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Welcome To Negro Bowl I!
As you might have heard from a media outlet or two, this is a historic Super Bowl because it features two African American head coaches for the first time. The odds are good that this might be a topic over the next 10 days....
You Probably Won't Hear Billy Packer Breaking Down Iona's Offense This Season
New word to be added to the English lexicon, 21st century edition, right after "Truthiness" and before "eBays." Introducing "Fruscinating." That's the only word to describe Iona, which remained Division I's only winless men's basketball team on Wednesday after a 70-67 overtime loss to Fairfield, dro...
Blogdome: Me First Guys, And Team Guys
• Which NBA teams benefit from being a one-man show? [Blogmogger] • A little Carmelo and Iverson romance, yeah .... [The Basketball Jones] • Another ode to the greatness of Roger Federer. [Sports Montage] • The MLS's new Champions League-type venture. [Soccernista] • Musings on a morning with Mike a...
Sean Salisbury Should Probably Relax A Little Bit
So yesterday, on his radio show in Chicago, Sean Salisbury addressed the whole "did he say Jew or not?" issue, using his platform mainly to trash those lowly bloggers and let everyone know that his soul is pure of spirit and that he hugs cute puppies, even Jewish ones....
Taking Down The USA, One Touchdown At A Time
Every year, usually more than once a year (whenever there's a major sporting event), some soulless, dumb "research firm" tries to convince us that the office workers of America are somehow skirting their duties serving The Man by paying so much attention to something that might divert them from star...
Yahoo! Still Trying To Catch Reggie Bush
If it's a Thursday, that must mean it's time for another Yahoo !Sports investigation into gifts Reggie Bush might have received at USC. (We don't mean to make light of the hard work Yahoo! has put into its exhaustive investigation, but we repeat that it's hard to take an investigation all that serio...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Live from the Senior Bowl!: Wait, could we extend this just one more hour? I have several questions for Georgia Tech lineman Mansfield Wrotto! Wait ... • 2 p.m. MLS with Alecko Eskandarian: Could being traded to Toronto i...
Bobby Knight Unlocks Another Mystery
Bobby Knight sure has been chatty since breaking the all-time NCAA men's win mark. Here's his take on the whole Bill Parcells situation in Dallas. Parcells, a longtime friend of Knight's since their coaching days at Army, resigned earlier this week. The reason? It's all because of Terrell Owens, of ...
Remind Us To Be Careful When We're In Georgia
A rather stunning story on ESPN.com this morning from Wright Thompson: The tale of Genarlow Wilson, a high school football player and honors student who is serving a 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. Thanks to the strange — some might say insane ...
Heavens, What About Peyton's Carpometacarpal Joint?
You can tell we're just about to turn the corner and start ratcheting up the Super Bowl XXXXI coverage lunacy when the condition of a man's thumb is receiving Zapruder-level scrutiny. Peyton Manning, who has had a seeming otherworldly ability to avoid injuries throughout his career, is playing all c...
NBA Roundup: Shaq No Longer Gets To Wear Suits During Games
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while being punched in the face by your own attorney in court ... • NHL: Apparently they played this year's All-Star Game without goalies, and still Sidney Crosby couldn't score. • NBA: Shaq returns for Heat, but Pacers somehow didn't get the memo. • College basketball: Come on down ...
It's Some Sort Of All-Star Thing Tonight
If it's 8 p.m. on Versus on a Wednesday night in the middle of Super Bowl week ... well, jeez, it must be time for the NHL All-Star Game! Because of the NHL's shenanigans, we won't be seeing Rory Fitzpatrick, but we will be seeing a bunch of other people you similarly do not know. Excitement!...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after a quick run to Wiener Circle for some cheese fries, with extra abuse ... • College men's basketball: North Carolina at Wake Forest [ESPN]; DePaul at Georgetown. Plenty of seats available! Congress actually working these days! Come on down! [ESPN2] • NBA: Houston at San Antonio. C...
Who's The Mysterious Extorted St. Louis Athlete?
The Smoking Gun just posted an amusing report about a St. Louis athlete being extorted for supposedly impregnating some guy's daughter. (Those are usually who are impregnated.) The code name for the player is "P.A."...
Leftovers: Could This Be The End?
• Is "Cold Pizza" going down tomorrow? [The Big Lead] • Some on-the-scene reporting from Dikembe's appearance at the State Of The Union. [ABC News] • Selling one's child for Super Bowl tickets before they're even born. [The Noise Ratio] • Look, they're tasering Dodgers fans. [WJRT] • We can all slee...
Kind Of Looks Like Steve McMichael On A Bender
One of the things we love about the Bears? They have a theme song. It's pretty awesome that a professional sports team has a team song. And it's particularly awesome when it is sung by Bryan Griffin, of the Chicago Lyric Opera....
Deadspin Field Trip: Our Battle With Slash And Bad Moon
Last year around this time, thanks to a promotion for that "Pros Vs. Joes" show on Spike that no one we know watches, we strapped on a helmet and batted against John Rocker. That trip worked out so well for everybody that they asked us if we'd be interested in heading to Grand Central Station in New...
SICK Is A Nice Word For What Bears Fans Are (Yeah!)
As we mentioned on Monday, we were kind of surprised that the little arts & crafts project to the right here was allowed to be displayed during the Saints-Bears game on Sunday; not that we sat up that night fretting about it, but come on. That's a little classless, if you're into the "class" thing, ...
Special Sponsors Post: Aren't You Lucky!
So remember a couple of weeks ago, when we mentioned that you could win Final Four tickets? Well, today is part two of that whole Old Spice sponsor business. Can you answer another trivia question? We never actually see these trivia questions until they're posted on the site ... so we hope this week...