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• See here for today's college football schedule • In Progress — NHL: Rangers at Lightning [NHL] • 12:30 — LPGA: Samsung World Championship, Third Round [NBC] • 1:30 — MOVIE: Major League II [TBS] • 3:00 — PGA: Turning Stone Resort Championship, Third Round [Golf Channel] • 4:00 — Horse Racing: Bree...
Wisconsin Band Director Not A Fan Of Sex Toys
The University of Wisconsin marching band has been suspended amid rumors of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct. That's right. The whole band. What kind of "sexual misconduct" gets an entire band suspended? I don't know but I was in the marching band and I can assure you, band geeks are frea...
Trash Talk, Viral Outbreaks, and Gameday at Vandy
With the trash talking already underway, today is shaping up to be a exciting entertaining crappy day of college football. Take your survival guide if you're headed out to the Ohio State/Wisconsin game. Cancellation of the day is Georgetown at Colgate. A norovirus outbreak at Georgetown has forced t...
The NHL Season Is Here, All of Prague Rejoices
The NHL regular season starts today for a new year of blood and glory, fists and fury. (I'm such a freaking poet.) The league is abandoning its American following and fleeing to Prague to open the season with the Rangers and Lightning. What does it mean? It means unless you have the NHL network, you...
Boston and Tampa One Win Away From the ALCS
Ah, the post season. According to many, it's the only part of baseball worth watching. As a Yankees fan, I have to agree disagree agree oh fuck it. I don't even know anymore. What I do know is that it's fun to watch team like the Rays and Dodgers do well. And for the first time, I find my self enjoy...
30 Previews In 30 Days: The Chicago Bulls
NBA training camps have begun; the season is rapidly approaching. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. And so we continue our previews: 30 of them in 30 days. Up next is a team that wants you to love it live: The Chicago Bulls.When last we saw them: Finished 33-49, fourth in the Central Division a...
Two Argentines Make Any Situation More Enjoyable
It's bright and early on Saturday morning and that means the Deadspin Pub is open for business, because even when times are tough people need a place to obsess over European soccer. Now you may not be able to headbutt a Gunner or crack a Magpie upside the head with a bottle of Newcastle, but you are...
Simpson Found Guilty On All Counts In Robbery, Kidnap Trial
After 13 hours of deliberation on Friday, a Clark County, Nev. jury found O.J. Simpson guilty on all 12 counts in his robbery and kidnapping trial. Simpson's co-defendant, Clarence "C.J." Stewart, was also found guilty on all 12 counts. Simpson, who faces a five-years-to-life sentence for the gunpoi...
Week In Review: A Club Full of Tiny Members
So there have obviously been a few minor changes here this week, all of which will be addressed at a later date. Nothing to see here, please disperse, all that. For now. Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Clay for all his contributions to Deadspin during his full-time tenure here. Hone...
Hey, Don't Hurl On My Jersey, Backstrom
In honor of hockey's impending arrival (see previous post), we give you this. It arrived by email with this simple message: "Seriously, they have the best player in the world and they're probably the coolest team in the world." And looking at this, who can disagree? At least until the season begins....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you fake a heart attack to try and sell more MP3 players ... • MLB: ALDS, Game 2: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay Rays (6:00 p.m., ET) Help them, Obi-Wan Guillen. You're the city's only hope. [TBS] • WNBA: Finals, Game 2: Detroit Shock at San Antonio Silver Stars. (7:30 p.m., ET) ...
The Home Of Your New WNBA Champions: Ypsilanti!
If you're the kind of person who pays attention to such things, you may have noticed that the Detroit Shock will not be playing their WNBA Finals games in Detroit or Auburn Hills or any place else within the I-275 belt. Instead, their playoffs are being held in beautiful and spacious Ypsilanti, Mich...
The Dismantling Of Shea Commences ... But What Of The Kitties?
They've begun tearing down Shea Stadium, so hopefully that men's room sign you bid on at the auction will be arriving any day now. But some concerned citizens are worried that the stadium's notorious feral cat population may be left behind; they actually want the kitties relocated to the new park. ...
Afternoon Blogdome: Call 'Em Like You See 'Em
Sean Avery is not a man who likes to make waves ...: But he does think that Don Cherry doesn't know jack about hockey. Also, he hates maple syrup and thinks Mounties look stupid in those hats. [Two-Line Pass] Four balls of redemption: Brett Myers is still a world-class dick, but you know ... he drew...
Surprise! It's Hockey Season!
Bet you didn't see that one coming, huh? But it's true, the NHL season begins Saturday in—where else?—Prague! Followed closely by a second regular season game in Stockholm, as part of the league's ongoing "Thanks for all your players" European initiative. But there's so much other goodness in store ...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scours its message boards daily to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comments, and chooses ones like this above all others ... • "Don't see Washington surpassing Dallas in the power rankings. Redskins barely won." – bbrennersPrevious ESPN Featured Comment of the Week, plus a Featur...
Announcement: Meet Your New College Football Writer
Immediately after Tennessee’s would-be game-tying overtime field goal sailed wide left against UCLA, my life became a series of unfortunate events. First, my friend Kelly and I ended up lost outside the Rose Bowl. Anyone who has ever been to the Rose Bowl knows how hard this is to pull off. We knew...
Stanford Lineman Does Not Like Notre Dame
About the only thing that would make Saturday's Stanford-Notre Dame football game actually compelling is if Charlie Weis and the Stanford Tree fought at midfield with rakes and blowtorches. But knowing that would never happen (the Tree is usually soaked with alcohol and cannot be near open flame), C...
Mike Sellers and Chris Samuels Forge a Friendship Through Nude Hijinx
Sometimes I really envy Dan Steinberg. As one of the few sports bloggers in the country with real-deal locker room access, Steinberg takes us to places those of us trapped in underwear-covered cellars can only dream about . He gets to show-off his deft reporter's instincts and tenacity, but still wr...