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ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
How Chris Berman Should Do Highlights From Now On
We still think it would have been awesome if he'd have tossed in a "WOOP!" in the middle of his rant....
Just 53 Hours Until This All Can End
All right. We are finally (almost) there. The Super Bowl week of emptiness and discussions of ankle sprains, goat testicles and Wes Welker is at last winding down. Congrats, fans: You've just about made it to the actual game....
Party Time: Celebrating 15 Years Of Gary Bettman's NHL
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....
The Doctor Is In
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming The Floor....
Donyell Marshall = 100 Percent Grade A Beefcake
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who is in no way related to Kevin McHale and who has taken the necessary legal steps to ensure that it stays that way. When he's not studying the history of Allen Iverson's hairstyles, he can be found cracking wise at Basketbawful. Enjoy!...
About Last Night
What you missed while checking in to the Rubber Room Ramada with Britney Spears ... • College basketball: Right up the ole Wazzu ... Cal hands No. 9 Washington State its first loss at Friel Court, 69-64. • NBA: The Amazing Rondo ... Celtics beat Mavericks without the letters K and G. • College footb...
The Deadspin Super Bowl Party Is Tonight
If you'll bear with us, allow us to contrast our Super Bowl party — at Zipps Sports Grill in Scottsdale at 7:30 p.m. tonight — and the Super Thursday event tonight just down the street at Axis/Radius....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while taking a break in your rubber room ... • College basketball: Boston College at North Carolina (7 p.m., ET); Indiana at Wisconsin (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Providence at Notre Dame (7 p.m., ET); N.C. State at Duke (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. Looks like I picked the wrong night to lose the re...
Kentucky Fans Are Having Anger Displacement Issues
In the "holy cow, fans can be scary" file, the frustrated fans at Kentucky, suffering through a 9-9 season, have taken a lot of their ire out on recent transfer (to Illinois! Woo!) Alex Legion. (He of the soothsaying mother.)...
Well, Anyway, It Should Be Better Than 'Big Brother'
Just in time for summer, get ready for a reality show starring Michael Vick's pit bulls. Apparently a bunch of them are staying at a place called Dogtown in Utah, and the National Geographic Channel is swooping in to film the proceedings for TV. Hey, the National Geographic Channel; they're the ones...
Ballin' With Kool-Aid Man
OK, not only am I buying a pair of these shoes in every flavor, but I've got this poster up in my living room right now. That f###ing Turtle from Entourage better stay outta my way when Reebok debuts their new Kool-Aid athletic shoes in stores tomorrow, that's all I'm saying. Coaches may have told y...
Bear Down, Barack Obama
We'd completely forgotten about this, even though it's from our home state and followed it pretty closely when it was happening, so we have to thank Sports By Brooks for reminding us: Barack Obama, when he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois in 2004, was this close to running against ... DITKA!...
Colts Fans Have Absolutely No Cajones
Here's the situation: Four amounts left on the board on the game show Deal or No Deal (NFL Edition!). One is for $1 million, and the other three are for $10,000 or less. What amount does your case hold? George Barnes here can sell his case for $189,000 — but if he does, he'll lose out on the million...
Jamboroo XXII: The Super Bowlaroo, Featuring Queens Of the Stone Age, Kix, Guacamole, New Drinking Games And Stolen Porn
Big Daddy Drew's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo previews the upcoming weekend of the NFL every, well, every Thursday afternoon. Even when there are no games....
Musing On Moss
• Randy Moss is who you SAY he is. [Throwing Into Traffic] • "American Idol" reminds us that Boston is still making the planet mad. [Red Sox Monster] • Andris Biedrins, lookin' good. [The Sports Hernia] • John Kruk is on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. [The 700 Level] • A look at that potential Devin Harris...
Some People Just Love Those Gin Blossoms
If you've shaken that Berman video out of your system — and we have absolutely not done so — here's something fun from the media party the other night....
Chris Berman Is Somewhat Perturbed With The Help
We have no idea why it has taken eight years for this video to come out ... but we think it was worth the wait....