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Playoff Blogdome: NLCS, Game 4, Mets At Cardinals
Canvassing the blogs after New York's 12-5 win over St. Louis in Game 4 of the NLCS:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while falling into a burnin' ring of fire ... • MLB: National League Championship Series ... Hello, I'm Carlos, and I'll be your waiter this evening. Tonight our special is battered Cardinal. Our series is tied 2-2, so enjoy. • NFL: Denver's defense reaches milestone, but then it was...
To Watch Tonight...
• NFL: Oakland Raiders @ Denver Broncos. Oakland Raiders? Well hello, ratings bonanza. 8:15, NBC. • MLS Soccer. Real Salt Lake @ Club Deportivo Chivas USA. I know you probably aren't a huge soccer fan, but I mean... it's the Raiders. 7:00, Fox Soccer. • College Football: Boise State @ New Mexico Sta...
Tigers Reach The Promised Land, Jeff Suppan Dominates Everything
We'll get to the Cardinals in a second, but first, here's Jalopnik's Ray Wert on the Tigers win against Oakland last night:...
Taking Down The Field Goal Posts: Miami Gets Back To Basics
Miami (FL) 35, Florida International 0. There aren't many things that would be able to knock that excellent Auburn/Florida game out of the top spot here, but... a bench-clearing brawl in which thirteen players are ejected is one of them. Eight FIU Golden Panthers and five Miami Hurricanes were sent ...
About Last Night...
• MLB Playoffs: Tigers 6, A's 3. A walk-off home run, a sweep, a World Series invite... had to feel good to be in Detroit last night. • College Football: Auburn 27, Florida 17. It's not every day that you can beat the #2 team in the country without scoring an offensive touchdown. • MLB Playoffs: Car...
LeftoverDome...
• You know what the Mets should have done when Jeff Suppan winked at the pitcher (he claims he didn't)? Put a fastball in his ear. [Metsquire] • I love the animated BCS races. [Rocky Top Talk] • Good news, Pacers fans... the weed did not belong to Jermaine O'Neal. [Cornrows] • Even if it wasn't Heat...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 4
Linebacker J Leman for the Illini has a dad named Happy who is a preacher. For lunch, J eats coconut lard, and throughout the day, J eats about two dozen raw eggs. His name is the letter J. Should be a good game tonight. - Adam Duritz...
To Watch Tonight...
• College Football: Florida @ Auburn. Many Gator fans will enjoy the coverage on ESPN Classic, which will have, at all times, a camera focused directly on Tim Tebow's balls. 7:45, ESPN Goddamn Everything. • Major League Baseball: Mets @ Cardinals. Let's see how long Fox can make this one last. 7:30,...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 3
Adrian Peterson is out for the year after breaking his collarbone in the first game his father has watched in 9 yrs since his release from prison. - beisbolct...
Kirk Herbstreit Hates Your Funky Dance Moves
I promised you more Kirk Herbstreit vitriol, and here it is. During Thursday night's Virginia Tech/Boston College game, Herbie delights in verbally lighting up Virginia Tech linebacker Brenden Hill....
LeftoverDome...
• The DIII artists formerly known as the McMurry Indians lost an appeal to the NCAA to keep their nickname, and will be going without a mascot or nickname all together. Cool, so it's like European soccer. [D3 Football Daily Dose] • What to do in Green Bay when there's no football game. Somehow, they...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 2
Penn up on Columbia, 3-0. Be right back. Have to go let my boys over at Starbucks know. - German Village Media...
Live From Detroit...
The following words are from Ray Wert, associate editor with our homeboys Jalopnik. He likes Detroit, cars, and the Tigers... maybe even some combination of Eminem, Kid Rock, and Aretha Franklin. He was fortunate enough to be at the Tigers/A's game yesterday this photo gallery....
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 1
I should probably just go ahead and apologize to Pam Ward right now......
It May Not Affect What You Watch This Weekend, But Arnold Palmer Is Retiring
I could be wrong, but I believe this is going to be the first ever Deadspin post about Seniors - excuse me, Champions Tour - golf. And ideally, that post would come for some reason like an old man got his blood pressure medicine confused with his Levitra and played a round of golf with a four-hour...
One Series Almost Over, One Just Getting Started
For a while last night, it seemed like there was a pretty good chance that the Tigers/A's series would actually be over before the Mets/Cardinals game. The Cardinals posted a manly three-run ninth inning to finally win a 3-hour and 58-minute game that did not go into extra innings....
About Last Night...
• MLB Playoffs: Tigers 3, A's 0. 3-0. Not just last night's game, but the series, too. • College Football: Pitt 52, Central Florida 7. Pitt was able to hang on to that 38-0 halftime lead behind the power of LaRod. • MLB Playoffs: Cardinals 9, Mets 6. Six to nine. TeeHee....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after observing Jim Rockford run afoul of the local authorites once again ... • College football: Pittsburgh at Central Florida. We're not familiar with either of these teams this season ... but ESPN would never schedule it if they weren't good. Right? [ESPN] • MLB: American League Cha...
It's The Vikings' Bye Week!
Not sure if you noticed or not, but the Minnesota Vikings have a bye this week. And we all know what that means!...