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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Gods make moon go away ... • Basketball: FIBA Americas Championship, second round, at Las Vegas. U.S. vs. Mexico. You're going down, Bumble Bee Man. [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Detroit. It's a party, and for once you're invited. [ESPN2] • NFL: Preseason, Cincinnati at Atlanta...
Driving Your Way To The Bigs. Literally.
This is Tom Shearn. You've surely never heard of him, because, jeez, why would you have? He's 30 years old and just made his major league debut yesterday for the oddly surging Cincinnati Reds. (They're only 6 1/2 out of first in the NL Central, by the way.) And he's got quite the tale to tell....
Johnny Damon, The Ultimate Go Away Player
Everyone makes a whole fuss about the comeback player of the year award in baseball — which this year seems destined for Carlos Pena, though there's no shortage of candidates — but The Angry T suggests a far more enjoyable honor: The Go Away Award, given to the player who clearly showed this year th...
Kittens or Cougars? A 2007 U.S. Open Preview
Most of our friends here in New York City aren't nearly as into sports as we are; you have no idea how difficult it is to corral an NFL Sunday crew. But the one sporting event everybody here loves, whether they care about sports or not, is the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows....
We'd Rather See Dirk
By now, you've heard that Mark Cuban is expected to be on Dancing With The Stars next year. We find this depressing in the same way that Cuban's "The Benefactor" program was depressing; we might make fun of Cuban a bit, but he'd a damn sight more worthy a human being than Donald Trump, and here he w...
The Last 25 Hours Are The Hardest
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think....
Welcome Keith ... But What?
• We love Olbermann ... but we're not quite sure what his point was here. [Awful Announcing] • Perhaps the Syracuse Chiefs need to work on their defense a bit. [The Axeman Bloggeth] • Highlights of a trip to Rucker Park. [The Airing Of Grievances] • A terrifying night of soccer in Spain. [Center Hol...
NFL Season Preview: New England Patriots
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....
Absolute Last Call For HOF Votes
As mentioned on Friday, Deadspin Hall Of Fame voting has been extended until 5 p.m. today; polls will officially close then, and we'll have the inductions tomorrow. There's still some awfully close battles. Here's where the numbers are standing, as of now....
FINALLY, Little League Is Over
Had your fill of kids' baseball for the summer? Jesus, school starts in a week, and we're just now wrapping up. Warner Robins' championship win over Japan was great and all, but don't forget we had to slosh through nearly a month of televised children's programming on to get there; a kind of creepy ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: You're an expert ... at what point will the Mets collapse? • 2 p.m. Page 2's Patrick Hruby: Oh Page 2, you are so wacky and irreverent. • 4 p.m. LIVE from the U.S. Open: Is anyone here a marine biologist?...
South Carolina School System, We Salute You
This clip may be somewhat off topic, but you know what? I don't care. Because it's been gnawing at my brain now for nearly 48 hours, like a game of tetris where all you get are the long, L-shaped pieces and nothing fits, and why should I be the only one to suffer? It's from the Teen Miss USA Page...
Vick Officially Pleads Guilty ... But We're Just Starting
Well, it's now official, as if we didn't know it already and somehow needed hours of coverage all morning (including Bob Ley saying it's "the biggest story, sports or otherwise, in the country right now" on the day the attorney general of the United States resigned): Michael Vick has officially plea...
Weekends Now Get To Be Fun Again
If you were wondering why Michael Vick has been on the cover of ESPN.com — and certainly taking up his fair share of space here ... including some more in about half an hour — for the entire month of August, it's because it's the most brutal sports month there is. (We personally would put it above F...
Where Not To Park Your Lamborghini
Whenever Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs wakes up, groggy, confused, wondering where his car is, we hope he turns on CBS-2 in Chicago. There, he will learn exactly where his car is. Sorry: His Lamborghini....