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To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as the termites plan a counteroffensive ... • ALCS, Game 2: California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels at Chicago White Sox, as Mike Scioscia continues to prove the Dodgers blew it by not hiring him. [Fox] • NLCS, Game 1: Houston Astros at St. Louis Cardinals. We're excited, sure, but this ...
Welcome To Our Hell
Yo, here's the deal, G. Big Papi was dropping some PHAT rhymes with Busta at his club the other day, but — get this, dawg — Busta was wearing a Yankees hat. BURN!...
Leftovers: Pack Up Your Crap and Get Out
• NC State basketball player Gavin Grant may be deported. And yet Yakov Smirnoff continues to thrive here. [SportzAssassin] • Perlozzo loses interim tag, made permanent manager of Orioles. That'll teach him. [Beltway Sports Beat] • Mike Krzyzewski to lead '08 Olympic team. We assume in basketball. [...
Today In Oddjack
• You can count on the White Sox rebounding like Chris Klein tonight. • If you're a Cardinals fan, and you're counting on a Game 1 win, well, life's totally going to suck for you tonight. • The Brandon Link/Lang/Lane confusion comes to a strange, violent, tragic end. Well, OK, it just ends. Nothing ...
BCS Finally Acknowledges That Earth Is Round
We love it when it takes almost a decade for a bunch of men in plaid suits to figure out something that our four-year-old cousin has known since birth....
Checking In With The On The DL Girls
It has been a while since we checked in with the lovely ladies of On The DL, the site full of blind items about Major League Baseball players. So, how's it going over there? Well, it appears that already very busy Boston "closer" Keith Foulke has been even more busy, flashing the World Series ring...
Blogdom's Best: New York Yankees
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Ed Hochuli Defends Truckers And Throws Flags
We've marveled before at the being that is jacked-up NFL referee Ed Hochuli, his propensity to go after anyone who talks about him online, the very obvious man-crush Phil Simms has on him, so on....
We're Guessing Tice Got On The Wrong Boat
OK, time to dig into this Minnesota Vikings sex boat story....
Blogdome: There Are No Lesbians Here!
• Joe Paterno might be kind of old and crotchety, but at least, unlike some Penn State coaches, he's not a ranting homophobe. [OutSports] • Yet another reason it's better to be Tony Parker than, say, anyone else on earth. [Yay!Sports] • What's a good way to kill yourself? Listen to a full day of Bos...
Presenting The Stupidest Sport Ever
We were pretty sure that the end of civilization was near when we discovered Korfball. After a close examination of Korfball, it became very clear that humans have too much time on their hands, and it would be better for everyone if we just gave everything back to the lower mammals, letting them s...
Hockey Didn't Land On Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock Landed On Hockey
Fantastic find from The Mighty MJD: AOL's Black Voices has a sports section that tracks black players in the NHL. According to the site, there are 12, many with Afrocentric names like "Bryce Salvador," "Fred Braithwaite," "Sean McMorrow" and "George Laraque."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penn State QB Michael Robinson: Isn't it kind of odd having a coach who conducts practice from a Rascal scooter? • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: Just saw on Court TV that your hair has filed for emancipation. Your thoughts? • 4...
Welcome Back, Artest! Glad To Have Ya!
That Ron Artest is back for a whole season is destined to be one of the sublime joys of the upcoming NBA season; that he vows to be as crazy as ever makes us want to get an NBA League Pass, stat. From an interview with Dave D'Alessandro in today's Newark Star-Ledger:...
Confirming Once Again: Penises Are Funny
From the front page of Friday's Purdue Exponent, this photo shows Purdue fans getting "rowdy" as they bat around a huge inflatable penis during their loss to Notre Dame a week and a half ago. Or, as the caption to the paper's photo puts it, an "oversized phallic object."...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while fishing people out of Boston Harbor ... • ALCS, Game 1: California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels remind us why White Sox haven't won the big one since 1917. • NHL: Jeff O'Neal honors late brother with winning goal for Maple Leafs. • NHL: Senators on a roll, grab fourth straight wi...
Playoffs Pants Party: White Sox vs. Angels
We had someone tell us earlier today that the presumed exhaustion the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim — a name we will insist on typing out completely throughout this series — are facing after playing three games in three days in three different cities is overstated, that these are baseball players,...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as Bernie Mac continues in his quest for that 3,000th hit ... • ALCS, Game 1: Angels at White Sox. Now that the Yankees and Red Sox are out of the way, we can ignore this properly. (Kidding! Don't hate!) [Fox] • NHL: Phoenix at Dallas. Ice hockey in the Southwest — not what the foundin...
Damon Stoudamire: Block Sender
We were at a bar a couple of weeks ago with some female friends of ours when, out of nowhere, some lady came up to us and asked us what we thought of a particularly brand of vodka. We told her we had no real opinions about it, but she continued, saying it mixed well with "tonic and other carbonate...
Leftovers: There's A New Sheriff In Town
• Pirates snub Harriet Miers, hire Jim Tracy. [Buried Treasure] • Mike Flanagan put in charge of Orioles. Poor guy. [Camden Chat] • High school girl QB fires three TD passes, text-messages all her friends about it. [San Jose Mercury News] • Boy, 9, swims from Alcatraz to SF, avoiding sharks but not ...