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Sage Steele Will Be The Host Of <em>NBA Countdown</em> If She Wants The Job
NBA Countdown may have found its new host. We've learned that SportsCenter anchor Sage Steele has been offered the job, according to four sources familiar with the process. It is not clear if she'll accept....
Where Does Phil Mushnick's Wordbarf Rank Among Awful Sports Columns?
Phil Mushnick's "Adrian Peterson is a thug and at fault for his son's death" column is bad. Really bad. But is it worse than the reigning champion of instantly appalling sports columns, Mark Whicker's "Here's what Jaycee Dugard missed in sports while she was imprisoned and raped in a backyard shed f...
Your Regular Reminder That Phil Mushnick Is A Race-Baiting Troll
Professional shithead Phil Mushnick is at it again, opining in his unbelievable-even-for-the-Post column that Adrian Peterson deserves some blame for the beating death of his 2-year-old son, a son that until recently he didn't know he had....
Patriots Radio Batshit Winning TD Call Matched Up With Tecmo Bowl Sim
We like many things here at Deadspin, and the list of those things includes "radio announcers going insane over great sports moments" alongside "famous football plays rendered in Tecmo Super Bowl." This video features both....
Sources: Magic Johnson Left ESPN Because Of Bill Simmons
So, why did Magic make his sudden announcement that he's leaving ESPN, less than three weeks before the NBA season begins? An announcement so sudden that the newest addition to NBA Countdown, Doris Burke, appears to have had no idea it was going down?...
Magic Johnson Is Leaving ESPN
ESPN announced today that Magic Johnson is leaving NBA Countdown and the network. Johnson, per ESPN, is leaving "due to his other commitments," which haven't been a problem in the past....
Ecstatic Cardinals Fan Tries To Kiss Pittsburgh Reporter Live On-Air
Poor Guy Junker. The WTAE reporter tried to deliver his somber live report from the site of Pittsburgh's season demise, and all Cardinals fans want to do is kiss him. ...
The Year In Hawk Harrelson Being Awful
First, start playing this video put together by Awful Announcing, containing nearly 10 minutes of baseball's biggest homer being audibly sad and frustrated when things don't go the White Sox's way. Then leave it on in the background and go read the best thing you'll see all day....
The Mourning Anchor
What is it the poet said? Like muffled drums, our hearts beat a funeral march to the grave. And so it is that Bryant Gumbel, a man who is nothing if not prepared, keeps a list of his pallbearers....
Reminder: <em>League Of Denial</em> Is Tonight. Here's A Clip You Haven't Seen
Here's a clip from the Frontline documentary League of Denial. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. tonight on ES—oh right, on PBS....
SMU Ties Rutgers With Minute Remaining On Insane Two-Point Conversion
Somehow, today's Rutgers-SMU battle in Dallas is a conference game, and the two teams (okay, mostly the Mustangs) are doing their best to make it a worthy matchup. SMU tied it with a bit more than a minute left thanks to this two-point conversion they had absolutely no business completing....
David Pollack Doesn't Want Women On College Football Playoff Committee
David Pollack only wants people familiar with college football and capable of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each team to be part of the selection committee responsible for the playoff system beginning in 2016. And he doesn't think women can be involved because they haven't played the g...
The Deadspin Twitter -100*: The 73 Worst Accounts In Sports
Last week, SI.com published its third annual Twitter 100, a list of the Twitter feeds that Sports Illustrated staffers purportedly consider "essential to your daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports world."...
ESPN Cancels International X-Games; More Job Cuts Coming
ESPN is canceling the international edition of the X-Games, Reuters reports. ESPN announced the expansion in May 2012 but apparently hasn't found a way to make any money off the games this year. This also means more job cuts are coming to Bristol....
Rick Pitino Radio Interview Comes To A Hilarious, Premature End
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino has a new book to promote, so he's been doing a handful of radio interviews. Given his past failure as the head coach of the Boston Celtics, he probably should have crossed the Toucher and Rich show in Boston off his list....
ESPN Gets Back Into The <em>League Of Denial</em> Game (Sorta)
ESPN is aggressively promoting League of Denial, the new book by ESPN reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru on the NFL's concussion crisis, today. There's an excerpt of the book published on ESPN.com. There's a lot of space dedicated to it on the site's front page. There's a story about the ...
How Roger Goodell And ESPN Use Each Other
The NFL Network may not be the monolith the league once envisioned, but Roger Goodell likes having it around for what it forces others to do, particularly ESPN. Goodell alluded to this on Monday while speaking to Hearst employees—Hearst owns 20 percent of ESPN—during the media company's regularly he...
