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Bill Walton, Man ... BILL! WALTON!
We'd be remiss if we didn't point out the ESPN Sportsnation chat with Bill Walton, in which everyone's favorite Acid Fried Analyst responds to your innocent five-word questions with three paragraphs of unadulturated Capitalized madness....
Flea Likes All Kinds Of NBA.com Products
We haven't checked in on our friend Flea — not to be confused with Our Friend Flicka — and his NBA blog for a while. Looks like Flea is currently in Australia, suffering from a lack of proper NBA inundation, but that isn't stopping him from some more slam poetry, or something....
Get Your Piping Hot Playoff Tickets
Well, we're just a few days from playoff weekend, so just to remind us why we were wrong to spurn our mother's insistance that we become some sort of banker, we thought we'd check out eBay and see how much the highest-priced tickets are going for. We're only including auctions that have at least ...
Blogdome: The Ghost Of Keyshawn
• Hey, Gruden, before you trade for T.O. ... his name's Keyshawn. Remember him? [The Hater Nation] • The Wichita State Shockers ... honestly, it's a joke that never gets old. [The FYC] • Let's play the NFL coaching vacancies shuffle. [Critical Fantatic] • Buzzsaw booter Neil Rackers might be the NFL...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Fighting Irish
Perhaps nothing says hatred like college athletics. We have witnessed the body painting, we have seen the flaming objects hurled onto the court. Yes, we have seen the pants waving from atop the flag pole. And today, we salute those pants. We believe that college athletics were invented to give stu...
Eva Longoria Slumming It, Big Time
Gossip site EITM Online — imagine US Weekly with uncomfortable photos of Mischa Barton's, uh, monthly visit from a friend — has a picture they claim is of Eva Longoria (Spurs guard Tony Parker's lady friend and fellow terrorizer of Mexican police officers) and ... wait for it ... "ESPN Hollywood"...
Sean Taylor Needs To Practice His Spitting
If you watched last weekend's Redskins-Buccaneers game, you saw Washington safety Sean Taylor ejected for spitting on Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman, and you know when you spit on a Marine who has been known to drive his Hummer into vehicles that contain his wife and child, there will be r...
Vince Young's NFL Ready Throwing Motion
We were sent this a while ago, and it's possible you've already seen it, but we couldn't figure out how to post animated GIFs back then, mainly because we're morons....
The Curse Of Queen City
A beleaguered Cincinnati sports fan, still reeling from Carson Palmer's knee implosion and an ugly first-round playoff exit, implores us to feel his pain by reeling off the succession of brutal injuries to befall the Queen City at the worst possible times. Witness:...
You're Doing A Heckuva Job, Swanny
After months of hinting and posturing (we mean, testing the waters. Sorry), Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann made the big announcement last week — he's running for governor of Pennsylvania. Swann, a football commentator for ABC, hopes to earn the Republican Party endorsement for the ...
Soccer Players Shouldn't Date Hot Topless Women
Our mystery soccer correspondent files this report of Chelsea soccer star Joe Cole being beaten to a pulp over a Page 3 girl (Link NSFW)....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 9 a.m. Wednesday Morning Quickie: I've been recently fired due to the fact that I've spent every weekday morning on the computer chatting with you guys. Any openings? • 11 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: Is it possible to just change al...
Vroom-Vroom-VROOM!
Well, once again a religious group is threatening our constitutional right to admire a different NBA cheerleader in a bathing suit every month. The American Decency Organization is hopping mad at the Detroit Pistons for a recent team calendar which features members of the Pistons dance team in sk...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while avoiding questions at your confirmation hearing ... • NBA: LeBron's White Crane Style cannot defeat Knicks' Eagle Claw Style in ferocious open combat. • NHL: Thornton's return to Boston ends abruptly — he's ejected. Turns out Sharks didn't need him anyway. • College Basketball:...
Poll: Whom Do You Least Want To Run Into At McDonald's?
We still haven't quite come to terms with the bat-shit crazy weirdness of Marcus "New Mexico" Vick whipping out a gun at McDonald's the day after he declared for the NFL Draft, but it did get us to thinking: We haven't been to McDonald's for a long, long time. At first, we thought it was because w...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as a mouse sets fire to your house, and the cat dials 911 ... • College Basketball: Wisconsin at Minnesota; Vanderbilt at Kentucky. Never too soon to study for that big NCAA Tournament test in March. [ESPN] • College Basketball: North Carolina at Virginia Tech. We're always intrigued w...
Leftovers: Race For No. 1 Continues
• Bush: I'm far from making my decision. And by "far," we mean "if Vince Young is drafted ahead of me, I'll stay at USC." [Orange County Register] • Eagles give T.O. permission to talk with other teams, but there are reportedly no takers (gasp!). [Hot Sauce Sports] • Women's field hockey safe for an...
Cabrera's Linguisitic Transgressions
On the surface, the news that a complaint has been filed against Florida Marlins wunderkind outfielder Miguel Cabrera for an incident outside a Venezuela club seems pretty rote, just another athlete "scuffle" at a bar. But the story from the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel confuses us so much we can't...
Say It Ain't So, Chad
So you know, Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson — forever known as Our Hero around here — did not get in a fight with his coach Marvin Lewis at halftime of Sunday's loss to the Steelers. Who said he did, you ask?...
Engine No. 42 Makes The Hall
It's a happy day here at Deadspin headquarters: Former Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter has made the Hall of Fame. He was the only player elected to the Hall; Goose Gossage and others (including, unfortunately, Willie McGee) did not make it in....