i Page 8182 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Leftovers: Yeah, This Is Totally Going To Work
• Alfonso Soriano, outfield matador. [The Sports Frog] • Randy Johnson, in a child support snafu. We believe the tabloids call them "love child." [The Smoking Gun] • Honestly, there's not much better than a good NASCAR fight. [SI.com] • Magic sign up Howard and Nelson to another year on their contra...
Johnny Damon's Adjusted Swing
Via the brand new and most entertaining blog The Big Lead, we were pointed to an interview new New York Yankees Johnny Damon gave to New York Magazine's Stephen Rodrick. The story itself is a good read — we love the analogy of Damon sent to the Yankees to remove the collective stick from their col...
Colin Cowherd Comes Clean, Spurring World Peace
As The Mighty MJD initially reported Saturday, ESPN's Colin Cowherd, after stealing a bit from blog The M Zone last week, finally did apologize today and point out that he swiped the material directly....
Roger Clemens Hates His Crotch
You might think that Peter King's gruesome description of the preparations he took to prepare for his colonoscopy would be the most disturbing thing you'd read all day. It would seem like a good bet; Peter, we love the freedom you have online, but there is such a thing as decorum and good will to ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Cardinals
We're only about a week away from Opening Day, so it?s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we?re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don?t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at tips@deadspin....
Blogdome: Man, You Ugly
• The five most unattractive players in the Final Four. [The Coffeys] • Should they really have continued that race yesterday after Paul Dana's death? [NBX] • Couldn't they have done something to save Tiger Stadium? Anything? [Detroit Wonk] • Will college basketball be the same, post-George Mason? [...
Mike Anderson Will Vanquish All Foes
Over the weekend, the Missouri Tigers, hoping to finally rid themselves of the horror that was Quin Snyder, hired Mike Anderson, the former head coach at UAB, to take over their head spot....
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Wasn't that Bill Walton in the stands grinning during the final moments of UCLA's win over Memphis on Saturday? What was he smiling about? Was it the Bruins' 35 percent shooting from the field? Was it their 51 percent shooting from the free throw line? Ironically, it was in the 1973 NCAA champions...
Getting Your Kicks
It's a beautiful Saturday here in Manhattan; think we'll take a walk down Delancey Street, and turn onto Eldridge and ... what's this? Dozens of young men camped out on the sidewalk? Sleeping bags and folding chairs ... is there a fourth Star Wars prequel we didn't know about? Another Harry Potter...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Marc Stein: Drawbacks to those new ESPN phones — your head doesn't fit on the screen and your annoying high-pitched voice scares my dog. • 4 p.m. Baseball with Gary Gillette: Your 2006 Baseball Encyclopedia makes a great...
George Mason's Win, From The Nosebleeds
From the guy who brought you that gruesome video of Iowa fans reacting to Northwestern State's victory over them in the first round comes an even better video: Footage from the George Mason student section as the final seconds ticked off the clock yesterday....
NCAA Roundup:All GMU, All The Time
• As exciting as the LSU-Texas and George Mason-Connecticut games were, the Florida-Villanova and UCLA-Memphis games were dogs. Particularly that last one; it had been a long time since we'd seen a team back into the Final Four. Not supposed to work that way. • One of the more underpublicized fact...
George Mason Makes The World A Better Place
Obviously, we'll be talking about this all week, but we'd just like to start off by saying a world in which George Mason can beat Michigan State, North Carolina and Connecticut in the span of a week is a world we feel newly invigorated about living in....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while giving your office pool bracket sheet a viking's funeral ... • NCAA Tournament: Holy crap! Father of the Bill of Rights knocks off UConn in overtime, mercifiully silencing Jim Calhoun's whining. • NBA: Vince Carter — remember him? — leads Nets over Pistons for eighth straight w...
Gators To Dance With George Mason; Final Four Is Set
Your Final Four is set: Bruins, Tigers, Gators, and Patriots. We've got three ferocious animals and a dead white guy who once did something historic that you'd know about if you paid attention in history class....
To Watch Tonight...
• Women's College Basketball: (4) Michigan State @ (1) Duke. Hey, Michigan State and Duke. I can think of some situations where this matchup would be exciting....
Florida Up On 'Nova
While still glowing from the earlier George Mason conquest......
Order Some Oversized Shorts For George Mason
They're going to need them in Indianapolis, because these guys have huge balls. They just beat UConn in overtime, 86-84. The amount of poise they showed down the stretch was amazing. Their post players in particular made plays down the stretch that were calm, poised, and smooth....
George Mason Continuing To Fight The Good Fight
If you're not watching it, I think you probably should be. George Mason has battled back to take the lead again over UConn with about 11:00 to play, forcing the Huskies to take a timeout. They've got heart, these Patriots. Even with all the ridiculous games the tournament has had so far, this one,...
Mason Doesn't Know It's A Show, They Think It's A Damn Fight
Actually, UConn leads by 9, which doesn't make it sound like it's that close of a game. But it was just a couple of minutes ago that Mason did briefly hold the lead, before UConn started burying three-balls like Larry Bird on All-Star Saturday Night. After that, the Huskies responded to close the ...