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About Last Night
What you missed while drinking wine on the honor system ... • NBA: Baron Davis drinks your milkshake ... Warriors 119, Celtics 117. • Golf: Tiger Woods is a remorseless killing machine. • NFL: Colts give Dallas Clark 6-year contract; he drops it....
Welcome (Boo!) To (BOO!) Philadelphia (Booooooooo!)
Once again, we remind you of the next reading a mere half hour or so before it starts: We're hitting Daulerio country tonight, good ole Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the first East Coast city this Midwesterner had ever visited, and we've loved it since we were a kid. (We still get goose bumps when...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you mock the humorless ... • College basketball: North Carolina at N.C. State (7 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Marquette at St. John's (7 p.m., ET), Kansas State at Nebraska (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. Tuneup for Bracket Madness. • NBA: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix (9 p.m., ET). Kobe vs. Shaq. Rated nacho-...
China Will Decide What Movies You Watch, Got It?
Oh China, what are we going to do with you? Mere hours after the first high-profile lawmaker called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, the Chinese government responded to concerns about its record on human rights the way that you thought it would: By banning scary movies. Yep,...
Jose Canseco Can Sometimes Look Rather Small
Mop Up Duty brings us this ad for Testagen, which promises TESTOSTERONE OPTIMIZATION! It's Jose Canseco and Derek Anthony, who classifies himself as an "extreme bodybuilder." We'd say....
Richie Sexson Understands The Value Of A Dollar
We couldn't let the day pass without mentioning Mariners "slugger" Richie Sexson's charming comments from yesterday. They're not as bad as Stuart Scott's "Don't boo" admonitions, but, well, they're close....
Acorns In The Digestive Tract
Every two weeks, the gents at Free Darko will be taking a look at the deranged ecosystem that is the National Basketball Association in their own indelible fashion. Here's this week's entry, from Dr. Lawyer Indian Chief....
There's No Room In This Post-Modern World For A Little Boy And His Pecker
Last month, this very site raised your hopes with an Ohio minor league sports team being named the Peckerheads. Well, it brings me great pain to inform you all that such a team mascot will not happen....
NBA D-League All-Star Weekend: Basketball Is Basketball
Matt from Hardwood Paroxysm headed to New Orleans for the All-Star madness last weekend. Well, actually, he was there for the Celebrity Game and the D-League All-Star Games. Today: The D-League All-Star Game....
It's Almost Time For the NFL Combine And That Means...<em>Mamula</em>
ESPN dove into the Mamula pool early this year with the annual "Hey, let's get Mike Mamula to talk about how much of a bust he was..."-story that antsy NFL reporters hop on during the post-Pro Bowl dead zone. This year at ESPN, Pat Yasinskas (rhymes with "Dasplinkas" — maybe ) drew the Mamula card, ...
Attention Terrell Owens: Help Is On The Way
So a guy in Brazil, not content with the normal tattoo options in his area, has had octopus suction cups grafted onto his arms. Cool! My guess is that Belichick has already made this required surgery for all of his receivers; and Derek Jeter is looking into it as well. Whereas Ichiro Suzuki just lo...
Fuzzy Math In Florida
• Oops: The new Marlins stadium funding project might violate the state Constitution. [Above The Law] • Lance Armstrong's new bike shop. [Machochip] • The fun idea of playing an NBA game outdoors. [All On The Field] • Why do we even need East and West in the NBA anymore? [With Malice] • Derek Jeter ...
Baseball Season Preview: New York Mets
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all....
Media Approval Ratings: Scott Van Pelt
Of all the anchors on "SportsCenter," it would seem unlikely that Scott Van Pelt would be the one with such a long history with this here site. He doesn't have the Berman boom, the Vitale scream, the STEPHEN A. SMITH blare or the Skip Bayless smirk. But with one phone call, he became part of Deadspi...
GSTF Book Tour Stop: Boston, Massachusetts
Of all our trips on this whirlwind tour, we had a special gift in Boston last night: Someone signing for the deaf! We have perhaps never been more proud than we were when we had the following conversation with the woman signing:...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Keith Van Horn Has A Nice Gig, If You Can Get It
After the Jason Kidd trade finally went down — Mark Cuban says "this deal will have impact!" — the one question everyone had was ... Keith Van Horn's still playing? No, he isn't, which you probably know by now; he just never filed the papers. And now he's even richer than he was before....
Jim Bowden Uses Subtle Reminders Of His Authority
We're not sure what much more we can add to this photo of Nationals general manager Jim Bowden riding a Segway around the team's spring training....
Embarrassingly Awful Hockey Card Edition
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....