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Bonds Won't Get Off The Hook This Time
OK, if you've hadn't a chance to dig into the Bonds Sports Illustrated story yet, we cannot recommend it more highly....
The End Of Barry Bonds
So we just got back from lunch ... what'd we miss?...
Authors With Pure Hearts: Sam Walker
When we were on our Caribbean vacation a while back, we spent most of our time on a beach, sipping blue beverages and ... reading about fantasy baseball. Naturally. Specifically, we were reading Sam Walker's Fantasyland, a relentlessly entertaining look at a fantasy baseball virgin attempting to win...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Rosie DiManno
We don't know what the Canadian eqivalent is of the Navy SEALS, but whatever agency trains underwater commandos in the Great White North probably has Rosie DiManno on their payroll. It takes strong lung capacity to read a DiManno column — even silently. Try this typical passage (warning: take a la...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Red Sox
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: Tony Danza As ... Who Again?
• "Who's The Boss?" ... in Knick land. [The Basketball Jones] • So, moving to the NFL, who's the most hated football player? [Dave's Football Blog] • Tiger Woods is so much better than everyone else, it's just not even fair. [Sugar, Mr. Poon?] • Theo Fleury, causing international incidents. [World C...
Bruce Pearl Coaches Crackheads. Yeah! Take That!
As longtime readers know, we never miss an opportunity to knock around Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. We know this isn't fair — he's a great coaching story, he's done a great job and the man is a world champion sweater — but Bruce Pearl's fate was sealed with us back in the early '90s when he was an...
Who's Got Bracket Fever?
We're just five days away from Selection Sunday — which, in combination with the season premiere of "The Sopranos," is pretty much more fun than any day should be allowed to be — and we're still working on our big NCAA Tournament Project. (All teams remain signed up for. Honestly, you guys rule.)...
Myles Brand Makes Himself Richer
The Wizard Of Odds brings us a little bit of info we hadn't heard about: NCAA president Myles Brand made $870,000 in compensation last year. That's a figure that's higher than what a single public university president makes. And they actually pay the people who make them all their money....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. ESPN anchor Mike Greenberg: Do the words "ESPN" and "anchor" conjure images of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, like they do for me? • 2 p.m. Jim Caple on Kirby Puckett: Two hours isn't enough. We could talk about him for we...
Poll: Scariest ESPN Mag Mugshots
Yesterday, we tried to figure out what was going on with Bill Simmons' ridiculous mugshot in ESPN: The Magazine. Well, now we've got copies of all four main mugshots in the magazine, and they're inexplicable. And horrifying. Take a look at them below, and let us know which one makes you want to c...
Muresan Lives! (In The ABA)
After he read about the promotion on Deadspin last week, Danny Groner of Silver Spring, Md. decided to attend the ABA game featuring guest player Gheorghe Muresan. Because he was really there. He files this report:...
We've Got Spirit, Yes We Doooooooooo ...
College cheerleading, an object of ridicule since it was discovered that our President did it, has new respect in our eyes. Southern Illinois basketball cheerleader Kristi Yamaoka, who fell 15 feet off of the top of a human pyramid onto her head on Sunday, suffered a chipped neck vertebra and a co...
Remembering Kirby Puckett
As you've surely heard by now, Twins Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died last night at the age of 45. Puckett was a player who was impossible to dislike; he played baseball the way we all imagine we would, if we had the chance. His post-retirement career was smeared by Frank Deford's famous Sports Il...
About Last Night ...
What you missed when your kid's G.I. Joe collection went AWOL and turned up in Barbie's Dreamhouse ... • NBA: Kobe's 43 not enough as Spurs spank Lakers. • College Basketball: This is troubling, NCAA bracket-wise. Gonzaga beats LMU by 1 in WCC championship game, after having won in the semis over Sa...
Deadspin Field Trip: Batting Against Rocker
Earlier today, former New York City subway spokesperson John Rocker caused a minor fuss by walking off the set of ESPN's "Cold Pizza" after being informed he would be asked about his famous comments about "queers with AIDS" and not liking foreigners....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the rest of the family interacts with each other (fine, as long as they keep it down) ... • College Basketball: Colonial Athletic Association championship, N.C.-Wilmington vs. Hofstra, at Richmond, Va.; West Coast Conference championship, Gonzaga vs. Loyola Marymount, at Spokane, Wa...
See? We Didn't Make It Up
Whew. Don Nelson really was there. Thank God. We honestly feared our brain might have gone bye-bye there for a moment....
Leftovers: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA"
• California basketball fans are, frankly, awesome. [rangelife] • Yeah, there's even controversy in the world of rock-paper-scissors. We love earth. [Arizona Republic] • Even the New York Times recognizes the joke the Knicks have become. [New York Times] • Interested in some bracket action a week ea...
The Bitmapped Bill Simmons
We're no experts on graphic design, or magazine picture quality, or anything like that — there are all kinds of things we're not experts in today — but we have to say, the new ESPN magazine internal redesign has us a little loopy....