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Warren Sapp Appears To Be A Little Tightly Wound
As Tunison mentioned in his Maddenpalooza wrap-up earlier today, Warren Sapp is not a man who likes to have his picture taken at a media-related event unless he specifically grants you permission to do so. Ape wasn't the only one who received the hulking stare-down from Sapp yesterday, as the First ...
Chinese Badminton Bad Boy, Super Dan, Sets the Ladies Swooning
Lin Dan, or Super Dan, is China's top badminton player. He's also had a few run-ins with authority figures. There was the time he tried to hit another player's coach with his racket. And the other time he took a swing at his own coach with a racket. None of that, however, has stopped the 24-year-ol...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after riding your 3,000-pound stingray ... • Little League Softball: World Series, semifinals, teams TBA, at Portland, Ore. (7 and 9:30 p.m., ET). ESPN must be stopped. [ESPN2] • MLB: Chicago Cubs at Atlanta (7 p.m., ET). Just not the same without Harry and Skip. [WGN] • Olympics: Boxi...
NFL Season Preview: Green Bay Packers
We're less than a month away from the start of the NFL season, so it's time to start the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. This year, the previews w...
Afternoon Blogdome: Apparently, Elena Dementieva's Shirt Is Made Of Velcro
• More female tennis trickery: Elena Dementieva shows off her new T-shirt to a curious tennis ball during Olympics practice. The ball says, "I love that pretty blue stripe! Mind if I take a closer look?" [Down The Line] • This is the sort of thing they set you on fire for in China: "You spend your w...
College Football Previews: #22 Penn State
Today's Penn State preview is brought to you by Run Up the Score of the excellent Penn State blog blackshoediaries. It was only 10 or 20 years ago that you could count on Penn State for three things — classically drab blue and white uniforms, All-American linebackers, and soul-crushing offensive li...
College Football Previews: #23 Wake Forest
We're rolling through the top 25 of the coaches poll. Today we've got Wake Forest and, shortly, Penn State. The Wake Forest fan base should be extremely proud of the alacrity with which they responded when it was announced that no one had volunteered to preview them. No doubt this was motivated by ...
Manny Ramirez Fails To Notice That In The National League, Games Are Nine Innings
First of all, this is not the Manny Meltdown that we've all been expecting. Repeat: Meltdown still pending. But it's comical nonetheless. Manny Ramirez, playing in the outfield for the Dodgers vs. the Phillies on Monday, suddenly disappeared between the eighth and ninth innings. No one noticed until...
Spain Beats China In Overtime As "Slit-Eye" Picture Controversy Grows
Thanks to Pau Gasol's 29 points the Spanish team overcame a 14 point deficit to send the game into overtime tied at 72. Then, much to the chagrin of millions of angry Chinese, Spain overcame karma and pulled out an 85-75 victory. But not before their team picture exploded into controversy. To such a...
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Mike Nadel Keeps His Erin Andrews Takedown Fame Afloat For One More Day
Mike Nadel has had an interesting couple of weeks after his feisty Erin Andrews column made the rounds and became the nexus of debate for both female and male sports reporters across the country. That type of traction on a story is something most sports columnists would probably cut off their chubby...
Sub-Continent Rejoices: India Has Their First Gold Medalist After 80 Years of Competing
It's kind of difficult to put into words how unbelievable it is that a country of 1.1 billion people had never won an individual gold medal before. Especially since India has been participating in the Olympics since 1928. In the ensuing 80 years they'd won only four individual medals. None of them ...
Stu Scott: Born On The Street And Hard As Hootie
Fresh off this year's Jimmy V Classic post-event celebration in Raleigh, N.C, Stu Scott and some other famous, not-so-famous and ubiquitous "celebrities" sauntered out into the night for a karaoke croon-fest like no other. Scott was the star, though, unleashing a set of pipes that show why he's des...
Who Killed The Cincinnati Reds?
Despite assurances from CEO Bob Castellini that he is not rebuilding the team from scratch, it can't be denied that the Cincinnati Reds are very, very sick. Almost dead, as Miracle Max would say. It all began, in my opinion, when their jovial mascot, Mr. Redlegs, lost his head in a tragic ballpark A...
Maddenpalooza: Stunted Paloozaness, Lots Of Badges, And Warren Sapp Is Insane
This year is the 20th anniversary of John Madden football and to commemorate this historic occasion, the folks at EA Sports held a "MaddenPalooza" event in Los Angeles. Deadspin dispatched Michael Tunison to cover some of the sights, sounds, and overall geekiness. This is his second dispatch from th...
Kenny Chesney Practices with Saints; Undresses Injured Player; Hangs with Shockey
Country singer Kenny Chesney, who sometimes seems to make a living as a singer so he can participate in football events, practiced with the New Orleans Saints yesterday. Chesney's appearance was not announced to the crowd watching practice, but Chesney ran routes, fielded punts, and did his best to...
Even The Little Girls In China Are CGI-Enhanced
Many flabbergasted-sounding news stories were released about China's fakery during the peyote-inspired opening ceremonies from Friday in which it appeared for a short period of time that the whole city of Beijing had been outlined with enough pretty explosives to knock down wandering defense satelli...
America Rules The World In Beach-Related Sports
Highlights from your Olympic Games, including chicks in bikinis, the state-of-the-art Phelps Tracker, and pixie-like gymnasts ... Michael Phelps this. Michael Phelps that. What, no love for Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, possibly the most dominating force in the Olympics this decade? The America...
Morning Blogdome: You Can Almost Hear The Buttons Shriek
• Go Flubbies: "The wretch, concentrated all in self/Living, shall forfeit fair renown/And, doubly dying, shall go down/To the vile dust, from whence he sprung/Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung." [Joe Sports Fan] •The Smogman Cometh:OnTheDL interviews Steinberg from China: "We talk about the smog in Be...
No, Mark Spitz Will Not Go Quietly. And Why Should He?
Good line by a commenter on last night's DUAN, "Mark Spitz is printing 6-1 t-shirts as we speak." And it wouldn't surprise me to peak into Spitz's basement and see said shirts actually in production. If he wasn't rooting against Michael Phelps before, he most likely is now that he's been snubbed by ...