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Blogdom's Best: New York Yankees
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Ed Hochuli Defends Truckers And Throws Flags
We've marveled before at the being that is jacked-up NFL referee Ed Hochuli, his propensity to go after anyone who talks about him online, the very obvious man-crush Phil Simms has on him, so on....
We're Guessing Tice Got On The Wrong Boat
OK, time to dig into this Minnesota Vikings sex boat story....
Blogdome: There Are No Lesbians Here!
• Joe Paterno might be kind of old and crotchety, but at least, unlike some Penn State coaches, he's not a ranting homophobe. [OutSports] • Yet another reason it's better to be Tony Parker than, say, anyone else on earth. [Yay!Sports] • What's a good way to kill yourself? Listen to a full day of Bos...
Presenting The Stupidest Sport Ever
We were pretty sure that the end of civilization was near when we discovered Korfball. After a close examination of Korfball, it became very clear that humans have too much time on their hands, and it would be better for everyone if we just gave everything back to the lower mammals, letting them s...
Hockey Didn't Land On Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock Landed On Hockey
Fantastic find from The Mighty MJD: AOL's Black Voices has a sports section that tracks black players in the NHL. According to the site, there are 12, many with Afrocentric names like "Bryce Salvador," "Fred Braithwaite," "Sean McMorrow" and "George Laraque."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penn State QB Michael Robinson: Isn't it kind of odd having a coach who conducts practice from a Rascal scooter? • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: Just saw on Court TV that your hair has filed for emancipation. Your thoughts? • 4...
Welcome Back, Artest! Glad To Have Ya!
That Ron Artest is back for a whole season is destined to be one of the sublime joys of the upcoming NBA season; that he vows to be as crazy as ever makes us want to get an NBA League Pass, stat. From an interview with Dave D'Alessandro in today's Newark Star-Ledger:...
Confirming Once Again: Penises Are Funny
From the front page of Friday's Purdue Exponent, this photo shows Purdue fans getting "rowdy" as they bat around a huge inflatable penis during their loss to Notre Dame a week and a half ago. Or, as the caption to the paper's photo puts it, an "oversized phallic object."...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while fishing people out of Boston Harbor ... • ALCS, Game 1: California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels remind us why White Sox haven't won the big one since 1917. • NHL: Jeff O'Neal honors late brother with winning goal for Maple Leafs. • NHL: Senators on a roll, grab fourth straight wi...
Playoffs Pants Party: White Sox vs. Angels
We had someone tell us earlier today that the presumed exhaustion the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim — a name we will insist on typing out completely throughout this series — are facing after playing three games in three days in three different cities is overstated, that these are baseball players,...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as Bernie Mac continues in his quest for that 3,000th hit ... • ALCS, Game 1: Angels at White Sox. Now that the Yankees and Red Sox are out of the way, we can ignore this properly. (Kidding! Don't hate!) [Fox] • NHL: Phoenix at Dallas. Ice hockey in the Southwest — not what the foundin...
Damon Stoudamire: Block Sender
We were at a bar a couple of weeks ago with some female friends of ours when, out of nowhere, some lady came up to us and asked us what we thought of a particularly brand of vodka. We told her we had no real opinions about it, but she continued, saying it mixed well with "tonic and other carbonate...
Leftovers: There's A New Sheriff In Town
• Pirates snub Harriet Miers, hire Jim Tracy. [Buried Treasure] • Mike Flanagan put in charge of Orioles. Poor guy. [Camden Chat] • High school girl QB fires three TD passes, text-messages all her friends about it. [San Jose Mercury News] • Boy, 9, swims from Alcatraz to SF, avoiding sharks but not ...
Lance Armstrong Puppy Updates!
Remember back when ESPN was actually providing updates on the health of Lance Armstrong's dog? Well, we can't just blame them anymore; the Associated Press has take up the cause of Lance's puppy, which was apparently born with a defective valve in its heart, as if any of you could possibly care....
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Brandon Lane in desperate race to have a winning week before the movie based on his life is consigned to home video. • The smart money is on the ChiSox. Um, this may not apply to you. • ...
ESPN's Butkus Sham Finally Over
Not to imply that the ratings for ESPN's "reality show" "Bound For Glory" weren't through the roof, but no one seems to have noticed — save for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — that the whole show was full of horse manure. Dick Butkus, who was "hired" to "coach" a Pennsylvania high school team, has l...
Pick Your Most Hated Announcer
The finals of the great Road From Bristol bracket (non-ESPN edition) has arrived, just in time for FOX's coverage of the two championship series. The final two competitors are both baseball broadcasters, one known for being an unabashed homer, the other bringing more ballast than a war corresponde...
The OTHER Sports Guy
As Our Boy Bill Simmons' book continues to sell like crazy — currently No. 19 on the hardcover nonfiction bestseller list — we turn our amused eye on a man named Brent Weber, author of The Sports Guy: Scorecard Scribblings from an Ordinary Journalist. The book was published in June 2002 by a company...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bill Conlin
It's not so much that American newspaper editors want to employ mean-spirited sports columnists such as Bill Conlin; we're pretty sure it's the law. How else would one explain it? Every large paper seems to have its resident sports bastard, and Conlin fills that role at the Philadelphia Daily News...