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Blogdome: It's Hard Out There For A Brown
• Down goes LeCharles Bentley. God, it's got to be hard to be a Browns fan. [God Hates Cleveland Sports] • Vikings fans, prepare for a good 10 years of hating Laura Quinn. [10,000 Takes] • It has been 27 years since both the Pirates and Steelers were champions. What has happened since then? [Mondesi...
Royals' Munchkingate Rocks Baseball
On Tuesday we brought you a small excerpt from the Royals Notebook in the Kansas City Star; proof positive that the Royals front office is marketing its team as as if it were in the Frontier League: "The last living munchkin from 'The Wizard of Oz' threw a surprisingly good first pitch before Sund...
Look, They Have Fun, Difficult To Understand Stats In Football Too!
It was a happy day at Deadspin World Headquarters yesterday. Our copy of Pro Football Prospectus arrived....
As If Barbaro (And The Rest Of Us) Haven't Suffered Enough
In New York City today, it is sunny, pleasant, warm, slightly overcast but mostly cheerful. We've got some good music on the stereo, a cool icy beverage at our desk and, overall, we're feeling all right about the planet and our place in it....
Cycling, Swimming And Running, Oh My!
You know, it's hard enough to finish a triathlon. We think we could handle the biking, and as long as we were allowed to occasionally walk, or even stop and lie down for a while, we could handle the running. We'd almost certainly drown, however. Anyway, imagine going through all the trouble of bei...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: Hasn't it always pretty much been two guys pounding on each other? • Noon NFL with Chris Mortensen: I have one question for you, and five questions for your hair. • 3 p.m. Page 2's Jim Caple: Would ...
Floyd Landis About To Become Decidedly Less Popular
There have been tons of rumors circulating around Tour de France champion Floyd Landis, who has gone missing from two races he was scheduled for this week. No one can get a hold of him, and race organizers were "annoyed."...
Your Morning Harold Reynolds Update
Well, we have our answer as to what Harold Reynolds will do now: He's not going to try to get his job back....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching The Nanny marathon ... • The Big Hurt: Frank Thomas leads Athletics over Red Sox 5-1 with impressive display of athletic prowess. • Tennis: Hey look, an A-Rod you don't have to boo! Top-seeded Andy Roddick dismantles Rik De Voest in first round of Countrywide Classic •...
So What's Next For Reynolds And ESPN?
So now that Harold Reynolds has confirmed that he was indeed fired for sexual harassment, we wonder for a moment: Is there any way he could come back?...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you steadfastly avoid the Outback Steakhouse... • Boxing: Cruiserweights, Eliseo Castillo vs. Jonathan Banks, at New York. At what point does your son say "Dad, when I grow up I want to be a cruiserweight?" [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Texas. Just for a change of pace, Yankees...
Honestly, They Better Sign Isaiah Rider Soon
Admit it: You wouldn't be surprised, at this point, if Carson Palmer was nailed for sticking up a Dairy Queen somewhere just outside Blue Ash, would you?...
Leftovers: Jefferson's A Gamer
• Richard Jefferson's secret training technique: Halo 2. Really. [Life On A Bench] • There's nothing Elvis Stojko can't do. [The Star] • The John Sterling drinking game! [Sox Fan In Hell] • An excellent blog interview with Buster Olney. [MetsBlog] • Tony LaRussa's dog dies. We guarantee you our mom ...
People Talking About A Video Game: That'll Be 20 Bucks, Please
Sometimes we wonder if we're piling on ESPN, if we're just looking for things that are wrong, never giving them the benefit of the doubt, just out to criticize all the time, whether it's merited or not. Are we just being Negative Nellies? Are we unreasonable? We wonder. We're introspective that wa...
Minor Enterprise: Yeee Haw! It's Mullet Night!
Welcome to Minor Enterprise, where we preview, and occasionally review, the great events of minor league baseball. Each Wednesday we'll take a look at the promotions, players and mascots which populate our minor league ballparks; the unsung heroes of our national pastime. (Minor Enterprise not res...
OK, Maybe Everyone Should Boo Dusty
OK, we understand that he had thrown a lot of pitches, and that he had walked five guys, and that the score was 0-0 and that he has been injured enough to need to be coddled a bit....
Daniel Snyder Appreciates Your Checkbook
We have always found the notion of Fan Appreciation Days amusing. Even though every single salary of every single player in every single sport is paid for exclusively by fans — whether it be tickets, merchandise, cable bills, whatever — big-time sports still feel the need to acknowledge the fans o...
Also, They Make Their Tamales Way Too Hot
It takes a special kind of person to come into a verbal confrontation with White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and come out looking like the more unreasonable one ... but if anyone can do it, it's Andy Van Slyke....
Blogdome: Irreconcilable Differences
• A petition for ESPN divorce. [The Sports Frog] • We will never, EVER get tired of the Hoosier Cardinals Fan series. [Inside STL] • More Bat-Girl Lego goodness. [Bat-Girl] • Pittsnogle and the Celtics, a perfect match. [I Heart Celtics] • The Oakland A's as Smurfs. [BaySports] • Careful, friends, o...