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Suddenly Charitable Bonds Could Return Tonight
We were all set to make fun of Barry Bonds today. ESPN's Pedro Gomez, who has pretty much been sitting outside Bonds' house and sifting through his garbage for months now, finally got the scoop he was waiting for by reporting that Bonds could return from the DL today. We were going to mock Bonds' ...
About Last Night ...
• What you missed while shaving profanities onto your dog ... • Florida State beats Miami in football ... wait, that can't be right. • Jerry Rice decides to retire after Broncos clean out his locker, paint over his parking space and refuse to let him back into the building. • White Sox grind Curt Sc...
Careful Hanging Out With Web Nerds, Athletes
If you're an athlete, you better be careful of what you do on the Web. Professional mountain bike racer — apparently they have such things — Jeff Kerkove was suspended for critical comments he made about a race's sponsor on a cycling message board. He's going to miss the biggest race of the year....
Today In MLB Blogs
They are the weblogs that time forgot. The blogs of the damned. Let us take a moment today to pay homage to the brave sites that have been consigned to the MLB Blogs scrap heap. Oh, once they were thriving Internet communities. But no more. Tour of Duty, That's Not Orange and Five-for-Five ... we...
September Callup Time!
It's September, the time of year when baseball teams expand their rosters. And, just to stay consistent, apparently baseball bloggers' rosters are expanding too, with young wild kids out there....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Come on, it was really Pete Rose who bet that batboy he couldn't drink the milk, wasn't it? • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: OK, in retrospect it wasn't wise to hand over our car keys to Mike Tyson. Bu...
About Last Night ...
Why am I on the floor, surrounded by empty malt liquor cans? And why am I dressed as a bullfighter? Will someone please bring me up to speed? ... • Spurrier wins his debut as a Gamecocksman. • Aging pitcher Tony Danza gets the win as Angels somehow pull even with A's. • We don't want another Oswalt!...
Dirty Deeds Brings Out Dirty Folk
More info on Dirty Deeds, the "movie" produced by former gay nomad Todd Zeile and Yankees gorilla Jason Giambi: Apparently Barry Bonds has seen the movie. He showed up at the premiere, posing for photos with former "Party of Five" star Lacey Chabert, which is kind of a frightening mental image....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as the price of gas exceeds the price of real estate ... • NFL: Giants at Patriots. It's the final exhibition game, so expect to see a lot of QB Jared Lorenzen. • College football: Central Florida Cannon Fodder at South Carolina Spurriers. • MLB: Tigers at White Sox. One of these teams...
Party With Clinton Portis
If you're roaming around the Washington, D.C. area with nothing to do tomorrow night, and you're desperate to wish legendary party guy Clinton Portis a happy birthday, here's your invite to the party at a DC club called LOVE, courtesy eVIPlist. Don't forget the point of the party, either:...
Blogdome: It's College Football Time!
News and Views From a Galaxy Located Somewhere Near Your Basement ... • Boy, it sure is nice to see people previewing an actual college football game. [Sporting Fool] • Life can get treacherously dull in September when you're a Cubs fan. [Bleed Cubbie Blue] • Jajaja! [Yard Work] • He may be cuddly, ...
NFL To New Orleans: Let Them Eat Cake
We live in New York City, which inexplicably does not carry the NFL Network — write your Congressmen! — so we missed a pretty huge faux pas from the league. Fortunately, those intrepid souls at Football Outsiders watched it for us....
Today In MLB Blogs
Take a look at the above photo, actually existing on MLB Blogs at this moment. A couple of possibilities here:...
Outdoor Life Network Wants Baseball. That's Kinda Cute
We're not sure how this is going to work out for them, but the Outdoor Life Network — all uppity after agreeing to be the main NHL network this season — is going to try to bid on Major League Baseball next season. The goal is to pry away those Sunday night and Wednesday night games when ESPN's con...
Barry Bonds: At The Movies!
In case you've forgotten, we here at Deadspin have made a solemn vow to get our Barry Bonds news exclusively from BarryBonds.com, just the way Barry would like it. (Because we're true fans. And we hate the white media. And we really want us to give us a "Shout Out" sometime.)...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. College Football with Todd McShay: Dude, if that's you on the far right of this picture — and we're pretty sure it is — we're gonna have to throw the flag for illegal contact beyond five yards. • 3 p.m. College Football with Kir...
The Deprogramming of David Wells
It's a sad day when Boston fathead David Wells is turned into a Stepford Drone, but it has happened. On Monday, Wells blasted commissioner Bud Selig and essentially accused him of covering up the Rafael Palmeiro steroid bust, which, frankly, the rest of us all think too. But once Wells left his em...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while stuck firmly in the tire swing ... • MLB: Pedro tees 'em up, Phillies hit 'em out. Ah, that's the Mets we know. • A day after taking first batting practice, an exhausted Bonds takes a day off. • Marlins' Hermida peaks at 21; hits grand slam in first major league at-bat....
Nick Lachey Simply Will Not Go Away
You know when we were joking earlier about ESPN finding more airtime for Nick Lachey? Uh, it looks like we weren't kidding, and we didn't even know it....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch on your freshly looted high-definition TV ... • Boxing: Malcolm Tann vs. Derek Bryant heavyweight clinchfest. • MLB: Cardinals at Marlins. Do we feel Baseball Fever coming on? Nope, it's just the humidity. • U.S. Open Tennis. Because real sports get us too worked up....