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The Baseball Writers' New VP Pulled The Ol' Switcheroo With His American League MVP Vote [UPDATE]

On September 30, LaVelle E. Neal III, the Twins beat writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, wrote an impassioned summation of why Angels super-rookie Mike Trout should be considered the clear favorite for American League MVP. It's short, but it's actually a good, quick defense against the old-scho...

Eat It, Nerds: Miguel Cabrera Won The American League MVP, And It Wasn't Even Close

Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers' big third baseman, hit for the triple crown—.330 batting average, 44 home runs, 139 RBI—in 2012. His triple crown was baseball's first since Carl Yastrzemski's in 1967. Impressive! But it probably wasn't the league's best offensive season, and it assuredly wasn't ...

Don Cherry Tweets By Phoning The CBC

With a little more free time thanks to the NHL lockout, staunch Canadian nationalist and colorfully dressed "Coach's Corner" co-host Don Cherry sat down for a Q&A with The Globe and Mail's James Mirtle. The best revelation from the interview, by far, related to his joining Twitter:...

Why Do We Let Kids Play Tackle Football?

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Fake Gary Bettman Twitter Account Outs Gary Bettman's Two Remaining Fans

Last night a Twitter account purporting to be NHL commissioner Gary Bettman popped up. While the account turned out to be fake, many believed it at first, both because @Commish_Gary was Bettman's handle before he wisely deleted it pre-lockout, and because the impostor played it straight, tweeting j...

Did A Camera Operator Just Pass Out Live On <em>SportsCenter</em>? [UPDATE: He's OK]

Amidst the breathless reporting of Chris Broussard's "sources" on the Mike D'Antoni hiring, ESPN managed to squeeze in a cognition-degrading segment hosted by short tie advocate Merril Hoge....

Security Camera Footage Probably Shows BYU Football Players Beating The Crap Out Of Each Other In A Rancherito's

What we know, via the Salt Lake Tribune...

This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse

For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....

Welcome Back, College Basketball: Two Games Ended In Excellent Buzzer Beaters On The First Night Of The Season

It wasn't all imperiled basketball players and disappointed veterans on college basketball's first night back. Above, Alabama and South Dakota St. were tied at 67 going into the final possession when Trevor Lacey got the ball and—well, you should just watch it. Spoiler alert: they didn't go into o...

Sidney Crosby Says An NHL Season Would Need To Be At Least 60 Games To Be Fair

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: The league's done 48 games before, but Sid says that's not enough....

Your KHL Update: Importing the Enforcer

While the NHL and the NHLPA may or may not be making significant progress toward saving the season, hockey rages on abroad. Hopefully I'll have reason to stop doing these posts soon, but in the meantime, here's your second weekly KHL fix....

Bristolmetrics: Marcus Lattimore's Injury Tests <i>SportsCenter</i>'s Policy On Showing Really Gross Things

This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....

Bookmaker Says It's 1/2 The NHL Cancels The Entire Season

Don't panic! Yes, Bovada (formerly Bodog) released the latest odds on there ever being a '12-'13 NHL season, and no, it's not comforting....

Rick DiPietro Is Injured Again, This Time In Germany [UPDATE]

DiPietro, who missed most of last season with a groin injury that required surgery, is keeping warm by playing for SC Riessersee, in Germany's second division. Did I say "playing?" I meant rehabbing another injury....

If there were no NHL lockout, this wouldn't exist. End the lockout....

Now's Your Chance To Chat With Jeremy Roenick, Nine-Time NHL All-Star And NBC Analyst

Jeremy Roenick scored 513 goals in his 18 NHL seasons with the Blackhawks, Coyotes, Flyers, Kings, and Sharks. (You will recall, since it's not so active at present, the NHL is an occasionally operational professional league in which rich men compensate other men to play hockey.) Roenick retired in ...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kentucky's Joker Phillips, RIP)?

Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Locked-Out Hockey Player Scales Tall Building

Flyers center Max Talbot, 20-story office tower in Philly, etc. [WMMR, via The 700 Level] ...

The Winter Classic Is Canceled

The Winter Classic, scheduled to be played at Michigan's Big House between the Red Wings and Maple Leafs, is not going to happen. Once again, everybody loses....

Yep, Some Movie Or TV Show Being Filmed With The Use Of Generators In A Manhattan Neighborhood Still Without Power [UPDATED: Looks like it's an SNL skit]

The photo above was sent to us by a Manhattan resident who's still without power. It was taken at approximately 5 p.m. yesterday. That's Xavier High School, which is located on 16th Street in Chelsea. Says our tipster, who lives across the street and shot this from the 15th Street side:...