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Greg Jennings Responds To Fan's Religious Experience As Greg Jennings On Madden
Back in October in the virtual realm, Packers WR Greg Jennings scored a 99-yard touchdown on a broken leg in Madden. The gamer's voice-over went viral — it has been viewed over four million times on YouTube — but Jennings himself hadn't yet responded to the most famous play of his career. At ESPN ...
The Smart Way To Expand The NFL Season: 18 Weeks, Not 18 Games
This is Regressing, a numbers-minded column by our clever friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. Today: Why a second bye week makes sense....
Your Super Bowl XLV Pregame Show Open Thread
Four-and-a-half hours of pregame coverage is about to start on Fox. Water torture for the brain. So, here's a collection of Super Bowl XLV stories that have filtered in over the course of the past few days....
Here's Video Of A Snowmobile Hitting An X-Games Race Official Today
There's nothing about this snowmobile-vs.-guy collision on ESPN's site yet, but the X-Games Snowmobile SnoCross Final results list Bobby LePage finishing 15th out of 15. Here's the race recap video. Hope dude's alright....
Women Are Getting Topless In <em>Tiger Woods PGA Tour</em>
A British woman says her user-created golfer randomly teed up sans shirt. EA says the game must've been hacked. You can take Tiger off the cover, but you can't keep his sensibilities out of the game. [The Sun (NSFW), via Wired Playbook]...
Not A Great Day For Peter King
First he discovers (and describes in detail) this newfangled drinking game called "keg standing," or something. Then he makes an unfortunate pun on Arian Foster's name. He's taking this Favre thing hard....
Scenes From A Pittsburgh Restroom
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Your College Football Bowl Games Open Thread
Four early bowl games. Northwestern vs. Texas Tech. Alabama vs. Michigan State. Florida vs. Penn State. Mississippi State vs. Michigan. Enjoy....
Scientific Proof Of How To Beat Someone’s Ass At Monopoly
Yesterday a reader and I theorized that the Orange properties were the best monopoly to own in Monopoly. And now a scientician has proven us RIGHT!...
Your Saturday College Football Bowls Open Thread
Three bowl games today....
A Former NFLer Goes Behind The Sideline Wall
Yesterday, Jets strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi was suspended indefinitely for ordering a sideline wall and tripping up Miami's Nolan Carroll. We asked ex-NFL player and occasional Deadspin contributor Nate Jackson for his thoughts....
The Unreal Genius Of <em>Football Manager</em>, Greatest Video Game Ever
Football Manager 2011 is the latest entry in the famously addictive series of "realistic" soccer simulation games. Brian Phillips explains the appeal and what it tells us about sports fandom in the time of Brett Favre's penis....
Weekend Winner: 70 Football Schools Not Named Temple
First, let me establish my homer credentials: I am a proud graduate of Temple University, class of '06. Now, my opinion on Temple getting shafted for a bowl game: I'm pretty OK with it....
Your Guide To The BCS Selection Show
At 7:15 p.m., representatives of the beloved Bowl Championship Series will announced this season's in-lieu-of-playoffs bowl pairings. Probably not too many surprises looming, notes Sports Illustrated, unless somebody decided that Auburn/Oregon wouldn't be all that compelling of a game....
Punch-Out With Your Cock Out
A German (of course) AIDS awareness organization has released COCK OUT, in which players slip on a motion-sensing digital condom and use their thrusts to pummel a virtual HIV....
And Now A Cavalcade Of Dick Puns Related To A Singapore Water Polo Team's Swimsuits
The story: A water polo team were given a dressing down on Thursday for wearing trunks with an ‘inappropriate' likeness of their state flag. Oh it's so lovely to see this ball propped so high on this tee......
Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Well, this has got to be a first from the past few weeks: Three relatively decent early games (plus the compelling 4-14 showdown between Dallas and Detroit)!...
The Media Pearl-Clutching Over Kobe Bryant's <em>Call Of Duty</em> Commercial Has Begun
This is the commercial. This is Tim Keown's ESPN.com column, which is straight out of the Cokie Roberts "Oh noes! Blowjobs!" school of punditry. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN BEING USED FOR RHETORICAL EFFECT BY ANOTHER COLUMNIST GROUCHING ABOUT POP CULTURE?...
Unbelievable Miss Just Reinforces That There's No Scoring In Soccer
Quarterfinals of the Asian Games, stoppage time, and Qatar's Fahad Khalfan has naught but 24 feet of twine between him and victory. Doink. Uzbekistan would win in extra time....
Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Sweet God in heaven, is the Mangini Bowl really the best thing going on in the early games? Fine, Jets/Browns can also be spun as Ryan vs. Ryan [Plain Dealer], but still. Vikings/Bears? Titans/Dolphins? I suggest AC Milan/Inter Milan....