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<em>Joe Buck Live</em> Still Not Dead
Joe Buck's Cavalcade of Sporting Chit-Chat and Penis Whimsy returns for its third edition next week, and this time he's actually booked a few black people....
Sad Tiger Woods Cops To "Personal Failings" (UPDATE)
Tiger has issued what his poker-faced web site calls a "comment on current events," and in it he apologizes to fans and family for unnamed transgressions, asks for privacy and offers himself up as a martyr of the media age....
Allen Iverson Is Philly's Answer Once More ...
... provided the question is, "Which fading NBA great who's about one step removed from a stint with the Globetrotters did the Sixers just sign to a really sad one-year, non-guaranteed contract at the pro-rated veterans minimum?" [ESPN]...
Last Night's Winner: Mike D'Antoni
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Mike D'Antoni, whose Rich Little version of the Suns ran the real thing out of Madison Square Garden last night....
BYU-Utah: A "Burning Cauldron Of Loathing"
You recall the anti-Utah slam poem delivered by BYU quarterback Max Hall on Saturday. Now comes this photo of Jamie Whittingham, wife of Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, snapped just moments before she took a BYU fan's elbow to the grill....
Tom Brady Will Never Forget 9/11, U2's Super Bowl Halftime Show
Brady reminisces about 2002: "Your first chance to play in a Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl, and of course the circumstances of that year with 9-11 happening and U2 performing at halftime — that was pretty unbelievable." [CBSSports.com]...
November: <em>Fin</em>.
We produce a lot of posts every month. Most of them disappear quickly. Some of them don't. Here are the 10 most popular posts from November, ranked low to high....
Tim Donaghy Has Found A Publisher
The former NBA referee's memoir, quashed by Random House under pressure from the NBA, has found a home with VTi-Group, a media company based in Tampa. The book is now called Personal Foul and will be out by Christmas....
Pats-Saints: Your Open Thread
Sean Payton compared Bill Belichick's Patriots to Microsoft in a nice way. Belichick talked wistfully about deep-sea fishing with Payton. At some point tonight, the two men will hop off the tandem bike and coach a very important football game....
Tiger And Elin: A Match Made In Image-Management Heaven
The Daily Beast has a look at the life of possible SUV basher Elin Nordegren Woods, a discreet "cipher" of a woman who couldn't have been more perfect for Tiger if she'd come tattooed with a Nike Swoosh....
Tiger Woods Seriously Injured In Car Crash (UPDATE)
Woods, driving his Cadillac Escalade, hit a fire hydrant and a tree near his home early this morning. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition. WESH-TV reports that he was treated for facial lacerations and released....
Heads Roll At NFL's Concussion Committee
Ira Casson and David Viano, co-chairmen of the NFL's brain-injury committee and spiritual heirs to the quacks who cooked medical studies for Big Tobacco, have resigned. In response, NFL retirees forgot what they were going to say. [NYT]...
An Angry Message For The Sports Fella, From The Star Of TV's <em>Brooklyn Bridge</em>
Not long ago, Knicks fan Danny Lanzetta, the child lead in one of those pleasant 1990s-era CBS shows, sent Bill Simmons an e-mail debunking his Ewing Theory. Simmons ignored him. So Danny did the next best thing: He e-mailed us....
Sissies, Drunk Yoga And The Last Pure Football Game: A Dispatch From Harvard-Yale
Deadspin correspondent Craig Fehrman went to the 126th edition of Harvard-Yale, where he confronted both the overwrought mythology of The Game and the overexposure of at least one penis....
Blame Drew: ASU Baseball Coach Pat Murphy Resigns
Pat Murphy announced his resignation today, thus freeing up some time to roam the earth, seek out Drew and beat him like a redheaded stepchild, if he were the sort of man to do such a thing. [ASU Sun Devils]...
Shattered Town Observes Anniversary Of Drunken Metrodome Coitus By Slamming Doors In Reporter's Face
Carroll, Iowa, is the home of Lois Feldman, the woman who famously had a crapulent fling in the stall of a Metrodome bathroom. Carroll is also the home of many people who'd rather not talk about Lois Feldman's crapulent fling....
From The Desk Of George Bodenheimer: "Class, Dignity And Integrity"
Hey, look! It's another memo from ESPN President George Bodenheimer! And today he wants to tell his employees about all the exciting things his company is doing to slow its steady transformation into Connecticut's answer to Gomorrah....
Showing Signs: Marv Albert And 50 Cent Now Have Beef
Marv Albert appeared on Wednesday's ¡Jimmy Kimmel Live! So did 50 Cent. This encounter could end in only one way: with fisticuffs....
The Basement Tapes: A Compendium Of Sportswriters' Hacky Jokes About Bloggers
Woody Paige, the orange person always yelling on your television set, recently disagreed with someone on the Internet. He then made a joke suggesting that the blogger still lives in his mother's house. Have you heard this one?...
Last Night's Winner: Tokers
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Ricky Williams and Tim Lincecum, who yesterday inhaled deeply the vapors of success. And perhaps some other stuff, too....