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Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Angels
We re just more 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 tips@deadspin....
We Are Invading Boston. Tonight. Beware.
For those in the Boston/Cambridge area who find themselves without proper nighttime entertainment this evening, we would like to cordially invite you to come hang out. We are reading from our novel Catch tonight at the Dire Reading Series in Cambridge. Yes, we know it's an art gallery. But they stil...
Hello, Advertisers!
As you can see, the sponsors all go to 11. Right across the board. 11. 11. 11. 11. They're one louder, aren't they? Most sponsors are gonna be playing at 10. You're on 10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up. You're on 10 with your sponsors. Where can you go from there? Where? Nowher...
Blogdome: Looking For Drugs In All The Wrong Places
• A wheelchair tennis player tests positive for a banned substance. We hate the world sometimes. [World Chumps] • Hey, would the NFL without the salary cap really be the worst thing in the world? [Dave's Sports Views] • The Chicago Cubs and the Toronto Maple Leafs: Same franchise. [Forward Progress]...
Bjorn Borg: Resistance Is Futile
Say what you will about athletes like Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith, who hang on to their careers for too long and are too afraid to be away from the spotlight to retire, but at least they don't usually run out of money....
Our Personal Favorite Strange Mascots
Sorry, but we can't quite get enough of the whole mascot discussion yesterday, particularly the ones that most frighten or confuse us....
Pity The Poor Derek Lowe
A couple of days ago, the Los Angeles Times' Bill Plaschke wrote a story about the emotional difficulties of Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe, who last year famously left his wife for Fox Sports broadcaster Carolyn Hughes. (You thought we were gonna say "Fox Sports broadcaster Tom Arnold." Admit it.)...
The New New Mexico?
Perhaps the quarterback position at Virginia Tech is merely cursed....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. College Hoops Report Card: Let's make our student-athletes feel at home. "Mr. Blutarski ... zero point zero." • 1 p.m. Mid-Majors with Kyle Whelliston: Bally, you demented little runt — if I catch you looking up my girlfriend's...
Oh, If Only They Wore Cups In Basketball
If you're one of the lucky ones who opened your morning Bryan-College Station Eagle on Thursday and found a large penis staring back at you, well, congratulations. No, it wasn't one of the paper's newer promotions (find the wiener, win a Mexican cruise!), just a goof by an editor who didn't scruti...
Kendra Davis' Alternate Reality
Last night, Kendra Davis, wife of NBA forward Antonio Davis, attempted to clear her "name" on CNBC's "The Big Picture With Donny Deutsch" in her first public comments since the incident in Chicago where her husband ran in the stands to "protect" her....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching Emeril — but failing, sadly, to kick it up a notch ... • World Baseball Classic: Somehow we knew that the first three words we would hear during actual baseball competition this season would be "Chan Ho Park." • NBA: Michael Finley leads Spurs over Mavericks, even thou...
In Defense Of The World Baseball Classic
Tonight, the World Baseball Classic finally kicks off with Korea taking on Chinese Taipei in the Tokyo Dome. First pitch is at 9:30 ET, but unless you have ESPN Deportes, you'll have to wait until 1:30 a.m. to watch a tape-delay on ESPN2. (Right afterwards, Japan plays China on ESPN2 live, if you ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you recoil at the horrible real-life tragedy of Dr. McDreamy ... • World Baseball Classic: South Korea vs. Taiwan, Japan vs. China, at Tokyo. It's finally here! Let's play ball! We can't understand any of the signs in the stands! [ESPN2] • College Basketball: Central Intercollegiate...
NFL Is (Somewhat) Less Homophobic Than You Think
Remember that scene in Brokeback Mountain, when Jack Twist is having Thanksgiving dinner with his wife's family and they get in a big fight about being manly enough to watch football? (What? You haven't seen Brokeback? Well, it's like the Colts' season, except shorter and with 13 percent fewer au...
Leftovers: Hey, We Weren't So Bad
• You know, the U.S. Olympic team didn't do that much worse than everyone thinks. [Gelf] • Eric Gagne pulls a Greinke and leaves camp for "personal reasons." [Baseball Musings] • After 60 years, beloved Kansas broadcaster retires. (And he has more hair than Bill Self too!) [KUSports.com] • Steve McN...
Cut The Black Wire
Last night, the Pittsburgh Steelers all gathered at a Loews theater in West Homestead, Penn., to watch on the big screen the DVD of their championship season. Apparently, an Eagles fan found out about it; the whole thing was cancelled after a phoned-in bomb scare....
Someday, The Mascots Will Align And Destroy Us All
All this talk about mascots got us to thinking: What's the scariest mascot you've ever come across? (That commenter who played the Noid, that guy's got a pretty good case.)...
The Sex Boat Story Will Never Go Away. Awesome.
Is it possible to ever get tired of the Vikings sex boat story? We think it's not. We're pretty sure, actually....
Who Would Win In A Fight: Bill Simmons or Malcolm Gladwell?
After what had been a considerable hiatus, our boy Bill Simmons is cranking out his Curious Guy segments like crazy these days. We had David Stern just a week ago, and now, punching back in his weight class, he banters with "The Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell for, let's see, 5,000 words .....