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In Defense Of The World Baseball Classic
Tonight, the World Baseball Classic finally kicks off with Korea taking on Chinese Taipei in the Tokyo Dome. First pitch is at 9:30 ET, but unless you have ESPN Deportes, you'll have to wait until 1:30 a.m. to watch a tape-delay on ESPN2. (Right afterwards, Japan plays China on ESPN2 live, if you ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Reds
We re just more than a month from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. We re not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Get Along, Little Aggie
On the heels of Texas A&M's upset of Texas last night for its biggest win of the year, the Texas bloggers are getting revenge....
A Few Yards Of Felt, A Lifetime Of Nightmares
Hey kids, want this fella at your next birthday party or family get-together? It's Screech, the loveable mascot for the Washington Nationals. Screech won't harm you! Come back — fleeing headlong through heavy traffic like that is dangerous! Hey, it's Screech ... don't cry! ......
Just Another Way To Celebrate A Duke Loss
All kinds of glee around college basketball this morning, because ding dong, Duke has lost. We always notice a bit of a buzz around this here Web world the morning after a Duke loss; the sun's a little brighter, the grass is a little greener, so on....
Ah, White People
Remember that post from earlier today, about the sports bra Bounce-O-Meter? This is the opposite of that post....
OK, You Guys Freaking Rule
We are less than 24 hours into our big NCAA Tournament Preview Project, and hoo boy, have you guys come through so far. We're projecting — by "we," we mean Joe Lunardi, pretty much — 35 teams into the tournament so far ... and all 35 have been signed up for. We encourage you to check out the whole...
Bonds' Comedic Timing As Pitch Perfect As Ever
It's one thing for Barry Bonds to to dress up as Paula Abdul as a prank in spring training. (Or, more accurately, as a Media Event for his reality show.)...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Blue Jays
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
What's Going On With Zack Greinke?
For those of you who don't have your Google News Alerts set to "Kansas City Royals," you might not being paying close attention to a truly bizarre story involving Zack Greinke. The one-time Royals phenom, once called "the future of pitching" by Baseball Prospectus, has left the team for an unspeci...
Coach K: iPod Spokesperson
For those of you gearing up for the UNC-Duke game this weekend, we present you with ... a cartoon!...
Wolverines Get In On The Rap Game
In the tradition of Miami's Seventh Floor Crew, three Michigan football players — Jerome Jackson, Tyrone Jordan and Landon Smith — have recorded a supposedly derogatory song called "Measly Penny", in which the players take turns denigrating a woman who apparently has caused them collective pain. (...
Barry Bonds Is Ready For His Closeup, ESPN
Call us cynical, but we've been mulling over this whole Barry Bonds-in-drag thing that occurred at the Giants spring training practice field on Tuesday. Upon further review, we smell a very large and stinky rat. This, you see, was a very un-Barry-like thing to do. Whatever Barry is about, he is no...
Help Us Do The Best NCAA Preview Of All Time
Well, kids, Championship Week starts tonight, and you know what that means: The NCAA Tournament is tantalizingly close. We were trying to think of ways we could do the tournament justice, Deadspin-style, and we realized what makes this site fun is not us, but you. Who better to write about individ...
Roger Even Throws At Unborn Sons
As an update on the Roger Clemens item from earlier, an eagle-eyed reader points out that this is hardly the first time Roger has not hesitated to give the high hard one (so to speak) to a family member....
"Uh, Guys? GUYS! Oh Noooooo!"
Ah, Spring Training. The green grass. The sense of renewal. The fields where grown men play a boy's game. The sudden realization that, after years of abuse, it has finally happened: Your balls are gone....
One Of Our Favorite Days Of The Year
Forgive us if the site devolves into prattle the rest of this week: Our copy of Baseball Prospectus 2006 just arrived in our mailbox — we have a big mailbox — and if past years are any indicator, we're not gonna get much work done this week....
Hide Your Eyes, Children
Your eyes are not deceiving you, unless you think that's a picture of a sane human being unworthy of ridicule, in which case, yes, your eyes are deceiving you....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Giants
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Mark Prior Knows Not Of Your "Blogs"
In the past, we've received emails saying we should check out Mark Prior's MySpace page. We've grown increasingly skeptical of alleged athlete MySpace profiles, if just because, well, about 85 percent of the time they're fake....