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Mark Prior Knows Not Of Your "Blogs"
In the past, we've received emails saying we should check out Mark Prior's MySpace page. We've grown increasingly skeptical of alleged athlete MySpace profiles, if just because, well, about 85 percent of the time they're fake....
Manute Bol, Being Boxed Again
Remember earlier this month, when we spotlighted former NBAer Manute Bol and his heroic efforts to shed light on the horrors currently going on in Darfur? Well, we still think his cause is noble, but some new news has us less convinced about him....
Oh, That's A Yellow Card, Sugar
Via The Mighty MJD, Sportshooligan and Flurl.com comes just about the most hysterical thing we've seen all week: The world's most flamboyant soccer referee....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. MLB Fantasy Focus: I don't care what the title of this chat says, my fantasy has and always will focus on a slumber party pillow fight between Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie. • 11 a.m. NBA with Marc Stein: Do you think that the...
Roger Clemens Grounds His Son
We kind of like that final scene in The Natural, where Roy Hobbs is playing catch with his son in a wheat field. But when the subject is Roger Clemens playing baseball with his son, a couple of other films come to mind. • The Great Santini. Dad: Robert Duvall. Son: Michael O'Keefe. Quote: "You go...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dealing with tech issues that caused your site to start an hour later than usual ... • College Basketball: Pittsnogle leads West Virginia to 67-62 win over Pitt. OK, we're officially confused. • NBA: Cleveland Does Not Rock — Pistons beat Cavs for second straight day. • Tennis:...
Know Your Cuts Of Soccer Player
To end the day on an up note, here's another wacky soccer story. It's actually our favorite kind, because it involves meat....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that the Wayne Industries logo in "Batman Begins" looks exactly like the Indiana University logo ... • College Men's Basketball: Pittsburgh at West Virginia, Oklahoma State at Oklahoma. Those flaming objects hurled toward the court must mean it's rivalry week. [ESPN] • N...
Yeah, Damon Back At Fenway Should Be Fun
A reader, calling himself (ominously) "the Hector Villanueva Posse," writes in from Boston to give us this photo of Johnny Damon memorabilia being drastically cut down in price in Boston....
Leftovers: Impeach (Reggie) Bush
• Texans considering trading first overall pick. Think anyone will take Carr along with it? [MSN Sports Filter] • Seventeen new members heading to Cooperstown, including the first woman. [Baseball Hall Of Fame] • Honestly, we think Kenny Williams could probably take Big Frank in a fight. [South Side...
J.J. Jumper: Give Him Something To Break!
The most terrifying mascot in organized sports has to be J.J. Jumper, the official mascot of the NCAA. (Because nothing gets the crowd more fired up than a mascot for a faceless, totalitarian organization. "Prop 48! Prop 48!")...
Reconsidering Bode Miller
To Winter Olympics naysayers, there is no bigger symbol of the event's waste and piffle than Bode Miller, the much hyped U.S. skier who was on the cover of seemingly every national magazine yet came away from the Games without a single medal. Hell, he barely even finished a race....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Devil Rays
We'll, 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. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested odditi...
Hey, At Least It's Not Another Cheney Hunting Photo
It's a glorious Monday, and The Wade Blogs says "Come on in, the Photoshoppin's fine!" Noting that Notre Dame football coach Charile Weis presented President G.W. Bush with a pair of blue Notre Dame jerseys recently, our Mr. Blogs went right to work....
Blogdome: Baba Booey! Baba Booey!
• Video of the crazy guy running on stage during the Olympics' Closing Ceremonies. (Yeah, we hadn't seen it either.) [The Sports Pulse] • Seriously, what are we going to do about this Jay Mohr writing business? [Dave's Sports Views] • We find it funny when Mark Cuban messes with Phil Jackson's head,...
One Guy Has An ESPN Phone (And It Doesn't Even Work)
We don't mean to pile on — really — but Friday, we asked our vast network of Deadspin readers to let us know if they, or anyone they knew even, owned one of the much-hyped ESPN Mobile phones. We weren't expecting an avalanche of emails, but we figured, you know, a few of you would have one. The di...
Juicing Up The Olympics, Jedi Style
Not to get all Page 3 on you today, but we've been alerted to a rather amusing proposal for the 2014 Winter Olympics: Let's have it on the Ice Planet Hoth!...
If Only This Would Happen On The Words "Boo-Yah"
We didn't watch too much Nickelodeon as a kid, if just because we were constantly being sent outside to mow the lawn. Pretty much everyone we know was weaned on it, though, particularly that show "You Can't Do That On Television," where they dumped the green slime on you every time you said "I Don...
Curling Like You've Never Heard It Before
We're going to go light on the Olympics today, because, well, they're over (and we're sure you're all pretty hungover from all the Closing Ceremonies parties last night), but we're giving you two, because they're the Olympics and therefore sports, we guess....
We Could Learn A Thing Or Two About Loutish Behavior From The Brits
We Americans get so cute sometimes with our little disagreements in the stands at NBA games, and our occasional guy who runs onto the field to take the football from Brett Favre. Meanwhile, in England, they're doing things like this:...