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Dee Mirich's Stock Portfolio Just Got A Little Fatter
You spent months and months working for Barbaro; writing letters, praying, and painstakingly Photoshopping tubes of Elmer's glue. Now, it's time to make Barbaro to work for you. Word has come down that Barbaro's final resting place may be Churchill Downs, site of his Kentucky Derby triumph. Bobby wo...
Daulerio at SBXLI: Sean Salisbury, Mayor Of Miami
Deadspin "correspondent" AJ Daulerio is filing dispatches from the Super Bowl all week. Last night, he hit the motherlode. This is the first of his three tales from a crazed night in which, as this picture clearly shows, he sneaked into the right media party....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. TENNIS Mag's Peter Bodo. Once again you do not even respond to my idea for a Maria Sharapova fold-out page? • 2 p.m. NCAAW with Nancy Lieberman: Oh wait, there's two seats; better hurry before someone takes them. Ha, does that j...
Daulerio at Super Bowl XLI: Do Not Step On The Blue Carpet
Deadspin "correspondent" AJ Daulerio is filing dispatches from the Super Bowl all week. Here's the story of his brief time at Media Day. Today is the official kick off of Media Day Shitshow at the Miami Convention Center, where the world's greatest sports journalists and media gnats convene and att...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your cat takes its medication ... • College basketball: Mississippi State at Mississippi; Michigan State at Illinois. God, why do they keep televising this team. We've suffered enough. [ESPN] • College basketball: Wichita State at Northern Iowa. Someone get a doctor! He tried to pro...
Their Coach? Steve Spurrier, Of Course
You might think that you know a great deal many facts about Kazakhstan, the home nation of one Borat Sagdiyev, but here's one we bet you didn't: They're outstanding at ice hockey. No, we mean really good at hockey....
Daulerio at SBXLI: An Aching Head, Rediscovering An Old Friend And Making New Ones
Deadspin "correspondent" AJ Daulerio is filing dispatches from the Super Bowl all week. Here's his newest one, after a night out on the town....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: So Is Clemens just jerking us around for the fun of it at this point? • 3 p.m.. NFL draft with Steve Muench: Will you cease your incessant nagging about the draft at least until the Super Bowl is over? • ...
So Lift Your Glass To Barbaro, And Sing No Mournful Songs
Yes, it's sad that Barbaro is gone, but all of this talk of angels and candles and galloping around in the clouds is making our neck chafe, like when we were a kid and had to wear the clip-on tie in Sunday school. We prefer to think of Barbaro this way, consuming many beers down at that sports bar i...
NBA Roundup: The Big Chill
Notes on Monday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Daulerio At SBXLI: Please, Lord, Don't Let This Be The Last Thing I See Before I Die
Deadspin "correspondent" AJ Daulerio is filing dispatches from the Super Bowl all week. Here's his newest one; he has made it to Miami, which is a start....
Adjusting To A World Without Barbaro
As you might expect, it has been a difficult day here at Deadspin World Headquarters. The death of Barbaro has affected us all; it has been difficult to write about non-Barbaro related news today. None of it means anything without Barbaro around....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after viewing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie trailer ... • College basketball: Pittsburgh at Villanova; Kansas at Nebraska [ESPN]; San Diego at Gonzaga. That's prounounced GonZAYga, you Philistines. [ESPN2] • College women's basketball: Ohio State at Purdue. Nothing is more feminine ...
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Buzz from Super Bowl VXI: Well it's Monday morning, and Daulerio's already lost his wallet and his pants. • 1 p.m. Baseball with Jerry Crasnick: To save time, shouldn't the Red Sox dump all of their money on the infield and hav...
Shaq Keeps The World Safe, One Escalade At A Time
It is clear, at this point, that in his dreams Shaquille O'Neal flies over our major cities, combing the streets and alleys from up high, looking for evildoers to apprehend and, if necessary, kung fu chop. Sunday morning, after Shaq had returned from a game in Chicago, he and his bodyguard — whom we...
Daulerio At Super Bowl XLI: Greetings, Spinheads
Deadspin Super Bowl XLI "correspondent" A.J. Daulerio has arrived in Florida and is ready for some fisticuffs. He'll be filing sporadically, randomly and without warning all week. Here's his first dispatch....
Duck Day Afternoon
As we learned on Sunday, Barbaro has suffered a rather serious setback. But here's some good news. If Big Boss Horse should, you know, not make it, there is another brave animal fighting for life which could use your prayers. Meet Perky the duck....
To Watch Tonight...
• NBA. Indiana Pacers @ Detroit Pistons. Mike Dunleavy does not have the same brawl-inducing potential as Ron Artest. 7:00, ESPN. • College Basketball. UCLA @ Stanford. Stanford's Brook Lopez had a triple double last week. That's something. 8:00, FSN. • Women's College Basketball. North Carolina @ M...
To Watch Tonight
• College Basketball: Syracuse @ Louisville. I bet this seemed like a good idea before the season started. 7:00, ESPN. • High School Basketball. Dematha (Md.) vs. Towson Catholic (Md.). Ha ha, you guys have to spend a year in college, ha ha. 9:00, ESPNU. • College Basketball. Michigan State @ Ohio S...
Bengal Watch
I hope you enjoyed the 48-hour period in which a "FREE CHRIS HENRY" t-shirt was appropriate. Save them, though, you never know when they'll be relevant again. The "troubled" wide receiver was released from prison on Saturday morning after a two-day stretch, slid out a side entrance, and hopped in a ...