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Allen Iverson On His Way To Detroit
The Detroit Pistons are this close (imagine my thumb and index fingers very near to each other) to trading Chauncey Billiups, Antonio McDyess and Cheikh Samb to the Denver Nuggets for Allen Iverson. The Detroit News was first on this, and others are now saying that the deal has been agreed to in pri...

Phil Fulmer Stepping Down From Tennessee At The End of the Season
In the immediate aftermath of Tennessee's 27-6 loss to South Carolina, for the first time all season Phil Fulmer didn't tell his team not to quit. He talked for only a few moments, barely above a whisper, and then led the team in prayer. We all dropped to one knee and took the hand of the men on bo...

Idaho High School Football Is A Scary, Violent Place
I've never been to Idaho, but I always assumed it was a laid back place filled with docile potato farmers and their beautiful, but lonely daughters. As the world is slowly learning, however, nothing could be further from the truth. It's a vicious football moonscape that scars pretty boy quarterbacks...

How The Deadspin Editorship Ruins Your Personal Life, But Saves Your Team
It wasn't long after Brad Lidge struck out Eric Hinske with a dirtball slider on Wednesday night that the posts started popping up about the eerie connection between being Deadspin's lead editor and the World Series champion. Fans of the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, lobbied for o...

96 ... 97 ... 98 ... 99 ...
Most Cubs fans know that since 1995, the Lakeview Baseball Club has maintained a Cubs Futility Odometer on its building on Sheffield Avenue, across the street from Wrigley. The sign marks the number of years since the Cubs have won a division title, NL pennant and World Series; the latter number, of...

Morning Blogdome: Joey Porter Is Not Helping
Vote [email protected]! • Jump around: Colorado State alumnus Joey Porter is a little excitable. It takes real talent, though, to get a 15-yard penalty when you aren't even on the team. [Denver Post]• Sack the vote: If you're voting in Florida tomorrow, you may have a chance to vote for Peter Bo...

Texas Tech Bikinigate Shocks, Arouses A Nation (With Update)
Sunday's afternoon blogdome featured this photo, purportedly of the Texas Tech women's swim team and part of Gunaxin's salute to the girls of Texas Tech. Only one problem: Texas Tech doesn't have a women's swim team. The photo, says Deadspin reader and Lubbock native Jesse Tow, is an obvious Photosh...

Introducing The Colt McCoy Face, Week Nine Of The NFL And One Last Message From Chase Utley (NSFW Language)
Each Monday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the weekend. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while ducking that tank containing toxic ammonia... • NBA: Minnesota @ Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. [FSN] • NHL: Calgary @ Anaheim, 8 p.m. [Rogers Sportsnet] • NHL: San Jose @ Colorado, 8 p.m. [CSBA] • CFB: East Carolina at Central Florida, 8:15 p.m. [ESPN] • NFL: New England at Indianapolis,...

The NFC East Is One Big Hugfest
Kevin Boss, Amani Toomer, and Steve Smith (pictured receiving love from Brandon Jacobs) have been the recipients of Eli Manning's three touchdown passes as we head from afternoon to evening at the Meadowlands. It hasn't been all good for the media's new favorite Manning, he's tossed an interception ...

Afternoon Blogdome: Yeah, But What About the Texas Tech Women?
• Win-win: Following the football team's big victory over the Longhorns, it's time to take a good, long look at the females of Texas Tech. [Gunaxin] • Hey, it's better than getting repeatedly torched: "After watching the Nuggets lose to the Lakers for the eighth straight time last night, I'm convinc...

Darchinyan Lives Up to His Promise, KO's Mijares
In a busy night of boxing, it was Vic Darchinyan who stole the spotlight. Not everybody believed Darchinyan's assertion that he'd knock out Christian Mijares, one of the world's top fighters, but in the ninth round he did just that. ...

And1 Trades Kicks For Kicks With MMA
As the marketing monstrosity that is MMA continues it is attracting sponsors who want to break out of their one sport reputations. Enter AND1, basketball gear company and newest sponsor of the bloody sport. The company has announced its partnership with MMA fighter Nate Quarry. ...

For Your Viewing Pleasure
• NFL: NY Jets @ Buffalo, 1:00pm, [CBS] • NFL: Baltimore @ Cleveland, 1:00p.m. [CBS] • NFL: Green Bay @ Tennessee, 1:00p.m. [FOX] • NFL: Houston @ Minnesota, 1:00p.m. [CBS] • NFL: Arizona @ St. Louis, 1:00p.m. [FOX] • Running: ING New York City Marathon, 3 p.m. [NBC] (same-day tape) • College women...

Morning Blogdome: If Only Soccer Was Really Like This
• Men with balls is the new black: I have no idea whether this is fake or not, but at least it's more entertaining than most real soccer. [VOOT] • Yao wish he was a little bit taller: If only Yao Ming was 7'7" and not 7'6", this dunk might have looked a little different. But alas, he was an inch sho...

College Football Recap: Gator Bite
• Florida (49) - Georgia (10): The Gators laid a beatdown on rival Georgia, stomping the Bulldogs to the tune of 49-10. Florida remembered how Georgia celebrated their first score in last season's 42-30 win, and were all too happy to exact revenge. Florida coach Urban Meyer even called two timeouts...

Texas Tech Has Arrived
The crowd in Lubbock, Texas had reason to rush the field not once, but twice last night. A last second TD pass from Graham Harrell to Michael Crabtree capped off an amazing comeback win for the no. 7 Red Raiders against the country's top ranked team. After Colt McCoy gave the Longhorns a 33-32 lead...

Pants-Gate: Mike Singletary WILL Find Out Who Snitched
An investigation is underway in San Fransisco, and no man, woman, or child is safe from its reaches. No sir; not for as long as Mike Singletary is around. The Niners' new coach is determined to find out who told the press about his rather hilarious motivational tactics, which have brought shame and...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while thinking up an even more awesome Halloween costume for next year ... • CFB: Washington at Southern California, 6:30 p.m. [FSN] • CFB: Tennessee at South Carolina, 7 p.m. [ESPN2] • CFB: Texas at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. [ABC] • CFB: Nebraska at Oklahoma, 8 p.m. [ESPN] • NBA: Cleveland ...

Hugh 4: High-Fives All Around
Well folks, you did it. We put out the call for action, and you did not disappoint. (Unlike Georgia and Florida State, who are currently getting smacked around. End obligatory update.) In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the cry of joy from the young Iowan boy. And the gasp of horror escap...