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About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing Motorama ... • MLB: Lester! Well, it's about time we got some uplifting news in sports. • Cycling: Vinokourov wins stage 15 of the Tour de France, but is not the overall leader, and there's another big stink about drug testing. Got it? • Tennis: My favorite male Serbian...
Selig Won't Watch, But We'll Have To
Well, if that whole Barry Bonds Won't Play On ESPN thing turns out to be based in reality, we're all in luck; Bonds is never going to break Hank Aaron's record. Because everyone of his at-bats is gonna be on The Worldwide Leader until, well, until he breaks it, or dies. So, you know, enjoy....
Help This Guy Write His Gay Yankees Book
About a decade ago, a Yankees clubhouse attendant filed a lawsuit against the team claiming he was fired because he was gay, and that he was taunted by players calling him "faggot." (The team says he was fired for theft.") Well, he's now writing a book....
Shelley Duncan Needs A Nickname
It happens all too often in sports; a youngster bursts onto the scene with a noteworthy accomplishment so quickly that even our best broadcasters and journalists have not had time to supply him with a ridiculous, hackneyed nickname, or overreaching home run call. From the New York Daily News:...
NFL Season Preview: Minnesota Vikings
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, running one every weekday, we have to start today. So there you have it....
Remembering Harry Caray's Last Broadcast
The intrepid souls at Joe Sports Fan have dug up tape of the final game Harry Caray every broadcast. The game was September 21, 1997. So much has changed, but Harry was always the same....
Hope Can Be Found In The Heart Of Miguel Batista
Kids, if you're having trouble in your current relationship, if you and your significant other are finding it difficult to communicate with each other, if you're feeling the spark slowly drain away ... well, only two people can save you. David Copperfield, and Miguel Batista....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while finishing the Harry Potter book about 1:30 a.m. ... • MLB: Bonds sits, Brewers beat Giants 7-5 (photograph courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope). • Golf: Padraig Harrington becomes first Irishman in 60 years to win the British Open, which means there was a slight chance of ce...
No Bonds For You!
As you may have noticed, Barry Bonds is being held out of the final game of San Francisco's series at Milwaukee (in progress). So it looks like he won't be making any progress towards Henry Aaron's prized record on my watch. Oh well, I'll just have to keep staring at my Arizona State throwback jerse...
About Last Night...
What you missed while attempting to offset your Winky Wright gambling losses by applying for a job as an NBA ref... • Boxing: Bernard Hopkins clutched and butted his way to an unsatisfying decision over Winky Wright. After the fight Hopkins called out Joe Calzaghe who could be heard laughing all the...
Tim "Douche" Donaghy Did It and I Called It
The now ex-NBA referee has had a really shitty week, and deservedly so. Just as I predicted Donaghy was identified as the target of the FBI's gambling investigation. While part of me feels for a guy who obviously suffers from a gambling addiction the rest of me is fucking ecstatic. The reason I kept...
My VORP Is Phenomenal
Everything was clicking in Boston last night and Terry Francona's jaw was no exception. The Red Sox pounded Chicago 10-3 despite a botched (non) homerun call by the umpires leading to Francona's righteous ejection. The Red Sox were led by another dominant performance by Josh Beckett. He struck out t...
Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself, My Name Is MAJ
Ahoy hoy! I am the Unsilent Majority and I'll be running shit around here as part of a three-way rotation of weekend editors. I have to say that I'm absolutely thrilled to be here. After all, my blogging career began deep within the bowels of the Deadspin comment section way back when you had to giv...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while choreographing the greatest performance in the history of the Phillipine penal system's talent show... • MLB: The Yankees got their asses kicked by Tampa. The Bronx may actually be burning. • Golf: The preening Spaniard Sergio Garcia is still leading at the Open Championship ma...
Bonds Might Do This This Weekend
After his two home runs yesterday, everybody's favorite beacon of light Barry Bonds is just two home runs away from tying Hank Aaron. Perhaps you've heard about this. He's got three games in Bud Selig's hometown of Milwaukee to go for it this weekend, and then comes home for a week. It's possible he...
Who's the Next MLB Player To Bang Alyssa Milano?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think.)...
The Kansas City T-Bones, The Universe, And Everything
Time once again to check in with the world of minor league baseball; it's Rick Chandler's Minor Enterprise!...
That Sound You Hear Is Cardinals Fans Tightening The Noose
This photo, shot in the wake of the Cardinals' announcement that Chris Carpenter will have Tommy John surgery, reveals just how matters are going in St. Louis right now. 2006 World Series ... 2006 World Series ... 2006 World Series ... we must remember while we still can. We miss Jeff Weaver alread...