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Today In Oddjack
Hey, look at all the stuff Oddjack has. Cool. • More details on the depths of Michael Jordan's gambling addiction. • One week until the Breeder's Cup, when the earth shakes on its axis. • How long will the Colts' and Texans' zeros remains zeros?...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for bot the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • The smart money seems to be flowing toward Roy Oswalt and the Astros tonight. That's making Albert Pujols very mad — and you don't want to make him mad. • It's Troy vs. Florida Internatio...
Zoot Suitin' Boogie
All right, we've avoided this long enough: We now have to acknowledge this whole NBA dress code thing. What sparked us into action? Why, Mark Cuban, of course, who addresses the "controversy on his blog. His take: It's a matter of owners not knowing how to relate to their players, which is a shock...
Today In Oddjack: Hope For Cards Fans!
We have much faith in Oddjack, tonight. If they don't come through for us, we're gonna run down to Oddjack world headquarters and there will be fisticuffs, we tell you, fisticuffs! • There is no reason to panic. There is no reason to bleed Cardinals red. St. Louis is bringing it back to, well, St. L...
Look, Cretins Have Learned HTML
We'll probably get yelled at for even linking to this, but we were so shocked by it that we decided to share our bemused outrage with you. We know all about the weird pseudo-racist underbelly of the Interweb, so we suppose it was just a matter of time until it made its way into sports. We, with mu...
Oddjack's: It's Football Up Your Ass Time!
If it's Friday, that means it's time for FOOTBALL UP YOUR ASS! at Oddjack. Here's a look at the Oddjack's best picks, GUARANTEED WINNERS*, for the upcoming football weekend....
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • A tiger almost ate half of Siegfried and Roy, but the Clemson version is your friend this week. • These hokey sports bets between mayors stopped being fun about three decades ago, didn't...
The Great Reggie Miller Corn Maze
Like any good Midwesterners, we've spent more than our fair share of time in corn mazes. For those of you who didn't spent their formative years surrounded by combines and grain elevators, a corn maze is exactly that; an entire cornfield formed into a giant maze, with checkpoints, dead-ends, exits...
The Dirty Sheets Of South Bend
People are so excited about the USC-Notre Dame game this weekend that even travel arrangements are making the news. The fine folks at HotelChatter have taken a look at one of the worst hotels near Touchdown Jesus you could possibly find, the Knight's Inn South Bend, where one guest checked into th...
Today In Oddjack
• You can count on the White Sox rebounding like Chris Klein tonight. • If you're a Cardinals fan, and you're counting on a Game 1 win, well, life's totally going to suck for you tonight. • The Brandon Link/Lang/Lane confusion comes to a strange, violent, tragic end. Well, OK, it just ends. Nothing ...
Hockey Didn't Land On Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock Landed On Hockey
Fantastic find from The Mighty MJD: AOL's Black Voices has a sports section that tracks black players in the NHL. According to the site, there are 12, many with Afrocentric names like "Bryce Salvador," "Fred Braithwaite," "Sean McMorrow" and "George Laraque."...
Welcome Back, Artest! Glad To Have Ya!
That Ron Artest is back for a whole season is destined to be one of the sublime joys of the upcoming NBA season; that he vows to be as crazy as ever makes us want to get an NBA League Pass, stat. From an interview with Dave D'Alessandro in today's Newark Star-Ledger:...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Brandon Lane in desperate race to have a winning week before the movie based on his life is consigned to home video. • The smart money is on the ChiSox. Um, this may not apply to you. • ...
The OTHER Sports Guy
As Our Boy Bill Simmons' book continues to sell like crazy — currently No. 19 on the hardcover nonfiction bestseller list — we turn our amused eye on a man named Brent Weber, author of The Sports Guy: Scorecard Scribblings from an Ordinary Journalist. The book was published in June 2002 by a company...
SI And Mike Price Bury The Bodies Together
Sports Illustrated announced this morning that it and former Alabama coach Mike Price have "amiably resolved" the lawsuit Price filed against the magazine for a story it ran in 2003....
NFL Roundup: Davenport Craps Out
• After intercepting an Anthony Wright pass in the end zone, Lions defensive back Dre Bly honored injured Packers running back Najeh Davenport by doing a spitting-image impersonation of him. Which was nice, we thought. • After yesterday, we'll just say that we're going to really enjoy watching Terr...
Uh, Who Exactly IS This Guy? Like, Really?
About a million years from now, when aliens discover our dark, burned-out husk of a planet and start digging around for clues to our long-dead civilization, we hope that the Brandon Lang saga is not the first thing they come across. Oh Christ, we hope not. Our gambling-addicted sister Oddjack del...
Blogdom's Best: Arizona Diamondbacks
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Hey, How's Oddjack Doing With Picks?
We've been watching with a bit of amusement as our gambling addict brother Oddjack struggles to make sense of the early baseball playoff action. He's not alone, of course, but his picks have been a bit erratic of late. (Not that we've been much better.) This afternoon, he likes the Padres to beat ...
It's A Good Time To Be Bill Simmons
All kinds of news involving Our Boy Bill Simmons, kicked off with a glowing pop culture icon validation from Slate's Bryan Curtis, who writes the "Middlebrow" column for the Web mag, which has featured luminaries like Michael Flatley, Demi Moore and Cirque du Soleil in the past. Curtis has big nic...