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Those Raving, Chattery, Jittery Ballplayers
Remember that famous episode of "Family Ties," when Alex P. Keaton, way behind on his studying for his midterms, has to take speed to stay awake and ends up getting addicted? (Our favorite part is when he paints the hallway at 3:30 in the morning and installs an underground sprinkler system.) We'r...
Blogdom's Best: Chicago Cubs
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: Wrapping Up The Baseball Season
• A frustrating, exhilarating and typical day to be a Philadelphia sports fan. [Philadelphia Will Do] • Cardinals blogs all get together and fret about the postseason. "So, awesome. No pitching, no relief, no health, and our manager's a nutjob." We feel their pain. [Viva El Birdos] • You should all ...
Jesus Christ, All-Pro
Little Billy was a terror on defense — he had been living in the opponents' backfield all day. But then he took it one step too far. Yes, as you may have guessed from this photo, Billy was penalized 15 yards for "roughing Jesus," an infraction that also carries loss of down, plus possible eternal ...
Phil Simms Keeps His Eye On The Balls
One of our favorite ongoing gags at Out Sports is the running tab of homoerotic comments made by CBS analyst Phil Simms during his telecasts. Favorites from the past include "[Miami running back] Lamar Smith doesn't look like much in his underwear" and his constant references to Dan Marino as "a h...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. The Buzzmaster: Judging from this picture, you are either really fed up with this job or really, really stoned. • Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: Is it true that when the Mets fired you, they offered to retain your mustache? • 3...
MLB Playoffs: Second Verse, Same As The First
Yesterday was kind of a weird final day of the baseball season; it made us feel sorta dumb for thinking it was such a big deal that we missed most of the early football. The Red Sox "clinched" the wild-card yesterday in the least dramatic way possible, basking in a total choke by the Indians and s...
NFL Roundup: Party Para Mexico
• We're a little slow this morning, because did a shot every time ESPN showed some Mexican "culture" during last night's 31-14 Buzzsaw victory over the 49ers. We know it's unusual to play a game in another country, but the slack-jawed awe of the broadcasters last night — "look, another local! Thes...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while organizing an actual dog and pony show ... • MLB: Red Sox win, Indians lose to settle wild card — and now, finally, you must face the fact that Detroit's season is over. • MLB: Astros 6, Cubs 4. There are a bunch of former Enron guys in prison cells cheering like crazy right no...
Week in Deadspin: Brokeback Mountain Men
• Wildly irresponsible rumors about Peyton Manning and Kenny Chesney. Nice hats, gentlemen. • We saw Bill Simmons and Chuck Klosterman hang out together online, and then we saw it in person. And then Bill deconstructed himself better than we ever could. • Etan Thomas loves analyzing Abe Pollin's p...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as as a giant, mysterious black monolith appears in your front yard ... • MLB: Yankees at Red Sox. A good, old-fashioned rivalry, simple and pure, the way it was meant to ... hey! Who threw that frozen malt? [ESPN] • College FB: Pitt at Rutgers. Think of it as a visit to New Jersey wit...
The Legacy Of Shapiro
We've looked at what departing ESPN big momma Mark Shapiro did right during his reign atop the network and at what he did wrong. The real question is what the network will do now that the man responsible for its radical facelift over the last few years has gone. There will be no real "replacement"...
Leftovers: Keep FEMA Away From Boston
• Boston police plan crowd control for Yankees-Red Sox series — FEMA offers bottled water. [Metroblogging Boston] • Save another spot in that anger management class: Pacers' Harrison pleads no contest to brawl. [Indianapolis Star] • Panthers tied to indicted doctor face tests, making it the first te...
The Definitive Bill Simmons Interview, By Those Who Know Him Best
Well, we covered the 3-2-1 Liftoff! of Our Boy Bill Simmons' Now I Can Die In Peace in our own goofy way, and now, for that whole "perspective" and "intelligent analysis" way, David Scott of Boston Sports Media Watch talks in length with Simmons about his place among the Boston media, his meteoric...
So Long, Lou Pinella. Let's Forget This Happened
We all knew it was coming, but it's a sad day nevertheless: Lou Pinella has been bought out of his contract by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The whole Pinella-in-Tampa deal was a quixotic one from the get-go, and, as we all suspected, it seemed to drive Pinella insane. There was the (pictured) dying-o...
Today In Oddjack
We haven't made much of a secret about this: We're not that into gambling on sports. (We don't need anything to make sports more fun.) But we understand its appeal, particularly when our scrappy connoisseur of vice brother Oddjack is on a roll like he is today. Declaring today "Football Up Your As...
Mark Shapiro's Many Missteps
As we continue to glance backward at ESPN alpha dog Mark Shapiro's tenure, we take a look back at some of the more serious missteps during his reign....
Blogdom's Best: Oakland A's
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...