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Week In Deadspin: Any Football Going On Sunday?
• Kwame Brown wants his cake, goddammit! • Rick Chandler and hist history with Tom Brady. • Mark McGwire Speaks! (Kind of.) • Saints fans were rather happy last week. • Our Cardinals meet the Prez. • Tom Brady and Gisele. Keep an eye on that guy; he's an up-and-comer. • David Beckham, still everywhe...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after an exhausting afternoon of Winnie the Pooh Day festivities ... • Boxing: Light welterweights, champion Randall (George) Bailey vs. Michael (The Roaming Gnome) Warrick, for IBA championship, at Key West, Fla. [ESPN2]; Junior featherweights, Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Cuauhtemoc (The At...
AFC Championship Pants Party: Colts Vs. Patriots
All right, Colts-Pats. We'll take it. It's a canned storyline, but it's still a fun one ... particularly if Peyton Manning has to drive the Colts down the field with less than two minutes and the Pats up by, like, four. That sounds amazing....
Leftovers: That's All They Need, ANOTHER Commentator
• Looks like Tiki Barber is heading to NBC. [Variety] • A Bears fan's open plea to Saints fans. [Zulkey] • Get your Arizona Cardinals gear ... cheap! [Fat Wallet.com] • In case you missed it, Sean Salisbury responded to the Lil' Sean story last week. [Inside SoCal]...
"42 ... 15 ... Set ... Down ... BLECHHHH ... Hike!"
From a Texas high school championship game last week, here's a young quarterback who is going to let absolutely nothing stand in the way of victory. How do we know? The guy vomits, then hikes the ball, throws a game-winning touchdown pass, then vomits again. Now that's devotion. Or, at the very leas...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's the Next NBA Wife to Go Psycho?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
We Make Sure The Wars Are Small Ones
You know, we Italians have our families and the church, the Irish have the homeland, the Jews their tradition, the n——s their music. What do you guys have? We have the United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting....
The First Rule Of Pillow Fight Club: Do Not Talk About Pillow Fight Club
"Pillow fights were different in my day," said the old man, his wrinkled features revealing the memories. "We didn't have these modern synthetic pillows, or neck pillows with lumbar back support. We used the real thing, with feathers! Yeah, sometimes they'd bust open. But that was the chance you too...
Blogdome: My First ESPN Mag
• Taking down ESPN: The Magazine, one page at a time. [Rivalfish] • The Eagles could be on the verge of signing an odd new punter. [Blinq] • A baseball fan's new Hall of Fame project. [Book Of Scrap] • Athletes, their sons and the movies. [The Serious Tip] • The Congressman who voted against the Gat...
Apparently, There Are Blood Dopers In Cycling
So you know how Floyd Landis was tested positive for doping — kind of — after the Tour de France and they're probably going to give his title to the second place finisher? Well, turns out, that's probably not going to work either....
NFC Championship Pants Party: Bears Vs. Saints
We're not sure what more we can say about any of these games, except to say that Rex Grossman vs. Drew Brees is certainly the marquee quarterback matchup of Sunday, without question....
Final Proof (Mostly): The NHL Rigged The All-Star Vote
Eric McErlain told us last week, and now Slate, in an Investigative! Report!, confirms it: The Rory Fitzpatrick vote was rigged by the NHL, assuring that he would not make the All-Star Team....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: Is it right for my wife to describe our scheduled lovemaking this Saturday as "a play-in game?" • 3 p.m. Mid-Majors with Kyle Whelliston: Do you think that Creighton has a chance in the ... oh no, ...
This Week In Soccer: At Last, Consequences For Taking A Dive
Marco Borriello is a soccer player for Milan who recently failed a drug test following a match with Roma, but had a very interesting excuse in his defense. You've heard of accidentally testing positive for banned substances by eating a poppyseed muffin, or taking cough medicine? Well, take a look at...
Oh, To Be A Cop Outside A Steelers Game
As many of you likely already know, the great city of Pittsburgh has a mayor who is 26 years old, Luke Ravenstahl. He's in the midst of a campaign right now — he took over the job when former mayor Bob O'Connor died — and that means when you were once handcuffed outside Heinz Field for an altercatio...
Ice Jumping Seems To Be Rather Important In Norway
As you might have suspected, we do not speak Norwegian; we're not even that fluent in Swedish Chef. So we're going from a rough translation here, but apparently a Norwegian women's ski jumping team is in trouble for punishing poor jumps by punching the offender in the face....
NBA Roundup: Lakers Are Little Trouble For Big D
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while suddenly looking suspicious for carrying a water bottle to the gym ... • NHL: Is she fast? It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less then 12 parsecs. Bruins over Penguins, 5-4. • NBA: Mavericks beat Lakers for NBA halfway-point championship. • Tennis: Hey, Serena Williams!...
You Fought The Law, And The Saints Won
If you're wondering whether or not those in the New Orleans area are as fired up for this Sunday's NFC Championship Game as the typically terrifying Bears fans are, here's a little proof for you: In a current court case involving Fay Thibodeaux Danos against Avondale Industries, they're actually pos...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your plans to jog around the globe hit a snag ... • College men's basketball: Massachusetts at Xavier [ESPN]; Wake Forest at Duke. You know, an enterprising thief could rob Krzyzewskiville blind tonight ... [ESPN2] • NBA: Indiana at Miami; L.A. Lakers at Dallas. Let's see how man...