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ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scoured its message boards to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ... • "We have no idea what a Zorn-coached team is going to look or perform like in a real game." — Cavalierman007Previous ESPN Featured Comment of the Week, plus a Featured...

Is The Sports Gal The New Sports Fella?
Bill Simmons is finally back from his summer of basketball diary-ing and has returned to his rightful place in the Page 2 masthead. After two months of Rick Reilly's 800-word-and-a pile-of-zing! "journalism" it's nice to see Simmons manically pumping out his usual kajillion word essays for the start...

NFL Season Preview: Kansas City Chiefs
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, o...

Lance Armstrong Is One Studly Guy, According To Lance Armstrong
The October Men's Journal has a lengthy profile on Lance Armstrong by Vanessa Grigoriadis, which eventually and rather terrifyingly delves into his sex life. Does America really need this during these times of uncertainty? Armstrong's past three girlfriends have been Kate Hudson, Tory Burch and Sher...

NFL Season Previews: Indianapolis Colts
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to fucking finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running ...

Vince Young's Sausage Tastes Great
Why are you looking at me like that? When you throw 9 touchdowns and 18 interceptions in a season, it's important to branch out your business interests. Which is why Vince Young has gone into the sausage business. Yep, being a Titans fan is awesome. On a serious note, how much money can you make wi...

'Dear Eli' ... Six NFL Quarterbacks We Just Can't Stand
Once upon a time, a site called The Black Table had a regular feature entitled Waxing Off, in which women gathered in an online roundtable to discuss issues of the day, and also to make fun of Will Leitch's shoes. And so we got to thinking: With so many great female sports bloggers out there, why no...

Surprisingly, Ryan Leaf Is Actually Winning At Something In Life
Ryan Leaf's story is never one that's regarded with much empathy, given how cantankerous and bitchy he was throughout his brief, spectacularly awful NFL tenure. He's main accomplishments as an NFL quarterback are being consistently ranked in the top three of all-time draft busts or the top three all...

Vandy Owns Steve Spurrier: Is Spurrier Done?
For the second season in a row a double-digit underdog Vanderbilt football team has beaten Steve Spurrier and the South Carolina Gamecocks. This year's 24-17 Vandy win become the Dores first victory over a ranked opponent at home since 1991. Last year the loss to Vandy sent the then 6-1 and top ten...

NFL Season Previews: Cleveland Browns
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to fucking finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running ...

Michael Phelps Continues His Medal-Winning, Indiscriminate Handsiness
The stories of Michael Phelps' wet-suited cocksmanship are plentiful and ostensibly ridiculous. Throughout his gold medal run, it was impossible not to go a day without an email floating in about Phelps' conquests (or attempted conquests) so it's not at all surprising to read Radar's story about Phe...

NFL Season Preview: San Francisco 49ers
The NFL season begins in earnest in about 48 hours, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous others who consider football the only sport worth watching. You will see many of these today, because we're a...

Nightmare Ant Shall Have His Revenge, In This Life Or The Next
I've always said it: Deadspin will never really make it until we can count D-League basketball owners among our readership. Well now we've achieved that lofty goal. In an open letter in his blog on Thursday, Ft. Wayne Mad Ants co-owner Jeff Potter described last month's thrilling Deadspin Hall of Fa...

Kyle Orton Solemnly Vows To Never Be Drunk On Camera Again
That's his promise. In his new role as the Bears starting quarterback, Orton has sworn that he's all business and that his hard-partying days of internet lore are long behind him. He's a new man — a married man — who won't give his teammates a reason to question his leadership abilities this time ar...

NFL Season Previews: Baltimore Ravens
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to fucking finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running ...

Jay Mariotti Is Looking For A Web Designer. Could It Be You?
Are you a "geek with style and a passion for sports?" Jay Mariotti wants you to design his blog. At least I assume that's who is responsible for this Chicago Craigslist post which went up on Wednesday afternoon, which states a "major national sports personality website is looking for a talented webm...

Morning Blogdome: Chuck Klosterman Klostermans His Way Through Another Chuck Klosterman Interview
• But, dude, what about Foghat being the Bob McAdoo of classic rock?: "What really damaged sports journalism (probably irrevocably) is the concept of sportswriters becoming TV personalities. Every one of the guys who made the jump from print to TV immediately became a bad writer. The only possible e...

NFL Season Preview: Jacksonville Jaguars
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to fucking finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running ...

Jim Zorn Will Not Keep John McCain Hanging
Pretty entertaining NFL opener last night, but what WAS the deal with the Redskins not going to the no-huddle on that second-to-last possession down by nine with about five minutes left? John Madden's explanation: Jim Zorn didn't have time to put in a no-huddle. That's a pretty hilarious notion, act...

NFL Season Preview: New England Patriots
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to fucking finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running ...