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California Golden Bears
1. Powe Just Turned 22, Wondering What to Do. Power forward Leon Powe, en route to leading the Pac-10 in scoring and rebounding, often looked like a man among boys. That's because, as a mere sophomore, he's 22 years old, something he accomplished without a Mormon mission. At that age, most Cal fans ...
UNC Wilmington Seahawks
1. Road Trip! Wilmington, North Carolina — hometown of news anchor David Brinkley and NFL quarterbacks Sonny Jurgensen and Roman Gabriel — is a pleasant little beach town that is also the eastern-most point of Interstate 40. There's a sign at the start of the I-40 that reads Barstow, Calif. 2554. Ha...
San Diego State Aztecs
1. Tony Gwynn Was Not Always Fat. Former Padre and current SDSU baseball coach Tony Gwynn was an All-America baseball player for the Aztecs. But Gwynn was an all-conference point guard, too. In fact, Gwynn had gone to school to concentrate on basketball before Bobby Meacham convinced then-coach Jim ...
The Sponsors Abide
Nihilists! Sponsors! Fuck me. We mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. Let us tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, we'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull t...
Uh, Today Obviously Kind Of Sucks
Obviously, our massive tech issues from yesterday have been anything but resolved; in fact, they're decidedly worse today. We're told this is happening to all the Gawker Media sites, so we're not alone in theis wilderness....
Runaway Enthusiasm For Minor League Hockey
If you weren't one of the lucky ones who got their Runaway Bride bobblehead doll on Sunday, good news — they're available on eBay. The Gwinnett Gladiators, a minor league hockey team in Georgia, had a, um, unique idea for a promotion last week: They gave away bobbleheads depicting Jennifer Wilbank...
Excuse Our Virtual Dust
We're sorry about all the problems everyone is having getting into the site today, by the way. We've noticed, and we apologize. We're told it has something to do with "servers" and "FTPs" and all kinds of other terms we do not understand....
Revisiting A Truly Great Prank
We did a very brief bit on this a couple of days ago, but we didn't give it nearly enough of a heads-up, since, frankly, it's one of the best examples of fan subterfuge we've ever seen....
Authors With Pure Hearts: Sam Walker
When we were on our Caribbean vacation a while back, we spent most of our time on a beach, sipping blue beverages and ... reading about fantasy baseball. Naturally. Specifically, we were reading Sam Walker's Fantasyland, a relentlessly entertaining look at a fantasy baseball virgin attempting to win...
Bruce Pearl Coaches Crackheads. Yeah! Take That!
As longtime readers know, we never miss an opportunity to knock around Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. We know this isn't fair — he's a great coaching story, he's done a great job and the man is a world champion sweater — but Bruce Pearl's fate was sealed with us back in the early '90s when he was an...
Who's Got Bracket Fever?
We're just five days away from Selection Sunday — which, in combination with the season premiere of "The Sopranos," is pretty much more fun than any day should be allowed to be — and we're still working on our big NCAA Tournament Project. (All teams remain signed up for. Honestly, you guys rule.)...
We've Got Spirit, Yes We Doooooooooo ...
College cheerleading, an object of ridicule since it was discovered that our President did it, has new respect in our eyes. Southern Illinois basketball cheerleader Kristi Yamaoka, who fell 15 feet off of the top of a human pyramid onto her head on Sunday, suffered a chipped neck vertebra and a co...
Today In The Premiership...
Fulham 0-4 Arsenal. The Gunners threw an old-school beatdown on Fulham, getting two goals from Thierry Henry, and outplaying Fulham in every possible way. Arsenal plays Real Madrid on Wednesday, and I'm definitely watching that. If it's on TV. And it doesn't conflict with the Big East tournament....
Week In Deadspin: Talkin' 'Bout B-B-B-B-B-Basketball
• Man, can they ever lay down a dope beat in Kentucky. • If all soccer referees were like this, we'd watch games all the time. • Boobs! • We're previewing the crap out of the baseball season. • You don't have to be born to have Roger Clemens throw at you. • The NCAA's mascot is destroying everythi...
Authors With Pure Hearts: Will Blythe
We've taken some time off from the Authors With Pure Hearts series, but we gleefully return with Will Blythe's To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever, a hysterical, slightly crazed book about what it means to hate so much that it becomes purifying. In the case of Blythe, born and bred in North Car...
We Are Invading Boston. Tonight. Beware.
For those in the Boston/Cambridge area who find themselves without proper nighttime entertainment this evening, we would like to cordially invite you to come hang out. We are reading from our novel Catch tonight at the Dire Reading Series in Cambridge. Yes, we know it's an art gallery. But they stil...
Hello, Advertisers!
As you can see, the sponsors all go to 11. Right across the board. 11. 11. 11. 11. They're one louder, aren't they? Most sponsors are gonna be playing at 10. You're on 10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up. You're on 10 with your sponsors. Where can you go from there? Where? Nowher...
OK, You Guys Freaking Rule
We are less than 24 hours into our big NCAA Tournament Preview Project, and hoo boy, have you guys come through so far. We're projecting — by "we," we mean Joe Lunardi, pretty much — 35 teams into the tournament so far ... and all 35 have been signed up for. We encourage you to check out the whole...
Help Us Do The Best NCAA Preview Of All Time
Well, kids, Championship Week starts tonight, and you know what that means: The NCAA Tournament is tantalizingly close. We were trying to think of ways we could do the tournament justice, Deadspin-style, and we realized what makes this site fun is not us, but you. Who better to write about individ...
Teach A Man To Fish... And He Will Bore Others On ESPN All Day Long
The "Super Bowl of Fishing" has put another day in the books, cutting the field down to 25 for tomorow's finale. For those of you who joined the Deadspin Bass Fishing Fantasy League, know that Luke Clausen is still in the lead with 44 total pounds of fishies. Terry Scroggins had the biggest haul o...