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Hi Sexy, Tressel Didn't Hear Any Fancy Words And Some Baseball Highlights
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
Buzz Bissinger Seems To Have Finally Spun Himself Out
One of the most fascinating transformations that may have taken place since the Costas Now eruption is the progresive softening of one Buzz Bissinger. It seemed for a while that Buzz was actually determined to make his hatred of sports blogs an inextricable part of his writing legacy. For every inte...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while deciding between pliers and a wrench ... • MLB: Houston at Chicago Cubs (8 p.m., ET). Carlos Zambrano rocks the chin whiskers. [WGN] • Tennis: U.S. Open, men's fourth round and women's quarterfinals, at New York (7 p.m., ET). The only sport that features balls in a can. [USA] • M...
A Little Olympics Snafu Down In The Control Room. Push The Button, Frank
One of my favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 lines came during the movie City on Fire, when, as a woman is gong into labor, Crow T. Robot yells: "Get a catcher's mitt!" It's hard to believe that it's been eight years since MST3K was canceled on the SciFi channel; but for about four hours during t...
UCF Conference Call Takes a Detour Through Phone Sex Line
Fresh off a 17-0 victory over South Carolina State, the University of Central Florida set up a conference call with Notre Dame coach for a day, George O'Leary. Which would have been great. Except the released number was one-digit off and was actually a phone sex line. Uh oh. Cue the intrepid report...
NASCAR's Tony Stewart Makes Sure The Girls Are 18
There won't be a better profile of an athlete written this year. Of course that's assuming you think racecar drivers are athletes. But even if you don't, you need to read this Rolling Stone story on NASCAR's Tony Stewart. Just a few of the details: Stewart used to travel with a pet monkey on his pr...
The Beijing Bureau Says Goodbye
The Olympics have ended, yet our three young lads who dutifully covered them for Deadspin for the past month are still there. They've requested a farewell post. Here it is. Things are pretty quiet here at the Bureau now that the Olympics have (mercifully) ended. Media organizations around the world ...
Barack Isn't the Only Baller In This Race
Barack Obama has gotten plenty of attention for his love of basketball, but it's worth noting that the GOP Veep candidate was a bit of a baller back in the day. Sarah Palin (nee Heath) was known as "Sarah Barracuda" (barracudas being the most tenacious on-ball defenders in the ocean) while captaini...
Levi Johnston's Demon Hockey Seed Complicates Matters For GOP
John McCain's unpredictably odd but glamorous-looking choice for Vice President dazzled the media on Friday, but the case for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin isn't looking as crafty a decision anymore. Most of the controversy stems from Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, tiny eskimo in the ovenand the ...
A Tale Of Two Cycles
I guess Stephen Drew isn't a big name, except for writers of slash fiction. All he did on Monday was hit for the cycle, and AP called him Scott Drew (11th graph). Later Monday, Adrian Beltre also hit for the cycle. What are odds of two players hitting for the cycle on the same day? About the same as...
A Little Background On The Sarah Palin Sportscast Video
In case you were out doing what normal people do over a long weekend and missed it, we found an old Sarah Palin video from her days as a sportscaster at KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska, and posted it early Saturday evening. Here it is. A lot has happened on the Palin front over the weekend, including f...
Morning Blogdome: Yeah, Who Is The Black Erin Andrews?
• Let's just call her "Erin Badonkadonk": Pam Oliver, Danyelle "WTF" Sargent, Sage Steele, Stephanie Ready, Lisa Salters, and Reischea Canidate have all been informally nominated. [You Been Blinded] • Dustin Destroya: "Pedroia may not have hit cleanup last night, but he was still a one-man wrecking ...
Jersey Hates Rob Stone, A Pair Of Cycles And A Bruin Comeback
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
Ricky Williams Gets High...er Salary, 1-Year Extension
The love affair between Miami RB Ricky Williams and Dolphins management is in full bloom, as the NFL's house practitioner of holistic medicine received an extension through the 2009 season, and reportedly a pay raise to boot. Terms of the raise were not disclosed, but my guess is that it involves la...
Tom Brady to Miss a Month?
Make of this what you will, but there is a yet-to-be-confirmed rumour floating out there that Tom Brady's foot injury may be worse than he's been letting on. Like, "out for four games" worse. From NFL Juice: ...
Does The Governor's Cup Also Contain The Governor's Jewels?
Louisville and Kentucky deserve credit today for saving us from the Sunday blahs by actually scheduling their game one full week before the bulk of the NFL slate gets underway (3:30, ESPN). No, it's not basketball, but it's a fun in-state rivalry, matching up teams that have recently been competitiv...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Kiss August Goodbye
What to watch while Sussman's 8-Bit nightmares become a reality... • In progress — Sport: US Open Third and Fourth Round Coverage [CBS] - Sure is windy there today. • 1:30 — Sport: Beach Volleyball - AVP Crocs Tour Women's Championship [NBC] - May-Treanor and Walsh versus Non-Brazilians. • 1:30 — S...
Ten Quarterbacks You Don't Know, But Should
This is why I love the internet: The Love Of Sports brings us a great list of NCAA quarterbacks that might have made it under your radar. One guy on the list that won't be surprising people this year is Utah's Brian Johnson, who led the Utes to an upset over Michigan yesterday. The Urban Meyer recru...
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Pre-Draft Fantasy Update: Fred Taylor To Split Carries, Arrested [UPDATED]
It's stories like this that give the phrase "arrested at 4 a.m. outside a South Beach Club" a bad name. Miami Beach police charged Jacksonville Jaguars running back Fred Taylor with disorderly conduct yesterday outside the awesomely named "Club Cristal". Taylor wasn't jailed, but instead pinky-swore...
Sweet Lincoln's Mullet! The Sarah Palin Sportscast Video Is Here
Sorry to barge in on your holiday weekend — for God's sake, put on some pants — but I just got back from he movies and found this great video in a basket on my doorstep. It's the one we've all been waiting for, a gift from the cold, desolate North: A sportscast featuring presumptive Republican Vice ...