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Sweet Jesus, It's Almost Time!
Looking for an edge in your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool? Perhaps you should rely on help from above. Yes, we've seen your bracket, and prayer is the only answer. And just to be sure, you should also probably pick up some official Jesus basketball gear — including the jersey Christ himse...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing with your Albert Einstein action figure ... • World Baseball Classic: Chan Ho Park helps matters for a change — Korea beats Japan to keep U.S. alive. • MLB: Bonds homers in spring win over Brewers, is 7-for-9 with three dings. Enjoy it while you can, Giants fans. • NBA:...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as someone brings you a delicious bass ... • National Invitation Tournament, first round: Wake Forest at Minnesota. Even if you win this thing, you're not as good as Monmouth. [ESPN2] • Major League Baseball: Preseason, New York Yankees vs. Houston, at Kissimmee, Fla. In which we disco...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Pirates
We re only a couple of weeks from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at tips@deadspin....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Bracket Talk with Pat Forde: Why should we listen to a person who finishes last in the ESPN office pool every year? • 1 p.m. NFL draft with Mel Kiper: We here that citizens across the nation are banding together, demanding that M...
ESPN Ombudsman Continues To Tilt At Windmills
Time to check in with ESPN ombudsman George Solomon — the Mr. Woodman of the Welcome Back Kotter episode that is the Worldwide Leader in Sports. We often wonder where they keep Solomon over at Bristol headquarters; does he have a desk in the basement? Where does he eat lunch? (we assume he brown-b...
The Tao Of Zach Duke
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is running a spring training journal by Pirates' pitcher Zach Duke, but it's not your typical "Today they served lasagna for our post-game meal" type of offering. Oh, no. Zach is, as your kid's first grade teacher would say, "A very interesting child." Excerpts from h...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while stockpiling beer and deli meats for the long days of basketball ahead ... • NBA: This round goes to Artest — Kings stop Kobe, Lakers, for 13th straight home win. • College Basketball: "Bunch mad ... Bunch smash!" John Bunch (7-foot-2, 320) leads Monmouth over Hampton in NCAA To...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize Barney Fife is no longer there to protect the city from jaywalkers ... • College Basketball: NCAA Tournament Play-in Game, Monmouth Hawks (18-14) vs. Hampton Pirates (16-15). Winner gets the right to be thrown under the Villanova bus. [ESPN] • NHL: Sabres at Capitals; Co...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Brewers
We re less than a month from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: Let's discuss this quote of yours from 2003 — "I'm excited about Barry Bonds. Let's give Barry Bonds a few more years to put the fear of God into the pitchers. Because it looks like he's not nearly done y...
Now Playing First Base, Bugs Bunny. Second Base, Bugs Bunny. Shortstop ...
We mentioned this yesterday, but it got us to thinking: What was the greatest baseball game ever played? Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the Yankees and the Pirates? Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" that gave the Giants the 1951 pennant over the Dodgers? Well, no such discussion...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hiring some guy to make your NCAA Tournament office pool picks ... • World Baseball Classic: Korea makes Kimchi out of the U.S. team. • NHL: Stars top Canucks for eighth straight win at home. But you knew that. • NBA: Knicks lose to Nuggets despite "Starbury"'s 25 points. Welco...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while telling everyone else that your bracket just has an "optical illusion" on it... • College Women's Basketball: NCAA Division I Tournament Selection Show, at Indianapolis and Bristol, Conn. So big, it needs two venues. We know you're poised with your brackets at this very moment. [...
A New Definition Of Charlie Hustle
Did anyone else catch Pete Rose on Real Time with Bill Maher this past week? Appearing on the show via remote from whatever Las Vegas casino in which he is now employed as a greeter, Rose did a bizarre five minutes in which he:...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Mets
We re less than a month from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. What is your Final Four?: UConn, Villanova ... no, Duke, um, did I say UConn? Um, how long do I have? Stop pressuring me! • 4 p.m. Baseball with Gary Gillette: It's been fun watching the U.S. pummel South Africa, but isn't it ti...
Wither The Bearcats? (And The Wolverines ... And The Seminoles ... And The ...)
We're not quite sure how this whole RPI thing works — foolishly, we did not major in bracketology in college — but we know a pissed-off coach when we see one. Cincinnati's Andy Kennedy is none to pleased with his Bearcats being left out of the NCAA Tournament, and unless we miss our guess, right a...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taping a giant NCAA tournament bracket to your living room wall ... • College Basketball: Duke beats Boston College for ACC playoff title, No. 1 NCAA Tourney seed, all leading to the inevitable Krzyzewski-Redick man groping. • World Baseball Classic: U.S. beats Japan 4-3 amidst...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while searching desperately, frantically, for your pants ... • Big Ten Tourney: Illinois plays Michigan State not in the Final Four, but in the league tourney quarterfinals? Weird. • Big East Tourney: Syracuse plays Georgetown in semifinals. Ewing's gonna destroy Seikely. • ACC Tourney...