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"Fun" In The "Sun" At The NFL Pro Bowl
The sports world has no greater spectacle than the Pro Bowl. Therefore, we dispatched Zach Everson to write about the Pro Bowl for us. He's out in Hawaii. Jerk. Here's his first dispatch; he'll file again for Monday....
Could Yahoo! Sports Get Folded Into ESPN?
Like many of you, we've been using Yahoo! Fantasy Sports Games for years; about a decade, actually. It's free, it's easy to navigate, it remembers all your past leagues and it's generally on the good side of the force. Unfortunately, with the news that Microsoft may be trying to buy Yahoo!, there's ...
Suddenly My High School Years Look Sad And Lackluster
OK, the intern staff here at Deadspin labored for hours trying to find a sports connection to this story, and came up empty (all have been fired). Nonetheless, here is is, because it contains perhaps the greatest sentence ever seen in a news item in the English language. There is more hilarity eac...
When You're Pushed, Killing's As Easy As Breathing
Maybe you've lost your faith in people. But you must still be faithful to something. You must still care about something. Maybe we can't change what is. But trying to save a life isn't wasting your life, is it....
Get Your Shaq Jersey (Plenty Of Time, Though)
A reader sent us this mock page from the Phoenix Suns' Web site, encouraging fans to buy the jersey Shaq will be wearing for the team for the next couple of years. That sounds about right....
Belichick's Crimes And Misdemeanors
• The Patriots' seven deadly sins. [The Love Of Sports] • They're dropping like flies in Cleveland. [Waiting For Next Year] • Josh Fields almost left baseball because not everyone in baseball loves Jesus. [Tremendous Upside Potential] • European station open demands its female reporters to be more h...
So What Was Up With Those Awful Super Bowl Commercials?
Gupta has recently apologized for the ads and pulled the panda one from the airwaves, but this whole thing is probably going exactly to plan....
Curt Schilling Has Surgery By Blog
Another thing we love about Curt Schilling's blog: When offseason news items come up, he just gives "no comments" to all media and then writes about it there. This led the following beautiful words on the ESPN crawl: "ESPN's Jayson Stark reports that Schilling has no comment." Hey, thanks, Jayson!...
You Can Use Steroids With A Beer Can?
The Smoking Gun had photos of the "evidence" Brian McNamee gave to Congress. Here's one of the pictures. Yes: That is a Miller Lite can....
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 ......
When Convicted Jersey Bookies Play The Victim
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....
Yeah, Well, Kelvin Sampson's Still A Jerk
We couldn't possibly agree more with legendary Illini basketball reporter Mark Tupper, who said, "at no time did I think Illinois was going to win that very exciting, very emotional basketball game with Indiana." It was exciting, and we had hope, and we leapt across the room with Jeffrey Jordan hit ...
Coaches Should Use The "Meatballs" Speech
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming The Floor....
Angry Shaq's Death Toll Currently Stands At One Shark, Maybe Shawn Bradley
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who once attended a Sports and Literature class with Brian Cardinal but still doesn't know whether Cardinal can actually read. When he's not bidding on game-used Kwame Brown NBA logos - listed as very rare!! - he can be found hiding from Shaq at Basketbawful...
About Last Night
What you missed while taking your turn pummeling Benjamin Linus ... • NBA: Chris Webber is some good luck charm, huh? Bulls 114, Warriors 108. • College basketball: So this must have been a really fun game to attend. Indiana 83, Illinois 79, 2OT. • MLB: One Boooooonndds, Bonds for saaaale, he's goin...
How To Sneak Into The Giants Victory Parade Without Really Trying
It's amazing what a fan with a little bit of gumption and a lot of spirit can get away with. Meet the world's biggest, and luckiest, Giants fan....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you order your discount concert tickets ... • College basketball: West Virginia at Pittsburgh ( 7 p.m., ET); Indiana at Illinois (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Clemson at Virginia (7 p.m., ET); Xavier at Saint Louis (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. If Rick Majerus keeps his clothes on, we'll all be just...
We'll Miss Inside The NFL, And We Don't Think We're The Only Ones
Above is the greatest moment in "Inside The NFL" history, back when Dan Marino was still in "I'm a player and I'm pissed I never won the Super Bowl" mode. We miss that mode a little....