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You Can't Divide By Zero
Apparently, our DVR isn't working right, becaues we've yet to watch "Quite Frankly: Afterthoughts," the Oprah-esque "spinoff" featuring host Stephen A. Smith talking with his studio audience. It launched Tuesday, which is extremely frustrating to us, considering we went to see the show on Monday, ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Columnist Scoop Jackson: You ran for President twice, and now most recently have written a book about shoes. How the mighty have fallen. Wait, was that you? • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: We've got the script for Rocky VI, an...
Larry Bowa, Voice Of Calm And Decency
The rumors are coming fast and with much fury, and the notion of it makes us so happy we almost want to dance: The Yankees have offered combustible engine Larry Bowa a job as their third-base coach. It is not known whether Bowa could be considered a potential replacement for Joe Torre were he to f...
Today In Oddjack
Hey, look at all the stuff Oddjack has. Cool. • More details on the depths of Michael Jordan's gambling addiction. • One week until the Breeder's Cup, when the earth shakes on its axis. • How long will the Colts' and Texans' zeros remains zeros?...
Those Go-Go White Sox
As the White Sox start preparing for the Astros, we gleefully direct you to this Webshots album called, succinctly, Party With The White Sox Players. Featured are Paul Konerko and, most prominently, surly but "lovable" catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Make sure to check out the one where he's licking jel...
Why Is This Man So Excited?
This is Astros closer Brad Lidge, and in this picture anyway, he's a very excited young man. (It obviously was not taken Monday.) There are many reasons he might be so happy. He could have just closed out an Astros victory. He could have learned that he wasn't going to be a lot of money for his ca...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for bot the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • The smart money seems to be flowing toward Roy Oswalt and the Astros tonight. That's making Albert Pujols very mad — and you don't want to make him mad. • It's Troy vs. Florida Internatio...
Today's Favorite Repulsive Unsubstantiated Rumor
From a reader, in response to our recent items on Joe Buck and Todd Zeile:...
Another Excuse To Want To Strangle Joe Buck
Whatever your thoughts on Joe Buck — and we suspect we know where your feelings on this lie — he has just committed a sin most heinous to pretty much everyone we know: He trashes "Curb Your Enthusiasm," saying, "I am sure the same thing will happen to me in about 2009 when I finally chuckle at one...
Zoot Suitin' Boogie
All right, we've avoided this long enough: We now have to acknowledge this whole NBA dress code thing. What sparked us into action? Why, Mark Cuban, of course, who addresses the "controversy on his blog. His take: It's a matter of owners not knowing how to relate to their players, which is a shock...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: OK, does it technically count as a trade rumor if you make it up yourself? • 1 p.m. NFL Draft expert Mel Kiper: Each year in late April, I dress up a Ken doll to look like you and give it a mock beatin...
Coles Gets His Oprah Moment
As promised, Jets wide receiver Laveranues Coles appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to talk about his being molested by his stepfather as a child. As you might expect, Coles cried, Oprah cried, everyone cried. (Dick Vermeil came by, he cried, Jimmy Swaggert came by, he cried, Sean Penn came by, ...
Our Field Trip To "Quite Frankly"
We finished up with the site early yesterday not because we're lazy, but because we consider Deadspin a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. (Oh, uh, except for weekends.) We wrapped up our Monday posts in record time, because we had to hustle downtown, because we had the hottest ticket in town: ...
Joe Torre, Masochist
One of our favorite games as a kid — and still, actually — was "Rock And A Hard Place." You remember the game: It involved making someone choose between two equally undesirable options. Would you rather kiss a donkey on the butt or look at a naked picture of your mom? You know, that sort of thing....
Begging For Red Sox-Yankees Absolution
No matter who ends up winning the Cardinals-Astros series, it's still a disappointment to FOX executives, who, as always, were not-so-secretly rooting for the Red Sox or Yankees to make the World Series. (Because there are no baseball fans outside of those two cities, you see.)...
Much Respeck For TNT
We have to give the mad propers to TNT, which is promoting its upcoming NBA television schedule by giving their promos to the great Ali G. The hysterical faux hip-hopper interviews Lakers "star" Kobe Bryant and Esquire's Chuck Klosterman subject Steve Nash in commercials that YAYSports! helpfully ...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bill Plaschke
We have seen Bill Plaschke's desk. Well, to be more precise, we haven''t actually seen the surface of the desk — just the refuse piled on top. We doubt that anyone working at the Los Angeles Times since the early 1990s has seen what's underneath. To best describe it, think Dennis Nedry's work stat...
Plummer Asks The World, "Who Wants Some?"
Ah, Jake Plummer. Whether it's the mustache, the tendency to occassionally throw the ball with his left hand or his odd or his admirable but oddly hesistant anti-war views, you can always count on Jake Plummer to entertain. This week: A feud with a local columnist over his cheerleader girlfriend....
Coles To Tell His Oprah-Worthy Tale On Oprah
Jets wide receiver Laveranues Coles spoke out last month about being molested by his stepfather, and tomorrow he will reap the inevitable glory: He'll talk about it on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." He will appear with an "entertainment reporter and Park Avenue socialite" who went through the same orde...
Today In Oddjack: Hope For Cards Fans!
We have much faith in Oddjack, tonight. If they don't come through for us, we're gonna run down to Oddjack world headquarters and there will be fisticuffs, we tell you, fisticuffs! • There is no reason to panic. There is no reason to bleed Cardinals red. St. Louis is bringing it back to, well, St. L...