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This Is All Salieri's Fault
• If you're going to cover the Tom Izzo beat you better be able to box out. [FanIQ] • Who hasn't been wondering what Wally Backman's up to? [Enjoy the Enjoyment] • Detroit Lions linebacker Ernie Sims isn't scared of getting hit in the jewels. Mike Sellers, you know what to do. [Andy's Blog] • The To...

They Should See His Swatch Collection
I think we can all agree that OJ has regained his status as a constant source of entertainment. The former running back/pitchman/double-murderer is back in the news this weekend after thanks to his latest controversy, a phony Rolex. Someone in the Goldman camp noticed that the Juice was sporting a w...

Hugh II: The Nedessey Continues... Part 1
We're reaching halftime in the early games and the instant messages are really starting to pile up, this means it's time for your first dose of the Hugh! Illinois and North Carolina are winning big over Wisconsin and and Miami respectively and everybody's a bit freaked out. Let's all just take a big...

They Call Them the Red Devils Because They're Evil
The story of the day out of the Premier League comes from Manchester where the mighty Red Devils took over the top spot on the table with a 4-0 dismantling of Wigan Athletic. Granted, it's a slow day in England, where just two games were played due to midweek European competitions. All of Manchester...

For Your Viewing Pleasure
• In Progress — CFB: Wisconsin at Illinois [ESPN] • 1:00 — Movie: The Ladies Man [Comedy Central] • 1:30 — Movie: The Hunt for Red October [HDNM] • 2:00 — Golf: Constellation Energy Senior Players, Third Round [NBC] • 3:00 — Ponies: Breeders' Cup Challenge [ESPN] • 3:30 — CFB: Oklahoma at Texas [ABC...

We're all set for another illuminating Saturday of the Hugh Johnson project. Erin Andrews is in Champaign and a guy named Juice is playing quarterback; the romance in the air is palpable. Send your thoughts, insights, comments, jokes, anecdotes to our screen name ncaa deadspin. Oh and don't forget t...

Raise Your Hands If You're the Boom King
One night, two games, and two walk off hits. Frankly I think we deserved this, these playoff games are longer than Drew's Jambaroo. Manny Ramirez answered my prayers (not for a Red Sox win, just for the sweet release of sleep) and ended the long night with a thrilling walk-off homer to break the 3-3...

Bets O' the Week
Gambling and amateur athletics go together like college girls and booze, here are this weeks college football gambling tips... I'm not going to lie to you, I don't know dick. I'm about as familiar with these games as I was with the Haftorah portion at my Bar Mitzvah, and that shit was two-thirds gib...


LeBron James Has Cursed the Yankees
Last night the Indians drove a nail into the coffin that has become the Yankees season. It took Cleveland every bit of 11 innings to take a 2-0 series lead, but Travis Hafner's bases-loadedtwo-out walk-off single finally put them on top 2-1. Fausto Carmona was the real hero for the Tribe. He pitched...

About Last Night
What you missed while beginning to regret the return of Lyla Garrity... • MLB: Pronk delivers the winner extras. Is it possible that the Yankees have been cursed? Yes it is, more on this later. • CFB: Beating Louisville is the new black. Will will (awk-ward) now dress exclusively in Beating Louisvil...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking your new girlfriend to your mother's birthday party... • CFB: LSU doesn't seem to care that Virginia Tech's football team is trying to overcome a campus tragedy. The Tigers romped as predicted (yeah I lost the Parlay o' the Week but I picked up the spare when I subbed in...

Hugh II: The Nedessey Continues... Part 3
Wow. They're really piling on Michigan today. They're talking about App State every chance they get, not failing to mention that 3 game losing streak, and even breaking out footage of the Kordell Stewart play. Are they going to dig up Bo and Gerald Ford and parade their dead bodies on ABC too just t...

Hugh II: The Nedessey Continues... Part 2
Nothing sucks more than getting kicked out of the bellagio after staying up all night to wait for OSU to kick off, passing out because nowhere carries the big ten network in Vegas, then waking up at halftime to see the buckeyes are only up 3-2...and you took the over at 29 points. -CalCarbon...

All the Muck That's Fit to Rake
• Nike's new football commercial is in tents. [Awful Announcing] • Former KSK commenter Clint is unhappy with us once again. Either the entire blogosphere is conspiring against him or people just don't like linking to a guy who is best known for the racist and anti-semitic shit he used to spout in o...

Kill Kill Kill Comes to Deadspin
Of course they had to go and suspend the righteous mallard for next week's home game against Fresno State. Damn, I really would have liked to see the duck in action against Lloyd Carr....

Hugh II: The Nedessey Continues... Part 1
On 2nd and goal w/ 20 seconds to go and one timeout, Marshall's head coach elects to center the ball and kick a FG rather than go for the touchdown. Who knew Pam Ward's vagina was contagious? -Insomniac's Lounge...

Parlay O' the Week
Amateur athletics and gambling go together like bacon and hot fudge. Each weekend I will share some of my valuable college football gambling wisdom with you, the reader. Just remember, most of said "wisdom" comes from years of losing ridiculously speculative bets; when you lose all your money don't ...

All of those fun little technical difficulties from last weekend have been sorted out (the difference a space bar can make!) and we're ready to go for week 2 of Hugh II: The Nedessy Continues... Please send me all of your most insightful and pithy comments to our AIM screen name, NCAA Deadspin. [The...