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Big Brown Has A Nicer House And Way More Sex Than You
Yesterday, we published a story on racehorse Big Brown's near-completion of the 2008 Triple Crown, and some shady Wall Street characters who surrounded the horse's failed run. Last night, the Wall Street Journal took readers on a tour of some of Kentucky's greatest stud farms, where retired racehors...
The Weed That Came To Chris Perez's House Was Addressed To His Dog
The standard athlete-busted-for-misdemeanor-weed-possession story is one that's rarely fun to study. The drug in question is less harmful than lots of legal substances, and the details hardly shift (cop pulls someone over, cop smells something, etc.) in each case. But every so often there's a magic...
Deadspin Up All Night: I'm Talkin' Burnin' And Cursin'
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. The Deadspin Weekend Money Millionaires will be here to hang out with you for a few days, and the rest of us will be back on Monday. If we don't get washed away in the rain, that is....
Does A Baseball Player's Race Affect The Value Of His Card?
Is a baseball card worth more money if the player on it is white? Perhaps! On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang up and Listen podcast, Mike Pesca runs through the many studies have been done on the subject of racial bias and baseball card values, many of which posit that racism has long driven d...
Legendary Homer Jack Edwards Compares One Bruin's Shot-Block To D-Day
So Gregory Campbell blocked a shot, broke his leg, and finished a shift. It was courageous, in the way these things are, and—to state the obvious—unworthy of this hallowed analogy, which Edwards presented (naturally) on WEEI. There will forever be a great gulf between the sacrifices of soldiers and...
Even <em>Jeopardy!</em> is Mocking Dwight Howard These Days
I'll take Low-Hanging Fruit for $800, Alex....
Liveblogging That Joe Posnanski Column About Hockey
5:50.27 p.m.: "HOCKEY: A WRINGER OF EMOTIONS LIKE NO OTHER"...
D-backs' Daniel Hudson, Recovering From Surgery, Is Injured Again
Daniel Hudson hasn't pitched since June 26 of last year, when he had to have Tommy John surgery soon after being pulled less than two innings into a brutal start against the Braves. He's now had a setback of the worst kind:...
Tim Donaghy On Game 1: The Make-Up Call That Sealed A Spurs Win
As he has done for us in years past, Tim Donaghy, the owner and operator of RefPicks.com and a former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter break d...
The Legacy of Drazen Petrovic
On the 20th anniversary of his death, here's a story on Drazen Petrovic by the most-talented Stephen Rodrick:...
My Dinner With Ali
Adapted from the original, which was published in 1989 in the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine. Footnotes from the author (as told to Tommy Craggs) are included throughout the story, and a postscript from Glenn Stout, editor of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing series, follows. The ...
Bud Selig Kept Saying "The 2000 First-Year Player Draft" Last Night
Via Larry Brown Sports, here are three of the four times Bud Selig introduced a draft pick last night by referring to the year as 2000. He even did it when the Astros took Stanford pitcher Mark Appel with the No. 1 overall selection. Was it wishful thinking?...
MLB Umpires Manage To Blow Two Calls On The Same Play
Our old pals Tony Randazzo and Jordan Baker should have another set of companions in internet ignominy today: third-base ump Cory Blaser and first-base ump Ed Hickox both blew calls in the 12th inning of Padres-Rockes last night. And each of those blown calls came on the play where the Padres scored...