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Non-Chad Johnson TDs Suck
Instead of fining Chad Johnson for excessive touchdown celebrations, Paul Tagliabue should start fining Bengals who score TDs that aren't named Chad Johnson....
Setting The 1 o'clock Table...
• Chicago @ Pittsburgh. The Bears will be without safety Mike Brown and starting right guard Terrence Metcalf. Pittsburgh will be without any healthy joints on their starting quarterback. And can someone explain to me why Pittsburgh is a 6-point favorite here? • Indianapolis @ Jacksonville. Many p...
Artest Requests Trade
Saying that he "causes too many problems" in Indiana, Ron Artest has asked Pacers management to trade him. New York is his stated preference....
About Last Night...
• Film: Codebreakers. You know, I think Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Taran Noah Smith might've been carrying Zachery Ty Bryan all those years on Home Improvement. My favorite part was when he called someone an "a-hole." • College basketball: Nevada 56, UCLA 67. UCLA gets the W, despite Nick Fazekas go...
To Watch Tonight...
• Heisman Trophy Presentation. There's not likely to be any entertainment value here, of course, but you might want to catch a few more Codebreakers promos. • College Basketball. Illinois @ Oregon. Because if you don't watch, you'll probably hurt Will's feelings. • Ice Wars: Battle of the Sexes. I'd...
Is there any chance Vince Young wins this thing?
I really don't see it. The only outside chance Young has is if somehow, Leinart and Bush split the west coast votes, and that the east coast bias is far more powerful than any of us think. Actually, that wouldn't even work. It would have to be a Texas bias, or just an outright west coast hatred....
Adam Morrison is a hero
"Major onions" was how Bill Raftery described it. The play-by-play guy ended the telecast by calling Morrison "the best college basketball player in the country." He may be that, I don't know, but I think JJ Redick's 41 points against the #2 team in the nation at least leaves the issue open for deba...
So, um... Codebreakers?
The commentators in the Furman/Ap State game were gushing over ESPN's original movie Codebreakers (as noted in the comments here), but you know, they strike me as the kind of guys who secretly loved Titanic. They were positively giddy about it, but I've gotta tell ya, the commercials don't have me...
Birds get their claws back
CAW. CAW. Or, you know, whatever kind of a frightening noise a cardinal might make......
Mizzou escapes the mighty Islanders
Despite leading for most of the second half, the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders weren't able to pull off the upset against Missouri. Jimmy McKinney hit a jumper with 10 seconds left to put Missouri ahead, but the Islanders couldn't capitalize and missed the potential game-winner at the buzzer....
An all-around ugly day for Texas
The black jerseys, the blowout against Duke... and it's probably not going to get better when Vince Young comes up short this evening. Sorry fellas. More poetry......
#1 vs #2
As a salute to J.J. Redick, all of today's posts about the Duke/Texas game will be in poetry form. You may not know this about me, but I consider myself a master of the limerick....
Purple Paladins and Mountaineers
While killing time until the Duke/Texas tip, I'm checking out a little 1-AA football action. We've got the Furman Purple Paladins against the Appalachian St. Mountaineers. In situations such as this one, it's often difficult to find a rooting interest. But I used to work with a girl who went to Ap...
About Last Night...
While I was trying to figure out a way to not feel like Carson Daly to Will's Conan O'Brien......
Week In Deadspin: Time For A Weekend Shindig!
• Clinton Portis can change your life, if you'll just let him in. • Michael Irvin, as you've often seen him before! • Luke Walton can't get anything free in this world. • Honestly, we think we could get Anna Benson to promote Deadspin merchandise right now, and for free. As long as the T-shirts w...
To Watch Tonight
"You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs." • College Football: Division I-AA tournament, semifinal, Northern Iowa at Texas State. USC? Notre Dame? Who are they? Panthers vs. Bobcats in San ...
Americans Excited About Handsless Event
OK, the seeds for next year's World Cup are out, and since we're one of the presumed four countries in the draw with Internet access, we're on top of the story....
Leftovers: Big People Doing Things
• Shaq sworn in as cop. Great idea — what could possibly go wrong? [WKYT] • Bears fined $50,000 each for fight, also must put several quarters in swear jar. [CBS Sportsline] • Big Hurt heading for Oakland? (That's not a seasonal prediction; we're referring to Frank Thomas). [Chicagoist] • Soriano sa...
Athlete Run-In: Blocking Derek Lowe
Today's final athlete run-in story is about one of our favorite people around here: Famed party guy Derek Lowe, who never met a lady (or ladies) he couldn't slur over. This story almost makes you feel a little bad for Lowe, until you visit On The DL and check out some of the great tales over there...
Introducing Deadspin Weekends!
One of the most common complaints we hear about our beloved site here — other than "nice hair, you dope" — is that we do not update on weekends when, you know, all kinds of sports tend to happen then. Well, we've heard your fierce missives, and let it be known that your plaintive wails were not in...