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Deadspin Party Crash: Bill Simmons' NYC Book Signing
Last night, at the Riviera Cafe in New York City, Our Boy Bill Simmons launched his worldwide tour to promote the release of his first book, Now I Can Die In Peace. And we — Deadspin editor Will Leitch and "photographer" Lockhart Steele — were there, because the bar serves alcohol and had some Arizo...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NBA: Stein, Hollinger, Ford: "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard ..." Hey, let's shoehorn Tom Tolbert in here and make this chat even more unmanageable. • 2 p.m. Texas Tech quarterback Cody Hodges: No offense, but we've ne...
Simmons, Klosterman Hug For 3,973 Words
Our boy Bill Simmons and Spin and Esquire columnist Chuck Klosterman are such ideological Bosom Buddies that the surprise is not that they've collaborated on Page 2 again — they tried this once before — but that they don't do it every day, every week, every month, every year. We've always kind of ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. New Music Tuesday with Buzzmaster: Hey, loving your amusing attempts to be hip. Think you can play something besides Air Supply? • 2 p.m. Baseball with Gary Gillette: Dude, did you hear? Your book Total Devil Rays 2000 just m...
Page 2's Collective Award Winners
We would like to congratulate ESPN's Page 2 on its Online Journalism Awards nomination for the Best Online Commentary (Large), which, at first glance, appears to be for the most outstanding columnist who uses very big letters on a computer. The site's fellow nominees, impressively, are not whole s...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MNF reporter Michele Tafoya: Admit it at last, you wish it was you who was drunkenly hit on by Joe Namath during that MNF game, don't you? • 2 p.m. Boxing With Antonio Tarver: I was just over at the Michele Tafoya chat, and they...
Bill Simmons Brings It All Back Home
Well, we know why Our Boy Bill Simmons was sans column all week; he was saving it for his new NFL column, which clocks in at a frighteningly healthy 3,200 words. It's the usual Simmons fare; we get guest appearances by The Godfather, Andrew McCarthy and MTV's "Cribs."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Runner Alan Webb: It was very wise of you to drop out of Michigan after your freshman year. Now when may we expect to see you on Celebrity Love Island? • 2 p.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: As a former Senator and ranking Democratic ...
24 College Avenue "Mystery" Solved
Yesterday, we openly speculated who the heck that band "Autologic" that plays on Page 2's endless "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue. Another reason we love you, readers: You came through....
ESPN Can't Name That Band
We accidentally clicked on the newest installment of "24 College Avenue — the "serialized novel" by Page 2er Jim Caple that inspired by his weird tour of colleges last year — and we realized, fast, that we had forgotten to turn the sound down on our computer. Out of nowhere came this awful noise, ...
Blogdome: Don't Make White Sox Fans Angry
• When you're in the middle of a frantic pennant chase, it's very, very bad when your cable provider can't even figure out how to put your games on TV. [South Side Sox] • We repeat: ESPN was encouraging people to send Lance Armstrong's dog a get-well card. We are not kidding about this. [The Mighty ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Michael Smith: Wait, my bad, I thought you were Michael David Smith, from Football Outsiders. You know, the interesting one. You must get that a lot. • Noon. NCAA FB with Joe Schad: Covering the Dolphins for the Orland...
Flashback: Rob Neyer's Dark Days Of Amazon
All this talk about Amazon reader reviews got us to remembering one of our favorite ESPN.com snafus: Rob Neyer's infamous angry Amazon review. If you've forgotten, or if you never knew, Neyer — whose uncomfortably confessional book Feeding The Green Monster proved once and for all that stat guys sho...
Combing Through Simmons Reviews
We are about a week and a half away from the release of Bill Simmons' Now I Can Die In Peace — that's an appended title; Bill can't even resist a lengthy footnote in his book's name — and most of the big periodical reviews aren't out yet. (Our Nexis isn't working right, so we can't check the publish...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NFL with Scouts, Inc.: Um, we heard that Tom Luginbill is your senior director of scouting. Can he get me a Los Angeles Xtreme jersey? We imagine he has plenty in his closet. • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: This is a two-part q...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB with Steve Phillips: OK, seriously, the Mets front office is missing about 17 staplers. What in the world could you be doing with them? • 1:30 p.m. Louisville DE Elvis Dumervil: We somehow doubt that you're going to make it ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Jeff Merrone on Leo Mazzone: We hope that no one's taking the title of this chat literally, what with the whole rocking back and forth thing. • 1 p.m. NCAA FB with Bruce Feldman: As the only former University of Miami student con...
ESPN's Page 3 Clings Desperately To Life
The handsome man pictured here is Jim Morgenthaler, an employee of ESPN and the "Draft Day Commissioner" of ESPN's Fantasy Game Night. Handsome fellow, we know. Why do we bring him up? Because he's currently the centerpiece of ESPN.com's Page 3, proof that the oft-forgotten page is still alive and...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. MLB With Joe Morgan: Hey, so, in your all your years of playing baseball, did you learn anything that you'd feel comfortable sharing with the casual fan? • 1 p.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: For some reason, every time we see you o...
There Are Fake People On Page 2, And They're In College
Uh, we're just going to go under the assumption that Jim Caple's "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue is the setup to a joke, and the "three times a week throughout the school year" is the punchline. You know, the kind of inappropriate joke that a boorish friend tells too loudly at a dinner party...