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The Mariners Like 'Em Big
Ever wanted a six-foot doll of Raul Ibanez? Well, boy howdy, this could be your lucky day. As long as you have four figures to spend....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Ned makes you the perfect cup of hot cocoa ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at Colorado. The freefall continues? [WGN] • NFL: Preseason, Indianapolis at Dallas. Games that don't count where the players don't try which we watch for reasons we don't quite understand. [Fox] • Soccer: MLS, Los A...
How To Make Golf More Fun
If you know anything about me, then you know that I have traditionally refused to do posts about streakers ... unless there is a humorous slogan written above their butt. This is a pretty good one (we also would have accepted "Captain's Choice"), and he also earns points for covering his genitals wi...
Is This The End For Our Tubby Hero?
When David Wells missed a start in the 2003 World Series because of mysterious back problems that might have been related to the fact that he weighs 800 pounds, we figured he was done. Missing a World Series start because you were out of shape? People tend to not like that....
The MLS Is Expanding, With Or Without Beckham
David Beckham — or "Becks," as apparently people call him, though we've never actually met one of these people — could make his MLS debut tonight, maybe, for a few minutes, depending on whether or not he's feeling up to it. But no matter what's going on with Beckham, the league itself is moving forw...
Start Clearing Out Your Schedule For Madden
We are less than a week from the release of Madden 2008. In case anyone wants you for meetings or anything else that might waste your time next week....
Frank Deford, On Blogs
• Frank Deford is "very dubious about the facts in blogs." He is sure, however, that Anna Kournikova has a nice ass. [The Big Picture] • People playing chess on roller coasters. You heard us! [Deuce Of Davenport] • A look inside the evil that is the Big Ten Network. (Our word, not theirs.) [Hoover S...
NFL Season Preview: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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....
Join The Deadspin Pants Party Pool!
We are exactly three weeks from the start of the college football season — LSU is at Mississippi State in ESPN's opener — and that's sooner than we realized. Which means it's probably time to put together our Pants Party Pool....
Matt Murphy, Call Your Accountant
That fella who caught Barry Bonds' homer the other night, his name's Matt Murphy and, as you might have heard, he's a Mets fan. He'll be selling the ball, of course; estimates are between $400,000 and $500,000. eBay is even trying to help him out....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Ex-MLB player Dale Murphy: You're not going to backtrack on the Bonds comments, are you? Is this damage control? • 2 p.m. MLS w/D.C. United coach Tom Soehn: Will your sport ever catch on in the U.S. without proper hooligans? • 4...
Chipper Jones Loves Jose Canseco
Chipper Jones has been know for his entire baseball career as a purveyor of wisdom, a rare voice of reason in a world of insanity. Dare we call him professorial? We do; we do dare....
Ankiel Gets The Call
He is the The Natural, he is Young Musial, he is the alpha, the omega, the beginning, the end. And, as of today, he is a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. Sources tell us that an announcement that Rick Ankiel has been called up to the big leagues is scheduled for later this afternoon/weekend....
Violation At The Bottom Of The Pile
In case you missed your weekly glance at the CFL transactions wire, Edmonton Eskimos linebacker A.J. Gass was suspended for one game after he threw an opponent's helmet across the field. (Mercifully, his head wasn't in it.)...