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The Super Bowl Bye Week Jamboroo, In Which Drew Pauses To Make A Serious Point About Blogging As Journalism, Then Makes Chili
Big Daddy Drew's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo previews the upcoming weekend of the NFL every, well, every Thursday afternoon. Even when there are no games....
The Royals Are After Johan Santana!
• Joe Posnanski, man, he's just the best. [JoePosnanski.com] • It's pretty tough to be an N.J.I.T. fan. [The Angry T] • Craig's List is probably not the best place to get Super Bowl tickets. [Red Sox Monster] • Frostbite? Bah! [Lion In Oil] • Shush, Osi ... shush. [Big Blue View] • Hey, who doesn't ...
An Athlete Magazine Goes Bankrupt. Really.
Overtime Magazine is a monthly — kind of — magazine devoted to "helping professional athletes manage their money." You know what that means: They're broke!...
Jose Canseco Really, REALLY Wants To Get Into Film
Our favorite aspect of this whole steroid era in baseball has to be that the grand whistleblower was Jose Canseco. Baseball was so dirty in the '90s that this meathead was the closest we have to a hero. It's kind of awesome. (We own one of these shirts, by the way.)...
For a while, everybody's playing on Stephen A. Smith's comment section yesterday was fun and goofy. And then, as tends to happen in unmoderated forums, it all went wrong and, frankly, was kind of fucking disgusting. We know it wasn't you guys, but if Deadspin had any part in leading to that, we sinc...
Is Eli Manning Today's Joe Namath? Lord, We Hope Not
If it's true that every generation gets the hero they deserve ... woe to us, America, because there's a very real possibility that Eli Manning could be today's Joe Namath. That's a somewhat terrifying concept....
Our Field Trip To Madison Square Garden
For the third consecutive year, in the tradition of batting against John Rocker and playing touch football with Andre Rison and Kordell Stewart, we accepted an invitation from the fine folks at "Pros Vs. Joes" to — get ready — play two-on-two hoops against Charles Oakley and Charles Smith. At Madi...
We Welcome Stephen A. Smith To The Wonderful World Of Blogs
Ladies and gentlepeople, the online world has officially matured into the dominant medium we all suspected it may someday be: Stephen A. Smith has a blog....
No Worries, Everyone: The Wrestlers Do Not Have Herpes. Sorry For The False Alarm.
Yeah, see, now this is a tough spot: A California high school thought it had an outbreak of herpes on its hands. (And its lips ... and its ...) So they announced to everyone that herpes had attacked. Obviously, everyone looked at the wrestling team. And now it turns out there's no herpes at all....
Mourning An Arsenal Defeat
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
Carlos Mencia Is The NFL's Dane Cook
We have made no secret of our enduring love of The Dugout, both in its original incarnation and its current, non-expletive form at AOL Sports. But you think these guys just know baseball? Pshaw....
Clearly, The First Cubs' Japanese Player
Because we're hankering for baseball already and need something to get our dander up, here's the new marketing campaign the Cubs have put together for Kosuke Fukudome. Looks great, right? Well ... that image is a rather offensive one for millions of people....
Stay In The NL, Nats!
• Either that's a dumb mistake, or the Nationals are switching leagues. [East Coast Bias] • Franco Harris is pretty freaking awesome. [The Burgh Blog] • Dr. Z, pickin' the Giants. [The Fynal Cut] • Your healthy selection of terrible Patriots fans videos. [Red Sox Monster] • Man, • Remember the Phill...
Larry Brown Is Happy Not To Be In New York Anymore
Larry Brown offers us a fond, cute little footnote in the epic catastrophe that is 2007 SHOTY winner Isiah Thomas' tenure with the New York Knicks. Brown wasn't exactly Mr. Sunshine and Rainbows with that team — and he clearly stopped giving a crap 10 games in — but Isiah has made sure that Brown wi...
Hey, At Least SOMEONE Was Calling In
We remember the old days, back when we were dorfing around at the Daily Illini, of media conference calls with Big Ten coaches. Gene Keady would ramble on too long, Lou Henson would drone that earnest whine of his and Bob Knight, of course, would never show up. It was strange, really, to have a phon...