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First Video Of Mike And Mike Roast Surfaces
JEFFREY ROSS MIKE AND MIKE ROASTUnfortunately, we don’t have the Dana Jacobson video yet, but the first little smidgen of footage from the Mike And Mike Roast has hit the Internets....
ESPN's Morale Boosting Internal Memo
From the file of outstanding internal ESPN documents, here's a fun little one-off. It's a memo called "Studio Monthly: The Studio Production Newsletter," which is meant as a morale booster for ESPN employees. And our morale is boosted just looking at it!...
David Banks Is Significantly Worse At Long Division Than He Was A Day Ago
I'm trying hard to remember the hardest I was ever hit in the head. It might've been when I was three or four, and the kid down the street struck me right in the coconut with a croquet mallet. Even at an early age, I probably should have been aware that his wielding of a croquet mallet was unsafe...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while making Baghdad's first-ever snow infidels... • NHL: Wild top Blackhawks 5-2 as Josh Harding saves 41; 300 wounded. • NBA: LeBron James leads Cavs to: (a) win, (b) loss, (c) the locker room at halftime, (d) none of the above, (e) both a and c. • Justice system: Bail shocks O.J. ...
Smith Street (NSFW)
This is AJ Daulerio's final Cultural Oddsmaker for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while cashing a check for Bernie ... • NHL: Ramo: First Blood ... Lightning 5, Rangers 3. • NBA: Heat vs. Timberwolves ... a matchup you're really sorry you missed. • NFL: Nooooo! Nooooooo! You mean that the 49ers hired ... ?NOOOO!...
Greenberg Game Show Takes Nation By Storm
Some of you may have liked Duel, the new Mike Greenberg-hosted game show on ABC. I'll admit to being confused by the entire enterprise; for the first 10 minutes I thought I was watching the first episode of the new season of Lost. Answer the question, Hurley, and The Others will release Sawyer! For...
About Last Night
What you missed while collecting your free $25 ... • NFL: Call off the dogs! ... um, I mean, Saints 34, Falcons 14. • NBA: This just in ... Knicks lose, blame their fans. • NHL: Former Paul McCartney band beats Predators 2-1....
Time For More Fun And Games With ESPN Memos
After the infamous ESPN Memo from this summer, the folks at ESPN wised up and stopped widely distributing their interoffice "Town Meeting" emails. It appears, however, they have gotten lazy: We have another one....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while, after pressure from the Sudanese government, renaming your teddy bear Osama... • NBA: Lou Holtz's pep talk fixed everything. Knicks 91, Bucks 88 • NCAA Football: This one had all sorts of Poinsettia Bowl implications. Fresno State 30, New Mexico State 23 • ♬ Dustin Byfuglien ♬...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you ruminate over who would win a fight between Anton Chigurh and Kaiser Soze ... • College football: Middle Tennessee at Troy. Yes, I believe it was Homer who wrote of the war between the Trojans and the Blue Raiders. [ESPN2] • College basketball: Maui Invitational, semifinals, Mar...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you are chased by talking trees and flying monkeys ... • NFL: 49ers at Seahawks. For perhaps the only time, we wish Frank TV were here. [ESPN] • College basketball: New Mexico State at Duke; Youngstown State at UCLA. PenguinMania that grips the nation will only increase following th...
High School Football: Gayer Than Gay?
This isn't easy to say so we're just going to say it: According to a new survey, one third of former high school football players have had sexual relations with other men. That's according to a new study to be published in the Journal of Sex Roles, which I totally just read by accident, and that's t...
For Your Sunday Viewing Pleasure, Minus The NFL ...
12:05 — Movie. Enemy of the State [Encore] 1:00 — NASCAR. Nextel Cup in Concord, N.C. [ESPN Classic] 1:00 — Movie. Gladiator [TBS] 1:00 — Bowling. Woman's U.S. Open [ESPN] 1:00 — Movie. U.S. Marshals [Spike] 1:00 — Movie. Dumb & Dumber [WGN] 1:00 — Spanish WWE. Raw [Telemundo] 1:00 — Movie. Beverly ...
NLCS Blogdome: Taste The Pennant
A quick look at what the Internets are saying about the Rockies' 3-2 win in over the Diamondbacks in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series ......
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you wonder if you're weird enough to run for mayor of San Francisco ... • College football: Hawaii at San Jose State. Another Colt Brennan performance for East Coast writers to ignore. [ESPN] • MLB: American League Championship Series, Game 1, Cleveland at Boston [Fox]; National Lea...
Farewell, Sweet Sideline Reporter
With TBS moving on to the NLCS, and our pals Joe Buck and Tim McCarver kicking back up in the ALCS, we salute a man we're not likely to see again until next season: The incomparable Jose Mota, sideline reporter from the gods....
ESPN Listens Closely To Its Viewers
You guys up for another internal ESPN memo? Hey, sure, why not? It's fun!...
Confusing Rope-a-doping With Plain Ol' Doping
BALCO Twin Powers, ACTIVATE! Form of: boxing! Shape of: "Sugar" Shane Mosley! Now we have to wonder if that really was sugar that inspired his nickname....