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Pete Rose Spends His Mondays Alone In Vegas
In response to our Pete Rose item yesterday, a reader sends us this missive from Las Vegas:...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Jay Mariotti
"Never dull and always armed with an opinion ..." Beware those eight little words. When you read them, it can only mean: A) Ann Coulter has escaped her zoo enclosure and has written another book; or B) Your paper is promoting its circus freak show sports columnist. Jay Mariotti is one of these. He...
Blogdome: Free The Hockey Bloggers
• Tampa Bay Lightning decide that they, and their sport, are as popular as they could possibly be and refuse press passes to team blogger. [Off Wing Opinion] • Speaking of Tampa, a Devil Rays blogger is so excited about his team's prospects, he's actually quoting Corey Hart. [Drays Bay] • The histor...
Bulls Wash Their Hands Of Curry
Well, the Chicago Bulls finally solved their Eddy Curry problem the way NBA executives like to solve problems: Trade him to the Knicks! Isiah Thomas will always take in your tired, your poor, your congenital heart defected. The Bulls receive wide-butt Michael Sweetney, occasional malcontent Tim Th...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. New Music Buzz: She's a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock 'n roll. And we're both a little bit concerned over the guy in the corner who's always asking about Hanson. • Noon. NFL with Sean Salisbury: What was your most e...
Chad Johnson's Evil Genius
Fans are still buzzing about Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson's inspired touchdown celebration against the Chicago Bears a couple of weeks ago, in which he aped Michael Flatley's Riverdance routine. Funny, definitely, and certainly original. But was it a quiet, brilliant rip on Bears linebacker ...
Playoffs Pants Party: Cardinals vs. Padres
Well, the playoffs are finally here, which means a month of absolute madness for anyone who dares to root for any of the final eight teams. (To reiterate: As Cardinals fans, October 2004 was the least productive month, professionally and personally, since all 48 months of college.) We at Deadspin ...
Good Times And Bad Times For Simmons Duo
Our Boy Bill Simmons gets a lot of gruff from old-school sports journalists for being too much of a "fan" and not enough of a "reporter," or, when he does do deign to do interviews, ends up crawling a little too high up the subject's nether regions. We've never really agreed with the former critic...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while poking around the old Simmons place with the Hardy Boys ... • Jim Tracy out as Dodgers manager. Hey, there's a fat guy with white hair taking up office space in the mezzanine who's looking for work. • MNF: Panthers hold off Favre, Packers, sending Green Bay to an 0-4 record, an...
Bear Down, Chicago Bear
Far be it from us to tell starting quarterbacks of first-place NFL teams how to spend their bye week, but we couldn't help but post these pictures — sent to us by a reader — of Bears QB Kyle Orton, at a bar in Iowa City over the long weekend. It was taken on Thursday, hence the Blue Jays-Red Sox g...
Barry Bonds Keeps The Homeland Safe
Well, the regular season is over, which means we have to say goodbye to one of our favorite features: Checking in on Barry Bonds' journal at BarryBonds.com. We love how Barry does "shoutouts" to his corporate sponsors, gives detailed updates on his "rehab" that tend to involve "dropping some weigh...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch while fashioning a plastic explosive in the shape of a harmless rabbit ... • MNF: Packers at Panthers. We were ready for some football ... but my God, not this. Not this!. [ABC] • English League Soccer: Bolton at Wigan Athletic. Are you ready for some real football, you great poofters?...
Leftovers: The Vick Report
• Marcus Vick apologizes for obscene gesture, then breaks down and sobs uncontrollably.* [The Mighty MJD] • Michael Vick says he'll start against Patriots, then flips the bird to all who doubted him. [MSNBC] • Yankees criticize Rangers manager Buck Showalter for pulling his stars, knock Bounty paper...
Lawrence Taylor Meets Ron Mexico
We've written about this a couple of times, but now that the game's almost out, we feel obliged to point it out again: The great Ron Mexico — or Mike Mexico — returns in Blitz: The League, essentially the video game version of "Playmakers," the ESPN show in which every player was either a drug add...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Who has Eli Manning fever? If you don't stop scratching, it'll never heal. • NHL's new rules have bettors a little skittish? You should see the goalies. • The Week in Football Betting — ...
Pete Rose, Still Around, Still Clueless, Still Doesn't Care
A confession: We can't stand Pete Rose. Ignoring his loutish tendencies in his personal life or his complete lack of understanding of a human being not named Pete Rose — and that includes Pete Rose Jr. — we just can't fathom how anyone could forgive him baseball's one unforgivable sin. Not only sh...
Jim Leyland, America's Role Model
On the list of Baseball Characters, former manager Jim Leyland has to be pretty high up there. As Leyland travels to Detroit to interview for the just-opened Detroit Tigers job, we'd like to hark back to our personal favorite Jim Leyland moment....
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Those Raving, Chattery, Jittery Ballplayers
Remember that famous episode of "Family Ties," when Alex P. Keaton, way behind on his studying for his midterms, has to take speed to stay awake and ends up getting addicted? (Our favorite part is when he paints the hallway at 3:30 in the morning and installs an underground sprinkler system.) We'r...
Blogdom's Best: Chicago Cubs
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...