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Honestly, What's NCAA Football Without Hugh Johnson?
High atop the Family Feud board of most popular questions Deadspinions posed to the Democratic Assembly of Deadspin Administrating Saturdays/Sundays (D.A.D.A.S.S.) was, "Who did Sussman bang to get the job?" "Will you guys bring Hugh Johnson back?" Well, I hope the logo hovering over this paragraph...

Know What They Call A Quarter Pounder With Cheese In Moose Jaw?
If you haven't yet noticed something different this weekend — that CFL mention should have tipped you off — it's that I'm bringing you Deadspin this weekend from the glorious city of St. John's, Newfoundland. This wouldn't be possible if the exchange rate on Deadspin posts wasn't so tempting. But in...

We Can Finally Watch High School Football On TV Today
12 p.m. — High School Football: Booker T. Washington (Florida) at Summerville (South Carolina) [ESPN] 12:30 p.m. — Little League World Series: Willemstad, Curacao vs. Tokyo, Japan [ABC] 1:00 p.m. — Women's Tennis: Pilot Pen final in New Haven, Connecticut [CBS] 1:00 p.m. — WNBA: Playoffs [ESPN2] 1:0...

About Last Night
• CFL: Before the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' 15-13 victory over the Toronto Argonauts, Canadian touchdown king Milt Stegall is given the key to Winnipeg. Unfortunately, he locked it in his car. • MLB: Boston's win over the White Sox lasts 18 innings, counts double. • NBA: Logic mounts fourth-quarter com...

Ookie, Ned, 2/1/07 And A Little Horse That Couldn't
• There was some Hall of Fame voting. • Sally Jenkins is awesome. • Thirty freaking runs. • We will never, ever wear a Texas shirt. • Hirshey was there for that madness in the Meadowlands. • His newspaper is not being nice to Stephen A. Smith. • Comcast ... CLEVER! • Get yourself a fuck lion, stat. ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you give up on installing Windows Vista ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Delvin "Special Needs" Rodriguez vs. Chris "Incubator" Smith. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at Chicago White Sox. Rock out with your Sox out. [WGN] • NFL: Preseason, New England at Carolina. Baby Brady to enjoy his firs...

Deadspin HOF Nominee: Michael Vick
Long before this whole dogfighting business, Michael Vick / Ron Mexico / Ookie was a popular guy around these parts. It is amazing to us, even to this day, how few people know about the Ron Mexico story. Now, ironically, this whole "electrocuting puppies" business may assure even fewer find out abou...

What's The Next Scrotum-Ripping Situation To Happen Between Rival Sports Fans?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....

Are We Shooting People, Or What?
You mean them little cubes you put in hot water to make soup? No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup....

Bobble Hard, America. Bobble Proud
Time to check in on the world of minor league baseball promotions with Rick Chandler's Minor Enterprise!...

Pack Attack (See, That Rhymes)
• Green Bay has taken over Aaron Rodgers' face. [I Dislike Your Favorite Team] • The Yankees are still America's Team, not the Red Sox. (Or maybe, you know, neither.) [Strike Zones And End Zones] • They're not teaching passing at Nate Robinson's basketball camp. [Enjoy The Enjoyment] • Anna Benson, ...

NFL Season Preview: Washington Redskins
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....


Deadspin HOF Nominee: February 1, 2007
We didn't actually notice what was going on at first; we were at the gym, and we made it back to our desk, there were countless emails: You have to check out what's happening on Simmons' column page. The one-time experiment with Simmons' "conversation" — he hasn't had comments on a column since then...