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Tim Tebow Lives!
His headache is gone so the big guy will likely play tonight against LSU. Will he start or arrive by parachute in the fourth quarter for added chills? [Times-Union]...

The Bitter Tears Of The Best Fans In Baseball
In the wake of Matt Holliday's fateful decision to play James Loney's soft liner off his testicles, Cardinals Nation expressed several sentiments unbecoming the best fans in baseball but at least cleared all five stages of grief....

The One Where Jared Allen Shows He Can Croon
We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another....

What’s The Next Big Late Night Scandal? LET’S PLAY ODDSMAKER!
I was deeply offended by David Letterman's admission last week that he shits where he eats. Not on any moral issue, mind you, but because it gave me a mental image of David Letterman fucking....

This Is The Headline That Haunts Matt Holliday's Dreams
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

Cardinals Defense Takes A Holliday
That is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to lose a playoff game. Commenter SavetoFavorites: "Kinda curious how the best fans in baseball will welcome Matt Holliday back home after this one." [Leitch's Twitter]...

Old-School Skunk And The Ripe-Tomato Eyes Of Pete Johnson
"Dark Side of the Locker Room" is a compendium of journalists' bizarre, amusing and previously undocumented encounters with athletes (and often athletes' genitalia). Got a story? Send it to [email protected]....

A Solo On The Toy Drum
You've read our "Dark Side of the Locker Room" series, in which journalists share their bizarre encounters with sports figures and, frequently, their genitalia. Consider this the reverse: Sports figures share their (and, perhaps, their genitalia's) bizarre encounters with journalists....

The Nationals Should Give This Guy Season Tickets For Life
Great story from Captain Steinberg, still exiled in Bogville, about a Nationals fan who saw 19 home games for D.C.'s awful baseball team this year — and they managed to lose every single one of them....

George Lopez Is This Year's Frank Caliendo
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

Time To Clear The Air Jordan
MJ will be a special assistant to the Americans at this weekend's Presidents Cup, but he won't have his signature cigar in hand. Why not? Liberals!...

NFL Highlight Of The Week: Touchdown, Big Boy
Because the NFL has such a stingy rebroadcast policy, we've decided to recreate the week's best highlight using a white gerbil, a tree frog and actual game audio. Suspend disbelief....

Tony Romo: Not A Complete Idiot
As someone who has his competence challenged on a regular basis, I sympathize with Tony Romo. Luckily, unlike Romo, I've been spared the indignity of having to issue a press release to confirm that I know how to count....

Twins Add One More Insult To Injury
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

NFL Players' Softer Sides Are Just As Dumb
Disclosure: thanks to a friend in editorial, I'm often one of the anonymous guys in the "men tell you what they really want" articles at Cosmo. That's my excuse for knowing that this month's issue features some football players....

Philly Nightlife Too Much For Marlins Pitcher
Sean West is a nondescript pitcher on a nondescript Florida Marlins team. But his night on the town in Philadelphia this weekend? Well, it defies description....

Lamar Odom's Biological Clock Must Be Ticking
We knew Lamar Odom was impetuous, but just how impetuous? Try proposing marriage to this woman (and getting rejected) just a week before hooking up with Khloe Kardashian....

Michael David Barrett Gets A Little Shovey
Alleged EA peeper makes it through the camera throngs successfully but not before he pushes one out of the way before he can speed off in his Ford Mustang. He must feel so violated. [NBC Chicago via Bob's Blitz]...

Erin Andrews' Alleged Peeper, In The Flesh
Presenting Michael David Barrett, freshly outfitted with an electronic ankle monitor and no longer just a hastily drawn cartoon to us. He made a beeline for his car, evidently displeased with all those prying cameras. [Sportress of Blogitude, Chicago Tribune]...

Did Tony Romo Forget How To Count To Four?
Watching the Dallas Cowboys run the same failed play two times in a row probably confused a lot of their fans, but it might have been their quarterback who was confused about how many downs he had left....