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Vote For Rory Falls Short; Is There Something (Ice) Fishy Going On?
So, as we mentioned yesterday, the Web campaign to vote Vancouver Canucks defenseman Rory Fitzpatrick into the NHL All-Star Game fell just short, finishing in third place after once climbing near the very top. Fitzpatrick took it in stride — considering some NHL players and analysts were acting as i...
End It Like Beckham
Despite our lack of Spice Girls and refusal to call anything "the loo," soccer bon vivant and World Cup slacker David Beckham has rejected Real Madrid's contract offer and is headed to our shores. Didn't we fight a war to prevent this kind of thing?...
NBA Roundup: Denver Will Hold Off On Printing Any Playoff Tickets
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Barry Bonds Unlikely To Stay "Pals" With Mark Sweeney Much Longer
Barry Bonds has been dodging, ducking and weaving the Inspector Javerts of Major League Baseball and the U.S. government for so long that it's almost second nature to him; he has moves that would make LaDainian Tomlinson envious. According to this morning's New York Daily News — which remains three ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while shuffling your face ... • College basketball: Sasha Kaun ... Sasha Kaun, Sasha Kaun! Kansas drubs Oklahoma State. • NBA: Forty is the new 25 ... Mutombo, Rockets wallop Lakers 102-77. • NHL: We were only Jokinen ... Crosby pointless, Penguins have no answers vs. Panthers....
Junior Seau, Paragon Of Taste And Virtue
Junior Seau. San Diego legend. New England injured reserver. Man of the people. Pillar of the community. And, obviously, advocate for women's issues....
That's One Way To Handle The Tempest That Is Rex Grossman
The main question in the NFC this weekend: How will Bears quarterback Rex Grossman play? That is to say: Is he going to completely wreck the Bears again, or will he occasionally throw the ball forward and to a gentleman in the correct jersey?...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you make voodoo dolls of Paypal employees • College basketball: Pittsburgh at DePaul; Oklahoma State vs. Kansas. Superman in attendance to support his Jayhawks alma mater. [ESPN2] • College basketball: Duke at Georgia Tech. Let's count all the fun ways the GT student section misspel...
Monday Night Football To Remain 66 2/3 Percent Bald
Whatever your thoughts on Tony Kornheiser on "Monday Night Football" might be — we think the man's hysterical in pretty much every format other than "Monday Night Football" (OK, and CBS primetime) — you best come to grips with them, because he's gonna be back next year....
Leftovers: Changing Your Number Works, Apparently
• The No. 1 selling jersey in the NBA? It's Kobe again. [CNBC] • Whatever brings in fans in Philly. [The 700 Level] • The full report on the Jason Kidd divorce filing. [The Smoking Gun] • The Chris Webber in Philadelphia era appears to be over. [Fox Sports] • Dee Brown, video game CHAMPION. [Jazz No...
Harrick Always Could Recruit
We knew something like this would happen eventually. Jim Harrick, coach of the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League, has a player who is making $2.06 million per season. Two mil, in the D League. Where the previous top salary was $24,000. Leave it to freakin' Harrick....
Keep The Micks Out Of San Diego!
If you're a New England Patriots fan — because Lord knows we need more of those — and you want tickets to the AFC Divisional game in San Diego on Sunday, you're out of luck: The Chargers are restricting online ticket purchases to those from Southern California. Their exact policy: "The San Diego Cha...
Paypal Doesn't Want Slain Soldiers' Families To Receive Aid
In recent weeks, we've been asked for an update concerning The Adam Knox Fund, the fund we founded to send money to the family and platoon of the late Adam Knox, brother of Deadspin reader Thomas Knox (and one of the men behind this famous photo). Well, here it is ... and it's not good. One of the f...
Who Dare Oppose The Flailing Fists Of Fury?
Ah, the windmill. Once a devastating fighting maneuver featured in middle schools everywhere, it has fallen out of favor in recent years, and is now nearly extinct in the wild. The only place one can see it currently is in Popeye cartoons or Spanish soccer, the latter which recently gave us the some...
Blogdome: Fire Weber?
• Well, that didn't take long: The calls to fire Illini coach Bruce Weber have begun. [Your School Sux] • It's a challah of Mark McGwire angst. [The Edge Of Sports] • Trying to make sense of Adam Gopnik's New Yorker football piece. [In The Fray] • How do get inside Rex Grossman's brain? Open the sho...
Just A Reminder On Our Pal Lil' Sean
After his oddly truncated chat yesterday — perhaps there were too many penis-related questions? — we don't really have too much more to add to the Sean Salisbury story except to remind you once again:...
Sammy Sosa-San Could Rack Up The Yen
While his old "pal" Mark McGwire is battered about on every cable channel, Sammy Sosa continues to cast about to find somewhere to peddle his wares. With the major leagues, uh, unlikely, it is only natural that he would look eastbound. And he might have found himself a winner....
Kick Me In The Jimmy! (Well, OK, Kick YOU)
We've all fallen for it, at one time or another: What's the capital of Thailand? Bangkok! And then there are groaning sounds and an unnerving sense that the world is ending....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Page 2's Bill Simmons: Is it possible to obtain more photos of the bottom of your shoes? • 1 p.m.. Football draft expert Mel Kiper: Cowboys' next holder: Troy Smith? • 2 p.m.. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Sorry, I only particip...
Perhaps Now We Can Put All Of This Behind Us?
We suspected as much, but Michigan Sports Center has obtained clear evidence that the exposed USC Song Girl Rose Bowl heiney is, indeed, the result of a wedgie. We'll let the crestfallen Conquest Chronicles explain:...