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LeBron James vs. Tony Soprano
It is the choice of the weekend for sports fans who are also Sopranos fans: From 9-10 p.m. ET, do you watch Game 2 of the NBA Finals or do you watch the series finale of "The Sopranos?"...
Yes, But Does the Carpet Match the Beard?
So by now you've heard all about Amanda Beard's Olympic-sized star turn in Playboy. (Looking for links to the pics? Try here.)...
Worst "Date With Alyssa Milano" Ever
Brad Penny. Carl Pavano. Barry Zito. Would you like to join this illustrious list of baseball players who have reportedly dated Alyssa Milano? Consider that for a second:...
Chad Johnson and Rags to Riches: A Love Story
Let me propose something: The love-child (fine, if you insist: "love-foal") of Chad Johnson and Rags to Riches could be the greatest racing machine in the history of the world....
Curly-Haired Boyfriend: The Video Game
• Dan Shaughnessy: The Online Game [Red Sox Monster] • Super-Regional Mania! [The College Baseball Blog] • Oh, those USC Song Girls! [The Wizard of Odds] • Classy Hot Blogger concession speech [Five Tool Tool] • Boogard Brothers' Hockey Fight Camp [Melrose Rocks] • Best. Punishment. Ever. [FoulBalls...
What's Eating Gilbert Arenas?
No athlete — let alone NBA player — captured the attention of blogo-savvy fans over the past year like Gilbert Arenas. His personality and antics jibed with our sensibilities....
Keep Your Clemens. Give Me Haren.
Notes from a day in baseball:...
Federer Tries to Put Away Pesky Nadal
So this is what we've been reduced to in men's tennis: Roger Federer is so dominant that the only match worth watching is the one where there's a good chance he'll lose....
OK, Let's Set Up The Day...
Deadspin readers will recognize that this is not MJD this weekend. No, there seems to be something missing... the cleverness, perhaps? Maybe the smart analysis?...
About Last Night
What you missed while channel-surfing a boring night of TV wondering why the NBA didn't play the Finals Game 2 LAST night... • NBA: JR Smith escapes injury in car crash • Boxing: Cotto thumps Judah in TKO • Racing: Filly wins Belmont (as predicted) • Golf: Wow, Michelle Wie really stinks right now. ...
Apparently, We Are All NOT Witnesses
The TV ratings are in, and Game 1 of the 2007 NBA Finals was the... (all together now):...
To Watch Tonight
What you wish you could watch as your spouse says you've wasted enough of the weekend already by blogging ... •Boxing: Miguel Cotto vs. Zab Judah, 9 p.m. [HBO-PPV] •College Baseball: Super-Regionals, 7 p.m. [ESPN] •MMA: Dynamite!!USA, 9 p.m. [Showtime]...
Meanwhile, in "Beast vs. Beast" Racing...
Having already established that Chad Johnson racing a horse at 4:53 p.m. today is THE racing event of the day/week/month, it's a wee bit harder to get excited about the Belmont Stakes....
The Ben-Gay Tragedy and More
• H.S. track star dies of Ben-Gay O.D. [NY Post] • Is Clemens bad for Baseball? [Shakedown Sports] • Bee King O'Dorney is o-r-n-e-r-y [Say Hey] • What was Schilling thinking as no-no went no-no? [Ghosts of Wayne Fontes] • About that "creamy" Homer Bailey... [Homer Bailey Facts • Jose Reyes' "Spanish...
Hot Blogger Bracketology
With mere hours to go until the end of the first round of the Hot Blogger Bracket (presented by the Ladies...) that took the sports-blog universe by storm this week (and shot their Ballhype ranking into the Top 5). There have been mass email campaigns, "going negative" on opponents and far too many ...
Chad Johnson: The New Barbaro?
How far has horse racing sunk? Far enough that sport's biggest event of the day isn't at Belmont, but at River Downs in Cincinnati....
Agassi's Best Li'l Schoolhouse in Vegas
After that Vick link-dump, I'm thrilled to move on to something much more soft-focus: The cheerleading coach at the charter school founded by Andre Agassi was busted in an undercover prostitution sting....
Your Daily Michael Vick Update(s)
You know it has reached a bad place when there is so much going on you have to put all the new updates in bullet form......
Have You Heard About This Clemens Fellow?
Roger Clemens is making his 2007 baseball debut today for the Yankees at the Stadium. He will be paid roughly 1 jillion dollars* per start. (* - Rounding up.)...
Eddie Murphy's Sloppy Seconds
•Mike Strahan dating Eddie Murphy's ex? [Page Six] • Mike Tyson's Bollywood debut [YouTube] • How bad are the Rangers? [Enjoy the Enjoyment] • So bad their own draft picks mock 'em [Seam Heads DMN Rangers Blog] • Carlos Zambrano doesn't mind a good cry [Babes Love Baseball] • What DID happen to Mich...