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Albert Pujols Knows Who Wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
A few years ago, Red Sox dingbat Manny Ramirez garnered some rare positive press for becoming an American citizen and carrying an American flag through the outfield. Wednesday, Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols became an American citizen by acing his citizenship test, scoring a perfect 100 perce...
Will Barbaro Go To Heaven? It's Up To You
Barbaro is still dead, of course, but even so he needs your help more than ever. The Lexington Herald-Leader is asking readers to vote on whether Barbaro will go to Heaven. We have no idea why the Herald-Leader gets to decide ... sometimes religion confuses us....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Recruiting with Craig Haubert: Honey, why is Reggie Bush peeking into our son's bedroom window? • 2 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: The top bracket has collapsed! My God, it's all crumbling! Run for your lives! • 4 p.m. NFL ...
NBA Stars Handling Amaechi News With Typical Grace And Aplomb
As the ESPN blitz ramps up for all John Amaechi, all the time over the next week, they've been helpfully compiling current athlete and coach reactions to Amaechi's "revelation." As you might suspect, most players have been coached to say, "Hey, no problem, all good, I just want to win," but, inevita...
Matt Simms Can Roll A Fat One (In A Slightly Different Fashion Than His Brother Can)
You might not have realized that Phil Simms actually has two football playing sons. The first is Chris Simms, of course, who was John Amaechi before it was COOL to be John Amaechi. But the second is Matt Simms, who is about to attend Louisville and has proven to be a bit of an asshead....
Jay Mariotti Can't Figure Out Why Everyone's So NEGATIVE
We enjoyed the countless emails we received yesterday informing us that "Around The Horn" host Tony Reali — an affable fellow whom we imagine being ultra intense about rec league softball, for some reason — yelled out "don't take my Deadspin away from me" at the end of the program yesterday. (Shocki...
NBA Roundup: Gearing Up For Playoff Run
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while putting on your pantyhose ... • NHL: Pick me last, huh? Colorado's Karlis Skrastins gets the last laugh. Avs get Thrashed, however. • College women's basketball: What is the men's basketball you speak of? Duke beats North Carolina. • NBA: Rise of the Pistons ... Detroit 93, LA ...
The Happy Underbelly Of Recruiting
On a slow news day today, we hark back again to the madness of recruiting day yesterday, not from the fans' or coaches' perspectives ... but from the players'. The grand minds at Every Day Should Be Saturday take a look at what the recruiting process means to high school kids, in a hypothetical firs...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you mourn the loss of Anna Nicole ... • Auto racing: NASCAR Nextel Cup, Budweiser Shootout Selection Show, at Daytona Beach, Fla. We've just discovered that there is something called NASCAR Fantasy League. God, why hast thou forsaken us? [Speed Channel] • College basketball: Notre D...
Tony Romo Gets Back On The Horse
So it's bad enough that Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo still plans on being at the Pro Bowl this weekend, after that rather unfortunate misstep that ended Bill Parcells' coaching career and brought shame upon the great Eastern Illinois University. But guess what? They're actually gonna ask him to hol...
Leftovers: Stay Sad, San Diego
• That's the end of the San Diego Surf Dawgs, at least for now. [Sign On San Diego] • Please, please somebody let Juan Gone back in MLB. [Steroid Nation] • Everybody come see Michael Irvin speak at a Las Vegas church. [Central Christian Of Las Vegas] • Juan Uribe could have himself a busy year. [Fou...
Man, That Commenting Feature Is Totally ####
So after all the fun everybody had with ESPN "Conversation" last week, we thought we'd check back in today and see how it was all going over there. And we found something fascinating: They have a program that specifically censors the word "gay."...
Blythe: Billy Packer's Greatest Moment
We are quite honored today to welcome once again Will Blythe, the former literary editor of Esquire and author of the great book "To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever", to the warm embrace of Deadspin. (We interviewed Blythe about the book when it came out in hardcover. The paperback is out now....
A Way To Make Sure Fans Behave At Soccer Games
After all the fuss and tussle that has been going on in Italian soccer, it appears they're going to be playing a ton of games this weekend in empty stadiums....
Blogdome: How 'Bout That Cowboys Coach?
• Careful, Romo: Wade Phillips doesn't have the best history with quarterbacks. [Signal To Noise] • A wrapup of the other great rivalry game last night. [Lion In Oil] • That weird college football clock rule didn't shorten games on CBS; it just made the network more money. [The Wizard Of Odds] • An ...
Your New 2006 Tour de France champion? Not Quite Yet, Oscar
Wait, just hold everything here. The Nation of France, postponing a major confrontation? That's odd. The air was thick with nervous anticipation (and, of course, fermented cheese) today as that country's national doping agency was expected to rule on Floyd Landis and the Urine Sample of Mystery. Bla...
ESPN Mobile Will Outlive Us All
Just when you thought it was safe to open your mobile phone browser again ... well ... it's baaaack.......
It's Never Too Early To Ruin A Kid's Enjoyment Of Sport
Yesterday was college football's signing day, and as you've probably noticed by our coverage of that and similar recruiting stories, we're always kind of creeped out by a bunch of middle aged men watching teenagers in their underwear run sprints and lift weights. Maybe it's just us....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA Insider Chad Ford: Are three members of the same NBA team who go looking for fights officially considered a gang? • 2 p.m. Boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley: Are you the only person to have lost two times to a guy named Winky? • 2:3...