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Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bill Plaschke
We have seen Bill Plaschke's desk. Well, to be more precise, we haven''t actually seen the surface of the desk — just the refuse piled on top. We doubt that anyone working at the Los Angeles Times since the early 1990s has seen what's underneath. To best describe it, think Dennis Nedry's work stat...
Blogdom's Best: St. Louis Cardinals
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...
Blogdome: College Basketball Edition
• Twenty-five questions you know you have about the upcoming season. [yoco: college basketball] • Former Illini coach Bill Self beats out current Illini coach Bruce Weber on yet another recruit. [Illini Wonk] • Guy who did weird blog rap song speculates on a wild weekend of sports. [The Assimilated ...
Bamberger Can't Stay Away From High Schoolers
We have a hard time getting all fired up about teenage golf "sensation" Michelle Wie. Nothing against her, of course; she seems like a nice enough girl. It's just that we find it incredibly strange that everyone's using a barely pubescent girl who hasn't won any tournaments to try to get us to watch...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Gary Gilette: So, as editor of the Baseball Encylopedia, can you summon stat nerds to do your bidding, like Aquaman can call whales and stuff? • 2 p.m. NFL with Sean Salisbury: I'm guessing, like, 80 percent of the quest...
Plummer Asks The World, "Who Wants Some?"
Ah, Jake Plummer. Whether it's the mustache, the tendency to occassionally throw the ball with his left hand or his odd or his admirable but oddly hesistant anti-war views, you can always count on Jake Plummer to entertain. This week: A feud with a local columnist over his cheerleader girlfriend....
The Morning After
This is exactly what we did last night, when David Eckstein had two strikes on him in the ninth inning against Brad Lidge: We shut off the television. Watching your team make the last out to end a season — particularly one that's on the road after an immensely frustrating series, particularly when...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while testing your bear-proof suit ... • NLCS, Game 5: Admit it, you turned the game off long Pujols homered. Unless you're an Astros fan. In which case ... sorry. Ouch. • MNF: Colts go 6-0 after 45-28 win over Rams, which we mention because nobody really watches Monday Nigh Football...
Will Cards Return Home To See Busch Off?
Well, tonight's the night when we'll discover if Busch Stadium, the home of the Cardinals since our father was 16 years old (and the place we spent pretty much every other summer Sunday afternoon until we were that age), will be torn down without Cardinals fans truly being able to say goodbye. Aft...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as Lil' Markie works on his next big album of religious hits ... • NLCS, Game 5: Cardinals at Astros. Are those storm refugees in the Astrodome allowed to use the jumbotron to watch the game? Does it have a remote? [Fox] • MNF: Los Angeles Rams at Baltimore Colts. What? They're not in ...
Coles To Tell His Oprah-Worthy Tale On Oprah
Jets wide receiver Laveranues Coles spoke out last month about being molested by his stepfather, and tomorrow he will reap the inevitable glory: He'll talk about it on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." He will appear with an "entertainment reporter and Park Avenue socialite" who went through the same orde...
Leftovers: The Girls Are Pissed
• Wei disqualified from Samsung — SI reporter narced. [Those Bastards!] • Danica confronts driver after Toyota Indy 400 crash, goes all Tonya Harding on him. [Flash Of Genius] • South Side goes nuts over White Sox — in other words, another typical day. [Steve Scott's Blog] • Vikings hire former FBI ...
Fake Boxing Now As Fake As Real Boxing
We were too busy trying to clear our head after a crushing Game 3 Cardinals loss on Saturday — we had no idea how bad it would get — so we missed ESPN's reintroduction of "The Contender," but, if everything we're hearing is correct, the whole thing was a disaster of Old Testament proportions. Appa...
Today In Oddjack: Hope For Cards Fans!
We have much faith in Oddjack, tonight. If they don't come through for us, we're gonna run down to Oddjack world headquarters and there will be fisticuffs, we tell you, fisticuffs! • There is no reason to panic. There is no reason to bleed Cardinals red. St. Louis is bringing it back to, well, St. L...
Woody Paige Is More Serious Than You Think
You thought you knew Woody Paige. You thought he was the guy who ate dog food on the air. You thought he was the guy who threw temper tantrums because nobody invites his girlfriends to ESPN going-away parties. You thought he was the dope who wore stupid hats and called himself, inventively, "Profe...
More Fun With Webshots And Groupies
The On The DL girls have posted some more Webshots photos of baseball players and their "friends", and though the celebrity quotient is decreased a bit — we get the pictured Alex Rios confused with about half the middle infielders in baseball, though we're curious what happened right after this pi...
Blogdom's Best: Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim
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...
Blogdome: Yep, You're Not Supposed To Push
• In case you were wondering, uh, USC did kind of cheat a little bit on that last play. [The Wizard Of Odds] • Tony LaRussa has led his team — and himself — right into the nuthouse. [Viva El Birdos] • It was only a matter of time until Larry Brown tried to get Theo Ratliff again. [TrueHoop] • A prev...
Study: ESPN Is Rotting Your Brain
We're always kind of wary of academic studies on issues that happen out in the real world — grad students are always nitpicking at matters they don't have the guts to try themselves; they're like bloggers, except much ... slower ... — but we found this one irresistible, even if we have doubts that...