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About Last Night...
• NBA: Hawks 95, Knicks 105. Larry Brown gets his 1,000th win, as well as his sixth in a row with the Knicks. Which of those accomplishments was more difficult is open for debate....
Playoff Pants Party! Redskins at Seahawks
Snore. Anybody else smell craptastic blowout on this one? Even though the Seahawks are notorious bed-shitters when it comes to the playoffs, it seems almost impossible for them to lose this game. Yes, the Redskins defense is great, Greg Williams is a multi-millionaire genius, and the offense is...hm...
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What you missed while Grandpa was spinning another one of his pedantic, homespun, drunken stories ......
He Stands Before You. Clinton. Simply Clinton.
If the real sports world were like the Deadspin sports world, someone like Dennis Rodman or Joe Pepitone would be popping open some champagne this morning, 1972 Dolphins-style: The Clinton Portis madness streak has finally come to an end....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dozing peacefully at The Phantom of the Opera ... • NBA: Kobe only scores 41 as Lakers lose. • College Basketball: Redick's 27 helps Duke rout Maryland in big ACC ... um, hellooooo ... • NHL: Atlanta beats Nashville in one of them new-fangled shootout dealies....
Sean Taylor Needs To Practice His Spitting
If you watched last weekend's Redskins-Buccaneers game, you saw Washington safety Sean Taylor ejected for spitting on Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman, and you know when you spit on a Marine who has been known to drive his Hummer into vehicles that contain his wife and child, there will be r...
Vince Young's NFL Ready Throwing Motion
We were sent this a while ago, and it's possible you've already seen it, but we couldn't figure out how to post animated GIFs back then, mainly because we're morons....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while avoiding questions at your confirmation hearing ... • NBA: LeBron's White Crane Style cannot defeat Knicks' Eagle Claw Style in ferocious open combat. • NHL: Thornton's return to Boston ends abruptly — he's ejected. Turns out Sharks didn't need him anyway. • College Basketball:...
Cabrera's Linguisitic Transgressions
On the surface, the news that a complaint has been filed against Florida Marlins wunderkind outfielder Miguel Cabrera for an incident outside a Venezuela club seems pretty rote, just another athlete "scuffle" at a bar. But the story from the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel confuses us so much we can't...
Engine No. 42 Makes The Hall
It's a happy day here at Deadspin headquarters: Former Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter has made the Hall of Fame. He was the only player elected to the Hall; Goose Gossage and others (including, unfortunately, Willie McGee) did not make it in....
Is Baseball's Top Shoulder Doc OK?
Buried in a Houston Chronicle story about Jeff Bagwell's rehab of his right shoulder was this disturbing tidbit:...
You'll Have To Stay Up Late For Stephen A. Now
In news we'd heard might be coming for a while, our main man Stephen A. Smith — whose show "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith," in case you forgot, is "bigger than ESPN" despite having worse ratings than billiards — is having his show moved from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the end of the month....
Up Your Butt, Jobu
Not to get all Bill Simmons on you here — if just because we consider you less readers than active participants — but, hey, this is Deadspin Nation. Robert Taylor sends us these pictures of him and his friends from last Halloween, all dressed up as the guys from Major League....
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What you missed while petting the rug and vacuuming the cat ... • NBA: I'm guarding him? I thought you were guarding him! Kobe hits 45 for fourth straight game as Lakers upend Pacers. • College Basketball: Welcome to the Big East, Cincinnati (sorry for the bruises). • NHL: No-go between the pipes: B...
Gheorghe Muresan Will Destroy All Bloggers
Apparently, former Washington Bullet/Billy Crystal co-star Gheorghe Muresan does a lot of meet-and-greets at Wizards game, and blogger Mark Pike was one of them and sent us this picture....
Redskins Surprisingly Effective Car Salesmen
With the Redskins improbably advancing to the NFL's Final Eight, we're obviously going to be ratcheting up the Clinton Portis coverage even more than we already have, if that's not terrifying enough for you. As a little appetizer, though, we present you this gaggle of advertisements for Easterns A...
NFL Playoff Roundup: Riiiiipppppp!
• Honestly, we know this was covered all weekend, but man, that Carson Palmer thing was the worst playoff moment we can remember. We think Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals have it tough; Bengals fans finally get in the playoffs, and two plays in, their Pro Bowl QB tears an ACL and MCL. (Quest...
About Last Night ...
Your weekend was like a David Lynch movie, only without the midgets. We'll bring you up to speed ... • NFL Playoffs: One Manning down, one to go. Panthers maul hapless Giants; Palmer-less Bengals lose to Steelers. • College Basketball: No. 1 Duke stays unbeaten with win over No. 23 Wake Forest, just...
About Last Night...
• NFL: Jaguars 3, Patriots 28. It was a Tom Kazanski performance for the Patriots last night. It's the way they play, ice cold, no mistakes. They wear you down, you get bored, frustrated—do something stupid and they've got you. • NBA: Jazz 94, Pistons 90. Utah beats Detroit for the second time this ...
Redskins vs. Bucs - 4th quarter
• Mike Patrick just said the words, "An exciting muff."...