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Week In Deadspin: We Miss The Chorizo Already
• You bring us the chorizo, and then you take it away. Do not tease us with your chorizo. • Whither the white wide receiver. • Interesting strategy to sell video games. • Mike Tirico would rather you not bring this up again. • Here is what is inside Bobby Abreu's head. • Smell Jeter! • If Simmons ...

To Watch Tonight
What you missed while deciding, apropos of nothing, to work late on Friday ... • Boxing: Anthony Peterson vs. Jose Soto, at Memphis. What division is this? Flyweight? Paperweight? Pantyweight? [ESPN2] • Extreme sports: X Games, at Carson, Calif. Have you ever taken your bike off of some sweet jumps?...

Making Tall Men Play Basketball, Poorly
And with this poorly scored video, we introduce you to the phenomenon known as Sun Ming-Ming, who is currently with the Dodge City Legend of the USBL. He is seven-foot-nine, which makes him the tallest man in professional basketball and the seventh tallest man in the world....

Leftovers: Evicting Mom
• Tebucky Jones tells his mom to get the hell out. [Hartford Courant] • Better get up early to find out what's up with Floyd Landis. [MSNBC] • It's college football poll time! [Burnt Orange Nation] • Well, the refs have some new uniforms. [Uni Watch] • Uh, Boston? Javy Lopez isn't good anymore. [Red...

Why Is No One Talking About The Dominican Steroid Story?
Double Play Depth brings up a question we've been wondering about ourselves: Why is no one making a big deal out of the New York Daily News' steroid scoop last week?...

Beep Baseball
So here's something nifty we didn't know about: It's Blind baseball!...

If You Gotta Go, That's A Nice Way To Do It
It has been a while, but remember way back about a year ago, when a huge Steelers fan — who just missed a fun season, by the way — was buried in his recliner surrounded by Steelers garb?...

Cultural Oddsmaker: Who Will Pass Out In Training Camp?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Let him know what you think of him....

Booyakasha!
America national sport is called baseballs. It very similar to our sport, shurik, where we take dogs, shoot them in a field, and then have a party....

Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Southeastern Conference
We must confess that we can't wait each year for the crunch of shoulder pads; for cleats churning up chunks of turf, and red-faced coaches screaming from the sidelines. But enough about lacrosse. College football season is upon us, and to celebrate, we're going to get back into tiny tidbit mode an...

Blogdome: Reporters Getting Free Crap
• Boy, look at all this X-Games schwag. [Media Bitch Fest] • What are the best and worst fantasy football guides? [MVP Fantasy Football] • How "Entourage" characters relate to baseball teams and their players. [Old Skool Sports] • An obsessive, detailed look at Bill Simmons' taste in music. [Merry S...

Gentlemen, Start Your Wanking
Right now Carl Monday is snapping down the protective visor on his riot helmet, scrambling into the back of the WKYC Action News van and yelling "Let's roll!" Yes, the big Masturbate-A-Thon is tomorrow,* which, if you live in Europe, still leaves you plenty of time to get to Drop Studios in London...

Greg Maddux, Wise Man In The Clubhouse
Earlier, we talked about new Dodgers pitcher Greg Maddux's pretty debut for Los Angeles, tossing a no-hitter for six innings and generally showing why it's always a pleasure to have a Greg Maddux on your team....

Joe Torre, Back When He Had To Work A Little Bit
Even among people who hate the Yankees, there is a grudging respect for manager Joe Torre, who exemplifies class, stoicism and wisdom in a game that many consider often lacking in all three....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Houston Dynamo F Brien Ching: So why do you think that the scoreless tie hasn't caught on in the U.S.? • 4 p.m. LIVE from World Series of Poker: My glasses! Where are my glasses!? I'm powerless without them! • 4 p.m. EA Sports M...

Finally Making Some Money Off Southeast Jerome
Fully capitalizing on something it stumbled across last season, the official Redskins site Redskins.com is now selling T-shirts adorned with every Clinton Portis character from his press conferences last year. Those who were with us last season will remember our schoolgirl crush on Portis, particu...

The Uniforms That Made Baseball Cry
It was Retro Day at Petco Park on Thursday, which probably doesn't mean much to you if you weren't a baseball fan in the 1970s. But for those who lived through those dark, confusing times, you have our sympathy, and we're sorry you had to relive the horror. We've all seen pictures such as the ones...

"You Want Me To Do That With You?"
The mad geniuses at Free Darko aren't taking the summer off: They're finding absolute gems like this video, which features Timberwolves superstar Kevin Garnett gets his Bob Harris on while visiting an Asian television show....

The Closer: Maddux Throws Himself A Housewarming Party
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while listening to poker on the radio ... • Golf: Woods, Woody chasing Weir at Buick Open. Meanwhile, Wie woeful. • MLB: Utley hit streak keeps going, and it's becoming impossible to watch the Cardinals. • Basketball: Take that, small island territory! United States beats Puerto Rico...