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Lots Of Deals, Staches, and Kevin Bacon
(Ed. Note: Same as yesterday, the "Gawker Video Bin" is down. This Awful Announcing joint is brought to you once again by You Tube, home of Kige Ramsey and Latina teenage girl fights.)...
The Great Proletarian Cultural Sneaker Revolution Has Begun
Still entertaining the notion that the U.S. may boycott the Beijing Olympics? Silly idealist. Take a look at these Adidas commercials which will begin airing in the Chinese market next month to coincide with the beginning of the Games. There's nothing like a little Marxist-Leninist-Maoist dogma mixe...
CC'S In Town, Arena League Coach Wigs Out, And Stu Scott Is Scared Of The Internet
(Ed. Note: The Gawker video bin is malfunctioning. That's why there was no video yesterday and why this one is appearing so late in the morning and via You Tube. Awful Announcing is still with us. Things should be running normally, ...soon? )...
Morning Blogdome: Hiroki Kuroda Gets Rattled By The Rush
• Domo arigato Hiroki Kuroda: Almost perfect. But, alas, the Dodgers' rookie pitcher gave up one hit, 0 BBs, on the way to a 3-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves last night. Says a starstruck Joe Torre: "That was about as machine and robotic as you've ever seen a pitcher throw one strike after anothe...
Ana Ivanovic Makes Pretty Faces For The Camera
Tennis fans should be thrilled at how popular the sport is this week. First, it was those weird faceless people popping up at Wimbledon. Then it was the Williams sisters doing their Williams-sister thing. Then yesterday's "epic" Men's Final that showed the world that Spanish men in Capri pants are w...
Sun-Times Guilty Of Blog Swiping?
The Chicago Sun-Times ran a front-page story today about the firing of Chicago State baseball coach Husain Mahmoud for some egregious resume fabricating, but was it their story? It appears the Sun Times' story ran a little late compared to the ones published on June 12th by Babes Love Baseball and C...
Jenn Sterger Fondly Remembers Erin Andrews When She Was Just An Attractive Nobody
Floridian Jenn Sterger, owner of the most popular cleavage in college football and budding something-or-other, appeared on"THE KILLER B's" ESPN 1470 (Tampa) Radio show and decided that her opinion about ESPN's sideline princess, Erin Andrews, was important and needed to be heard. Needless to say, St...
Why, Red Sox Nation? Why?
What do you do if you're a group of Red Sox fans who spot a car stopped in traffic that happens to have New York Yankees license plates? (Keep in mind that there are at least two children in the car). Answer: You surround the vehicle, vandalize it, and then beat the driver with a baseball bat. That ...
Round of the Year Ends In KO of the Year
When Kendall Holt first fought Ricardo Torres for the WBO Light Welterweight title back in September he had to do so in his opponent's home country of Colombia. To call the atmosphere "hostile" would be quite an understatement. When Holt knocked the champion down in the sixth round he was rewarded w...
Thank You New Zealand, For Making Rugby Fun Again
Rugby or porn? Previously, New Zealand TV viewers had to choose. But on Sunday someone apparently decided, why can't we have both? So for nearly four glorious minutes, a "Grass Roots Rugby" match on Sky TV — which I suppose is cable over there — was suddenly replaced with hardcore porn. Key sentence...
It's Time Once Again To Run With Those Sweet, Cuddly Bulls
It probably won't surprise you that the guy pictured here receiving a very special kind of goring is from Philadelphia. Yes, it's time once again for the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain, where each year Darwin has himself a few laughs while thinning out the human herd. But this year, a twist...
C.C. Sabathia On His Way To Milwaukee
Or so says everyone from Cleveland, to Milwaukee, to Buster Olneyville. The Cleveland Indians, who at the beginning of the season thought they'd be able to compete, have officially moved white-flagged it by shuttling their number one starter with the crooked cap to the Milwaukee Brewers for power-ba...
Well, That Was A Fun First Week
• Shaun Suisham does not have a foot of the Gods....
Dave Rozema's Infamous Karate Kick, Immortalized In Bobble Form At Last
It may be a short week for Deadspin, but it's a big week for Minor League Baseball promotions ... so drop your pants and fire a rocket for Minor Enterprise....
Stu Scott's Well-Wishes Are Much Appreciated
Washington Post Bog maven Dan Steinberg once again caught up with everybody's favorite late night text-messager, Stu Scott, for a little chat about, oh, anything he could think of at the time....
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Charles Barkley's Petulance About His Gambling Problem Is Truly Entertaining
The always entertaining Round Mound of Double Down is still hanging out at casinos ("It's for charity!) for the "Ante Up For Africa" tournament and caught up with RawVegas to, once again, let people know he's not gambling. Apparently, it it's the media's fault that he's no longer allowed to gamble. ...
Brett Favre: The Packers Really Don't Want You To Come Back (But ESPN Does!)
Yesterday's inevitable Favre "itch" has given NFL writers mired in a mini-camp malaise and added story line — albeit one they've written every year for the past four or five years. What's interesting about how yesterday's NFL Live breakingnews went down was just how fortunate they were to have Al Ha...
Olympic Criminals Are No Match For The Chinese Scooter Police
You may think that you're a clever subversive, plotting to wreak mayhem at the Olympic Games. But you didn't count on the Glorious People's Scooter Police. Hands up, terrorist dogs! Hey, no fair fleeing over that slightly uneven terrain! Come back here!...