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To Watch Tonight
What to watch while guarding your pants ... • College football: Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl, Brigham Young vs. Oregon. Mormons forced to shield their eyes from glowy new Ducks uniforms. [ESPN] • College men's basketball: Tulsa vs. Oklahoma, at Oklahoma City; Pittsburgh vs. Oklahoma State, at O...
We're Going To Wally World!
Someone asked us the other day whether or not our job was stressful. We thought about it for a moment and told them that our job is only stressful when we're not doing it. Doing Deadspin is the most fun thing we do; the only time it stresses us out is when we're away from the computer and terrifie...
Leftovers: The Greatness Of The Rocky Montage
• An outstanding, definitive guide to Rocky montage sequences. [Slate] • The gritty, gutty, spunky, fiesty Joe McEwing ... now a member of Red Sox Nation! [MLB.com] • Who are the NFL's most uninspired coaches? [Gelf Magazine] • Summing up life as a Bills fan. [Fitted Sweats] • An inspired rant again...
This Guy Is Very Excited About Ken Williams' Offseason Moves
It's a Christmas Miracle! Ladies and gentlemen, we present you with the spiritual brother of our friend Mike Cooper ... meet Ryan Drop....
Those Saucy Ladies Of The ABC NBA Pregame
Awful Announcing has found the video ABC will be using to intro its NBA games this year — debuting Christmas Day, for the now-tired Shaq vs. Kobe matchup — and it features a group we don't know called "the Pussycat Dolls." (That name sounds like it was focus grouped by Mattel, by the way.)...
One Small Step For A Harbaugh, One Giant Leap For Mankind
Not 24 hours after Jim Harbaugh was introduced as the new head football coach at Stanford on Tuesday, there was a fairly large earthquake centered in Berkeley, home of rival Cal. A sign from the football gods? The answers are unclear; although personally we think that if God were going to punish t...
Deadspin SHOTY Tournament: Carl Monday Vs. Barbaro
And here we are, the matchup we are personally most curious about, the one featuring the infamous Carl Monday and good ole Barbaro, who would be a late charger if only his hoof would grow. We have been looking forward to this one since this got started....
For A Minute There We Thought This Was Going To Look Ridiculous
Ben Foster, an inventor with a simple motto: Dignity, Always Dignity....
Blogdome: All Heart In Spain
• Those Spanish soccer federations are all heart. [This Suit Is Not Black] • Please make Matthew McConaughey go away. [Bored At Life] • What are the most underrated MLB free agents signings? [Mop Up Duty] • The absolute worst players to receive in a trade. [Hoopsmack] • Scoop Jackson, right about so...
Year In Review: October
We're reviewing each month of the past year leading up to New Years Day. We call it, imaginatively, "Year In Review." We're digging through our archives pretty well, but if you think we should definitely feature something for the last year that we might overlook, email us at [email protected] with s...
Special Olympic Perversity In Chicago
We don't mean to be scolding moralists here, but we're pretty sure this is an excellent way to get sent to Hell....
Not Tonight, I Have A Paddock
So it seems that in some cases, that Barbaro slash fiction isn't exactly fiction. Part of us died a little when we read the following, and part of us could not look away. Fortunately, most of the rest of us was out to lunch and didn't see it....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chad Ford: Oh sure, I get punched out in the Warriors parking lot, and no one writes a single word? • 3 p.m. NHL with Barry Melrose: OK NHL, why so toothless and freezy? • 4 p.m. Football scientist KC Joyner: Since a pro...
Yes. It Was, Uh, A Verbal Slip, And In No Way A Glimpse Into A Total Lack Of Football Understanding
If you'll remember yesterday, ESPN "analyst" Desmond Howard made a particularly egregious error during a discussion of the football bowl game he was looking most forward to, claiming it was a California-Texas game that wasn't actually happening. (Cal plays Texas A&M.)...
What The Kids In Nashville Are Up To
This is Tennessee Titans wide receiver Drew Bennett, from yesterday's Tennessean, reminding us once again how happy we are that they let white people play football....
ESPN Has Learned This Post Was Just Written
We were traveling yesterday afternoon — we're back in Mattoon for the holidays — so we weren't able to give this the attention it probably deserved. So allow us to correct that now....
NBA Roundup: Isiah, Knicks Will Rule Us All One Day
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching Chewbacca wrap Christmas gifts ... • NBA: Someday they'll write a book about the Knicks' amazing 2006-07 season. And someone will read it to Isiah. • College basketball: Big Baby, meet Spencer Hawes. Washington 88, LSU 72. • NHL: In which Columbus falls out of the suck...
Burn, Carmelo, Burn
So here's a great pickup from Darren Rovell's SportsBiz CNBC blog: In the wake of the fight last week that left the Nuggets without Carmelo Anthony for 15 games (and with Allen Iverson, which still seems odd), Northwest Airlines has booted Anthony off the cover of its January 2007 edition. (The Fr...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you come down from the high that was the Poinsettia Bowl ... • College basketball: Memphis at Arizona; LSU at Washington. Big Baby tossing fish in Pioneer Square! Run for your lives! [FSN] • College basketball: Arkansas at Texas. Can the Frank Erwin Special Events Center contain the...