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About Last Night ...
What you missed while discovering that one of your raccoons has hepatitis ... • Soccer: David Beckham, bitches! • MLB: It ... Is ... ALIVE! Cardinals 3 1/2 out of first. • Tennis: Federer breezes, Nadal says No Mas....
Jason Grilli Is Pretty Sure He Has Fans
Any athlete with his own Web site has several options. He can be entirely weird and wonderful. He can speak blandly about this team and life As A Baseball Player. He can sporadically update and ask for charitable donations. Or he can just try to sell shit. Or, if you're Tigers pitcher Jason Grilli, ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you send your robot squirrel out to take care of the rattlesnake ... • MLB: Detroit at Cleveland [ESPN]; Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs. "He can't hit he can't hit he can't hit, Su-wing batter!" [WGN] • Tennis: ATP, Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, early round, at Cincinnati....
You Can't Tell, But Howie Long Is Erect
If we know our average Deadspin reader, you were obviously watching "Fox & Friends" on the Fox News Channel this morning. But just in case ... Richard Simmons was hanging out with the FOX NFL Sunday crew. Finally, someone who makes Jimmy Johnson look well dressed, and Terry Bradshaw look less gay. ...
Darren Daulton, The Only Man With The Stones To Speak The Truth
A little part of us have always wondered if Darren Daulton's whole time-traveling, metaphysics schtick is a bit of a intricate prank foisted on us by Dutch and John Kruk. But even if it is, it doesn't matter, because it's endless entertaining regardless....
Locate Your Local Viking
From Chiefs Coalition comes this photo from ... well, we're not sure where it's from. But we're having a really difficult time figuring out where that Vikings' hands and feet go....
It's Deadspin HOF Nominations Time
Heavens, it seems like it's been almost 360 days since we introduced the Deadspin Hall of Fame, though it's only been 51 weeks. Holy bejeezus: Our little site is turning two years old in a couple of weeks. Well, guess what, folks: It's time to take nominations for the 2007 class....
No Golf Carts?
• Is Tiger Woods' new course only a walking course, or not? [Fynal Cut] • Does NCAA Football 08 have a cover curse? [$8 Beers] • About that Rutgers player suing Imus. [Nationa Of Islam Sports Blog] • What's everybody gonna get Barry for his farewell tour? [Five Tool Tool] • Jared Allen, awfully happ...
NFL Season Preview: Oakland Raiders
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....
Dice-K Has Expensive Balls (Sorry)
How much would you pay for a baseball signed by Daisuke Matsuzaka? We ask this not as theoretical. There's an actual, concrete price, and ... well, uh, it seems like a lot....
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer: Do you plan to sue Imus back to the Stone Age, or just to the beginning of The Renaissance? • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: The more fun job this coming season ... NBA ref, or police bomb defuse...
Donaghy's Official Guilty Plea, And His Pay Scale
Disgraced — as much as any NBA ref can be more disgraced than they already are — NBA ref Tim Donaghy has officially pleaded guilty to the charges against him. The Smoking Gun has the official document....
Ron Mexico, Head For The Clink
We have become so jaded by the American legal system that it's difficult to imagine a celebrity the likes of Michael Vick actually facing any real jail time. We imagined probation picking up dog doo with his teeth, and a hefty fine. But if the feds were out to get Ron Mexico, it's starting to look l...
The Irish Sing And Sway
We're not sure why we find this video of the Notre Dame football team singing the Irish theme song to their fans so hypnotic, but we too....
One Guy, Pleading Guilty, Blah Blah
If you're all excited — or even, say, a-twitter — about Tim Donaghy's impending guilty plea in federal court today to those whole charges of game fixing, well, settle down there, Paco....