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How To Deal With A Day Without Sports

It's Black Wednesday, the one day on the calendar with no professional sports going on (the WNBA is offering four games tonight). How is the sports media coping with the empirically slowest news day of the year?...

Fixing The President's Throwing Motion

As you know, our commander-in-chief took the mound last night and did an excellent impression of a man trying to throw a party balloon. I asked some experts to evaluate Obama's mechanics and explain just what needed to be fixed....

Warning: Don't Give Sidney Crosby Money On MySpace

Believe it or not, Sidney Crosby's MySpace page does not actually belong to Sidney Crosby! Oh, and if you gave the person who does run that page $500 to help save a park, you're an idiot....

Erin Andrews' Chin Has Healed Nicely...

But it appears she was attacked by a tiger before the ESPYs last night. Hope she's okay. [TMZ/Hot Clicks]...

The All-Star Game, Through The Eyes Of A Great Photographer

For the second consecutive year, I attended the Baseball All-Star parade. (Sorry: "Red Carpet Day.") This year, I even stuck around for the game. Witness my sad attempt at photography as we do an old school Road Trip....

Sex, Gambling and Gluttony In The Morning. And Some Sports.

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

Oddsmakers Like Obama's Chances Of Not Humiliating Himself Tonight

Bodog is taking prop bets on whether the president will bounce his first pitch at the All-Star Game and thus send his country spiraling into a Depression or something. At present, the moneyline's liking Obama's arm:...

Blackhawks GM Fired For Not Following Example Set By Cubs

Dale Tallon took over a terrible post-lockout Blackhawks franchise, combined shrewd drafting and solid free agent picks to build a young, exciting contender and was rewarded for his efforts with a swift kick in the pants. That's the Chicago way....

You Knew You Could Count On Shaq For A Micheal Jackson [<i>Sic</i>] Tribute

Chris Berman And The Home Run Derby: Deadspin I-Team Looks Back, Back, Back, Back

The home run derby is tonight, and phrasemaking teevee personage Chris Berman will surely use this opportunity to deploy his famous "back, etc." home run call. I-Team wondered: How many times has Berman said the word "back" over the years?...

The "Pacman" Jones Strip Club Shooting Gets Its Warren Report

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has launched a massive three-part investigation into the strip club incident that cost Adam Jones a year of football and another man his ability to walk. Oh, the things we have seen .......

David Beckham Deserves An Imaginary Nobel Peace Prize

"If [he] had spoken out about Iraq it wouldn't have happened," said Jon McClure, frontman of the The Reverend and The Makers, of Becks. "Or Britain certainly wouldn't have got involved." So that's what The Beckham Experiment is about. [PA]...

Nationals Fire Manager To Cap Most Ridiculous First-Half Ever

In the least surprising firing of ever, Manny Acta is done as the Washington Nationals manager—but will they continue to fail in even more remarkable and outlandish ways in the second half? Or will they just merely suck?...

Zambrano Pitches, Hits, Uses Inverted Pyramid

The Cubs have to be one of the most disappointing teams in the National League. It was nice for Carlos Zambrano to do, well, everything in the game today....

Oddly Enough, Married Athletes Are Still Foolin' Around

And here I thought Steve McNair's death would eradicate unfaithfulness among sports figures, the same way Charles Barkley's DUI was the last one of those to ever happen....

Actually, All Tennis Looks Like This On A Sunday Morning

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap...

Your Awkward And Vaguely Racist Video of the Day: Black Olympics

If you are a connoisseur of sophisticated social satire in the tradition of Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift, prepare yourself for Martellus Bennett's latest opus. It is entitled-simply, eloquently-Black Olympics....

The Erin Andrews Chin Incident: A Reconstruction

What really happened on that fateful night when America's Sideline Princess was viciously attacked by flying baseballs? Just how bad were her injuries? Where was the ball boy/girl for protection? Why is there no video evidence? What are they hiding?!...

Coach's Foot Attacked by Deranged Panamanian Groin

Things got ugly during yesterday's match between Panama and Mexico. I'm not one for pointing fingers, but I'm guessing that the Mexican coach making for this guy's groin (while the ball was in play) didn't exactly defuse the situation....

Best of the Brissed: The First and Last Deadspin Maccabiah Games Preview

Named after the Maccabee family, who vanquished the Greeks despite 6-1 odds and stingy handicapping; the Maccabiah Games bring together 7,000 of the world's best Jewish athletes to satisfy their insatiable lust for gold. Whoa. That came out wrong....