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Dear Terry Francona, Please Stop Emailing Photos Of Yourself Half-Naked In A Towel To My Girlfriend
A reader, whom we'll call Rob, emailed us Monday night with the photo you see above. The photo came with this message:...
Mario Balotelli Does Thing
Mario Balotelli's prepared for any racism that might erupt during this summer's Euro 2012 competition in Poland and the Ukraine. Prepared to go to jail, that is, telling France Football he's all too willing to face hate with violence:...
Here's The Only Way The Spurs Can Be Beat
The list of memorable halftime acts can be easily recited by any basketball fan: Quick Change, unicycle bowl lady, Frisbee Dog, and my personal favorite: Zooperstars! Last night's Western Conference Finals matchup in San Antonio appeared to feature the guy who plays outside the arena for cash as yo...
U.S. Gymnastics Turns Its Back On Chellsie Memmel, Genuine Badass
At the 2006 world championships, Chellsie Memmel botched a release during her uneven-bars routine and tore her labrum. This was more or less the beginning of a prolonged shoulder nightmare that would culminate this weekend in the cold-eyed rejection of her bid to compete in the national championship...
DeShawn Stevenson Has An ATM In His Kitchen, For Some Odd Reason
It is the God-given right of any stinking rich American to own and possess all types of weird things, but we've never seen what appears to be a working ATM in someone's kitchen before. Maybe this is Nets forward DeShawn Stevenson's early retirement plan, living off the $2 transaction fees from famil...
Vin Scully Can Even Make Bobbleheads Seem Cool Again
Major League Baseball's enduring fascination with bobbleheads is, by and large, played out by now, but we'll grant an exception for this August 30, when the Dodgers hold their first-ever Vin Scully Bobblehead Night and give away this reasonable likeness of the Hall of Fame announcer, now in his 63rd...
A Dead Milkman Breaks Down "The <em>Citizen Kane</em> Of White Trash Punch-Out Videos" For Us
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Tech N9ne Concert Fight Billings MT 5-21-12," which "LatinaJuggalette" was kind enough to share. Tonight's commentator: Rodney Anonymous, satiricapunk-rockin' front ma...
Craig James's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Senate Campaign Has Come To An End
All the polls have now closed in the state of Texas, and the US Senate campaign of former ESPN analyst Craig James has reached its inevitable nadir, struggling to even gain 4 percent of the statewide party vote as ballots continue to be counted. ...
Better Know An Umpire: Dan Bellino
Welcome to Better Know An Umpire, an effort to educate ourselves on the human elements who have ultimate decision-making power over some 2,500 Major League Baseball games a year. (All cumulative statistics are through the 2011 season, unless otherwise stated.)...
Deadspin Up All Night: Gold
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Erik will be with you in a few for the hoops and such....
Why Did Terrell Owens <i>Really</i> Get Cut By His Indoor Football Team?
Yes, yes, it's fun to believe, and goes perfectly with every T.O. stereotype we have, that Terrell Owens was released by the Allen (Texas) Wranglers because he's just too much of a diva. And it's probably true—Owens is kind of a selfish jerk who was dicking around in the IFL for some quick cash and ...
Poor Freddie Freeman Is Going Blind
Modern medicine has turned so many nagging baseball injuries into relics. There's Tommy John surgery and cortisone shots and Toradol. But the crafty sons of bitches who devise the cures baseball has come to love haven't yet found a way around blindness....
Roy Oswalt Signs With Rangers
According to a Dallas Morning News report from earlier this afternoon, we can finally exhale—Roy Oswalt has signed with the Texas Rangers....
Japan Is Still Nutso About Hideki Matsui
This is the pregame media scrum around Hideki Matsui, who was called up from Triple-A and will make his Rays debut in St. Petersburg tonight. The spectacle of Japanese fellows swarming their prey with cameras and notebooks is not a new one, and it's something we've come to expect every time a new NP...
Did Barry Bonds Have A Good Time At The Giants Game Yesterday?
Barry Bonds is many things. Barry Bonds is a legend. Barry Bonds is a martyr. Barry Bonds is a prick. Barry Bonds is a secret good dude....
Tim Tebow's Ex-Teammates Sound Relieved That He's Gone
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Eric Decker would prefer to worry about football, thank you very much....
The 6-Year-Old Who Qualified For The National Spelling Bee Might Be An Alien
At the tender age of six, Lori Anne Madison just became the youngest person ever to qualify for the Scripps National Nerd Olympics, otherwise known as the Spelling Bee. But despite the media attention and mounting pressure, Lori Anne says she's not nervous at all. "I've been in competitions with old...
ESPN Radio iPhone App Is "One Of The Sleaziest Corporate Deals I Have Seen"
Two weeks ago, ESPN announced it would launch a new ESPN Radio app for the iPhone and iPad. It costs $4.99....
The Russians Are Coming: KHL Will Play Regular-Season Games In Brooklyn
Russia's Kontinental Hockey League announced today it would play two regular-season games next winter at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the brand-new palace of eccentric Russian billionaire and failed politician Mikhail Prokhorov, and his Brooklyn Nets....
Here's Why This Guy Looks Better Than You
If you find yourself heading down to the Lower East Side to soak up some that ghost-of-CBGBs/Arlene's Grocery/Motor City, um, essence, and happen to also be in the market for a gorgeous custom-fitted suit, stop by SEW on Mott Street. Inside, you'll find proprietor Scott Evan Wasserberger, the besp...