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Week In Deadspin: Just 48 Hours From Selection Sunday
• We went to go see John Rocker, and he, of course, struck us out. • Sam Walker is a bigger fantasy baseball dork than you are. • So, Barry, how was your week? • We said goodbye to Kirby Puckett. • You can't count on watching all those tourney games online. • We still can't believe Don Nelson was ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while searching desperately, frantically, for your pants ... • Big Ten Tourney: Illinois plays Michigan State not in the Final Four, but in the league tourney quarterfinals? Weird. • Big East Tourney: Syracuse plays Georgetown in semifinals. Ewing's gonna destroy Seikely. • ACC Tourney...
Mexican Beans Sold Separately
Fantastic find from The Wade Blogs: Currently up for auction is a wristband worn by Barry Bonds in 1987 for the Pirates that says "Say No To Drugs."...
Leftovers: That Would Explain The Back Pain, Yes
• Mike Venafro has been wearing the wrong kind of shoe for years. Uh, keep us from his doctors, OK? [Baseball Musings] • We're legitimately horrified by Matt Trannon. We hope he doesn't eat our Illini tonight. [Critical Fanatic] • Kendra Davis ... felon? [The Herald News] • The definitive video game...
Oh, Forget It, We Just Won't Show Up
So here's something we'd never seen before: The Oregon softball team cancelled an appearance in a tournament this weekend because ... they were out of pitchers....
Even Comic Strip Characters Have Had Enough
You know that weird Gil Thorp comic strip, the one that appears to constantly be following a game that never begins or ends and always leaves you anticipating a punch line that doesn't come?...
The NFL Network's Brilliant Idea
On the list of entertaining moves by a network, The NFL Network's decision to pursue Ryan Leaf as an analyst for this year's NFL Draft is a rather brilliant one. We love this idea; bringing back old athletes to provide commentary at the site of their biggest failures/embarrassments....
Inside The SEC Tournament
Deadspin Mole Dominic Bonvissuto is sitting courtside at the SEC Men s Basketball Tournament at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tenn. Here's a notebook of what's happening over there....
Jacking Yourself UP!
One of the excerpts from Game Of Shadows involves the authors claiming that because Bonds put on 15 pounds of muscle in three months, he must have been on steroids. (To be fair, this is one sentence in the book, and the only one we've seen so far that even slightly overreaches.) Baseball Musings t...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Indians
We re less than a month from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. ...
Blogdome: Fire Team USA's Manager
• Buck Martinez wasn't a very good manager in the majors, and he isn't a very good manager now. [Talking Baseball] • A tragic story about a former women's basketball coach. [Sports. Music. Blog.] • Should Barry Bonds be forced to melt down his MVP trophies and then eat them as soup? [The FYC] • Is t...
Your Guide To Being A Cameron Crazy
We knew the Cameron Crazies, the famed Duke Blue Devils cheering section, was well-organized ... but we had no idea it was this organized....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2:30 p.m. WBC w/Roberto Clemente Jr.: What would your dad say about Barry Bonds? • 3 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: Syracuse beating UConn conjurs the image of you unplugging your computer and throwing it out the window, and then ...
Deadspin Tourney Sign Up Sheet
Teams OFFICIALLY in the tournament are in bold. Teams listed not in bold are considered "close to lock" status. Any team without a name next to it is available. Teams will obviously be added as they become locks and/or win their conference tournaments. If you want to write a school's Three Tiny Tidb...
We Weren't The Only Ones With Tech Problems Yesterday
Via Fark comes a rather hilarious series of technical difficulties on ESPN News that end up causing anchor Danyelle Sargent to ... well ... forget that when you're a news anchor doing live television, it's important to remember that people can hear you, even when you don't think you're on the air...
You Got To Blog Just To Make It Today
We know what you're thinking: What does MC Hammer think about this Barry Bonds business?...
The Week In Photos
We find all kinds of goofy photos around this here Interweb. Here s some highlights from our favorites....
Barry Bonds And The Chamber of Secrets
Well, there's less than two weeks left until the official release of the book Game of Shadows, the Barry Bonds expose by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. We suspect that your kids have been on pins and needles in anticipation and have probably been bugging you ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while scrubbing the big red maple leaf off of your torso ... • College Basketball: McNamara, Syracuse stun No. 1 UConn in OT, Boeheim manages to keep the profanities to a minumum. • World Baseball Classic: Mexico helps U.S. by blasting Canada 9-1. Take that, you hosers. • NBA: Nash-l...
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
1. Bill Self Was There Back When He Had Real Hair. Kansas' toupeed head coach started his coaching career at Oral Roberts in the mid '90s, a mere 10 years ago. He turned the team around, raising their record from 6-21 in 1995 to 21-6 in 1997, after which he went to Tulsa, Illinois and finally Kansas...