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About Last Night...
• MLB: Yankees 14, Red Sox 11. Not a lot of love for Johnny Damon in Boston right now, I'm guessing. • Track and Field: Asafa Powell ties 100m world record. It feels weird to mention something like that and not use the word "steroids." • WNBA: Sparks 72, Storm 84. Lauren Jackson has 22 and 9 for Sea...
Week In Deadspin: Kornheisers On A Plane!
• We started our NFL team previews. • Kind of a downhill Canadian cycling version of "Bachelor No. 1." • Big week for Tony Kornheiser. • Torii Hunter is so not into leather. • Kevin Brown, still a dick. • With Whoever as our witness, we're gonna make sure as many people see this Denis Leary Red So...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as firefighters arrive to put out your Dell computer ... • Basketball: Men's World Championship, preliminary round, USA vs. Puerto Rico, at Sapporo, Japan. "Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves" [ESPN2] • Boxing: Middleweights, Sam "Slap Fight" Soliman vs. "Passin' Gas" Enrique Ornelas...
NFL Season Preview: Tennessee Titans
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
Leftovers: Hey, Busch Ushers, Lighten Up
• The Busch Stadium ushers are kind of being dicks. [SportingNews.com] • Renaldo Balkman really does look pretty stoned all the time. [Need4Sheed] • Speaking of the Cardinals ... Preston Wilson. Kick ass. No, not really. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] • If this guy is young enough to be in Little League,...
Actually, HERE'S Your Next Inspiring Real Life Story
We don't mean to take the piss out of AJ Daulerio's work earlier today, but it turns out that we already know what the next real-life baseball story will be dramatized on the big screen: It's Jose Canseco's!...
When Babelfish Goes Bad
The country is Wales. The subject is bicycle safety; something we can all agree, probably, is very important. The sign is meant to warn riders that there is construction ahead, and they should walk their bikes. Problem is, the sign is also translated into Welsh. And the Welsh words, translated to En...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Based On An Inspiring True Story ...
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Let him know what you think of him....
It Just Looks Like A Big Tylenol
Listen, kid: We've been hearing that crap ever since we were at UCLA. We're out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes....
Clarett Story Continues To Take Scary Turns
Say what you will about the kids at Bristol, but they continue to move the needle on all matters Maurice Clarett, at least. The network learned yesterday that Clarett, who has had a rough couple of weeks, was in deep to the Israeli mob, and that might have been the reason he was, you know, carrying ...
Blogdome: Pitying Poor Lidge
• Yeah, that homer ... guess Lidge never did quite get over that. [The Sports Oasis] • As we preview the Red Sox-Yankees series, it's probably time for another Ortiz-Jeter MVP argument. [Keep Your Sox On] • Reggie Bush's pictures in the newest GQ are not the least bit gay, nope. [Towleroad] • Here's...
NFL Season Preview: New England Patriots
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
Here We Go Again
We take a lot of pride around these parts in avoiding the typical East Coast knob-slobbering that goes on; rarely do people accuse one of a "Central Illinois Bias." But even we can't ignore a five-game series at Fenway Park in a tight August pennant race between the Red Sox and Yankees. Bronx Bant...
It's England Premier League Time!
The sad, doe-eyed, holy-crap-mum's-gonna-kill-me-if-I-come-home-without-tickets look of this young boy can only mean one thing: The English Premier League is back! We're going to occasionally have our our man David Hirshey filing reports for us, but for now, it's just time to get, like, excited an...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon Football with Todd McShay: Who better to talk scouting than a reporter who looks 17? • 1 p.m. Baseball with Jayson Stark: What if we started the playoffs three weeks early? That would be cool. • 3:30 p.m. Cal RB Marshawn Lynch: We...
Watch An Old Man Cheat Death ... LIVE On Fox!
Slow, public meltdowns are no fun to watch, not even for the notoriously nasty and morbid voyeurs of the Internets. Which is why we await tonight's Evander Holyfield fight with a sense approaching dread. The fight, in Dallas and broadcast live on Fox Sports Net, pits the 43-year-old former champ (...
Armed And Dangerous
When we played Little League, our biggest risk of injury were the long-range dental implications from chewing on our glove. Today, if you walk around just about any city or town in America and look around long enough, you're bound to spot one or two kids with one arm noticeably longer than the oth...
Even Boxers Are Like, "This Dude's Too Violent"
We are not licensed public relations professionals. So maybe we're not in a position to give advice....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while cheering on Roger Ebert to come back... • NFL: Eli's Comin' ... Manning leads Giants to rout of Chiefs. • MLB: Return of The Gambler ... Rogers gets first win since July 5, as Detroit beats Texas 4-2. • Golf: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson? Naw, try Lucas Glover and Chris Riley...