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TBS Knows Baseball, ESPN Hopes Not To Forget
So we're a day late on this, but we wanted to make sure we had all the details correct. As menacingly pointed out during the All-Star Game, FOX has re-upped for the rights to the World Series, Saturday games and one LCS for the next seven years. For Joe Buck and Tim McCarver haters, this is bad ne...
Thank God Mr. T Didn't Live To See This
When it comes to boxing, you just can't beat the combination of dimwitted, old and slow. Because it's Fun With Old People Day here, we would be remiss if we didn't remind you that the trailer for Rocky VI is out. In this one, Rocky leads a group of seniors who want to prevent network executives from...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL With Matt Williamson: No offense, sir, but we don't know who you are. • Noon Author Seth Mnookin: Did you feed the monster before you left this morning? • 8 p.m. NASCAR's Jeff Burton: It's hard not to love a man with a spar...
Big Ben's Radio Buddy
We think you can probably tell a lot about an athlete by whom he/she chooses for their first post-big-career-moment interview. Which "reporter" shows them enough deference, respect and suck-up-itude to be handed that big scoop?...
You Know, We Hear The Smell Attracts Bears
You know, there are times when it's obvious that we're not covering enough auto racing around these parts....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while riding backwards in the Tour de France, just to show off ... • WNBA All-Star Game. East wins for first time ever! (Of course, there have only been seven of them). • Tour de France: Dessel is yellow, we tell ya! Yella! • Wie completes pro-am, begins quest to make cut in PGA John...
Second Half Preview: American League
OK, before we start: Seriously, this is just the worst sports day of the year. Do you realize we did a post below on bowling? Can we please get back to the games tomorrow? What? No afternoon games? Man!...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as as Ahmad Rashad takes his own sweet time at the Harrah's Tahoe ATM machine ... • Boxing: Light welterweights, Michael Katsidis vs. Rolando Reyes, at Hollywood, Calif. [ESPN] • Minor League Baseball: AAA All-Star Game, at Toledo, Ohio. As some players may be headed to the Royals, don...
Ichiro Continues To Lose It A Bit
Ichiro Suzuki has been acting more erratically the last few years, we've noticed, coinciding almost directly with the Mariners' struggles the last few years. But in an interview Monday, Ichiro might have lost it a little while discussing the team's difficulties....
Leftovers: One Guy Alone In A Room
• The NHL starts its own social networking site. [PaidContent] • Kids, we wouldn't lose too much sleep over that whole House voting against online gambling bill. [Business Week] • Babe Ruth's balls still lucrative. Wait ... [Sports Collectors Daily] • When Michael Jordan takes over Indianapolis, peo...
The Winner Of The World Cup Pool Speaks
When we launched the Deadspin Pants Party World Cup Pick 'Em Game back in June, we promised a free post for the winner. It turned out it was Alan Fortunate, with his "Enrico Pilazo" entry, scoring 99 points, just edging out E. Shepard's "Snitches Get Stitches" entry. Fortunate actually ended up sixt...
Bowling's Watergate Has Nation On Edge
We've become accustomed to cheating in baseball and soccer; but when the purity of bowling is questioned, is there any hope for mankind? Dear God, it must be a mistake. Not bowling! Our story so far: Robert Mushtare, 17, of Carthage, N.Y., recently rolled two perfect 900 series and 12 perfect game...
Second Half Preview: National League
Since it's the day after the All-Star Game, otherwise known as one of the worst sports days of the year — we still can't quite believe there's no baseball tonight — we thought we'd solicit everyone's thoughts on the second half of the baseball season. And since it's fun to tell the Web site people h...
Minor Enterprise: Whacking Day In Dunedin, Florida
Welcome to Minor Enterprise, where we preview, and occasionally review, the great events of minor league baseball. Each Wednesday we'll take a look at the promotions, players and mascots which populate our minor league ballparks; the unsung heroes of our national pastime. (Minor Enterprise not res...
Blogdome: Flabby Trojans
• Somehow, USC's football players are getting fatter as they get older. [Flash Warner] • Jessica Canseco doing on-camera interviews with bloggers. That sounds about right. [The Wade Blogs] • Actually, those Kenny Mayne ads are kind of sad. [A Shot Of Southern Comfort] • War Emblem is now officially ...
Spend The Day With Stephen A. (Kinda)
We all know it's not particularly difficult to get tickets to "Quite Frankly" tapings — a guy we know in New York for the summer has gone three times already, and he's been here, like, a month; we have no idea why he keeps putting himself through this — but that doesn't mean a meet-and-greet with ...
"Dad, I'm Totally Gonna Get You For This Someday"
Since the Home Run Derby on Monday night, we've been trying to track down a photo of Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski and the horror he subjected his daughter to. And now that we've found it ... we can't quite put our finger on why it fills us with such dread....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Page 2's Bill Simmons: Seriously, when you gonna grow the beard back? • 4 p.m. All-Salary Cap team w/John Clayton: Your bird-like countenance leads me to believe that the field will be made up primarily of players from the Eagle...
The Decline And Fall Of Home Run Ball No. 715
Remember the heady days before the Landmark Home Run Baseball bubble burst? Guys like Todd McFarlane held press conferences to announce their purchases, which they then spirited away in armored trucks to be kept under plexiglass. Historic home run balls were fetching prices in the millions; the ba...