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About Last Night ...
What you missed while making Scott Baker look like a chump... • MLB: Clay Buchholz tossed a no-hitter for Boston. There's one guy who didn't have to pay for sex last night! • CFB: Cal avenged last year's humbling defeat to Tennessee in a primetime shootout. They also covered the spread, which means ...
Parlay 'O the Week
Amateur athletics and gambling go together like bacon and hot fudge. With that in mind, it's my privilege to introduce a new feature, the Parlay 'o the Week. Each weekend I'm around these parts I will share some of my gambling wisdom with you, the reader. Just remember, most of said "wisdom" comes f...
Rodney Harrison Comes Clean, League Remains Dirty
The Patriots plan for a 19-0 season took a big hit today when it was announced that Rodney Harrison has been suspended for the first four games of the regular season. New England's veteran safety's name came up in a federal investigation that's going to rock Roger Goodell's world. When questioned by...
Who's The Next NFL Coach To Mess Up His Family?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
Prepare Yourself For Simmons In Spandex
You thought that whole Bloomin' Onion sauce on the shorts was the most disturbing image you'd ever have of Bill Simmons? You know NOTHING....
Broom For One More
Sentence from the AP story on Philadelphia's 11-10 win over the Mets on Thursday: Fans chanted "Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!'' as they left the ballpark. One man held a broom he sneaked in. What kind of a world is it where a Philadelphia sports fan has to sneak a broom into Citizen's Bank? After winning fou...
It's Nice To See Fighting Back In The Philly Stands
We were talking to resident Deadspin Phillyologist AJ Daulerio a couple of years ago how we feared the new stadiums in Philadelphia, with their shiny whirlgigs and fancy doohickies, would wring some of the life and vigor our of the Philly faithful. Would it make them soft and complacent, too happy ...
Behold The Upper Thigh Of Bill Simmons
We mean not to ruin your breakfast / brunch / 10:45 a.m. taco, but we weren't the only ones befuddled yesterday as to why Bill Simmons ran an extreme closeup picture of his leg hair....
In One Way, The Illini Already Are Champions
The college football season is but three days away, and to the hardcore fan, that means only one thing: The Fulmer Cup has been awarded! And yes, this year's winner of Every Day Should Be Saturday's yearly ode to collegiate athlete malfeasance is one that hits us close to the heart. Somewhere aroun...
Andy Rooney Is Quite Old
Editor's Note: Given our longstanding love of Andy Rooney — we remind you that we own every book Andy Rooney has ever written — we've been trying to avoid any discussion of his recent and now infamous baseball column all week. Alas, inertia has overtaken us. To save our broken heart, we decided to h...
Brett Myers Wishes To Clear The Air
Only one apology in this edition of Who's Sorry Now?, if we're not counting Michael Vick. It's Phillies reliever Brett Myers, who expresses regret over calling Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Sam Carchidi "a retard" during a terse exchange Saturday. Myers had given up a couple of home runs against th...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your a capella group practice ... 8 p.m. — NFL Preseason: Eagles at Steelers. To prepare for the telecast, Tiki Barber was handed index cards by his producers, filled with mean things to say about Donovan McNabb. [NBC] 8 p.m. — MLB: Dodgers at Mets. Come see David Wells pitch for...
Those 30-Run Rallies Will Kill You Every Time
Little did you know that when you watched Maracaibo, Venezuela beat the Netherlands, 21-2 in the Little League World Series on Tuesday, that it wouldn't be the most embarrassing wipeout of week. Meet your 2007 Baltimore Orioles, who lost 30-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. For Texas, it was the...
Charles Rogers, Finding A Home Up North?
We think we've found a great future job for Lions general manager / president Matt Millen, if he's ever actually fired by Detroit. (Ha. Right.) He would make a grand scout for the CFL....