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Josh Beckett Doesn't Appear To Have Been Taking Steroids In The Offseason
By now, you've might have seen this increasingly infamous picture of Red Sox postseason pitching hero Josh Beckett, at spring training earlier this week....
Aramis, Professional Two-Sport Star
• Aramis Ramirez, PROFESSIONAL cockfighter. [Luol's Dong] • It was a more active baseball offseason than you even thought. [Baseball Mastermind] • Very amusing play-by-play of the Georgetown game the other night. [DC Sports Bog] • Back in 1995, these guys were considered NFL Hall of Famers. [One Mor...
Media Approval Ratings: Linda Cohn
In that book thing we just wrote, we referred to Linda Cohn as "competent, and seemingly pregnant every three months." We're not sure that's true anymore, but it really did seem like that for a while, didn't it? Every time you turned on "SportsCenter," there was Linda Cohn, all preggers again. We re...
GSTF Book Tour Stop: St. Peters, Missouri
We knew we were in for a little different atmosphere at our St. Peter's, Missouri reading when we walked into the store and saw that the sign advertising our appearance had a piece of paper shielding the cover. The sensitive eyes of suburban St. Louis must be protected. Photos found here, if you c...
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition: The Lost Photographs
For all of you aspiring Sports Illustrated swimsuit model photographers out there (or, if you're just cold and/or horny), here's a behind-the-scenes look at several of the photo shoots for the magazine's 2008 swimsuit edition. Busted Coverage found the stash of photos on Flickr, via someone obviousl...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Oh, How Matters Have Changed In Bloomington
We're a bit late on this, but continuing the Indiana pile-on this morning, apparently this guy wore a "Bring Back Bobby" T-shirt to the Indiana-Wisconsin game the other night. And they made him take it off....
Careful Of Those Governmental Typos
Anyone who reads Deadspin regularly knows that typos happen. Sometimes they happen more often, typically after the night before has been late and the screen is looking blurry. They're annoying, but, you know, they happen. It's one thing for a sports blog to have a typo or two; it's another for a gov...
The Most Painful Division In Hockey
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....
The Crimes Of Kelvin Sampson
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming The Floor....
A Very NBA Valentine's Day
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who's got a sinus infection right now, so don't expect any miracles today, okay? When he's not hacking up globs of stuff that look like they could be used as monster blood in an Alien versus Predator movie, he can be found dying a slow, painful death at Bask...
About Last Night
What you missed while releasing Hurley from the closet ... • College basketball: ASU topples No. 7 Stanford in OT. You may now proudly display your Jeff Pendergraph Fathead. • NBA: Suns beat Mavericks 109-97, to the delight of no one who thought they were going to see Jason Kidd vs. Shaquille O'Neal...
Meet Us In St. Peter's
You know, can you think of a better way to spend your Valentine's Day than at a Barnes and Noble in suburban St. Louis, listening to some guy talk about his sports book? No, right? Well, you're in luck....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you absolutely refuse to evolve ... • College basketball: North Carolina State at Boston College (7 p.m., ET); Michigan at Iowa (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Rutgers at West Virginia (7 p.m., ET); Fordham at Massachusetts (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]; Stanford at Arizona State (10:30 p.m., ET) [FSN]...
Beware Mascots Wearing Underwear
General rule about mascots: They should either entirely naked, or fully clothed. Emphasizing that sometimes they might take off clothes, and have a life outside of scaring small children at arenas, is just asking for trouble....
V-Day Plans Of The "Stars"
We don't mean to harp on John Rocker lately; as we've said, we legitimately like the guy. We think it's probably because we've been impersonating him so much on this book tour. He has gotten in our head. We aren't quite ready to admit that we were wondering what he and the lovely Alicia Marie were u...
So Who's Ready For Another Run At An Undefeated Season?
Which is harder: Completing an undefeated season in the NFL, or in college basketball? I NEED TO KNOW! With its 68-59 win over Houston on Wednesday night, Memphis improved to 24-0, looking to become the first Div. I team since Bobby Knight's 1976 Indiana squad to finish unbeaten. Hmm, a current team...
A Celebration Of All Things D-League
Yeah, yeah, so the NBA All-Star Game is this weekend. Yawn. There's not much more dull these days than the 3-point contest and the slam dunk competition, and the game itself ... no thanks. But worry not, basketball fans: There's an antidote in the very same city: It's the Development League All-Star...