simmons on us, saying how he has sometimes struggled with...
Blogdome: For All The Cows
• Two moos for Virginia Tech, one moo for Miami and an extra moo for all our people upstate. [ActionBerg] • Yeah, we thought that Castilla-for-Lawrence trade was really weird too. [The Sports Frog] • The two Moneyball acolytes, Epstein and DePodesta, chillin' in Vegas, changing the game. [U.S.S. Mar...
Blogdom's Best: Indianapolis Colts
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 ...
Our Favorite One: Godzilla Vs. Mothra
We have no idea how we missed this, but AaronGleeman.com directs us to this statement from Time magazine's profile of Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui in its 2003 Asian Heroes profile:...
This Is What Happens When Capriati Is Your Trainer
One of our favorite stories in a while comes from Charleston, S.C., and the College of Charleston. Two members of the school's tennis teams, one from the women's team and one from the men's, told police they, after "30 and 20 alcoholic beverages respectively," were kidnapped by a crack dealer who ...
Joe Paterno ... Closet Raci — You Know, We Don't Have The Energy Anymore
Another day, another old college football coach being subtly accused of racism. The headline on ESPN.com's home page kind of lets you know how Penn State coach Joe Paterno's comments on black athletes is being spun: "Paterno Links Black Athletes To Increased Scoring."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: Please describe your last actual scoop — and while we're waiting for you to come up with that thought, we'll observe a moment of silence for the dearly departed Page 3. • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: B...
Francis-Mobley The New Manning-Chesney
We had a few people tell us about this, but we still hadn't gotten around to reading ESPN: The Magazine — to steal Gregg Easterbrook's classic line, published on Earth: The Planet — and it's reportedly amazing story about the unusual "friendship" between former teammates Cuttino Mobley and Steve ...
T.O. Just Nukes 'Em All
Honestly, we don't know why athletes even give interviews anymore. Philadelphia Eagles poo-stirrer Terrell Owens, after being asked about ESPN moron Michael Irvin's comment that the Eagles would be undefeated with Brett Favre as quarterback instead of Donovan McNabb, responded with:...
About Last Night
What you missed while crafting a mashed potato-levee to hold back a potentially devastating gravy flood, thus saving the peas ... • NBA: Suns spoil Lakers home opener 122-112, so now you can wear that Leandro Barbosa jersey with pride. • NBA: Well, that didn't take long. Pacers beat Heat 105-102 as ...
The Matt Lawton Story: A Timeline
All right, this is the other self-indulgent post we were talking about earlier. As you've heard — though the story has been oddly muted, we think — Yankees free agent outfielder Matt Lawton was suspended 10 games yesterday for testing positive for steroids. Most people claim to have been shocked b...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as doctors work the phones to try and find a compatible kidney ... • College FB: Pittsburgh at Louisville. Cardinals No. 2 in nation in scoring. Panthers No. 62. Good night, nurse. [ESPN] • NBA: Indiana at Miami. Shaq mad. Shaq smash! [TNT] • NBA: Phoenix at Los Angeles Lakers. Excuse ...
Packers: Your Anytime Minutes Are UP, Mister!
If you are a reporter covering the Green Bay Packers, for God's sake, sheath your cell phone! Yesterday, the Packers cancelled Brett Favre's afternoon press conference after coach Mike Sherman's morning conference kept being interrupted by reporters' ringing cellphones. When one went off, Sherman ...