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Tiger Woods: Mr. Cool
While skipping through The Sports Frog this morning, and we came across this photo of Tiger Woods' famous shot at the 16th hole at Augusta in The Masters this year....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: It just occurred to us that "Fantasy Football Focus" sounds like a particularly gas-guzzling American automobile. Or, at the very least, an unlikely name for a Hybrid. • 3 p.m.. CFB With Beano Cook: Admi...
Baseball Owners And Their Emoticons
In yet another example of how Red Sox fans are so frighteningly devoted that they can get the people who run their team to do anything, Red Sox owner John Henry showed up on Sons Of Sam Horn yesterday to respond to various fans' questions. Say what you will about the coldness of Red Sox management...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while seriously considering naming your child "Seven Costanza." It's not a name, it's a number. • Cavaliers win eighth straight, then beg fans to please stop calling the "Cavs." • Even though we still think it's weird to imagine an event that would precipitate a team from Carolina pl...
Authors With Pure Hearts: Jeff MacGregor
Continuing our Sports Authors With Pure Hearts series, we present, honestly, one of our favorite sports books of all time: Sunday Money, a whirlwind, Kerouac-esque look at a year on the NASCAR circuit. Sports Ilustrated, New York Times and New Yorker author Jeff MacGregor, along with his photographe...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as somewhere, another talking baby movie is being contemplated ... • College Basketball: Maui Invitational, semifinals, at Lahaina, Hawaii. UConn vs. Arizona. Death struggle with Hawaiian shirts. [ESPN] • College Football: Toledo at Bowling Green. A tempting matchup, but unfortunately ...
Polls: You Love You Some Sheriff
Well, the readers have spoken, and in yet another trouncing — we never have any close polls around here, which we suppose is our fault — your favorite Clinton Portis costume is Sheriff Gonna Getcha, with 38.1 percent of the vote. (We think it's the Led Zeppelin shirt; impossible to resist it.) Sec...
Leftovers: The Hair Apparent?
• Former Purdue coach Gene Keady may be contemplating Raptors, must consult his combover. [Greg's Sports Blog] • Rose won't be on Hall ballot in final year of eligibility. Damn, we lost 10 bucks. [Slobokan] • Mario Lemieux not sure about Olympic commitment. He's Canadian though, so it doesn't really...
Athlete Run-Ins: Drunken Bonding With Al Leiter
In the spirit of the Michael Jordan run-in from earlier today comes a random running-into involving soon-to-be-retired Fox analyst Al Leiter, who, if you've been to On The DL recently, you know likes his booze and late nights out. It comes to us from Jacob Kirkland in Oakland. The full story:...
Picasso And Ron Artest Meet, One Year Later
We think the folks at Washington Wizards obsessive site Wizznutzz are certifiably bonkers, but we mean that in the best possible way. We meant to hit this last week, but on Friday they reposted their brilliant Picasso-inspired piece of art called "Aubernica", a dramatic surrealist rendering the f...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: C.W. Nevius
And now it's time for a new category: columnists who left sports to write for the living section but still manage to write about sports most of the time. Frankly, we're not sure why C.W. Nevius left the sports pages of the San Francisco Chronicle to begin with, but one day we looked there and he w...
Blogdome: Lacrosse Hazing Hijinks
• If you dare, check out these truly horrifying photos of hazing in collegiate lacrosse. Honestly, though: We totally warned you here. [Bad Jocks] • Here's the situation: You refuse a trade to a certain team. Your team then waives you in response. That certain team then just picks you up. Now what, ...
Blogdom's Best: Arizona Cardinals
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NFL ...
Throwing The Book At Greg Gall
Some more news from our old friend Greg Gall, the guy who has spent an inordinate amount of time drinking with Deadspin readers. (By the way, we will be in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving week, so Greg, hey, drop us a line, we'll chat.) Ordinarily, when American Heroes like Gall bolt onto the field, t...
Athlete Run-Ins: Getting Ballsy With MJ
As we go through our athlete run-in stories, we notice a somewhat disturbing trend: The number of fans who bother athletes, taunt them into doing something stupid, and then tell the stories like they're cool. We like to make fun of athletes too — Lord knows it's not difficult — but, on the whole a...
Bring Us Your Tired And Your Poor
Our bean-counting corporate overlords at Gawker Media have asked us to direct you to one of those reader survey things, where you click on little numbers of demographic information that tell us what kind ... you know, honestly, we don't really understand what this survey is for, and that's kind of...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Thanksgiving Food!: Yeah, this is just what my family needs — holiday dinner recipes from someone who drinks beer from a novelty hat. • Noon. NFL with Len Pasquarelli: Well, are you an idiot or a moron? It's not like the questi...
Student Athletes Rule!
From the Angry College Professors department comes an email forwarded to us from the land of the USC Trojans. Fullback Mike Brittingham, a former walk-on with only one catch this year (though, assuredly, a lot of blocks), apparently missed a conference with one of his professors in October because...
Delonte West's Theoretical Portis Moment
We have known that Delonte West has had a "diary" on the Celtics' official site for a while, and we have heard that he has said crazy stuff on there from time to time. But today someone finally sent us an official quote from it, and it's too much not to quote exactly to you, even though someone (h...
Seizure On Ice
Last evening's terrifying seizure incident involving Red Wings defenseman Jiri Fischer ended with an entire game being cancelled, CPR being given right there on the bench (you can see it in that picture, from the Detroit Free Press) and, ultimately, Fischer was described as "jovial" in the hospita...