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Wladimir's Morning Wood
Tonight Wladimir Klitschko will square off against his best opponent to date in Sultan Ibragimov in a big first step toward unifying the heavyweight title. Vitali's little brother is widely considered to be the best heavyweight on the planet and a win tonight at Madison Square Garden would cement th...
Jon Barry Is Friendly, Scalable
Outside of basketball Jon Barry loves two things, golf and flexible cart girls. SportsbyBrooks points us in the direction of this Flickr photo set from a golf outing last summer and the subsequent after party. The ladies and the liquor appear to have been provided by the lovely gents at Jose Cuervo ...
Consider Your Bracket Busted
• In Progress — CBB: UConn at Villanova [ESPN] • 1:00 — CBB: George Mason at Ohio [ESPN2] • 2:00 — Golf: WGC Accenture Match Play Championship, Semifinals [NBC] • 3:00 — CBB: Creighton at Oral Roberts [ESPN2] • 3:30 — CBB: Oregon at UCLA [ABC] • 4:00 — CBB: St. John's at Duke [CBS] • 4:00 — NFL: NF...
The Kelvin Sampson Era Is Officially Over
Kelvin Sampson and the University of Indiana have reached an agreement that will pay the coach $750,000 to get the fuck out of Bloomington. The overzealous recruiter has also agreed not to sue the school for wrongful termination. Although the Hoosiers have rid themselves of Sampson they still have a...
Yes Shaq, the Ball Looks Delicious
The Big Saguaro couldn't quite keep up with Phoenix's offensive pace, but he had his way under the boards. Shaq's four point (1-5 from the field) performance was offset by 13 defensive rebounds (14 total) and he even looked rather spry at times in his 26 minutes of play. Amare scored 28 with Grant ...
About Last Night
What you missed while serving as a seat filler on Cleveland's bench... ...
Vroom! Vroom Vroom Vroom!
• Segways! • Mattoon! And other places! • Lots of baseball previews. • Nice week for Keith Van Horn. • Andy Pettitte. Whatever. • We miss you, Harry. • The Marlins want your fat guys. • The Harold Reynolds case may never begin. • Man, you guys love Scott Van Pelt. • Bob Knight, sold out by Lawrence ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your dog is shampooed by aliens ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Richard "Four Eyes" Gutierrez vs. Jose "Wheezy" Varela, Fort Lauderdale (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2] • College basketball: Davidson at Winthrop (7 p.m., ET). Free Gold Rush t-shirts to the first 1,000 fans tonight at the Coliseum!...
Obama Gets His Desmond Howard On
As some of you surely saw yesterday, presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns yesterday. We think this picture is pretty awesome. We hope that this inevitably leads to Mitt Romney, when he runs again in four years, hanging out with Keith Van Horn....
Buzzsaw Claim Another Media Victim
This is Gary Belsky, editor-in-chief of ESPN: The Magazine. We don't mind ESPN: The Magazine that much; it's a little too "look at what THIS athlete loves!" for us sometimes, but they've got some quality writers over there who appear to be under the age of 50. And now they have a blog, with a post f...
But Where's The Eli Manning Of Fishing?
"You know, Kevin's compared to Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, and you ask yourself why. How does bass fishing connect here? If you look at this guy, if you look at him on the water, off the water, he is all business. And one thing to be sure here, rumor has it that he is dialed in out there right now."...
Justice Is Blind, Which Accounts For All The Typos
Finally, Barry Bonds has discovered an airtight defense for his upcoming trial on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Typos! Yep, Bonds' lawyers on Thursday contended that, because the government filed court papers on their client that had at least two typos, that Barry should walk free. Hey...
You Shouldn't Wear That Body
The next time you come into our courtroom we hope you've got either a better defense, or a better class of client....
Berman Acknowledges Videos, Still Fighting Communism
If you had been wondering what exactly Chris Berman thought about the all those videos that have shown up around these parts, featuring him deux deux deuxing in supposedly off-camera moments, well, someone finally thought to ask him. His response is rational, paranoid and hilarious....
Anybody Around Here To Play?
• The Cavs are gonna be somewhat short on players tonight. [Waiting For Next Year] • Dustin Pedroia's lame "revenge." [Red Sox Monster] • Nice save, kind of. [Barry Melrose Rocks] • Hooligans are getting nicer. [Collar Stays] • Chipper Jones ... BOLD! [Walk Off Walk] • More Cheesy Doodles for Stephe...
Baseball Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all....
Media Approval Ratings: Billy Packer
We're getting awfully darned close now to the NCAA tournament business, which means one thing: The return of Billy Packer as the central force in our lives for a month. We know, we know, he broadcasts games throughout the regular season, but it's not until the Tournament that he takes over the voice...