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Americans Temporarily Release Death Grip On Tour De France
Floyd Landis is no longer the leader of the Tour de France, after struggling in the longest stage of the Tour de France. Not only is he not leading anymore, but he's over a minute behind. The stage winner was a German named Jens Voigt, and the Overall leader is Spain's Oscar Pereiro....
So Much For A Colorblind Society
The Baltimore Orioles were set to have a Brian Roberts bobblehead giveaway today, but there was a bit of a snafu. 20,000 bobbleheads showed up on their doorstep, and they opened them to find that the Brian Roberts doll had much darker skin than the actul Brian Roberts....
It Just Keeps Giving
I'm afraid I gave you only part of the story with the earlier Mike Cooper post. Carl Monday has gotten himself involved again, and where there's Carl Monday, there's more story....
You Will Not Be Represented By Kobe Bryant This Summer
Reports (from no less than the awesome "ESPN.com news services") are surfacing that Kobe Bryant had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee this summer, and thus, won't be suiting up for Team USA's training camp, or pre-World Championship tour. The surgery itself is described as minor, but it is go...
Mike Cooper Avoids Jail Time; Prison Showers
The sentence has come down, once again, courtesy of our man Jimbo. Mike Cooper, he of library-masturbating fame, was found guilty, and was fined $150 plus court costs. That's it. Bail was $500,000, and the fine is $150. All is well that ends well, I suppose. Who among us hasn't paid $150 for an or...
For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
1:00, Fox. MLB. White Sox @ Yankees, or Dodgers @ Cardinals. Find your game here. 1:30, CSTV. Lacrosse. World Championship, Canada vs. Iroquois Nationals. The Iroquois Nationals are the only Native American team sanctioned to compete in any sport internationally. See, you learned something today. ...
About Last Night...
• MLB: Braves 15, Padres 12. Trevor Hoffman is starting to make a habit out of blowing saves. • WNBA: New York Liberty 66, Seattle Storm 86. The loss drops the Liberty to 4-15, which sounds just about right for a pro basketball team in NYC. Does Isiah Thomas have a sister? • MLB: White Sox 5, Yankee...
Week In Deadspin: Sexagenarians, Headbutts And Bears, Oh My!
• Get this folks: Danica Patrick needs to occasionally use a tampon! No way! • MIke Cooper is sentenced and Deadspin is THERE! • Sigh. Another Rocky movie. • Hey, rugby players have to pee too! • Rick Chandler is having tons of fun in Tahoe. • Zinedine Zidane had a somewhat busy week. • It's your ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while building a Lionel Richie head... • Boxing: Featherweights, Jason Litzau vs. Marcos Ramirez, at Rincon, Calif. We are so there. On TV, we mean. [ESPN2] • MLB: Atlanta at San Diego. Time for Padres to make their move. (Is anyone buying it?). [TBS] • Softball: World Cup, USA vs. Can...
The Mike Cooper Sentencing ... You Are There!
Well, the Mike Cooper sentencing is over, and our man Jimbo was, indeed, there. We're still not sure precisely what Cooper's sentence was — Jimbo didn't make it that far into the proceedings — but he was there, and he even captured Cooper and his parents on his camera phone ... kind of....
"Leon ... POWE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So we haven't been watching much summer league basketball, if just because the only local games on around these parts are the Knicks, and honestly, if we wanted to watch a snuff film, we'd just go see the new M. Night Shyamalan movie....
Leftovers: Mark Eaton's Bad Day
• The story behind that Howard Stern/ESPN/Steve Bartman prank. [Bad Idea Blue Jeans] • That's all for Bruce Arena. [U.S. Soccer] • Maxim and CBS Sportsline .. two great tastes that taste great together. [FishbowlNY] • It's obvious the ESPN personalities Bill Simmons wants to punch are the Sklar brot...
Can You Even Call It A "Red Carpet" If It's Just For The ESPYs?
See these poor souls? They're the sad sacks who ended up sitting in the heat during the ESPYs Red Carpet Show, which, if you're extremely lonely and sad, you'll be watching this Sunday night. We can't imagine what would be worse than having to sweat and watch Stuart Scott refer to the night "of ph...
Baby You Can Sign My Card
Deadspin associate editor Rick Chandler is at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Stateline, Nev., this week. He is not considered one of the celebrities. In fact, he has been called a wuss by Scott Hamilton. Here is the second of today's two reports....
An Empty Desk Is An Efficient Desk!
Mistakes? We don't make mistakes. So, this is your receipt for your husband, and this is our receipt for your receipt....
Cultural Oddsmaker: Death Becomes Them
A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Send him all kinds of fan mail....
Blogdome: If We Were A Shaman, We Wouldn't Be So Competitive
• The Kids In The Hall respond to IRL driver Ed Carpenter. [I Dislike Your Favorite Team] • You know, Chris Fowler is really into this wedding planning business. [Every Day Should Be Saturday] • The case for keeping Dusty Baker. [Chicago Sports Review] • It's the great drugs and sports giveaway! [Mr...
Apparently Student Athletes Have It Easier Than Us
We once showed up for a lecture hall study session for an economics class of about 200 people at the University of Illinois, sitting next to a friend of ours who was much better about attending class than we were. As people filed in, an older man sat next to us and asked, "Hey, is this the Econ 10...
"I'm The Hoff" In Milwaukee
The recent surge in baseball stadiums encouraging fans to send text messages to show on the scoreboard is an encouraging one; we've heard rumors of a "You're With Me, Leather" at Busch Stadium, though no screenshot exists yet, and we haven't hit the zenith of a "Get Away From Me, Carl Monday" at Jac...
Do Not Date Flozell Adams, Girls
A Web site we hadn't heard of before called Don't Date Him, Girl purports to list the names and descriptions of guys that girls should, you know, not date, girl. Web sites like this make us nervous, so after we searched for our own name and the names of almost all our friends, we were pointed to t...