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Blogdom's Best: Buffalo Bills
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NFL ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1:30 p.m. Miami WR Sinorice Moss: Your brother Santana made you go long every time, and never threw you the ball, did he? God he was a bastard. • 3 p.m. College FB with Beano Cook: Tell us again of leather helmets and the time Jim Thor...
T.O.'s Suddenly Fluid Finances
Yesterday, we told you about Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens selling his Moorestown, N.J. home for $4.3 million. Well, as some of you pointed out, T.O. apparently is gonna go homeless for a while; he's selling his Atlanta home too. This one, probably because of that insane Georgia real estate m...
About Last Night ...
You stayed up until the wee hours. But the dance, Maria, now she is over ... • Detroit Pistons win to go 7-0: All hail Flip Saunders, unchallenged coaching God. • NHL: Ducks trade Federov to Blue Jackets, sending the earth wobbling into a new orbit. • College Basketball: Temple's John Chaney gets 50...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your MP3 player finally takes matters into its own hands and deletes all those Kelly Clarkson songs ... • College Basketball: NIT Season Tip-Off, first round, New Mexico State at UCLA. Janou Rubin begins his sixth season with the Bruins, just one behind John Belushi's record of seve...
Tommy Lasorda's World Still Quiet, Full Of Penne
The Los Angeles Dodgers are very close to hiring a new general manager, the team leaning toward current assistant GM Kim Ng or assistant San Francisco Giants GM Ned Colletti to succeed Paul DePodesta, according to the Los Angeles Times. Of course, in the latest post over on his blog at MLB Blogs....
Peter King, Hello!
We have always liked Sports Illustrated's Peter King, up until a couple of years ago, at least. He was plugged in, incredible for information, and had that everyman quality we Web people enjoy. But — and maybe because he's gotten all thin now, or maybe it's the breakneck schedule he keeps — he is ...
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Shuffle
Ah, the University of Miami, the only school where they wear thongs as graduation tassles. Gotta love 'em. They're like our own little 2 Live Crew concert, every Saturday....
New Steroid Agreement Reached
Well, we didn't have the scoop this time, but our main man Jon Heyman did: Major League Baseball and the players union have reached an agreement on a new steroid penalty policy. The details: 50 games for a first offense, 100 games for a second offense and a lifetime ban for the third offense. Thos...
Blogdome: Free Willie!
• The best online petition we've ever been a part of: The campaign to make the Cardinals retire Willie McGee's No. 51. [Viva El Birdos] • By the way, speaking of Willie, if you have a Nerve subscription, we highly suggest you not read this piece. [Nerve] • The final word on those ESPN fake press con...
Blogdom's Best: Philadelphia Eagles
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NFL ...
T.O. Needs Your Spare Change
You'd heard that Terrell Owens' house was for sale, but now you can see it all official-like: T.O's Moorestown, N.J. home, at 40 Landing Court, is right there, with an asking price of a mere $4,399,000. (Strangely enough, we think T.O. could probably use the money right now.)...
Leaks: Pujols Wins MVP, Finally
Well, today's the day they announced the National League MVP, and you can probably guess which way we're rooting. (We'll give you a hint; it's not the Cub. Or the guy from that Southern team that has no fans.) The vote is expected to be close, but, according to unfortunately named Cardinals blogge...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NBA with Marc Stein: We've noticed that, since Halloween, they've stopped using your column as ESPN Insider exclusive content. In fact, after the first graph, the copy reads: "Want to read the rest of this article? Go ahead, it...
The Woe Of The Eagles Fan
There was a moment last night, during the Eagles' season-crushing 21-20 loss to the Cowboys, when you really grasped just how difficult it must be to be an Eagles fan. Ordinarily, we scoff when fans of successful teams complain about their suffering; we root for the Arizona freaking Cardinals, so ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking your kids to the movies to see animated chickens ... • NFL: Cowboys rally to down Eagles in fourth quarter. We're gonna keep our distance from Eagles fans this morning, just to be safe. • Your eventual NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool bracket, Day One: Duke handles Boston...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your clothes slowly go out of style ... • College Basketball: Preseason NIT, first round, Boston University at Duke. Wave your blue and white tubie things. [ESPN2] • MNF: Dallas at Philadelphia. Right now ABC must be loving that decision to suspend T.O. [ABC] • Islanders at Penguins...
Alex Rodriguez Wins Even MORE Fans!
MLB.com just announced that Yankees third baseman/lipstick model Alex Rodriguez has won the American League MVP award. We salute A-Rod on this "victory."...
Oskee-Wow-Wow
We are honored — since we've mentioned it only sparingly, though expect that to change as college hoops gets going — that so many of you have noted that we are proud graduates of the University of Illinois and have asked our opinion of the NCAA ruling that the Chief Illiniwek nickname and "symbol"...
Blogdome: Being Bill Callahan
• You think your job is tough? Trying being the coach of a Nebraska team that isn't very good. [Flak] • Mehmet Okur is more of a Muppet than you think. [J.E. Skeets] • The Miami Heat have now retired two numbers, and neither player played for the Heat. Hmmm. [Student Of The Game] • All kinds of madn...