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How Texas And Oklahoma Fight For Football Recruits
Everyone knows recruiting for big time college football programs is a shady business, but it's instructive to occasionally be reminded what schools and players go through on the road to a letter of intent....
Happy Holidays From The 1986 Dallas Cowboys
The Deadspin Morning Video Wake Up Call needs your help. If you have any suggested videos to fill this space, email us. Subject: Morning Video Wake Up Call....
NFL Secret Santa! Jamboroo, Week 17
Drew's Jamboroo runs every Thursday. Buy his book here. Email Drew here. Read him at KSK....
Mike Tomlin Thinks Your Holiday Gimmicks Are Stupid And Tiresome
Apparently, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's harmless "if it will get you out of here" to this man dressed in a red suit has resulted in this AP story making him out to be a joyless anti-Santa. It's purely coincidental Steelers announced that there will be no more visits from Santa during press conferen...
Teixeira Announcement May Be Just Minutes, Or Seconds, Away
Well it was fun pretending that Mark Teixeira had chosen the Mets. But the Washington Times is reporting that a real announcement is close — like today close — and that the choice is ......
The 49ers, Wacky Mustaches, David Letterman And You
The 49ers and Raiders have had pretty horrific seasons, but the Bay Area franchises couldn't be handling their lack of success more differently....
R.I.P. Dock Ellis: The Curveball That Rode The Dragon
It is fitting that the great Dock Ellis died on a Friday, which is the worst day to die. Nobody pays attention to news on Saturdays....
Do Not Watch Unless You Feel Like Screaming
This is from this past weekend's New Orleans bowl, where Southern Miss receiver DeAndre Brown's leg just...stopped working. Brown is 6-6, 230 pounds of can't-miss NFL prospect. Amazingly, after successful surgery on Sunday night to repair the "clean break", he still might not miss anytime in 2009....
That's Just ... Not. Right.
• Nice hops: This poor Chinese girl lost both her legs in an accident, so her family replaced them with a basketball. And I thought my health insurance was bad. [Sports Rubbish]...
Is Brian Baldinger's Mangled Digit Growing A Face?
Brian Baldinger's permanently dislocated little finger has been well documented by many, many people since he first started appearing on national television as an NFL analyst....
SHOTY Final Four Is Set
Congratulations to our four finalists in the 2008 Sportshuman of the Year tournament. They've all earned it, in their own way....
Jeff Garcia Gets Rattled (and Bloodied) By The Rush
The Deadspin Morning Video Wake Up Call needs your help. If you have any suggested videos to fill this space, email us. Subject: Morning Video Wake Up Call. Tough day for the Buccaneers, whose playoff chances just became more difficult courtesy of the surging San Diego Chargers. Tough day for Jeff ...
Now That's A Knee Injury!
• Gnarly: Former Bengal Reggie Williams has had a few problems with his knees. Unless you think that having kneecaps that look like tree trunks aren't a problem. [Money Players Blogs]...
Sideline Reporters With Sex Appeal? What a Novel Idea!
Sex over substance on the sidelines, the world's strangest taunt, and Matt Cassell: Hero to some....
Holyfield Loses Narrow Decision, Survives
A Russian giant gets an early Christmas present in Switzerland....
Boom, Goes the RCA Dome
Known as the Hoosier Dome until 1994, it was home to the Indy Colts for twenty-four years, and as of this morning, it is now a pile of rubble. Such is life....
This Is Not Going to End Well
Tonight Evander Holyfield steps back in the ring. The 46 year-old claims to fight on because it is the will of God, but everyone paying attention knows that it's primarily the will of his creditors....
Sidney Crosby Will Sucker-Punch Your Head and Genitals
Here's video evidence of Sid Vicious - also known as Sidney Crosby - landing a few blows to the back of the head of Boris Valabik....
In Which Giant Alien Heads on the NFL Network Set are 'Hilarious'
• We come in peace: I'm not exactly sure what's so hysterical - it's probably the drugs! - about producers from the NFL Network deciding to make the on-air talent's heads look like creatures from another galaxy, but the guys on the set (especially Deion) seem to get a huge kick out of it. [SOX & Daw...
Undie Run, Naked Pogo-Sticking, And Darth Vader's Boobs
Time for another edition of Waxing Off, the feature that was recently nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. This week we've asked four talented female writers to ruminate on: Shocking college sporting traditions....