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Mike Francesa Gets Destroyed By His Callers For Nodding Off, Kindly Reminds Them He Is "Paid A Fortune To Sit Here"
To our absolute delight, FrancesaSnoozeFest 2012 will not go away. Our friends at Awful Announcing posted a video from Friday's show in which at least three callers had some thoughts for Mike....
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Mike Francesa Claims He Didn't Fall Asleep, Gets Testy With Callers When They Say That He Did [UPDATE]
Oh, Mike. The easiest way to address your apparent dozing off was to have fun with it! "I may or may not have dozed off for a few minutes," you could have said. The end!...
The Astros' Manager Incentivizes His Players By Awarding A $200 Set Of Headphones After Every Win
We've made a lot of fun of the Astros recently. Just this morning, even. (Hey, at least we're paying attention.) But the joke of a roster they field and joke of a style they play likely leads you to mistaken assumptions. It probably makes you think the Astros aren't a first-class organization devote...
Watch Mike Francesa Doze Off During An Interview
Mike Francesa has a demanding schedule. He's got the daily talk show on WFAN that spans more than five hours. He has the NFL Now Sunday morning show. And he's been doing all of this for years. Finally, he's showing his age. During Tuesday's interview with Yankees beat reporter Sweeny Murti, the 58...
Deadspin Classic, Labor Day Edition: Intern Horrors With Barry Bonds
Originally published June 7, 2010. For other dispatches from the wide world of unpaid and lightly paid white collar labor, revisit our Intern Horrors series....
An All-Time Great "Lance Armstrong Being A Dick" Story
Lance Armstrong's renowned temperament should probably be remembered as more than incidental to his story. It's unlikely things would have played out the way they have if not for how much of a jerk he was, by nearly all accounts. USADA wouldn't have so doggedly investigated him. His former teammates...
What The Hell Happened To Lance Armstrong? All Your Doping Scandal Questions, Answered
Some people pay attention to cycling. Others pay attention to cycling only when the most successful American cyclist of all time is banned from the sport and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. If you're in that second group, Lance Armstrong's ban has likely left you with some questions. He...
All Seven Of Lance Armstrong's Tour De France Wins Would Now Go To Cyclists With Doping Scandals Of Their Own
Now Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles, thanks to the persistent doping allegations against him. It's a sad day for the sport, but at least it vindicates all of the clean-riding cyclists who finished behind Armstrong. Right? So here are the runners-up wh...
Mike Francesa Uncorked An All-Timer Of A Rant On The Collapsing Mets
The Mets are in freefall. They just got swept in four games at home by the (now) 50-73 Colorado Rockies. The Mets' starter for the last of those four losses, today's game, was blogger Collin McHugh, making his major-league debut. McHugh threw seven scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk, ...
Mike Francesa Is Back From Vacation And All He's Seeing Are "Lights Blinking On And Off"
Mike Francesa is back on the air this week after his annual insanely long summer break. It seems like he's a little grumpy about being back. Something something blinking lights? Headsets not working? Red lights on and off. Dear reader, today we got a look into Mike Francesa's soul....
French Soccer Stars Will Face Charges For Sexing 16-Year-Old Prostitute
Bayern's Franck Ribery and Real Madrid's Karim Benzema got into a spot of trouble in 2010, when a Paris prostitution ring was busted and their names popped up in a little black book. Even worse, it turned out they had paid for sex with then-16-year-old Zahia Dehar, who, in the players' defense, didn...
Nic Batum Delivered A Mighty Nutshot To Juan Carlos Navarro In The Closing Moments Of Today's France-Spain Game
Spain knocked France out of the Olympic men's basketball tournament, though the French team delivered a final blow—in the form of a Nic Batum punch to Juan Carlos Navarro's nether-regions....
Hours After Defeat, An Australian Rower Was Smashing Store Windows: Foreign Olympics News That Couldn't Fit On The Desk Of Bob Costas
Deadspin and Gelf Magazine bring you the best (or at least the most interesting) foreign-produced journalism about the London Olympics. ...
Brits Placed First And Second At The Tour De France, Their Significant Others May Hate Each Other
Remember foul-mouthed Bradley Wiggins—the cyclist that called would-be steroid accusers "cunts" and "fucking wankers" a couple weeks ago while he was leading the Tour de France? Well, he ended up winning, becoming the first British person to do so in the race's history. He made no mention of wankers...
A Novel Tour De France Doping Defense: "I Was Poisoned"
Luxembourg's Frank Schleck, sitting in 12th place, was pulled by his team from the Tour de France after he tested positive for a banned diuretic. Schleck, who finished third last year and has been followed by doping allegations throughout his career, already has his defense planned:...
Mike Francesa Just Accused Jerry Sandusky Of Child Trafficking [UPDATE]
Mike Francesa dropped a bomb on his WFAN radio show today when he announced more Jerry Sandusky victims had come forward, one of which had been delivered by a fellow pedophile who also groomed his victims by operating some kind of Pennsylvania-based outreach program. It's the sort of allegation tha...
Caution: Running Alongside Bikers At The Tour De France May Result In Face Planting
Showing off your California state flag can be a fun way to enjoy the race. Just watch out for that joker who's recklessly standing there....
Tour De France Leader Bradley Wiggins Has Some Choice Words For Anyone Who Thinks He's Doping
Current leader of the Tour de France Bradley Wiggins doesn't much like it when he gets grouped in with the rest of professional cycling's dopers. Asked how he feels about those accusing him and his Team Sky teammates using steroids—or whatever other high tech potions cyclists inject into themselves ...
Going It Alone In The Tour De France Sucks, Even When You Have A Page 3 Girl In Your Corner
You can't win the tour alone. The flat stages featured in the first week tend to be fast, and feature a peloton riding as a single group through often narrow town streets. This is one reason crashes are most frequent during the first week. These stages favor the sprint specialists, and if the team h...
So, About Those Witnesses Against Lance Armstrong
The revived case against Lance Armstrong hinges on more than just blood samples from 2009 and 2010 that reportedly show evidence of doping. USADA, still humping this case years after most of us stopped caring about it, allege "a massive doping conspiracy from 1998 to 2007," involving Armstrong, his ...