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Juan Pierre Finally Gets The Respect He Deserves
I beg of you Los Angeles: embrace this. If you let him play with a pink bat for the next 40-some games, you'll forget about Manny. [Juanpierrewood]...
Layla Kiffin Bares Her Soul And More UT Recruiting Secrets
Knoxville media entities are aware of one way guaranteed to generate some interest from readers and viewers: Layla Kiffin overload....
Ed Hochuli Curls The Pain Away
Speaking of terrible referees, what's Ed Hochuli been up to this winter—besides sculpting those beautiful 14-inch guns? [ESPN]...
Sportswriting Declared Dead. Again.
Next month's Texas Monthly has a story about the death of sportswriting. It's official: Writing about the death of sportswriting is finally dead....
Clemens To Appear On "Mike And Mike" Tomorrow For A Friendly Chat About Selena Roberts
ESPN will announce that Roger Clemens is scheduled to be on tomorrow's "Mike and Mike" (around 8:25 a.m.) to, presumably, compare Selena Roberts' fact-finding ability to other author's works. It should be enlightening....
Sucker Punch Earns Slap On The Wrist, Critics Give League Knuckle Sandwich
Since Walker's one-man fight earned an instigator penalty in the final minutes of the game, he was automatically suspended for one game and his coach was fined $10,000 as mandated by league rules. Except the rule also allows the league to rescind that automatic suspension, which sort of the negates ...
Kill The Referee! (Starting With These Guys)
Here's a list you don't want to be on: The most notable referees who have been threatened with death for being bad at their jobs. It's not a very select group, either. [Off The Post]...
Mark Cuban Had A Mother's Day Gift For Kenyon Martin's Mom
Dallas is playing what will probably be its final game of the season tonight, but all anyone really wants to know is what will go down between Mark Cuban, Kenyon Martin and Kenyon Martin's mom....
The Legitimate Interest In Simmons' GM Candidacy Called Into Question
The Sports Fella set Minnesotans' hearts aflutter with his semi-serious T'Wolves GM idea, resulting in thousands of pro-Simmons emails from a disillusioned fan base to a befuddled T'Wolves executive office. But somebody's rigging the numbers....
The L.A. Times Pens The Mother Of All Steroid Columns
Here it is, folks. Served up piping hot by Kurt Streeter in Sunday's Los Angeles Times — the platonic ideal of a steroid-outrage column....
Gary “Baba Booey” Dell'abate Becomes Latest Celebrity To Emasculate Himself With First-Pitch Disaster
This is truly awful. It's actually worse than his wince-worthy ex-girlfriend apology videos. But at least we now know who taught him how to throw a baseball. [YouTube]...
Bobby Jenks: "Yeah, I Was Throwing At That Guy"
Say what you want about Bobby Jenks—and I've muttered some pretty nasty things about him under my breath—at least he's refreshingly honest about his decision to throw a pitch behind Ian Kinsler's back....
Introducing Your New Deadspinner
Hi. I’m the new guy. Nice to make your acquaintance....
Once Again, Amazing Happened For The Celtics
The parody videos of the NBA's goose-bumping "Where Amazing Happens" videos are phenomenal (Teen Wolf, Hoosiers, etc.) And when something legitimately amazing happens, thankfully, YouTube genius AndrewB cobbled one together immediately after last night's amazingness....
Just Give Your Car Keys To Aaron Brooks And He'll Park It For You
Either the Houston Rockets veterans had a little fun with Aaron Brooks this weekend or he forgot to bring his ventriloquist dummy to the post-game press conference....
The Deadspin I-Team Failed Its Badonkular Panamanian Cricket Mission
Luckily, there were others on the case. Cancel your flights to Panama. [TheRapUp]...
Yeah, Bert Blyleven Ate Those Worms
Gee, I wonder why this guy isn't in the Hall Of Fame yet? (It was all for charity, folks.) And where is angry press release from PETA? [Sportress of Blogitude]...
Lou Merloni Will Blow This Steroid Business Wide Open
Here's one more tidbit that should cap off Boston's excellent weekend of excellence—Lou Merloni's accusation that the Red Sox hired a doctor to instruct players on proper steroid use. Uh oh....
Michael Phelps Loves Chewing Tobacco, Loves Threesomes With Strippers
Nobody does news quite like UK's News Of The World and their latest shocking exposé is no exception—a bare-all interview with a Baltimore "dancer" who claims she double-teamed Olympic hero Michael Phelps...
Three Faces Of Boston Fandom
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap...