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Blogdom's Best: Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim
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...
NFL Roundup: Some Pretty Skunk Weed
• Ricky Williams had six more yards yesterday than he's had droning "60 Minutes" profiles about him in the last year. So you know. Fortunately, that eight years is still about 50 less than the interviews Esquire writer Chris Jones has given about smoking pot with Williams. Maybe Ricky will catch u...
Playoff Roundup: Sad Birds
Thoughts on a weekend of baseball that can only be described as "grueling:" • Now, we're Cardinals fans, we've made that clear, so grain of salt, all that. But the way that game ended yesterday was just flat-out mean. Whatever your thoughts on the umpires — we tend to cut them slack, because they ...
Angels Fans Frothing At The Mouth For Eddings
(Caution: Not actual poll. Attempts to vote will prove ultimately frustrating.)...
We Know What You Did Last Night, Eddings
Any umpire will tell you that if, when the game is over, you haven't noticed them and you don't know they're name, they've done their job. By this measure, Doug Eddings had a poor day at the office. As the world wakes up this morning to a steady stream of vitriol at the umpire for his strange call...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while fishing people out of Boston Harbor ... • ALCS, Game 1: California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels remind us why White Sox haven't won the big one since 1917. • NHL: Jeff O'Neal honors late brother with winning goal for Maple Leafs. • NHL: Senators on a roll, grab fourth straight wi...
Playoffs Pants Party: White Sox vs. Angels
We had someone tell us earlier today that the presumed exhaustion the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim — a name we will insist on typing out completely throughout this series — are facing after playing three games in three days in three different cities is overstated, that these are baseball players,...
It's Christmas In October
It's one of the happiest days in the blog world: It's the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs. As you would probably expect, the blog world has been chowing down this morning, as easily sports' most hated team lost last night to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Taking the bru...
Rich Arrogance vs. Whiny Petulance ... For The ALCS!
The players are going to be too tired to swing the bat, our brains are going to go into Rally Monkey overload and we'll be seeing Thunder Stix on our deathbed. But hey, we've still got ourselves a Game 5 tonight, and for that we should be most grateful. The Yankees put their "legacy" on the line,...
Playoff Roundup: We Warmed Up For The 19th
• We had to run out to see In Her Shoes in the ninth inning of the Astros-Braves game yesterday. Brad Ausmus was coming up, so we knew we wouldn't miss anything. Anybody catch what happened? • Our favorite part of the game is that if the game went so long that Roger Clemens wouldn't have been able...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while poking the Pillsbury Dough Boy a little too often and a little too vigorously ... • ALDS: Yankees' Mussina does his part to head off disaster that would be an Angels-Padres World Series. • NLDS: Jake Peavy discovers broken rib, Padres discover they're down 0-1 to Cardinals. • A...
To Watch Tonight ...
• MLB: NY Yankees at LA Angels. Shhh, don't let this get around, but the game's really in Anaheim. [Fox] • College FB: Troy Trojans at North Texas Mean Green. Nothing like a little Sun Belt Conference to take your mind off of your Padres' 0-1 start. [ESPN2] • "Bound For Glory." We know this Dick But...
Playoffs Pants Party: Angels vs. Yankees
This series will be fun to live in the New York City area during, because tonight's game will surely last past midnight, tomorrow's could last past 2 a.m. and Sunday, if a night game and if played, could turn every sports bar in the city into downtown Baghdad. Of all four divisional series, this i...
Bulls Wash Their Hands Of Curry
Well, the Chicago Bulls finally solved their Eddy Curry problem the way NBA executives like to solve problems: Trade him to the Knicks! Isiah Thomas will always take in your tired, your poor, your congenital heart defected. The Bulls receive wide-butt Michael Sweetney, occasional malcontent Tim Th...
Yahoo Sneaks Past ESPN.com
We know you love those Web site ranking numbers, so we've got some more for you, and they're good ones. Last week, Yahoo Sports — are we supposed to use the exclamation point? We always feel like goobers typing "Yahoo!" — beat ESPN.com in both unique users and visitors. We've heard all kinds of ar...
When Bronson Arroyo's Rock Isn't Hard Enough
MTV channels its inner Page 3 today, looking at the worst music offerings from professional athletes. (We're going to assume "ESPN Hollywood" has done this story about six times.)...
Fighting The Real Enemy: Fuchsia
From the Professors With Way Too Much Time On Their Hands Department: A professor at the University of Iowa has been receiving Internet threats after she claimed that the Iowa football team's propensity to color the locker room pink was sexist and homophobic. First off, we'd like to tell everyone ...
Nobody Puts The Admiral In A Corner!
Everybody loves David Robinson. He's a military man, a two-time NBA champion and the type of guy who seems to clearly mean well for his fellow man (and DARE Lion). But that's no matter in the world of copyright infringement; the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim — a team name with so many words that j...
America's NBA Team: NOOCH!
Even though we still hadn't quite gotten used to not calling them the Charlotte Hornets anyway, the New Orleans Hornets have now officially changed their name again....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while prying Tom Brady's clammy mitts off of your girlfriend ... • Small Ball: Aaron Small goes to 8-0 as Yankees creep to with 1 1/2 of Red Sox. • Going Frog Wild: TCU snaps Utah's 18-game football win streak. • Cardinals clinch playoffs, prepare to sit at top of dugout railing and ...