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Afternoon Blogdome: Steve Young Is Losing His Religion
But will he get to keep his magic underwear?: Mormon Steve Young gives money to California's "No on Prop 8" movement, which is opposed by pretty much every other Mormon in the world. [Sporting Blog] Snow is for pussies: Hard-hitting investigative journalism proves that the Iditarod is really the se...
Hugh 2: Dee-Fence?
Nothing quite like a Saturday morning/afternoon featuring a bunch of bruising Big Ten matchups, games that are settled by whoever happens to get into field goal range first because the stifling blood-lusting defenses hold the prissy, pansy offenses to only a handful of yards all day. Just kidding, ...
Philadephians Could Care Less About Chase Utley Swearing
Late yesterday, we posted a video of Chase Utley performing a more-than-casual swear at the Phillies victory celebration, pronouncing to the crowd that the team was now "world fucking champions!" As you can imagine, Philadelphians were none too pleased about the man introducing such a profane word ...
Hugh 1: The Morning After
There's nothing worse than waking up with a pounding in your head from the festivities the night before, except when that pounding is literal because of people doing construction upstairs at 8 in the morning! I'm not paying my rent this month. But enough about me, what about Hugh? Not much going on ...
Next Game, the Knicks Won't Even Let Stephon Marbury Onto the Team Bus
Once again, the NBA's highest paid bench-warmer did not take part in the Greek tragedy that is otherwise known as New York Knickerbockers basketball. After conferring with head coach Mike D'Antoni at the team's hotel in Philadelphia last night, Stephon Marbury and his annual salary of $21.9 million...
The Gators and Bulldogs Are Ready For Cocktails
You might still be hungover from your Halloween shenanigans, but for the ladies and gentlemen at Florida and Georgia the party is just starting. Today of course is the date for the world's biggest outdoor cocktail party. The two top ten teams are set for a 3:30 kickoff in the neutral site of Jackso...
For Your Viewing Pleasure
• CFB: Northwestern at Minnesota, 12:00 p.m. [ESPN2] • CFB: Wisconsin at Michigan State, 12:00 p.m. [ESPN] • PGA Tour: Ginn sur Mer Classic (Third Round), 1:30 p.m. [Golf Channel] • CFB: Pittsburgh at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. [NBC] • CFB: Regional coverage: Florida State at Georgia Tech; Iowa at Illin...
Morning Blogdome: Sure, This is a Sports-Related Video ... Kinda
• Olympic javelin thrower Leryn Franco tries on some bikinis, and gets soaking wet: Yeah, I thought that might get your attention. [Hot Clicks] ...
Goodell Asks Larry Johnson to Sit One Out, and Think Things Through
Everyone's favorite rap superstar befriending, boyfriend threatening running back has been suspended for one game without pay by the NFL. Johnson, who has been deactivated by his employer for the last two games, will not play against the Chargers next Sunday. The Chiefs didn't seem too upset about ...
Week In Review: Yes Us Can
We're THIS close to having a new President, people. Four more days! Four more days! OK, I'm shutting this thing down, but not before we review what we've learned this week. • Erin Andrews can tuck me in any time. • Tonight, we're all Phillies fans ... except for that guy in the Padres hat. Let's get...
Awful Announcing's Weekly Media Rundown
Each Friday afternoon Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed during the past week from the world of Sports Media. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you wait for animals to attack your pumpkins ... • College Football: Wofford Terriers at Appalachian State Mountaineers (8:00 p.m., ET) Double the A's equal double the fun! [ESPN2] • NBA: Chicago Bulls at Boston Celtics (8:00 p.m., ET) Derrick Rose cured my acne with a well-place...
Guess Which Country Is Acting Racist Again? Si
What you see here is a screen capture of a web site created by a Spanish Formula One fan (now since removed, it seems), entitled Pincha la Rueda de Hamilton. That's Spanish for Burst Hamilton's Tires. The idea is for visitors of the site to place nails, pins and even freakin' porcupines on the track...
Afternoon Blogdome: What Are You Supposed To Be?
Blogdome + @ + deadspin.com = memories that last a lifetime. • All this and a stick of gum?: Great moments in hockey card history. That was really forward thinking to take Jaromir Jagr's card portrait when he was only 12. [Puck Daddy] • Trick or treats: Last minute Halloween costumes for the unimag...
College Football Preview: The Jort-Out Is Coming
In a move reminiscent of the final rap contest between Rabbit and Papa Doc, Florida fans have embraced their greatest flaw: the you wear jorts insult that Georgia fans have been hurling for the better part of a decade. Yep, there's an organized movement afoot for Gator fans to show up in jorts for t...
Bowler Rolls 300 Game, Is Immediately Admitted To Heaven
It sounds like something out of a really funny movie—or a really bad one—but some stories are just too surreal to be made up. Don Doane, a 62-year-old bowler from Ravenna, Michigan, waited his whole life for the moment every roller dreams of—a perfect game. A couple of weeks ago, he finally got his ...
Dispatches From The Phillies Victory Parade
Breaking News: We have a Daulerio sighting. Your Deadspin editor has been spotted at the Locust Bar at 235 S 10th St., engaged in drunken post-parade revelry with someone named Jim (and later, I'm sure, to be known as "Suspect B"). A courageous reader sent this cell phone shot at great personal risk...
Intolerable Ballpark Abuse: Featuring Drunkeness, Assault, And The Cutting Insults Of Von Hayes
Once upon a time, a site called The Black Table had a regular feature entitled Waxing Off, in which women gathered in an online roundtable to discuss issues of the day, and also to make fun of Will Leitch's shoes. And so we got to thinking: With so many great female sports bloggers out there, why no...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN regularly scours its message boards for its boldest, wittiest, most enlightening comments, and chooses the best ones for its front page. Here is one of those comments ... • "Last night Carlisle did exactly the same thing that Avery did all last year." — wegot5doyouPrevious ESPN Featured Comment...
Casting The Movie "11 To 1: The Avella High School Football Story"
If this true life film isn't on the Disney release schedule by Christmas 2010, then I will move to Western Pennsylvania and start a high school football team myself. It's the tale of tiny Avella High School, in the cradle of football Eden, where their local gridiron gang lost all nine games this sea...