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Five Tiny Tidbits On: NOOCH!
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. So come with us now as we present five tiny tidbits on each team, just to get you in the mood. Today we continue with the Southwest Division, so do us a favor and send your tips to [email protected]....
Blogdome: Make A-Rod A Devil Ray!
• A potential way to "solve" the A-Rod situation. [The Serious Tip] • Allen Iverson grew up a Cowboys fan? [Andy Reid's Mustache] • Some 14-year-old kid just committed to play hockey at Michigan. That's awfully scary. [Western College Hockey] • A Mets fan fires himself up with dead birds. [The Mets ...
Rick Ankiel, Six Years Later
As we await tonight's hopefully-not-rained-out NCLS Game 1, we think back to 2000, when the Cardinals and Mets last met under these circumstances. This is known, of course, as the Rick Ankiel series, when the blistering lefthander, whose curveball was one of the most gravity-defying things we had ...
Thanks For The Help, Now Get Out
Last night in Oakland, the Oakland A's Booster club hoisted — great word, hoist — an American flag in center field for the Game One pregame ceremonies. We did not see the pregame ceremonies, but we're sure it was as patriotic as any of those hippies in Oakland can get....
A Couple Of Expensive Six Packs
We are aware that it's very possible there's much more to come out about the story than has been released, but, taken at face value, the Connecticut football team is awfully strict about player discipline....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Joe Torre, Alex Rodriguez, Donald Rumsfeld all apparently keeping their jobs. Thoughts? • 3 p.m. NCAA FB with Beano Cook: Back when you played, how difficult was it to keep Martin Van Buren in the ...
We Can't Imagine The Minnesota Candidates In 20 Years
We don't know much about politics over here, but one thing we do know: We want our Secretarys of State to have banged some Green Bay Packers....
Lawrence Phillips Hits Bottom, Is Sure He Can Go Lower
And so in the end, Lawrence Phillips leaves us the way we always knew he would: receiving up to 20 years in prison for running into three kids with his car after a pickup football game. The former Cornhuskers /Rams /Dolphins /49ers /Bobcats /Alouettes /Stampeders /Dragons running back was convicte...
Playoff Blogdome: Tigers at Athletics, Game One
Tracking the blogs the day after Game 1 of the ALCS:...
The Tigers Are Scaring The Pants Off Everybody
We'll confess: We're pretty much terrified of Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya. He's big, he's scary, he's got flaming red eyes and he throws about a million miles an hour. Actually, he can hit 103 miles per hour, which, when read by that FOX broadcast flame-for-pitches-over-95-mph thing, actually turns ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking your ferret to the DMV ... • MLB: ALCS, Game 1: Fools! No one can stop Brandon Inge! Tigers 5, Athletics 1. • NBA: Ha! We told you! NBA regular season creeps ever closer as Dwight Howard, Magic top Bobcats 107-90. And hey, Adam Morrison wasn't bad. He didn't cry either. ...
Time For More Baseball Than You Know What To Do With
We know, as Cardinals fans, our occasional gripes and complaints can fall on deaf ears and perhaps even sound like whining, and the Detroit Tigers are Exhibit A as to why. We cannot possibly imagine how exciting having the Tigers in the ALCS must be. (And no offense to A's fans; we know you're in ra...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you celebrate the big 3-1 ... • MLB: American League Championship Series, Detroit at Oakland, Game 1. Come 5 p.m. PST, Nick Swisher shall unleash Hell. [Fox] • NBA: Preseason, Philadelphia at Phoenix, at Cologne, Germany. Just what we need: Shawn Marion as a guest star on "Sprockets...
Hey, What's The Senate's Problem With The PGA?
On September 13, a bill was introduced to Congress "Congratulating The Professional Golfers' Association of America on its 90th anniversary." On September 25, it passed the House, and September 26 it went to the Senate....
Leftovers: Those Thievin' Yanks
• Did the Yankees initially steal their logo? [NBX Blog] • Mama McNabb gets her own Web site. [Mama McNabb] • Seriously, what IS wrong with Sean Salisbury? [Rivalfish] • We absolutely agree: It's incredibly difficult waiting for the NLCS to start. [Metsquire]...
Hey, Anybody Hear Anything About Tiger Woods?
So, remember our Deadspin Pants Party Pick 'Em Pool? Well, hopefully you've been making your picks every week, because we're told we can give away some gifts....
Woody Paige Enters Mode Of Retreat
We've made fun of "Cold Pizza"'s and "Around The Horn"'s Woody Paige around these parts, if just because we're one of the 13 people on Earth who actually watches "Cold Pizza." (Unless they're playing Plinko on "The Price Is Right.") Also, because Paige isn't against the notion of eating dog food on ...
Nobody Said No Like The Mid-80s Lakers
Just to continue our cavalcade of strange videos from the 1980s today, here's a "Just Say No" video from the Showtime LA Lakers. You really haven't lived until Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who of course knows nothing about the demon weed, say he doesn't need drugs, he's got a higher thing....
ALCS Pants Party: A's Vs. Tigers
We are very proud to report that, ultimately, we did not jinx the Detroit Tigers, and here they are, four wins away from their first World Series in 22 years. (By the way, if you're keeping score, of the four teams left in the playoffs, the team that has gone the longest without a World Championsh...