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30 Previews In 30 Days: The Memphis Grizzlies
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 could be exciting but will probably be just as unBEARable as ever. Get it? Eh. Sorry. They are: The Memphis Grizzlie...

The Tragic, Live Unraveling Of A College Football Fan
Hey, Tommy Bowden's departure from Clemson was hard on all of us. But none moreso than Dave of Mount Pleasant, who called in to the Live 5 News sports report and tried to be brave, but dammit, he's been torn up ever since he heard the news, and now he's afraid that ... the whole program (gulp) is in...

Morning Blogdome: Pete Rose Will Pick Apart Your Flaws If You Don't Buy an Autograph
• Charlie Hustle's post-career popularity continues to soar: A fan with a speech impediment reveals his run-in with baseball's all-time hits leader at a memorabilia show: " I told him how much I used to love to get up Saturday mornings with my sister to watch 'The Baseball Bunch,'" said Scornerston,...

Terrell Owens Was Very Yellow On Monday
It's Tuesday, and Black Sports Online is still asking the musical question: T.O., WTF are you wearing??? How do you lose to the Cardinals and then show up in the locker room on Monday looking like this? You've just blown any chance you may have had with Jessica Simpson. Was T.O. striving for the elu...

Tampa Bay Fans; Not Especially Coordinated
So what are the odds that the only person wearing a Rays jersey in the Monster seats at Fenway would end up catching Evan Longoria's home run ball in the third inning on Monday? Here's Michael Aguis, shown here trying to, I don't know, punch the ball? Anyway he ended up with it after his even goofie...

Hey, Wait A Minute, Didn't Braylon Edwards Go To Michigan?
Here's Cleveland wide receiver Braylon Edwards proudly representing the school logo ... unfortunately though, it's the wrong school. We know that the Wolverines have been struggling lately, but Penn State, a Big Ten rival? That's cold, man. Edwards channeled the JoePa mojo to catch five passes for 1...

Matt Stairs Enters the Pantheon of Philadelphia's Portly Sports Heroes
When the Philllies added journeyman hitter Matt Stairs to their roster August 30th, it was a move that barely registered on most people's radar. Another left-handed bat off the bench seemed like something the Phillies didn't need — even though Geoff Jenkins was recovering from an injury — but with e...

The 'Boys New QB, The Rays And Phils Win Stunners And The Browns Own Eli
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....

NLCS Game Four Live Blog: Phillies Vs. Dodgers
The Dodgers want to even up this series at 2-2. Strangely, the Phillies don't agree with them on that issue. It remains to be seen if the Phillies will stay unbeaten in Deadspin live blogs, or if Tim McCarver will fall asleep sometime during the sixth inning. Derek "Derrick" Lowe will pitch against ...

Giants Fear Dreaded Bone Lady Trap Game
I'll put some of the inevitable gloom-and-doom reports of the Red Sox/Rays game after it's over should the score hold up — still 5-0 Rays, Sox fans booing — but let's not forget there's also a Monday Night Football game this evening between the NFC East leading New York Giants and the still-waiting-...

Tragic Death of Rangers Prospect May Have Been Accidently Caused by Jaromir Jagr?
The details are starting to come in about the death of New York Rangers hockey prospect, 19-year-old Alexei Cherepanov. The initial reports had him suffering a cardiac arrest while sitting on the bench at a game in Moscow, but the story is getting even more random and tragic. Puck Daddy has been all...

John Madden Getting Sick of Riding Old Bones Across Country in a Bus to Cover Crappy Games
The Washington Post has just reported that NFL broadcasting stalwart John Madden will miss his first week blabbering about football for the first time in 476 games. He's not gravely ill and not planning on retiring soon either, so the Frank Caliendo suicide watch is also put off indefinitely. No, th...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you win all your money back ... • MLB: ALCS, Game 3, Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox (Right NOW!) Tazers on stun! [TBS] • NHL: Vancouver Canucks at Washington Capitals (7:00 p.m., ET) Ovechkin cares not for your "goalies." [Versus] • MLB: NLCS, Game 4, Philadelphia Phillies at L...

Memo to Adam Jones from Stephen A. Smith: You're Making All Black People Look Bad
Since the NBA season hasn't officially begun and the WWL has finally found out he's not as viable a sports star as they once hoped, Stephen A. Smith's visibility on ESPN has been limited. But last week Smith went into full-on ALL CAPS-mode while biding his time in the on-air personality purgatory kn...

Afternoon Blogdome: The Other Tampa Bay Lightning
• Don't ALCS me, bro!: The newest Rays promotion: The first 10,000 Red Sox fans at Tropicana Field receive a free tazering. (P.S. Don't applaud an electrocution when you're the one holding the camera.) [Busted Coverage] Click to view • Gary Moeller on Line 1: Michigan fans are responding to the Tole...

Goodbye, Big Brown; You're In A Better Place Now ... Jersey
As we told you earlier, tragedy befell Aqueduct racetrack early this morning when Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown injured his right front hoof during a workout. He was immediately retired. And as you may have guessed, it didn't take long for horse fans to burst forth with their emotion...

Detroit Lions Still Finding New And Impressive Ways To Lose
Two games after getting rid of the The GM Who Shall Not Be Named, Detroit found itself on the verge of its first and possibly only win of the season against the Minnesota Vikings. The defense had kept the opposition under thirty for the first time all season and backup QB "Dandy" Dan Orlovsky had be...

Tommy Bowden's Firing: Is Coaching Clemson that Great of a Job Anyway?
In the wake of Tommy Bowden's firing after nine years at Clemson, current players are already piling on. The quarterback he benched, Cullen Harper, told ESPN, "They just told us. It's what he deserved." And this whole firing business might not be that big of a surprise since in the Clemson-Wake For...

O.J. Target Of Aryan Prison Gang? Yikes
O.J. Simpson is fearful that an Aryan gang hit squad has marked him for death, it was reported by The Sun, Britain's most trusted news source if you don't count all the others. Simpson, convicted recently on all 12 counts in his robbery and kidnapping trial involving a Las Vegas memorabilia dealer, ...

Evan Longoria's Not Making a Lot of Amigos at ESPNDeportes
Nice catch by Shysterball, about a minor controversy from Evan Longoria's Eva Longoria-filled interview with Big League Stew's Dave Brown earlier this month. It stemmed from this question, where Brown pithily asked who on the team should not sport a Rayhawk: ...