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Today In The Premiership...
Fulham 0-4 Arsenal. The Gunners threw an old-school beatdown on Fulham, getting two goals from Thierry Henry, and outplaying Fulham in every possible way. Arsenal plays Real Madrid on Wednesday, and I'm definitely watching that. If it's on TV. And it doesn't conflict with the Big East tournament....
2 Legit 2 Not Have A Sports Blog
MC Hammer (yes, the MC Hammer) has a sports blog, and he's taken a particular interest in the NFL's labor strife. He's asking readers of his blog to send in suggestions for the NFL on how to fix this thing, so he can then send the suggestions to the NFL, Gene Upshaw, and ESPN....
I Think It's Time Eddie Sutton Had A Reality Show
Police in Stillwater have obtained video footage of Eddie Sutton urinating in public. On a middle school. With a bottle in his hand. Oh dear....
The Best Day Of Dick Vitale's Life
ESPN is dedicating nearly all of their resources today to finally giving some publicity to little-known basketball personalities Mike Krzyzewski and J.J. Redick. You've probably never heard of them, but I think this attention is long overdue. Why has ESPN ignored them for so long? This little bask...
About Last Night...
• NBA: Washington 113, Philadelphia 119. The Sixers won, so this should probably be complimentary, but Allen Iverson had 47 and Chris Webber had 30, and they only won by 6. I miss defense....
Week In Deadspin: Talkin' 'Bout B-B-B-B-B-Basketball
• Man, can they ever lay down a dope beat in Kentucky. • If all soccer referees were like this, we'd watch games all the time. • Boobs! • We're previewing the crap out of the baseball season. • You don't have to be born to have Roger Clemens throw at you. • The NCAA's mascot is destroying everythi...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you remind yourself to tuck in your penis before playing Texas A&M ... • Boxing: Vic Darchinyan vs. Diosdado Gabi, for IBF flyweight championship; lightweights, Anthony Mora vs. Rustam Nugaev, at Santa Ynez, Calif. Yeah, well maybe we could enjoy this fight if Al Bernstein weren't c...
At Last, Bill Simmons Emerges Victorious
After resounding losses to Isiah Thomas and Mark Cuban, Simmons has scored his first win in our Curious Guy fight series....
Leftovers: Free Larry!
• It's shocking that it took this long; Larry Brown checks into hospital briefly. [The Sports Frog] • An interesting look at just how the Netherlands and Italy got some of those major leagues like Mike Piazza to play for their teams. [Wall Street Journal] • The guy who wrote your favorite pump-you-u...
Steinbrenner Has Officially Lost It
At first we thought it was a joke, but no, they're serious — batting practice is now being televised. On April 3, the YES Network trots out Batting Practice Today, a show that features, well, New York Yankees batting practice. To begin one half hour before the start of their regular pre-game show (h...
Authors With Pure Hearts: Will Blythe
We've taken some time off from the Authors With Pure Hearts series, but we gleefully return with Will Blythe's To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever, a hysterical, slightly crazed book about what it means to hate so much that it becomes purifying. In the case of Blythe, born and bred in North Car...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Angels
We re just more than a month 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....
We Are Invading Boston. Tonight. Beware.
For those in the Boston/Cambridge area who find themselves without proper nighttime entertainment this evening, we would like to cordially invite you to come hang out. We are reading from our novel Catch tonight at the Dire Reading Series in Cambridge. Yes, we know it's an art gallery. But they stil...
Hello, Advertisers!
As you can see, the sponsors all go to 11. Right across the board. 11. 11. 11. 11. They're one louder, aren't they? Most sponsors are gonna be playing at 10. You're on 10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up. You're on 10 with your sponsors. Where can you go from there? Where? Nowher...
Blogdome: Looking For Drugs In All The Wrong Places
• A wheelchair tennis player tests positive for a banned substance. We hate the world sometimes. [World Chumps] • Hey, would the NFL without the salary cap really be the worst thing in the world? [Dave's Sports Views] • The Chicago Cubs and the Toronto Maple Leafs: Same franchise. [Forward Progress]...
Bjorn Borg: Resistance Is Futile
Say what you will about athletes like Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith, who hang on to their careers for too long and are too afraid to be away from the spotlight to retire, but at least they don't usually run out of money....
Our Personal Favorite Strange Mascots
Sorry, but we can't quite get enough of the whole mascot discussion yesterday, particularly the ones that most frighten or confuse us....
Pity The Poor Derek Lowe
A couple of days ago, the Los Angeles Times' Bill Plaschke wrote a story about the emotional difficulties of Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe, who last year famously left his wife for Fox Sports broadcaster Carolyn Hughes. (You thought we were gonna say "Fox Sports broadcaster Tom Arnold." Admit it.)...
The New New Mexico?
Perhaps the quarterback position at Virginia Tech is merely cursed....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. College Hoops Report Card: Let's make our student-athletes feel at home. "Mr. Blutarski ... zero point zero." • 1 p.m. Mid-Majors with Kyle Whelliston: Bally, you demented little runt — if I catch you looking up my girlfriend's...