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• Postponed - NASCAR Sprint Cup race will be held tomorrow. • In progress - College Football - check here for national breakdown. • In progress - PGA: BMW Championship, Third Round [NBC] • In progress - Tennis: US Open [CBS] • 2:00 - Movie: The Replacements [Cinemax] • 3:30 - Phillies at Mets, Detro...
Dickie V Steals the Show at the Basketball HOF Inductions
Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing (really Patrick? shorts? did you forget to pick up your dry-cleaning?) and Pat Riley were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last night, along with their classmate Dick Vitale. Dickie V was, as usual, the star of the show. His passionate speech reminded everyone...
College Football: What's On Tap
The day is chock full of college games. I don't think any of them promise to be spectacular, but I hope the football gods prove me wrong. Here's a look at some of the National and Regional games. Check the coverage map to see who is being shown locally. Noon (regional) Ohio at Ohio State (ESPN): Ohi...
MLB Closer: Mike Schmidt Knows How To Motivate a Team
Before last night's match-up between the Mets and the Phllies, Mike Schmidt had some words for his former team. ...
Morning Wake-up Call
Good morning folks and welcome to the show. It's been a while since you and I have hung out, but we have lots to share together in the next two days. And most importantly, FOOTBALL IS HERE!!!! My DirecTV dish is already being a bitch in the rain, so we'll see how much of it I'll actually be able to ...
Week In Review: Ladies And Gentleman, Boys And Girls...Dying Time's Here
Hey there. Finally the four-day week is through. Here is a campaign promise worth keeping: Unless Sarah Palin gets hit in the face with a basketball during the Vice Presidential debates, she will no longer be seen on Deadspin. Palin, obviously, was featured prominently this week and, in hindsight, i...
U.S. Open Update: Scratching Your Djokovic
Dylan Stableford writes occasionally about tennis for Deadspin. It's called "Droppin' Deuce With Dylan Stableford." Last night's heavyweight card at the U.S. Open—the best of this year's tourney by far—didn't disappoint. In a battle of big ball smackers with, as we've pointed out numerous times,inc...
NFL Season Preview: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...
Buzz Bissigner Will Defend Barry Bonds To The Very End
So our non-frog-resembling, perpetually indignant pal Buzz Bissinger has a piece in the New York Times today on Barry Bonds. It's a mostly-sympathetic look at the bloated slugger, at least as it pertains to his legal woes. So to recap: Will Leitch and sports blogs, bad. Barry Bonds, good. Thanks for...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after surviving the terrible Canadian meat probe (well, I suppose that's better than a giant zucchini probe) ... • Basketball: Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony, at Springfield, Mass. (7:30 p.m., ET). Patrick Ewing, Cathy Rush, Pat Riley, Hakeem Olajuwan, Dick Vitale and Adrian Dantle...
Luddite University of Iowa Athletic Department Limits Blogging at Games
Before Kirk Ferentz's press conference yesterday a blogging policy was passed out to credentialed media members. What did this policy state? Well, here goes, "The following is the NCAA’s policy for the number of blogs allowed during a competition or session (i.e., where more than one contest takes ...
NFL Season Preview: Chicago Bears
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...
Afternoon Blogdome: Jamaal Anderson Seems To Be Handling His Post-NFL Career Well
• Doesn't he look human?: Here's the Dirty Bird: “We ran into Jamal Anderson at a bar in Atlanta. He ended up buying us 8 rounds of shots and then passing out on the bar.” [SBB] • Yeah, that headline could be misconstrued: Thankfully, these Yankees are no longer sniffling. [The Sports Hernia] • More...
Rent a USC Song Girl for $150
The only catch is that you have to fill out a request form. Of course the form requires you to answer a few pressing questions. Such as, "What do you want the Song Girls to do?" I'm sure you can manage that. In fact, there's a good chance you were thinking of what you'd like the Song Girls to do, b...
NFL Season Preview: St. Louis Rams
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...
Perry Knocked Over The Table
The experience of being in my first big Hollywood scene was an experience. I liked it, I thought it was cool. Ummmmm, being thrown in the manure is a different story you know. But there again to make it more real. Boom. You gotta take the shit before you really experience the bullshit or whatever. I...
NFL Season Previews: Atlanta Falcons
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scoured its message boards to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ... • "We have no idea what a Zorn-coached team is going to look or perform like in a real game." — Cavalierman007Previous ESPN Featured Comment of the Week, plus a Featured...
Is The Sports Gal The New Sports Fella?
Bill Simmons is finally back from his summer of basketball diary-ing and has returned to his rightful place in the Page 2 masthead. After two months of Rick Reilly's 800-word-and-a pile-of-zing! "journalism" it's nice to see Simmons manically pumping out his usual kajillion word essays for the start...
NFL Season Preview: Kansas City Chiefs
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...