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Blogdome: All Knicks, All The Time
• Not only is Larry Brown already insulting Stephon Marbury, but now former Knicks prez Dave Checketts wants to get into hockey. In St. Louis, even. [TrueHoop] • What's up with the Mets' new cable network, anyway? [Faith and Fear In Flushing] • A look back at the Baltimore Orioles 2005 season ... if...
Saying Goodbye To ESPN's Mark Shapiro
After a reign that changed the culture of the world's largest sports entertainment network, ESPN executive vice president Mark Shapiro has now left the network to work for Redskins owner Daniel Snyder with his new venture with Six Flags. Ignoring all "Quite Frankly With Yosemite Same" jokes for a ...
The World's First Buzzsaw Blog
The day we've been personally waiting for has finally arrived: The Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals finally have a fanblog. We have searched high and long for a Buzzsaw blog for many years, and we found none; according to our research, they were the only team in the three major sports — not t...
Bad Time To Think Of Peyton
Just an update on our Peyton Manning/Kenny Chesney/Brokeback Mountain item from yesterday: We were doing some searching, and we found this pretty damning story from Chesney, via Anecdotage:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Skip Bayless on NFL kickers: Who better to discuss kickers than a little man whom everyone seems to want to beat to a pulp? • Noon. Boxing with Dan Rafael: So, Michael Buffer. Don't you just want to pop him in the snout? • 4 p....
Your Weekend Is Already Over
It's pretty clear that those roof gutters aren't getting cleaned this weekend, and the odds are excellent that the kids are missing soccer practice. (Or, if you skew younger, the random woman you met last night with a name that sounds suspiciously like "Steve" is going to have leave your place bef...
About Last Night ...
What you missed due to the cast of "Riverdance," the swarm of bees and the misunderstanding with the Department of Fish and Game ... • MLB: Yankees, Red Sox both win, setting up a great three-game series and possibly paying for a few vacations. • MLB: White Sox clinch A.L. Central, but still relucta...
Yahoo Sneaks Past ESPN.com
We know you love those Web site ranking numbers, so we've got some more for you, and they're good ones. Last week, Yahoo Sports — are we supposed to use the exclamation point? We always feel like goobers typing "Yahoo!" — beat ESPN.com in both unique users and visitors. We've heard all kinds of ar...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as your family reminisces about that time you actually had dinner with them ... • College FB: Air Force at Colorado State. How does one win at Washington, then lose at home against Wyoming? Oh, that's right — these players actually go to class. [ESPN] • MLB: Yankees at Orioles. Yanks' ...
Rammer Jammer Motley Hammer
We're not sure what much more we can add to this picture except to say we're curious if this makes Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer author Warren St. John exuberant, horrified or both....
Leftovers: Daaarrryyyyyylllll ...
• Darryl Strawberry in trouble with the law? No way. [SeeperSports] • Red Sox pick up Stanton for Yankees series. This is getting good. [Postgame Spread] • That hurricane empathy is fading fast: LSU apologizes to Tennessee for rowdy fans. [The Rebel Wrap] • Kenny Rogers: "I'm finished with Rangers. ...
White Sox Clinch Playoffs. It's Ozzie Time!
The Chicago White Sox just beat the Tigers 4-2 and are heading to the playoffs for the first time in five years. This means many things, but what's most important is that White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is about to become a very big, very loud part of every baseball fan's life. So, you know, that'...
Today In Oddjack
Things Our Sexual Deviant Brother Oddjack Is Wrong About Today ... • Barry Bonds is being shut down, probably as early as today. So, uh, we wouldn't bet on him, no. • The San Diego Padres couldn't be scarier if they were wearing a bright red jacket with chains and dancing around a graveyard. • Nobod...
What Now, Big Mac?
Tomorrow night, beleaguered former hero Mark McGwire will make his first public appearance since those pesky steroid hearings back in March. At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, former players and various local luminaries — we saw Ray Lankford and Illini basketball coach Bruce Weber earlier this year — ...
Blogdom's Best: Florida Marlins
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Alberts Prays To Wrong God For Help
Earlier this month, ESPN college football analyst Trev Alberts was fired by his network for refusing to show up because of an airtime dispute. In his first public comments since the firing, Alberts says that ESPN has pretty much crushed his ability to be on TV again....
Welcome To The MLB Blogs Animal Farm
MLB Blogs, your crimes are many — just the Tommy Lasorda blog alone would make sure no jury would acquit you of anything. But we thought that even you wouldn't stoop to this. They've taken a small dog, you see, and formed an MLB Blog around it. Look! The dog is writing about baseball! And using do...
Blogdome: Bill Simmons Edition
• Sports blogger goes after Bill and Chuck for trashing sports bloggers. [The Mighty MJD] • In full book promotion mode, Bill shows up on blogger radio show and actually predicts the Yankees to win. [Mr. Irrelevant] • The Phillies might be pretty much done in the playoff chase, but hey, look, they'r...
Peyton Manning Going All Brokeback Mountain On Us?
OK, now this be should be filed under "Complete Random Rumor From Gossip Newsletter That Knows Nothing About American Sports," but the pure notion of it is so hysterical that we can't help but bring it to your attention....
The Eddy Curry Problem
You wouldn't know it from "Around the Horn," but sometimes in sports, an issue is too complicated and full of too much subtlety to get much of a handle on. You understand both sides, recognize every viewpoint and struggle to come up with a solution that's fair to everyone. (Weird, for sports, we k...