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Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • We've always said it — never bet on the fat pitcher when there's pie waiting in the clubhouse. • Football picks guru Brandon Lane coasting on fame ... you, not so much. • That urge to be...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while poking the Pillsbury Dough Boy a little too often and a little too vigorously ... • ALDS: Yankees' Mussina does his part to head off disaster that would be an Angels-Padres World Series. • NLDS: Jake Peavy discovers broken rib, Padres discover they're down 0-1 to Cardinals. • A...
Those Racist Cubs Owners
Working presumably from ESPN Page 2 columnist Scoop Jackson's somewhat inexplicable column about racism and Cubs manager Dusty Baker earlier this season, satirical Onion-esque site SportsPickle "reports" that Cubs Management Unsure How To Fire Baker Without Exposing That They're Racists....
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Finally, the airports get tough on terrorism. Um, well, actually they get tough on fantasy football. But it's a start. • Roses are red, violets are blue; White Sox, Contreras are smili...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Jay Mariotti
"Never dull and always armed with an opinion ..." Beware those eight little words. When you read them, it can only mean: A) Ann Coulter has escaped her zoo enclosure and has written another book; or B) Your paper is promoting its circus freak show sports columnist. Jay Mariotti is one of these. He...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Who has Eli Manning fever? If you don't stop scratching, it'll never heal. • NHL's new rules have bettors a little skittish? You should see the goalies. • The Week in Football Betting — ...
Today In Oddjack
We haven't made much of a secret about this: We're not that into gambling on sports. (We don't need anything to make sports more fun.) But we understand its appeal, particularly when our scrappy connoisseur of vice brother Oddjack is on a roll like he is today. Declaring today "Football Up Your As...
Today In Oddjack
Things Our Sexual Deviant Brother Oddjack Is Wrong About Today ... • Barry Bonds is being shut down, probably as early as today. So, uh, we wouldn't bet on him, no. • The San Diego Padres couldn't be scarier if they were wearing a bright red jacket with chains and dancing around a graveyard. • Nobod...
NBA Players Apparently Have Wives
We know it's not quite as exciting as baseball players palling around with women who aren't their wives, but Yay!Sports entertains us anyway by directing our attention to this extended message board post with pictures of NBA stars and their wives. Some are cute (we love Brian Grant and his family)...
Blogdom's Best: Toronto Blue Jays
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Michael Vick drags his gimpy leg into chilly Buffalo for your gambling pleasure. • "A 'Vinny the Squirtz' is here to see you, sir; something about football wagering. Shall I call the Duc...
Michigan Courts Make Society Safe Again
We know it's amazing that sports have been able to continue in the 10 months since the Pistons-Pacers brawl at The Palace in Detroit, but somehow, someway, athletic endeavors have been able to stagger on. In another example of the brutal ramifications of the actions of everyone involved, the three...
Derek Jeter ... REVEALED! (Uh, by CBS.)
After its rather incomprehensible look at Miami Dolphins hemp advocate Ricky Williams last week, "60 Minutes" continues to scrape the filthy underbelly of the sports world with a cutting look at Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. You won't believe the dirt they've uncovered. It's Derek Jeter LIKE YOU'...
The Lactating Rafael Palmeiro
Well, now it appears that the "secret source" for Rafael Palmeiro's steroid wasn't a "source" or, for that matter, a "steroid." (But Palmeiro's name was, in fact, spelled correctly.) It turns out that Palmeiro told Congress that Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada gave Palmeiro a B-12 Vitamin, which i...
Jay Mohr: Comedy's Skip Bayless
We'll admit it: We don't really understand those columns that failed movie star/failed TV star/failed game show host Jay Mohr is writing for SI.com. They're not funny, but they're not really incisive about sports either; they just kind of hang out there, like a faded balloon (or a Marge Schott bre...
Ladies Help Manny Be Manny
More great Webshots searching by On the DL today: The above picture is of Red Sox dingbat Manny Ramirez partying it up with a bunch of ladies he met at a bar earlier that night. (He appears to be teaching them how to "dance.")...
Just A Bunch Of Nerds, Debating Nerdom
We're big fans of Fire Joe Morgan's weekly deconstructions of ESPN analyst Joe Morgan's chats on ESPN.com — even if the chats of late, in the words of Fire Joe Morgan itself, have had "entirely un-Morgan-like reason and coherence" — and, to have some fun themselves, the folks at St. Louis Cardinals ...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • All those circling vultures can't be wrong: Vikings' Mike Tice surges into the lead in the first-coach-to-be-fired derby. This is getting exciting. • Ah, just what we needed: a reason fo...
Blogdome: This Is What It Sounds Like When Fish Cry
• Marlins bloggers officially throwing in the towel. [Fish Stripes] • Success turning Southern Cal football fans into as big a weirdos as Southern college football fans. [Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer] • What is happening with the English Premier League? [Off Wing Opinion] • Looks like every baseball ...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Hitching your wagon to Cadillac Williams' star. • So, did you bet that Jim Haslett would be the first NFL coach to lose his job? Wrong, hurricane-breath. • Enjoy the good will, Saints, b...