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We're Avoiding "With Leather" Jokes, But You May Feel Free
We'd like to thank NBC Sports for using the pictured headline on their site last night, in reference to David Stern acquiescing to the demands of his players to bring back the old basketball, so we didn't have to. It's nice when global corporations do our work for us....
A Night For Loud Bears Fans And Silent Rams Ones
We spent a year and a half of our lives in St. Louis and went to two NFL games. The first was in 1998, when Tony Banks was the quarterback. You can imagine what happened then. The second time was in 1999, when Kurt Warner threw five touchdown passes on our 24th birthday to smash the then-vexing San ...
NBA Roundup: We Wish You A Jerry Christmas
Notes from Monday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ..
What you missed while dodging Nicole Richie on the freeway ... • NFL: Apparently there was some confusion amongst fans as to where the Bears-Rams game was being played. • NBA: Here come the Suns, and I say, it's all right. • NHL: Evgeni Malkin leads Penguins toward world domination....
It's Rex Grossman's World, And We Are Just Satellites
We might make the argument that the most compelling figure in the NFL right now is Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman. This is a guy who, at times — that is to say, during times that weren't in the last month-plus — has looked like a legitimate NFL quarterback, a guy who is a leader, as they say...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you gas up the Batmobile, at a cost of $812 ... • NFL: Chicago at St. Louis. Since he's been doing those Levitra commercials, the term "mini Ditka" takes on a whole new, frightening meaning. [ESPN] • NHL: Pittsburgh at Washington. Forgive us if we're kind of sick of penguins at t...
Prince Brings His Unique Style Of Pants To The Super Bowl
As anyone who watched the NFL on CBS yesterday now knows from the above commercial, your Super Bowl halftime show performer is Prince. We don’t understand this commercial in the slightest — because Prince, of course, has never once made an artistic decision based on advertisers or corporate interest...
Leftovers: Tracking Ole LeBron
• TrueHoop continues its look at LeBron James and the U.S. team. [True Hoop] • Norwegian sprinter banned for life after another, third, positive steroid test. [Associated Press] • Barry Bonds' "indictment clause." [Baseball Musings] • A Toledo to lead the Green Wave! [ESPN] • The Heisman Trophy show...
Carson Palmer Throws Better Than He Listens
What do you get the multimillionaire quarterback who has everything? That's the question The Dayton Daily News asked Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer, and his answer is a reminder why we are not friends with athletes. Here's what Palmer said he wanted for the holidays (emphasis ours):...
Time To Display Some Confidence, People
We promised you a reminder when our little College Bowl Pants Party League officially went live, so here it is: You can join the Deadspin Pants Party Bowl League right here....
The True Essence Of Every TMQ Column
This was so inevitable that we can't believe it took them so long: The gang at Kissing Suzy Kolber have finally gotten around to mocking Gregg Easterbrook. Some comedic highlights:...
Our Message Of Peace To The Friends Of Barbaro
We are happy to note that our "garbage" Web site that "is so negative and mean all the time" has not succeeded in our sinister, dastardly plan: The Barbaro Message Board is back up and running. As some of you might have noticed on Friday, the sainted souls desperately trying to be heard by The Limpi...
Always Beware When There Are Bears
The concept was a pleasant, make-the-world-a-better-place one; after the first goal scored by the Minnesota-Duluth hockey team, fans were to throw teddy bears on the ice. The bears would then be collected and given to needy children (in lieu of food, apparently). But then it all went wrong....
Blogdome: Turn Your Sheets Crimson
• It's the Yale-Harvard hate rap! [The Big Picture] • Philadelphia REALLY wants a sports title, any sports title, and they just can't get it. [Just Call Me Juice] • In case you had any doubt, the Bears still have the best defense in the NFL. [Chi Sox Blog] • Goodbye, Ken Harvey; Royals fans will nev...
Year In Review: February
We're reviewing each month of the past year leading up to New Years Day. We call it, imaginatively, "Year In Review." We're digging through our archives pretty well, but if you think we should definitely feature something for the last year that we might overlook, email us at [email protected] with s...
Days Of Blunder
In a move that we liken to John Glenn falling out of the teacup ride at Disneyland, NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson broke his wrist on Friday when he fell out of a golf cart during a celebrity golf tournament in Florida....
Hirshey: A Game Even Dumb Newbies Could Love
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. U.S. Soccer's Bob Bradley: And by the way, spiking Juergen Klinsmann's drink with polonium was NOT cool. • 2 p.m. NBA Insider John Hollinger: Is Allen Iverson in slightly more demand than Barry Bonds? • 2:45 p.m. Matthew McConau...
One Cycling Probe The French Won't Touch
If you've got some time, the Journal of Sexual Medicine needs your help. They need a term for the female version of "cycling penis," a condition which occurs when a cyclist spends too much time on a bicycle seat. We bring this to you via Dave Barry's blog, although Dave failed to note several key pa...
NBA Roundup: Philadelphia Freedom
Notes on the National Basketball Association ......