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Today in Oddjack
Football Up Your Ass! is taking a week off at Oddjack, but there's still plenty of stuff to get ready for weekend time ... • Everything you could possibly ever think to wonder about the Breeder's Cup tomorrow. • You should be very happy if you're a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs. • Vote for the most te...
Inside The Mind Of Stephen A. Smith
In what we're sure will be an enjoyable feature on his site, blogger Philadelphia Will Do has started a Psychoanalyzing Stephen A. Smith section, where he looks at each of Smith's Philadelphia Inquirer columns and tries to figure out what makes the man tick....
Half-Hour Left To Vote!
Polls are closing at 1:45 Eastern Time for our first gay athlete to come out poll. The race is tight right now, and your vote could make all the difference. We'll announce the results later this afternoon....
Blogdom's Best: Kansas City Chiefs
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL 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 NFL ...
Blogdome: So Close To NBA Fever
• A confusing, maddeningly hysterical "chat" season preview from the Free Darko folks. [Free Darko] • Desmond Mason is double plus unhappy about playing for NOOCH! [YAYSports!] • Weird, odd, goofy things happening in the Charlotte-Lakers trade. [The Mighty MJD] • Great. The Red Wings are dominant ag...
Bob Broeg, R.I.P.
If you'll indulge us a little here, we have to comment on the passing of longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bob Broeg. He covered St. Louis sports — and, of course, the Cardinals — for 60 years, starting out as the beat reporter for the St. Louis Browns. He wrote more than 20 books about St. ...
What Marcellus Wiley Has In Different Area Codes
We could play with the NFL Wives Yahoo Group all day, honestly. It's basically just women emailing the group about certain players they find attractive, to find out whether they're available, whether they sleep around, so on. (Clinton Portis is a fave of the site.)...
Steroid Rumors Confirmed ... But Who Is It?
On Wednesday, we reported on USA Today Sports Weekly rumors of an American League outfielder who tested positive for steroids. Yesterday, on his "Sports Bloggers Live" radio show, AOL blogdude Mr. Irrevelant interviewed Baseball Prospectus' Will Carroll about the rumor:...
Help Mark Cuban Find His Boogie Shoes
Mavs owner Mark Cuban, as pretty much everybody knows, is the only NBA owner with a blog. Recently, he has been disappointing us with thoughful, intelligent analysis of the NBA dress code, blog search engines and the response to Hurricane Katrina. We don't want that: We want the blatant fan-boy ge...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Your book "License to Deal" is quite thick and formidable, but for pure door stoppage I'd have to go with Buzz Bissinger's "Three Nights in August." • Noon. NFL with Dave Fleming: Does Mitch Albom know ...
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Umpires
Umpire Joe West was the crew chief for the World Series that just ended and apparently nobody watched. Cowboy Joe West ... hey, that's the same guy!...
White Sox Fans Cheer Phantom Series
Would it be fair to call this year's World Series the "Quite Frankly" of postseason series? The just-complete White Sox whitewashing of the Astros, turns out, was the worst-rating Series of all time, just beating out the Angels-Giants Series of 2002, a Series that had the advantage of going seven ...
About Last Night
What you missed while dusting your girlfriend for Tom Brady's fingerprints ... • College FB: No. 3 Va. Tech routs No. 13 Boston College, will now look to conquer Miami, then the world. • NHL: Mario Lemieux — remember him? — leads Penguins to first win. • CFL: Fan boots 50-yard field goal to win $1 m...
Vote: First Gay Athlete To Come Out?
All right, we promised you a poll, and here's your poll, our first ever on Deadspin. The question: Who's the most likely athlete to come out of the closet first, based off Oddjack's Cultural Oddsmaker, which laid down the odds on five most likely suspects to be the first "out" athlete....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as we all, in our own way, refuse to give up our seat on the bus ... • College FB: Boston College at Virginia Tech. Let our football-viewing weekend officially begin. [ESPN] • NHL: Islanders at Rangers. The Islanders suddenly own this matchup, all due, of course, to Satan. [Fox Sports ...
More "Colbert Report" Than "After M*A*S*H*"
It is with much glee that we point out that the mad scientists at Yard Work — the brilliant satirical site featuring mock columns from ESPN luminaries, along with Rickey Henderson, Ozzie Guillen and countless others — have launched their first spinoff site: the affectionately named Hard Wood, whic...
Kruegergate Refuses To Die
Remember when Larry Krueger was fired from his job as late-night sports talk host at KNBR-680 in San Francisco back in August? You don't? Well, he was, and now he's back, waving legal briefs and suing everyone in sight....
Well, You'll Have To Wear Those Short Pants, First Off
In one of those stories you couldn't make up even if you were trying really, really hard, famed British Open choker Jean Van De Velde has announced he intends to try to qualify for the Women's British Open next year to protest the decision to allow women to qualify for the men's event....
Leftovers: Illegal Procedure, God, 15 Yards
• Two Eagles criticized for evangelizing at school — made to sit inside during recess. [Philly.com] • How to defend against the two-minute offense, and the ACLU — NM State FB coach Hal Mumme accused of harassment. [And All That Implies ...] • IOC says no to women's boxing, and also no to elephant po...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's The Next Gay Athlete?
With Sheryl Swoopes' earth-shaking announcement that she was (no!) a lesbian, tongues are wagging (sorry) about who the next — i.e., actually surprising — athlete to come out of the closet will be. Our friends at Oddjack have helpfully lay out the odds on five heavily rumored to be gay athletes, p...