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Cultural Oddsmaker: Death Becomes Them
A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Send him all kinds of fan mail....
Blogdome: If We Were A Shaman, We Wouldn't Be So Competitive
• The Kids In The Hall respond to IRL driver Ed Carpenter. [I Dislike Your Favorite Team] • You know, Chris Fowler is really into this wedding planning business. [Every Day Should Be Saturday] • The case for keeping Dusty Baker. [Chicago Sports Review] • It's the great drugs and sports giveaway! [Mr...
Apparently Student Athletes Have It Easier Than Us
We once showed up for a lecture hall study session for an economics class of about 200 people at the University of Illinois, sitting next to a friend of ours who was much better about attending class than we were. As people filed in, an older man sat next to us and asked, "Hey, is this the Econ 10...
"I'm The Hoff" In Milwaukee
The recent surge in baseball stadiums encouraging fans to send text messages to show on the scoreboard is an encouraging one; we've heard rumors of a "You're With Me, Leather" at Busch Stadium, though no screenshot exists yet, and we haven't hit the zenith of a "Get Away From Me, Carl Monday" at Jac...
Do Not Date Flozell Adams, Girls
A Web site we hadn't heard of before called Don't Date Him, Girl purports to list the names and descriptions of guys that girls should, you know, not date, girl. Web sites like this make us nervous, so after we searched for our own name and the names of almost all our friends, we were pointed to t...
Who's Afraid Of A Large Black Man?
Deadspin associate editor Rick Chandler is at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Stateline, Nev., this week. He is not considered one of the celebrities; in fact, at the clubhouse entrance Drew Brees handed Chandler a claim check and said "It's a blue Lexus." This is th...
Reds Fans Not Handling Kearns Trade Well
The first big trade of the baseball season went down yesterday, and, to just from the popular reaction, you'd think the Washington Nationals were in wild-card contention and the Cincinnati Reds were selling off. The Reds traded Austin Kearns and Felipe Lopez, two of their best young hitters, for a...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard: You've been on since 6 a.m. Please, no mas! • 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: We're sure that Bud Selig has plenty of crazy, evil schemes up his sleeve. Superman, we need you! • 4 p.m. NFL with Jeremy ...
It's Judgment Day For Mike Cooper
Today, friends, could be the final chapter in The Most Amazing Story Of Our Time: Mike Cooper himself is due to be sentenced today, at 1:30 p.m. ET, in Berea Municipal Court....
The Closer: Oh, How We've Missed It All!
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while confusing your cat ... • MLB: First to 60 wins buys lunch. Ha! Tigers are it! • Golf: How come we can't find Michelle Wie on the John Deere Classic leaderboard? Oh wait, there she is. Oh, mama. • Tour de France: Behold the majesty that is Floyd Landis....
Stepping In The Ole Way-Back Machine
OK, so this is three years old, apropos of nothing — other than baseball finally coming back tonight — and has probably been seen by a lot of you. But someone just sent it to us, and even if you have seen it, it's still worth a revisit....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch to celebrate your acceptance to sushi chef school ... • MLB: Oakland at Boston. Welcome back, you big chemically-enhanced lugs. We've missed you. [ESPN2] • Softball: World Cup, USA vs. Britain, at Oklahoma. Finally, an international sport we can dominate. [ESPN] • Golf: Nationwide Tour...
Your Child Can Be Swaddled In Bristol Wear
Sometimes, we wonder if there's any way we could find a gift for one of our friends' children that might assure that he be beaten up on a semi-regular basis. Hmm. Perhaps if one could combine the hip, cutting-edge stylings of ESPN and sweatshop-stitched shoddy garb of J.C. Penny's....
Leftovers: "When She Said She Was Gonna, Like, Wreck My Car ... I Didn't Know What To Do"
• Not looking good for Barbaro, folks. [New York Times] • Pac-Man Jones is showing Vince Young the ropes this summer. What could possibly go wrong? [The Hater Nation] • What's a Thursday without a Jheri Curl post? [Joe Sports Fan] • The Raiders are always so much fun. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]...
Run, You Stupid Linebacker, RUN!
Just to be clear on this, if some guy stabbed us, in a bowling alley or elsewhere, we would never stop crying. We're a bleeder. We would wail and scream and whine and plead and any other verb that connotes sniveling wimpdom....
We Were Probably Due For One Of These
For reasons unbeknowst to us, straight male bloggers at Snobs Vs. Slobs have decided to rank the All Handsome Man 2006 Baseball Team. It is amazing the depths we will sink to in order to keep ourselves entertained on the last day of the All-Star Break. They do play tonight, yes? Please?...
You're With Me, Tahoe
Deadspin associate editor Rick Chandler is at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Stateline, Nev., this week. He is not considered one of the celebrities. In fact, Lou Holtz made Chandler fetch him an Aquafina. Here is his report....
The Post Where We Ruin The ESPY Suspense
Desperate to find out what happened at the ESPYs last night? Can't wait for Sunday? Just can't believe that they'd make you sit around that long? We feel your pain! We do! We've spent hours already frantically analyzing our "Best Male" cheat sheets, and we can't take it anymore....
Blogdome: 10 Years Ago In Philly
• Look at all the people who were in the game the LAST time the National League won the All-Star Game. [High And Inside] • How far we've fallen, announcer-wise. [Awful Announcing] • Part two of the big Billy Beane interview. [Athletics Nation] • A blog about the Cardinals-Cubs rivalry is our kind of...