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Strangely, The Statue Is All Natural
See, this is why you should hold off of bronzing your players until they've been retired for a while....
Jim Nantz Does Like Him A Good Pun
With the official Week Of Jim Nantz just around the corner — starting Saturday, Nantz is about to take a starring role in all your nightmares — we are reminded that Nantz, right now, is probably sitting in a hotel room in Atlanta, jotting down puns and single entendres based on which ever team wins ...
Your AL Central "Preview"
Everyone says it's the toughest division in baseball, but we think it's just the mostly hotly contested: You could pretty much interchange any of those top four teams and not sounds like a fool. But those Royals ......
I Said, I'LL HAVE A HEINEKEN!
We learned long ago never to try to intervene in a bar fight between Bulgarian soccer fans shouting pro-Turkish remarks at a group of supporters of the Greek national team. It's just common sense, really. One unfortunate bartender, however, learned this lesson the hard way when he got into the middl...
Blogdome: Tyler All Slicked Back
• Tyler Hansbrough's high school pictures are kind of awesome. [We Are The Postmen] • LenDale White has gotten himself fat. [Chicks Did The Long Ball] • Here's what the Final Four players are studying. [One More Dying Quail] • Yes, now they're asking Dice-K about Angelina Jolie. That was inevitable....
Baseball Season Preview: Texas Rangers
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
How Can We Live In A Sports World Without George Solomon?
After 21 months of gentle tsk-tsking and slight, bemused wags of the finger, ESPN ombudsman George Solomon said goodbye in his last column yesterday. Surely, he dramatically changed the landscape of ESPN and ... uh ... well ... all right, maybe it was a mostly inconsequential and tame column that ne...
Your AL East "Preview"
All right, whether you're ready for it or not, baseball is starting Sunday night. (The Mets will watch the Cardinals raise their World Series title flag. The Cardinals won the World Series last year.) The full slate of games kick off Monday, so we figured it was time to start previewing some divisio...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLS w/ KC's GK Kevin Hartman: Just to make you feel at home, we'll mill around on the other side of the Internet ignoring you completely, OK? • 3 p.m. Final Four with Mark Schlabach: Next Florida coach ... Jim Harrick? • 3 p.m. ...
Nothing Says "Comfort Hug" Than A Room Full Of Whores
You know, sometimes we wonder if Deadspin were British (or Czech) and the major sport was — ha! — soccer, we might have even more fun around here....
Joe Buck, The Billboard With A Heart
So here's an inventive idea, straight from our Jack Bauer-torturing friends in China: Rather than slapping corporate logos on the players, just slap 'em on the announcers....
Ronald, Wooden And Some Teenagers
Last night was the McDonald's All-American Game in Louisville. It attracts a colorful, surreal crowd....
NBA Roundup: Limping to Sixty
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while knitting a ransom note ... • NBA: Turning 60 ... Mavericks beat Bucks for 60th win, but down goes Nowitzki! • NHL: Oh, Buffalo ... Sabres beat Devils in East showdown. • Baseball: Curt Schilling takes time out from his blog to do a little pitching for the Red Sox....
"The Ball Is Tipped ..."
Because we are just more than two days away from the Final Four, we thought we'd all work ourselves up into a sappy, cheesy frenzy with the good ole "One Shining Moment." Never before has something so horrible felt so, so right. (Note: Everything horrible feels right, actually.)...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while your dog eats steak and truffles ... • NBA: Houston at Los Angeles Clippers. One day the Clippers will be good, and all people will travel to appointments with personal rocket jet packs. [ESPN] • Prep basketball: McDonald's All-American Game, at Louisville. Welcome to the creepie...
Baseball Spits In Congress' Face (And Yours)
So, it's pretty much set in stone now: If you don't have (or can't get) Direct TV, you're shit out of luck....
Leftovers: In The Hands Of Landon
• The MLS is counting on Landon Donovan? Awesome. [SI.com] • A wacky fan-on-the-field incident in the AFL. [Still Football] • Heckler says he didn't use the N-word. [ESPN] • Grady Jackson has no problem with suing his own team. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] • Billy Gillepsie isn't going anywhere. [...
There's More Than One Way To Skin A Softball Player
This, friends, is the College of Southern Idaho softball team and their VERY clever slogan this year. CSI — wee! — is a tiny junior college with an incredibly innovative way of promoting its players. They ask them if they're "shaven or unshaven."...
Clog, The Illini Way
Our father's birthday is in August, and we were trying to figure out what we should give to him. It's difficult to shop for Dads; we're not sure there's any Cardinals merchandise left....