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Saturday Night Football Open Thread: Drunk Off Eggnog Edition
There's football tonight! No, no—not Tivo'd Las Vegas Bowl, though that was a good game—NFL football, where they wear pads and get paid. Watch it with us, talk trash about the family members you see once every year on Christmas (*cough*), count the many times Jon Gruden refers to Matt Ryan as "this ...
Tonight's <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Cold Open: The New York Children's Chorus Singing "Silent Night"
Given yesterday's devastating events in Connecticut, it seemed impossible for NBC to put together a Saturday Night Live cold open that could be seen in any way as appropriate for the mood. In the end, they eschewed any attempt at making the audience laugh—instead going with a touching performance f...
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Houston at New England (ESPN): This has all the makings for a legitimate barn burner and as they look ahead to next week's matchup, Tirico and Gruden must be doing somersaults. Alas, this game will play out the only way an ostensibly exciting game involving the Patriots can play out: crushing, no-do...
Your Sunday Night Football Open Thread
Detroit at Green Bay (NBC) : Plenty of things to yak about during this game. For instance: the Packers started the day tied atop the NFC North with the Chicago Bears. With a win tonight they will be all alone after Chicago lost to the Vikings. Lose and they are back tied with the Bears. And oh, God...
Your College Football (And Conference Championships) Open Thread
This is the place if you wanna yak about any of the conference championship games or any of the final-week-of-the-regular-season games in leagues wherein the NCAA's byzantine rules prohibit a title game. Something to ponder: the NCAA mandates that leagues only schedule championship games when they ...
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
God bless you if you are watching this game. Or may he have mercy on you, whichever. It's the Andy Reid farewell tour and...shit, I don't know, Cam Newton will probably do something that someone finds objectionable? Yakspin!...
Your Rivalry Saturday Open Thread
Rivalry Saturday! Michigan-Ohio State. Florida-Florida State. Some small parochial school in Indiana vs. the West Coast Billy Zabka Finishing School for 1980s Movie Jerks. You vs. leftovers. Lots to talk about. Have at it in the discussion below....
Your Black Friday Open Thread
There are plenty of sports to watch today, which is a good thing, because you're probably still in the midst of a food coma and can't do much but lay on the couch today. So take it easy and watch some college football, basketball, and NBA action. Hang out here and chat about whatever you're watching...
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Chicago at San Francisco: So, this might have been a decent game but neither starting quarterback will be playing due to concussions. Instead it's Jason Campbell and Colin Kaepernick. Yikes. Kaepernick did surprise the Jets earlier this year with some solid Wildcat-esque play, but presumably the Be...
Miguel Angel Jimenez Becomes Oldest Player To Win On European Tour, Remains Coolest Dude In Golf
There are essentially two reasons for this post on the 48-year-old Spaniard. One is the video above. It remains as magnificently hypnotic as ever and should be viewed at least twice a year, as needed. The other is the quote below, following his win at the Hong Kong Open....
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Sometimes Monday Night Football features a good game. And then sometimes the Kansas City Chiefs travel to Pittsburgh. The Chiefs have had quite a year. Among major accomplishments the Chiefs can list getting smoked by the Chargers and Romeo Crennel having a firmer grasp on his career's shovel than h...
Your College Football Open Thread
Three weeks of regular season college football left! The process by which teams go from "disappointing start" to "wait-a-minute-are-we-even-going-to-make-a-bowl-game" was set in motion months ago, but this is when everyone notices, so there should be some excellent temper tantrums across university ...
A Throbbing Election In Our Sweatpants! Your Deadspin Live Blog And Open Thread
Before we start tonight, I offer you this heartwarming story from our own Tommy Craggs about going to vote today: "I saw an old man melt down in the middle of the gym. He was screaming, 'Does anyone work here??' And then, when he learned he'd have to wait in line to use a booth, he crumpled up his b...
Your Belated Monday Night Football Open Thread
Sorry folks—busy feeding Nibbles. But don't despair, your place to discuss the Eagles and Saints is right here. Maybe we can speculate about whether Sean Payton will be taking his rough and tumble riverboat gambler bravado show on the road. Or...basically anything about the Eagles. You know the dri...
Your Hurricane Sandy Open Thread
If you live on or near the East Coast, Hurricane Sandy is either A)inconveniencing your day or B)fucking up your shit. Consider this your warm, dry space to exchange safety, food, and booze tips, and share how you're riding out the storm....
Your World Series Game 4 Open Thread
Game 4 is here and the Tigers turn their lonely eyes to Max Scherzer to avoid a sweep. Here's your place to yak about how Prince and Miguel are shitting the bed, or put all your chips on the table and call it: Tigers in seven....
Your NFL Open Thread
Football in London highlights another early-heavy day of NFL action. Later there will be Giants-Cowboys and then, shock of shocks, Peyton Manning in primetime. Here's your place to yak about all of that fun stuff, or about Hurricane Sandy, or about how east coasters love freaking out about hurrican...
World Series Open Thread: The On-In-The-Background-At-A-Halloween-Party Classic
That's what they'll call this one, one day, when everyone tells their grandkids about it. Detroit needs to win to make it a series, so everyone who enjoys baseball and isn't a Giants fan cross your candy-coated fingers for that. Picture of one of the worst baseball jerseys of all time courtesy of C...
Your College Football Open Thread
Boy, not much at noon today, no? This may be the first time in nine weeks that there isn't really much of game in the early afternoon. UT at South Carolina might be amusing? Just sleep late, I don't know. Late afternoon, at various times: Texas Tech goes to Kansas State, the Gators go into Georgia...
The Dodgers Might Open The 2014 Season In Australia
Australia, while not on the level of Japan, does love it some baseball. The history of the sport there dates back to the 1850s, and the domestic Australian Baseball League is profitable for the first time ever—thanks in part to funding from MLB. The ABL is increasingly becoming a legitimate winter l...