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Pity The Poor Derek Lowe
A couple of days ago, the Los Angeles Times' Bill Plaschke wrote a story about the emotional difficulties of Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe, who last year famously left his wife for Fox Sports broadcaster Carolyn Hughes. (You thought we were gonna say "Fox Sports broadcaster Tom Arnold." Admit it.)...
The New New Mexico?
Perhaps the quarterback position at Virginia Tech is merely cursed....
Oh, If Only They Wore Cups In Basketball
If you're one of the lucky ones who opened your morning Bryan-College Station Eagle on Thursday and found a large penis staring back at you, well, congratulations. No, it wasn't one of the paper's newer promotions (find the wiener, win a Mexican cruise!), just a goof by an editor who didn't scruti...
The Sex Boat Story Will Never Go Away. Awesome.
Is it possible to ever get tired of the Vikings sex boat story? We think it's not. We're pretty sure, actually....
Kirilenko's Wife Lets Him Sleep With Other Women; Other Women Say, "Uh, Thanks, But No Thanks"
Meet the anti-Mrs. Doug Christie, ladies and gentlemen....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA draft with Chad Ford: While the rest of the teams will be drafting live, we hear that the Knicks' choices will be on a seven-second delay. Your thoughts? • 3 p.m. NHL with Barry Melrose: So what's the NHL's policy with Olympi...
Get Along, Little Aggie
On the heels of Texas A&M's upset of Texas last night for its biggest win of the year, the Texas bloggers are getting revenge....
Jalen Rose Could Be Your Little Work Buddy
Is your daily work life more empty for its lack of constant updates on Knicks swingman Jalen Rose? Yeah, us too!...
Just Another Way To Celebrate A Duke Loss
All kinds of glee around college basketball this morning, because ding dong, Duke has lost. We always notice a bit of a buzz around this here Web world the morning after a Duke loss; the sun's a little brighter, the grass is a little greener, so on....
Ah, White People
Remember that post from earlier today, about the sports bra Bounce-O-Meter? This is the opposite of that post....
Just Two Days To Wedding Crash At ESPN
Hey, everyone, a reminder: You only have two more days to crash the party of Mike and Mike's Marriage Madness endeavor....
OK, You Guys Freaking Rule
We are less than 24 hours into our big NCAA Tournament Preview Project, and hoo boy, have you guys come through so far. We're projecting — by "we," we mean Joe Lunardi, pretty much — 35 teams into the tournament so far ... and all 35 have been signed up for. We encourage you to check out the whole...
What's Going On With Zack Greinke?
For those of you who don't have your Google News Alerts set to "Kansas City Royals," you might not being paying close attention to a truly bizarre story involving Zack Greinke. The one-time Royals phenom, once called "the future of pitching" by Baseball Prospectus, has left the team for an unspeci...
Yeah, It's A Fight. We Get It
Show of hands: Is anyone still interested in the boxers-shouting-at-each-other-and-then-it-nearly-comes-to-blows-at-the-press-conference routine? The last time that was fresh, we think, was when Max Baer insulted Jim Braddock's wife in 1938. But they continue to do it, for some reason. The latest...
Coach K: iPod Spokesperson
For those of you gearing up for the UNC-Duke game this weekend, we present you with ... a cartoon!...
Help Us Do The Best NCAA Preview Of All Time
Well, kids, Championship Week starts tonight, and you know what that means: The NCAA Tournament is tantalizingly close. We were trying to think of ways we could do the tournament justice, Deadspin-style, and we realized what makes this site fun is not us, but you. Who better to write about individ...
"Uh, Guys? GUYS! Oh Noooooo!"
Ah, Spring Training. The green grass. The sense of renewal. The fields where grown men play a boy's game. The sudden realization that, after years of abuse, it has finally happened: Your balls are gone....
Mark Prior Knows Not Of Your "Blogs"
In the past, we've received emails saying we should check out Mark Prior's MySpace page. We've grown increasingly skeptical of alleged athlete MySpace profiles, if just because, well, about 85 percent of the time they're fake....
Yeah, Damon Back At Fenway Should Be Fun
A reader, calling himself (ominously) "the Hector Villanueva Posse," writes in from Boston to give us this photo of Johnny Damon memorabilia being drastically cut down in price in Boston....
J.J. Jumper: Give Him Something To Break!
The most terrifying mascot in organized sports has to be J.J. Jumper, the official mascot of the NCAA. (Because nothing gets the crowd more fired up than a mascot for a faceless, totalitarian organization. "Prop 48! Prop 48!")...