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Blogdome: How 'Bout That Cowboys Coach?
• Careful, Romo: Wade Phillips doesn't have the best history with quarterbacks. [Signal To Noise] • A wrapup of the other great rivalry game last night. [Lion In Oil] • That weird college football clock rule didn't shorten games on CBS; it just made the network more money. [The Wizard Of Odds] • An ...
Your New 2006 Tour de France champion? Not Quite Yet, Oscar
Wait, just hold everything here. The Nation of France, postponing a major confrontation? That's odd. The air was thick with nervous anticipation (and, of course, fermented cheese) today as that country's national doping agency was expected to rule on Floyd Landis and the Urine Sample of Mystery. Bla...
It's Never Too Early To Ruin A Kid's Enjoyment Of Sport
Yesterday was college football's signing day, and as you've probably noticed by our coverage of that and similar recruiting stories, we're always kind of creeped out by a bunch of middle aged men watching teenagers in their underwear run sprints and lift weights. Maybe it's just us....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA Insider Chad Ford: Are three members of the same NBA team who go looking for fights officially considered a gang? • 2 p.m. Boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley: Are you the only person to have lost two times to a guy named Winky? • 2:3...
When Will The Media Elite Stop Tearing Down Our White Heroes?
Every debate needs comic relief, and God bless him, Rush Limbaugh is always good for that. The former director of promotions for the Kansas City Royals in the early 1980s, and at one time the word's fifth-leading importer of OxyContin (behind Brazil), Limbaugh has become in recent years obsessed wit...
It Appears That Mike Tyson Might Need Some Help Or Something
This is going to come as a shock to most of you — it certainly came as a shock to us — but former heavyweight champion and all-around beacon of stability Mike Tyson has never been in rehab before. Seriously: With all the madness that has gone on with Tyson throughout his life, he's never been to reh...
NBA Roundup: Tough Times At Hand For The Nuggets
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while driving hell-bent-for-leather while wielding a mallet and wearing diapers ... • Soccer: Mexico still hasn't scored a goal on U.S. soil since 2000. We're not sure why that's significant. • College basketball: People wearing blue defeated by those people in a slightly lighter sha...
Why Audience Research Sometimes Comes In Handy
Continuing our recent habit of saving our favorite stories until the end of the day, a rock band named Machuca was playing a show in Santiago, Chile. As tends to be the case for bands on tour, they gave a shoutout to the local soccer team, in this case, the University of Chile. Turned out to be a bi...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you lead your troops across the Rubicon, if you know what we mean ... • College basketball: Georgetown at Louisville; North Carolina at Duke. Ah, don't worry. There'll be tickets available at the gate. [ESPN] • College basketball: Illinois at Northwestern. Live, from Evanston! Hey, ...
Hey, Why Is Kenny Chesney Suddenly Calling Me?
In our original neck of the woods in Mattoon, Ill., NFL loyalties are rather split. Some people root for the Chicago Bears (four hours away), some root for the Indianapolis Colts (90 minutes away) and some odd souls hopped on the Rams bandwagon (two hours away). (Some insane people stuck with the fo...
Blythe: A Creepy Feeling In Chapel Hill
We are quite honored today to welcome Will Blythe, the former literary editor of Esquire and author of the great book "To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever", to the warm embrace of Deadspin. (We interviewed Blythe about the book when it came out in hardcover. The paperback is out now....
Behold The Power Of Cheese
As if you didn't know, the New Zealand Cheese-Rolling Championship was Tuesday, with Gore's Tom Mackay claiming the title. For those not "with cheese," the object of the event is to hurtle down a steep incline with 10 or 15 other participants in pursuit of a large wheel of one of the town's finest c...
Blogdome: You Cannot Kill Norv
• The Cowboys wouldn't really hire Norv Turner as coach ... would they? [And Here Come The Pretzels] • What football play is this, exactly? [copyranter] • This is pretty much exactly how spring training is gonna go. [Kill All Poets] • The Yankees should probably cool it with this Phillip Hughes char...
Deconstructing Puppy Bowl III
Normally we would say that we take a back seat to no one when it comes to Puppy Bowl coverage; we love puppies, and even watched a few moments of the Bissell Kitty Halftime Show on Sunday. But we didn't count on Planet Haystack, whose coverage of this event was, well, comprehensive, to say the least...
The "Out" Scoop On Amaechi's Book
After we told you about John Amaechi's coming out in a few weeks as the gay former NBA player, the fine folks at OutSports, who had known about this for a while, released their story about the book, sections of which they have seen. Some fun tidbits:...
Ron Zook Will Turn Your Conventional Wisdom Upside Down
Our beloved alma mater, the University of Illinois, is having a mediocre year in basketball and has won, like, four games in two years, even forcing us to sit through a 33-0 loss to Rutgers last year that mostly resembled a cock fight between a rabid rooster and an egg. But worry not, fellow alums: ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. National Signing Day: For, like, anything in particular? Will there be snacks? Do I have to go to work? • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: May I openly loathe A-Rod now, or simply hold him in secret utter disdain as usual? •...
But When You Get Down To It, Does Michael Irvin Make Any More Sense?
Only a little more than a year to go before the 2008 Summer Olympics, which should just give the Chinese government enough time to run Beijing through spell check....
The Dakota Wizards Know How To Party
Not much on this sporting planet more glamorous than the NBA's Development League, nope. As evidence of the league's ability to raise the profile of a mere basketball player into an international superstar of unqualified proportions, we present this DraftExpress diary of Rod Benson, former Cal Golde...