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Billy Packer Admits The Truth
We're beginning to think that Billy Packer is actually charming and clever, and this is all big prank he's playing on all of us. This clip confirms what most of us already knew....
NBA Roundup: Yep, Bulls Are In The Playoffs
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night
What you missed while erasing your tattoos ... • College basketball: We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted West Virginia winning the NIT once every 65 years. • NBA: Warriors beat Suns in somewhat exciting fashion, placing themselves in danger of making the playoffs. • NHL: News For The Herrin...
Your AL West "Preview"
All right, last one of the day until tomorrow ... we think this is actually the easiest division to pick, which is why, obviously, we're going to have it entirely wrong....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Grover from Sesame Street discovers a cancer cure ... • College basketball: MasterCard National Invitation Tournament, championship game, West Virginia vs. Clemson at New York. Or, the play-in game to face the Niagara in the NCAA Tournament. [ESPN] • NBA: Detroit at Chicago; Phoenix...
Gus Johnson: Get On The Dance Floor!
Because the NCAA Tournament is never quite the same once Gus Johnson leaves — a week earlier this year, dammit — someone who knows how to use that audio software on your computer that we never understand has put together a Gus Johnson remix, featuring some of his greatest moments set to one of them ...
Prepare For 33 Percent Less Joe Buck
It looks like those who feel you have just the right amount of Joe Buck in your life are about to be disappointed: He's not hosting the FOX pregame this upcoming football season....
Leftovers: Best. Dialogue. Ever.
• Dan Shanoff ... screenwriter! [TeamWorks Media] • We've never been to London, but if we ever go, we're not doing this. [Microbano] • Mark Steinberg tells you what it's like as a sports agent. [I Want To Be A Sports Agent] • Sweet God, look at Diego Maradona. [The Smittblog] • A rather excellent Fi...
Do Not Judge Trump Until You've Walked A Mile In His Hair
Donald Trump's hair is back in the news, this time putting its very existence on the line in some sort of bet with not-crazy-in-the-least WWE frontman Vince McMahon. It's actually a pretty boring proposition; if McMahon's chosen wrestler wins the match, The Donald must shave his head. If Trump's goo...
Strangely, The Statue Is All Natural
See, this is why you should hold off of bronzing your players until they've been retired for a while....
Jim Nantz Does Like Him A Good Pun
With the official Week Of Jim Nantz just around the corner — starting Saturday, Nantz is about to take a starring role in all your nightmares — we are reminded that Nantz, right now, is probably sitting in a hotel room in Atlanta, jotting down puns and single entendres based on which ever team wins ...
Your AL Central "Preview"
Everyone says it's the toughest division in baseball, but we think it's just the mostly hotly contested: You could pretty much interchange any of those top four teams and not sounds like a fool. But those Royals ......
I Said, I'LL HAVE A HEINEKEN!
We learned long ago never to try to intervene in a bar fight between Bulgarian soccer fans shouting pro-Turkish remarks at a group of supporters of the Greek national team. It's just common sense, really. One unfortunate bartender, however, learned this lesson the hard way when he got into the middl...
Blogdome: Tyler All Slicked Back
• Tyler Hansbrough's high school pictures are kind of awesome. [We Are The Postmen] • LenDale White has gotten himself fat. [Chicks Did The Long Ball] • Here's what the Final Four players are studying. [One More Dying Quail] • Yes, now they're asking Dice-K about Angelina Jolie. That was inevitable....
Baseball Season Preview: Texas Rangers
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
How Can We Live In A Sports World Without George Solomon?
After 21 months of gentle tsk-tsking and slight, bemused wags of the finger, ESPN ombudsman George Solomon said goodbye in his last column yesterday. Surely, he dramatically changed the landscape of ESPN and ... uh ... well ... all right, maybe it was a mostly inconsequential and tame column that ne...
Your AL East "Preview"
All right, whether you're ready for it or not, baseball is starting Sunday night. (The Mets will watch the Cardinals raise their World Series title flag. The Cardinals won the World Series last year.) The full slate of games kick off Monday, so we figured it was time to start previewing some divisio...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLS w/ KC's GK Kevin Hartman: Just to make you feel at home, we'll mill around on the other side of the Internet ignoring you completely, OK? • 3 p.m. Final Four with Mark Schlabach: Next Florida coach ... Jim Harrick? • 3 p.m. ...
Nothing Says "Comfort Hug" Than A Room Full Of Whores
You know, sometimes we wonder if Deadspin were British (or Czech) and the major sport was — ha! — soccer, we might have even more fun around here....
Joe Buck, The Billboard With A Heart
So here's an inventive idea, straight from our Jack Bauer-torturing friends in China: Rather than slapping corporate logos on the players, just slap 'em on the announcers....