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What Could Be The Greatest Sports Story Ever
The man you see in this picture is Kevin Rogers. A football lifer, he is most famous for being Donovan McNabb's quarterback coach at Syracuse. He and his wife Betty are the parents of three. Earlier today, Rogers was hired by new coach Brad Childress to become the quarterbacks coach for the Minnes...
Bush Decides Not To Play For Free Anymore
Surprising no one on this planet — though we hear some Klingons were just shocked — Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush announced today that he will forgo his final season of eligibility and enter the NFL Draft....
Do Not Taunt West Virginia Fans
We always feel bad for college journalists who stumble across shitstorms; when we worked for our college newspaper, we just wanted to type a bit and then get out in time to drink until dawn. We wanted no trouble....
Mike Tyson's Punch Out ... LIVE!
Via Mr. Irrelevant and Bill Simmons' intern — look, we saw something on your site first, and we credited you with it; see how easy that is? — comes some pretty solid early-afternoon entertainment: A bunch of college students doing a live-action version of Mike Tyson's Punch Out....
Blogdome: Go ... Trojans?
• Boy, USC cheerleaders have absolutely no idea what to do with themselves when they lose. [The Wizard Of Odds] • Hey, new Cincinnati Reds owners ... listen up. [Red Reporter] • Which playoff team is like which Hot 100 Billboard artist? [SportsZilla] • Panthers fans, the Packers fans have your bac...
Blogdom's Best: Fire Millen!
We have traveled to many strange, exotic team hater blogs, witnessed the disdain first hand, and purchased souvenirs. But now we shall go one step beyond — stepping into uncharted territory: hater blogs devoted to a single person. Yes, we know it's dangerous. There's a chance we will never see hom...
OIbermann Vs. Swann: Battle Of The Intellects
We'll confess a slight affection for Keith Olbermann, though we sometimes think this conversation happens in his head every day:...
New Mexico Packs Some Serious Heat
We've received a lot of amusing PhotoShop montages involving former Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus "New Mexico" Vick, but, for some reason, we think this is our favorite one....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chad Ford: Forgive us, but are the shortest Mormon ever to be involved with basketball? • 1:30 p.m. Glory Road producer Jerry Bruckheimer: What was it like to finally do a movie without a green screen in every shot? Was ...
Welcome To The Bizarro NFL
Word on the street is that the Green Bay Packers are set to hire San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McCarthy as the team's new head coach, with an announcement to come maybe later today. This may come as a surprise to, well, anyone who is familiar with the final NFL regular season stan...
He Stands Before You. Clinton. Simply Clinton.
If the real sports world were like the Deadspin sports world, someone like Dennis Rodman or Joe Pepitone would be popping open some champagne this morning, 1972 Dolphins-style: The Clinton Portis madness streak has finally come to an end....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dozing peacefully at The Phantom of the Opera ... • NBA: Kobe only scores 41 as Lakers lose. • College Basketball: Redick's 27 helps Duke rout Maryland in big ACC ... um, hellooooo ... • NHL: Atlanta beats Nashville in one of them new-fangled shootout dealies....
The Tecmo Bowl Playoff Preview
The glory of Tecmo Bowl has been well documented all across this great Interweb, but we're still suckers for it every time. Like most of you, we suspect, we spent a large percentage of our formative years playing Tecmo Bowl; with Timm Rosenbach, Johnny Johnson and J.T. Smith, our Phoenix Cardinals...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as cows wander into a McDonald's, figure out what's going on and arm themselves for rebellion ... • College Basketball: Indiana at Michigan State; Maryland at Duke. Well, this should be good. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Syracuse at Notre Dame; Texas A&M at Oklahoma State; TCU at New M...
Poll Results: Super-Size New Mexico!
You have spoken, dear readers, and it's perhaps little surprise that you'd be most afraid to run into Marcus "New Mexico" Vick at your local McDonald's. You know what's cool, though? He has a THUG LIFE tattoo across his McRib....
Flea Likes All Kinds Of NBA.com Products
We haven't checked in on our friend Flea — not to be confused with Our Friend Flicka — and his NBA blog for a while. Looks like Flea is currently in Australia, suffering from a lack of proper NBA inundation, but that isn't stopping him from some more slam poetry, or something....
Blogdome: The Ghost Of Keyshawn
• Hey, Gruden, before you trade for T.O. ... his name's Keyshawn. Remember him? [The Hater Nation] • The Wichita State Shockers ... honestly, it's a joke that never gets old. [The FYC] • Let's play the NFL coaching vacancies shuffle. [Critical Fantatic] • Buzzsaw booter Neil Rackers might be the NFL...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Fighting Irish
Perhaps nothing says hatred like college athletics. We have witnessed the body painting, we have seen the flaming objects hurled onto the court. Yes, we have seen the pants waving from atop the flag pole. And today, we salute those pants. We believe that college athletics were invented to give stu...
Sean Taylor Needs To Practice His Spitting
If you watched last weekend's Redskins-Buccaneers game, you saw Washington safety Sean Taylor ejected for spitting on Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman, and you know when you spit on a Marine who has been known to drive his Hummer into vehicles that contain his wife and child, there will be r...
Vince Young's NFL Ready Throwing Motion
We were sent this a while ago, and it's possible you've already seen it, but we couldn't figure out how to post animated GIFs back then, mainly because we're morons....