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Mutton But The Truth
I can think of no better way to end this week than with a photo of a bootless child being maimed by a haughtily superior sheep as a rodeo clown tries vainly to help. Unpack this metaphor as you will....
<em>Chicago Trib</em> Begins Overhaul Of Sports Section With Some Two-Fisted Memo Writing
"Much like the Cubune myth, the conventional wisdom among some in Chicago has been that our pals across the way have the better Sports section. ... Pardon the Hoosier in me rising up, but that's bull shit." [Romenesko]...
ESPN's Lacey Confirms Despicably Mongered Rumor
New York Post reports: "Senior marketing Vice President Kate Lacey is in a hot-and-heavy romance with David Berson, the vice president for programming. 'I'm in an ongoing and known relationship with a peer,' Lacey told The Post." [NY Post]...
UFC 104: Urine For A Good Fight
In advance of tomorrow's UFC 104, let us pause for a moment to consider the merits of drinking your own piss....
Share Your Gambling Misery With The World
A reminder to send in your sad gambling stories, for inclusion tomorrow in our weekly chronicle of degeneracy, Bad Beats. E-mail us at [email protected]. It's like therapy, but with more anonymous mockery and schadenfreude....
Coming Soon: Jonathan Papelbon's Dubious Taste In Cinema
"Dark Side of the Locker Room" is a compendium of journalists' bizarre, amusing and previously undocumented encounters with athletes (and often athletes' genitalia). Got a story? Send it to [email protected]....
Why Your "Why Your Stadium Sucks" Feature Sucks
The Yankee Stadium installment of Why Asymmetrical Outfields/HOK/Public Financing/Privately Controlled Means Of Production/George Will Sucks will run sometime next week, just in time for an Angels-Phillies World Series. Keep sending me your stories: [email protected]....
Yankees' Loss Inspires Frantic Search For New Small-Sample-Size Scapegoat
The Yankees lost 7-6 yesterday, and if it wasn't Girardi's fault, it was Burnett's fault or Hughes' fault or Swisher's fault, three men demonstrating an unmanly lack of clutch, unlike the New York media's new darling of clutch, Alex Rodriguez....
Freewheeling Sports Blogger Crosses Ethical Line, Becomes Symbol Of Blogosphere's Unprofessionalism
I refer, of course, to Wayne Vore, who gave a box of Argentine desserts to Manu Ginobili. The New York Times' Howard Beck called it the "worst sight of the night." Forty people at Poynter just fainted in horror. [SBNation]...
It's Still Gotta Be The Shoes
Marcus Jordan, son of Michael and a freshman at Central Florida, wants to wear Air Jordans. UCF has a contract with adidas. This is the Sophie's Choice of the third millennium....
Sports Fella's Fantasy: A Scrappy Little Web Site That Competes With The Likes Of, Say, ESPN
Bill Simmons muses: "Part of me can't shake the temptation of being the underdog again — like, launching my own sports site, hiring some talented writers and designers and trying to compete with the big guns." [Huffington Post]...
David Stern Peels His Scabs
The referees you've always hated will probably be back for Tuesday's NBA opener, replacing the replacement referees you were going to hate even more. And so ends a monthlong referee lockout that really had nothing to do with the referees....
Mark Cuban Says Something Sensible
On steroids: "We do performance-enhancing things all the time, just not steroids. If you administer them properly and fairly and set the rules strictly, as long as in doing so we recognize there are no negative long-term health-impact issues." [ESPN]...
Anniversary Of Curt Schilling's "Bloody Sock" Game Solemnly Observed By Curt Schilling
Schilling, five years later: "I am proud of what we did that night, but I am far more excited about what I was able to experience in my relationship with Christ that night." He says some other stuff. [38 Pitches]...
A Season Of Failure, Cont'd
Good news: This now looks to be a touch overstated. Mets owners actually made about $48 million in dealings with Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. Bad news: They're probably going to have to return the money. [Bloomberg]...
The Learning Curve: The Replacement Refs
This segment is called "The Learning Curve" where you, young blog proprietor, will get a link to your new site on Deadspin. Any and all questions you may have about being a successful blogger will (hopefully) be answered....
Bissinger Continues His <em>Moneyball</em> Trolling
Buzz Bissinger, shit-pissing author of Three Nights as Tony La Russa's Sock Puppet, is back on his battered old Moneyball hobbyhorse, firing off angry fallacies left and right. [TNR, of all places]...
Spit Takes: Debunking The Mariano Rivera Loogie Accusations
A reader and Angels fan known hereabouts as Jose Canseco's Iguana sends along these exculpatory frames from yesterday's Fox broadcast, which were curiously absent from the Halos Heaven video. Rivera's spit, spotlighted here, clearly passes in front of his hand....
Paranoid Angels Fans Accuse Mariano Rivera Of Throwing Spitballs
Angels fans have lost their freaking minds over the video below, which allegedly catches Yankees closer Mariano Rivera in the act of spitting on a baseball, right there in front of God and Joe Buck and 45,000 fans....
Tim Tebow Messiah Watch: Transfiguration Edition
With apologies to Slate, the Tim Tebow Messiah Watch is our occasional look at the growing body of evidence — quotes, signs and wonders, excessively fawning prose — that the Florida quarterback is the Lamb of God....