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Life With Father
We've been reading the news about tennis star Jelena Dokic and the troubles she's been having with her dad, and we have to say, what father hasn't felt like dropping a nuclear bomb on his child at one time or another? Sure, there's going to be a certain amount of collateral damage. But you're the ...
Does This Make Him A Five-Tool Player?
Either huge fantasy sports Web site Rotoworld was hacked into around midnight last night ... or they're introducing a new category in fantasy baseball this year....
What Really Happened In The Stands? Nothing.
As most of you have probably already seen this morning, Knicks forward Antonio Davis ran into the stands last night in Chicago to "protect his wife from an intoxicated fan." Davis said, "I saw him touch her, and I know I should not have acted the way I did, but I would have felt terrible if I didn...
This Is Not A Picture Of Chastity Bono
Far be it from us to mock a guy for going back to rediscover his roots and promote the game of baseball internationally ... but sweet God, what has happened to former Reds reliever Danny Graves? When you get back from Vietnam, before you head to Indians training camp ... might we suggest a workou...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while staging the Battle of Midway in the bathtub ... • NBA: Antonio Davis rushes into stands to defend wife — the only defense the Knicks played all night (rim shot). • College Basketball: No. 1 Duke, No. 2 Florida both roll to 17-0, setting up dramatic Rose Bowl showdown. • NHL: Ye...
Need Tickets ... Need Tickets ...
We were complaining, oh, two posts ago, about not enough fans being appropriately ecstatic about the conference championship games this week, but in the host cities, that's anything but the case. It's time for our weekly look at the most expensive tickets on eBay (those that actually have a bid) f...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you work out some dance steps to "Sweet Shaun Alexander" ... • College Basketball: North Carolina State at Duke. Honestly, do people around here even realize that the Panthers are still playing football? [ESPN] • High School Basketball: Episcopal (Pa.) vs. Neumann-Goretti (Pa.), at ...
We Pity The Grant Wistrom
We're noticing a rather bewildering lack of excitement about the conference championship games this weekend; it's almost as if fans have pretended they're network executives and are frustrated there are no New York, Boston or Chicago teams playing. Come on, guys! It's the NFL! It's for the Super B...
Leftovers: Es usted pollo, Estados Unidos?
• Castro talks a little World Baseball Classic trash. [Waveflux] • Someone showing sense for once: Hill eschews NFL, will stay at Fresno State. [MSNBC] • Duke set to match best start in 14 years, which is saying something. [News and Observer] • Marbury's 280-game streak may end — prompting '72 Dolph...
Commemorating Great Disasters
From the fine fratty lads at Thrillist comes an amusing collection of "novelty" T-shirts inspired by sports' lowest moments, or, at the very least, their most embarrassing....
Poll: Isiah Wins, But It's Closer Than You Think
Well, the results are in from our poll about a theoretical (for now) fight between Isiah Thomas and Bill Simmons, and, well, we're rather shocked: You give Simmons a lot better chance of winning this duel than we possibly could have though. Out of Deadspin readers, 46.2 percent of you think Simmo...
John Daly, Reality Television Hero
We've documented the comedic stylings of John Daly with much vigor around these parts, and now, apparently, inevitably, the world of reality television is now getting in on the act....
Blogdome: Fitting The Crime
• A strange, cruel and somehow fitting punishment for the guy who ran on the field in Cleveland. [World Chumps] • Buy your Peyton Manning, Choker merchandise! [Copyranter] • Man, we missed all kinds of things in that Steelers-Colts game. [The Best Sports Blog] • You think that "Sweet Shaun Alexander...
Blogdom's Best: Chicago Bulls
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NBA and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NBA ...
Saving DC From Further Pain
Now that former Redskins disaster zone quarterback Heath Shuler is ramping up his quixotic campaign for Congress — he's running as a Democrat in North Carolina — a group of concerned citizens/Washington Redskins fans have started a Web site devoted to not allowing him to come back to the DC area c...
The Ugliest Baseball Player Of All Time
Ever wonder who the ugliest baseball player of all time was? (This sounds like every after-the-fourth-beer sports-bar conversation we've ever had.) A deeply entertaining discussion is going on about this at Athletics Nation and, by all accounts, the ugliest player in baseball history had to have b...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Aussie Open with Pam Shriver: To put it bluntly, we want Roddick-Sharapova romance details. Come on, dish. • 1 p.m. NFL Draft Expert Mel Kiper: Throwing around those descriptions a little liberally, aren't we ESPN? • 4 p.m. Colle...
The Broncos' Secret Success Ratio
As evidenced by our 3-5 record of predicting playoff games so far (straight up, no spread), we're notoriously lousy at pigskin prognostication. It's not like this has been the easiest postseason to predict anyway; we can only think of one prediction system that would have led to a correct Steelers...
A-Rod Finally Stops Spinning
Honestly, we're starting to get a little embarrassed to even post about this, but hey, we're here, this is our job, this is what we do ... it's time for another Alex Rodriguez in the World Baseball Classic post. (We've covered this, let's see, here, here and here.)...