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DeShawn Stevenson Doesn't Care About His Money
From time to time, you'll hear about a ridiculous bet that NBA players make during practice... something like putting a couple grand on a halfcourt shooting contest. And I always think, "Man I'd love to watch something like that."...
Don't Expect An Italian Soccer Update Today
You may have noticed the lack of Italian soccer in the "Viewing Pleasure" feature today (though I have my doubts). There's not going to be any Italian soccer played this weekend, or for a while ... but that'll happen when fans riot, about 100 people are injured, and a cop is killed at a soccer game....
Lil' Ronnie Throws Down the Gauntlet; Common and Kanye Answer
In what's shaping up to be the most vicious rap beef since 50 Cent tangled with Oprah, Common and Kanye West have ignored Lil' Ronnie's advice to "step off." No, they have stepped right the heck on, recording this little pro-Bears ditty, "Southside Superbowl."...
You Know What It Takes To Win High School Basketball Games?
A Maine high school basketball coach lost his job after he instructed each of his players to lay their hands on their crotch pickles. It's not quite as dirty as it sounds; he didn't do it in a Michael Jackson sort of way. Really, it was just a slight variation of "gutcheck time," just a little farth...
About Last Night...
• NBA: Clippers 100, Celtics 89. Fourteenth straight loss for Boston, setting a new franchise record. Sometimes, I feel like Danny Ainge and Isiah Thomas are the same person. • College Basketball: Yale 43, Princeton 35. You know what, shot clock? You can just so straight to hell. • Track and Field: ...
Week In Review: Who Says Super Bowl Week Is Boring?
Jesus, people: What a week....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you put the finishing touches on your concrete toboggan ... • Boxing: Heavyweights, Zuri Lawrence vs. Dominick Guinn, at Rochester, N.Y. [ESPN2]; Junior middleweights, James Kirkland vs. Billy Lyell; junior welterweights, Timothy Bradley vs. Michael Clark, at Santa Ynez, Calif. Why ...
This Is Probably Not A Good Idea, But ...
So you know the Super Bowl? Big game, Bears-Colts, this Sunday, Billy Joel's gonna be there? Yeah, that one. Well, in a move we'll probably end up regretting, we have accepted an invitation to do the live blog of the game for CBS Sportsline. We decided to do this because the Super Bowl is on CBS, an...
Leftovers: Blogs Make The World Happy
• You know what makes the Super Bowl better? BLOGS! [Jewcy] • A history of Mark Cuban's fines. [Shmula] • The exclusive Barbaro interview from heaven. [Rivalfish] • Conan O'Brien against Serena Williams in Wii tennis. [YouTube]...
Daulerio At Superbowl XLI: The Mustache Will Not Be Going to Maxim Tonight
Deadspin "correspondent" AJ Daulerio is filing dispatches from the Super Bowl all week. This is the final entry of the week, though he might be back this weekend and will definitely be back Monday....
Super Bowl Pants Party: Bears Vs. Colts
You know, this football season has been so much fun that we really are sad to see it end. But, alas, it has to, and there's an actual game Sunday, if you can believe it. Will we have another year of mocking Peyton Manning for choking? Because we'd almost be sad if we couldn't do that anymore. Awfull...
Come On, Ask Him About Chad Pennington
When one of the editors of Kissing Suzy Kolber has his picture taken next to a clearly thrilled Joe Namath ... well, that gets itself its own posts. Sometimes worlds collide a bit too much around these parts....
Negro Bowl I: History Is History
As you might have heard from a media outlet or two, this is a historic Super Bowl because it features two African American head coaches for the first time....
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who Will Knock Off the Mustache?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
Non Movie Quote Sponsors Post
For the first time in more than a year, we have no movie quotes for you in the sponsors post this week, mainly because it would get too cluttered and confusing. (We were going to choose something obscure, independent and weird, so it's probably for the best.) Instead, there's another sponsor poll we...
Sorry Nick, We're Just 'Not Feelin' It'
Hot quarterback prospect Robert Marve of Plant High School (Tampa, Fla.) isn't going to Alabama after all. Such is the magical allure of new Tide head coach Nick Saban, who played host to Marve's recruiting visit recently and obviously told one of his folksy, down-home coon-ass stories that everyone...
Blogdome: Chicken Scratches
• It's true: Some athletes really can't sign their name. [PopJocks] • Why should everyone be waiting around for Roger Clemens? [Signal To Noise] • Don't feel so bad, Iona. There are others. [Gheorghe: The Blog] • How AJ Daulerio beat Duke. [Just Call Me Juice] • Fun with players' MySpace photos! [Ro...
The NFL Babelfish Translation
Because it has more people than New Jersey — and THAT'S a lot of people — China has garnered the attention of major sports league; you gotta expand somewhere. The NFL is doing everything it can to gain traction there, but it's important that your consumers understand, you know, what the heck is goin...
Well, Thanks For Checking In, Gunslinger
On the last weekday before the Super Bowl, you can definitely count on one thing: Brett Favre making sure everyone's talking about him....