2 Page 451 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Video Game Football, A History
Helpful blogger Free Meat, inspired by our "Three and a half months until Madden!" post from earlier this week, went out and tracked down screenshots from various moments in football video game history....
Page 3 Officially Bites The Dust
It is a sad, sad day here at Deadspin world headquarters; without even the courtesy of a press release or a proper burial, it appears ESPN.com has finally shut the doors on its ill-advised "Page 3" section....
CBS Sportsline's "Spin" 45 Percent Less Dope
We are very sad to report that CBS Sportsline's Spin page — which is like ESPN's Page 2 if Page 2 were visited by Poochie from "The Itchy And Scratchy Show" — has is no longer referring to fantasy football columnist Eric Mack as "Emack." The front page of the site is using his real name now, trag...
Yo, CBS Sportsline Is Rad, Dude!
We know we make fun of ESPN's Page 2 a lot, and if you've ever tried to make it through five sentences of "24 College Avenue," you'll understand why. But when we thought that SI.com's Scorecard Daily was the worst Page 2 ripoff that could exist, we were way, way wrong....
Those Racist Cubs Owners
Working presumably from ESPN Page 2 columnist Scoop Jackson's somewhat inexplicable column about racism and Cubs manager Dusty Baker earlier this season, satirical Onion-esque site SportsPickle "reports" that Cubs Management Unsure How To Fire Baker Without Exposing That They're Racists....
If Tom Cruise Were A Lineman
As obsessive as Madden 2006 players tend to be, we're surprised it took this long to be discovered, but it appears a glitch in the game has Jets offensive lineman Michael King listed as seven inches high. (That's him in the picture, doing a pretty excellent job at blocking a Buccaneer, considering...
Page 2's Collective Award Winners
We would like to congratulate ESPN's Page 2 on its Online Journalism Awards nomination for the Best Online Commentary (Large), which, at first glance, appears to be for the most outstanding columnist who uses very big letters on a computer. The site's fellow nominees, impressively, are not whole s...
24 College Avenue "Mystery" Solved
Yesterday, we openly speculated who the heck that band "Autologic" that plays on Page 2's endless "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue. Another reason we love you, readers: You came through....
ESPN Can't Name That Band
We accidentally clicked on the newest installment of "24 College Avenue — the "serialized novel" by Page 2er Jim Caple that inspired by his weird tour of colleges last year — and we realized, fast, that we had forgotten to turn the sound down on our computer. Out of nowhere came this awful noise, ...
There Are Fake People On Page 2, And They're In College
Uh, we're just going to go under the assumption that Jim Caple's "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue is the setup to a joke, and the "three times a week throughout the school year" is the punchline. You know, the kind of inappropriate joke that a boorish friend tells too loudly at a dinner party...
Page 2 Hires USC Cheerleader. We Mean That Pretty Much Literally
Who is Erica Lucero? Well, she's a sophomore at the University of Southern California, she's an opinion columnist at the Daily Trojan and, apparently, the newest writer for Page 2. The site's 19-year-old "Gal on campus" is filing reports all season about what it's like to be at USC during the Matt...
Page 3: What More Can One Say?
We don't mean to be mean. We really don't. But to pull a Tom Joad for a moment, as long as Page 3 keeps publishing stories and delaying its inevitable death, dammit, we'll be there....
More Net Nerds Hit It "Big" Time
We were impressed to see the folks from on ESPN2's Cold Pizza this morning, as much as we can be impressed to see anyone on Cold Pizza. We still don't think Football Outsiders is ever going to quite hit the levels of Baseball Prospectus, if just because people who watch baseball are just bigger c...
The Mario Lopez Experience
We are just six days away from the next undignified gallop toward hipdom attempt by ESPN2, ESPN Hollywood, a show about how athletes and celebrity mix. (Yep.) We'll focus more on the show later, but right now we're gonna talk about co-host Mario Lopez....
It's That Time
We try to remain impartial here, some might even say caustic. But we cannot pretend: Madden 2006 comes out tonight. And we will play it. All evening. We shan't apologize for it, either. Nor should you....
IOC Reassures Grieving London
In the wake of this morning's tragic terrorist attacks in London, the International Olympic Committee, just 27 hours after awarding the 2012 Olympic Games to London, reaffirmed that the attacks haven't changed that....
New Yorkers Saved Invasion Of Thousands Of Dopers
Sometime before we woke up this morning, what everyone already knew but was pretending not to became official: New York City is not hosting the 2012 Olympics. London, fresh off its fascination with American sports, will host the Games, which officially kills "dentistry"'s chances of making it as a...
New Yorkers Scratch And Claw In Final Minutes
At the ungodly hour of 5 a.m. ET tomorrow, the International Olympics Committee — motto: "We will not be undersold!" — will announce the winner of the 2012 Olympic bid. The competitors are Paris (the favorite, for some reason), London, Moscow, Madrid and New York City. Despite pretty overwhelming...
Sneakers: Rock The Vote, America!
We know that the whole point of ESPN's Page 2 is to write about the culture of sports, from entertainment to clothing to ... well, whatever the media kit says, just trust that. But this is getting ridiculous....
ESPN Apologizes For Cockfighting Story, But Isn't Sure Why
So, this is intersting. A few weeks back, Mike Ogle, a freelance reporter for ESPN Page 2 (and, when they deign to publish, Page 3), wrote a story about cockfighting in Guam. We'd link to the story, but ESPN has already taken it off the Web site. And this is where it gets interesting....