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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Hey, loved you in the "Our Gang" comedies. Now get a real name and tell us who the next Yankees manager is gonna be. • 1 p.m. NFL with Michelle Tafoya: From a small Minnesota TV station to Monday Night Fo...
You Can't Divide By Zero
Apparently, our DVR isn't working right, becaues we've yet to watch "Quite Frankly: Afterthoughts," the Oprah-esque "spinoff" featuring host Stephen A. Smith talking with his studio audience. It launched Tuesday, which is extremely frustrating to us, considering we went to see the show on Monday, ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Columnist Scoop Jackson: You ran for President twice, and now most recently have written a book about shoes. How the mighty have fallen. Wait, was that you? • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: We've got the script for Rocky VI, an...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. National Columnist Gene Wojciechowski: I am actually so stunned with your physical resemblence to Bill Plaschke that I've lost my train of thought. Wait ... you're the same guy, right? • 3 p.m. College Football with Kirk Herbst...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: OK, does it technically count as a trade rumor if you make it up yourself? • 1 p.m. NFL Draft expert Mel Kiper: Each year in late April, I dress up a Ken doll to look like you and give it a mock beatin...
When Show Ends, Paige Is Gonna Eat The Quilt
ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" continues to chase down the big stories....
Our Field Trip To "Quite Frankly"
We finished up with the site early yesterday not because we're lazy, but because we consider Deadspin a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. (Oh, uh, except for weekends.) We wrapped up our Monday posts in record time, because we had to hustle downtown, because we had the hottest ticket in town: ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Gary Gilette: So, as editor of the Baseball Encylopedia, can you summon stat nerds to do your bidding, like Aquaman can call whales and stuff? • 2 p.m. NFL with Sean Salisbury: I'm guessing, like, 80 percent of the quest...
Fake Boxing Now As Fake As Real Boxing
We were too busy trying to clear our head after a crushing Game 3 Cardinals loss on Saturday — we had no idea how bad it would get — so we missed ESPN's reintroduction of "The Contender," but, if everything we're hearing is correct, the whole thing was a disaster of Old Testament proportions. Appa...
Woody Paige Is More Serious Than You Think
You thought you knew Woody Paige. You thought he was the guy who ate dog food on the air. You thought he was the guy who threw temper tantrums because nobody invites his girlfriends to ESPN going-away parties. You thought he was the dope who wore stupid hats and called himself, inventively, "Profe...
Study: ESPN Is Rotting Your Brain
We're always kind of wary of academic studies on issues that happen out in the real world — grad students are always nitpicking at matters they don't have the guts to try themselves; they're like bloggers, except much ... slower ... — but we found this one irresistible, even if we have doubts that...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: My downfall? Let's just say it started the way many of them do — with Darren Sproles, a supplemental draft and the consumption of many domestic beers. • 3:30 p.m. College FB with Bob Davie: That Notre Da...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Larry Bowa: ESPN has scheduled a 20-city tour for you and columnist Bill Conlin, and you have to travel the whole thing in the same car. Ha — just kidding, come down from the light fixture. • 1 p.m. Midnight Madness Mara...
Well, We Suppose It Was Inevitable
This morning, ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" featured several mock "battles" between the "actors" from the Medieval Times "restaurant" chain. Afterwards, sports "analysts" Skip Bayless and Woody Paige gave them all hugs. And that's all we have to say about that....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Alan Grant: I know you like to inject race into every subject you discuss on Page 2, but really, a lack of dark towels in the ESPN men's room? • 1 p.m. FSU's Booker & Washington: What a coincidence that you both were f...
Welcome To Our Hell
Yo, here's the deal, G. Big Papi was dropping some PHAT rhymes with Busta at his club the other day, but — get this, dawg — Busta was wearing a Yankees hat. BURN!...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penn State QB Michael Robinson: Isn't it kind of odd having a coach who conducts practice from a Rascal scooter? • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: Just saw on Court TV that your hair has filed for emancipation. Your thoughts? • 4...
ESPN's Butkus Sham Finally Over
Not to imply that the ratings for ESPN's "reality show" "Bound For Glory" weren't through the roof, but no one seems to have noticed — save for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — that the whole show was full of horse manure. Dick Butkus, who was "hired" to "coach" a Pennsylvania high school team, has l...
The OTHER Sports Guy
As Our Boy Bill Simmons' book continues to sell like crazy — currently No. 19 on the hardcover nonfiction bestseller list — we turn our amused eye on a man named Brent Weber, author of The Sports Guy: Scorecard Scribblings from an Ordinary Journalist. The book was published in June 2002 by a company...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NFL with Len Pasquarelli: Try as we might, my wife and I just can't get pregnant. Is, like, Vinny Testaverde available for other, you know, "fill-in assignments?" • 1 p.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: Do people do that thing where they dr...