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Your Rangers-Tigers ALCS Game Two Open Thread
So, the Rangers got all the runs they needed off the Tigers' Cy Young Award (soon to be) winning ace before a rain delay last night. You're supposed to win at home, but still, that's a big home win. Even if every win — whether home or away — is big this time of year, as everybody who has ever playe...
Rex Ryan Got Into The Hall Of Fame Before Bill Belichick: Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend. Come inside, come inside. ...
Your Cardinals-Brewers NLCS Game One Open Thread
The Brewers and Cardinals faced off 18 times during the regular season, with each team winning nine. Since Aug. 30, though, the Cardinals took five of six. That stat matters....
Todd Haley Face Beats Peyton Manning Face: Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Week five. I hope you are all as despondent as I am. If not, you will be. You. Will be. As always, please join us down below for fun and games. ...
Here's Your First Bloodied-Face Picture Of The New NHL Season
Presenting Tim Jackman, of the Calgary Flames, from last night's season-opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Jackman didn't score any points in the Flames's 5-3 loss, but he did serve a two-minute minor for too many men on the ice. H/T to tipster Noah D., who reports "Jackman actually went in fo...
If You Dare Approach Frank Beamer On The Football Field, The Virginia State Police Will Disappear You
Your morning roundup for Oct. 9, the day we learned they won't keep you in the clink very long after threatening to cook your friend's mom. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Your Rangers-Tigers Game One Open Thread
The AL (Eastless) Championship Series gets underway tonight. C.J. Wilson takes the home mound for the Texas Rangers (16-7, 2.94); Justin Verlander pitches for the visiting Detroit Tigers (24-5, 2.40). Enjoy....
Your College Football Night Games Open Thread
The network game: Ohio State at No. 14 Nebraska (ABC, 8 p.m.). The 7 and 7:30 p.m. cable games: Vanderbilt at No. 2 Alabama (ESPNU); Colorado at No. 7 Stanford (Versus); No. 15 Auburn at No. 10 Arkansas (ESPN); No. 12 Michigan at Northwestern (Big Ten Network); and No. 24 Texas A&M at Texas Tech (F...
Your College Football Afternoon Games Open Thread
Florida visits LSU today. No. 17 (with a freshman QB) vs. No. 1....
Stories That Don't Suck: Hunter Thompson On Al Davis
Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear And Loathing At The Super Bowl" essay ran in the Feb. 15, 1973 edition of Rolling Stone magazine. In it, Thompson chronicles a pair of encounters with the general manager and "de facto owner" of the Raiders....
Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
It's Red River Rivalry time on ABC as No. 3 Oklahoma faces No. 11 Texas in Dallas. That should be fun. Also in the noon-12:30 p.m. range: Maryland at No. 13 Georgia Tech (ESPNU); Connecticut at No. 16 West Virginia (ESPN3); Kentucky at No. 18 South Carolina (SEC Network); and No. 23 Florida State a...
Your Cardinals-Phillies Elimination Game Open Thread
Baseball! Baseball! Baseball! We've got two games this afternoon/night, both on TBS, and their outcomes will have another outcome, as these things tend to: We'll know who's in the National League Championship Series. Better still, we'll know whether the Editor Emeritus will get hit by a 90-mile-per-...
"I Ain't No Damned Monkey On A String": The Sadness Of Sweetness After Super Bowl XX
Today the 1985 Chicago Bears were finally honored at the White House—25 years after their 46-10 romp over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. (The original trip was canceled because of the Challenger explosion.) That Super Bowl was memorable for many reasons—the headbands of Jim McMahon, the ...
Bryce Harper Was Openly Rooting On The Yankees Last Night
Bryce Harper grew up a Yankees fan, for no reason other than (some people think) he's kind of a dick. One would assume he'd have put those loyalties away after being drafted by the Nationals, but the drama of a winner-take-all game 5 proved to be too much....
Adam Morrison Gets Thrown Out Of A Game In Serbia, Where He Is Playing Basketball, Apparently
For today's edition of Former College Hoops Sweathearts: Where Are They Now?, we're checking in with former Gonzaga star and former No. 3 overall pick Adam Morrison....
This Is A Story About An Ohio High-School Football Game Resulting In Stigmata
"In one of the most disturbing acts by an individual high school athlete in recent times, an Ohio football player placed a sharp object — believed to be a tack — in his glove before walking through a postgame handshake line, pricking the hands of 27 opponents as he walked through and "congratulate...
This Super Bowl Commercial Introduced The World To Steve Jobs's Apple Macintosh Computer
"The fact that the Los Angeles Raiders humiliated the Washington Redskins in a 38-to-9 victory is a mere afterthought. Super Bowl XVIII's lasting legacy has been a single advertisement sandwiched somewhere in the third quarter: Apple Computer's iconic "1984" commercial." [CNet]...
John Henry Blames Terry Francona For Injury Sustained On His Megayacht
There was a somber mood in the Deadspin office last Friday, when we received word that Red Sox owner and billionaire John Henry had been rushed to the hospital after sustaining an injury on his megayacht in Boston. We wondered if he'd broken a bone, or gotten a paper cut from a million-dollar bill, ...
Your Phillies-Cardinals And Brewers-Diamondbacks Open Thread
The Phillies are up 2-0 in the second inning in St. Louis (sorry for being tardy), and the Brewers could knock the D-Backs out of contention in Phoenix at 9:37 Eastern. Join us here to talk your shit....
Amar'e Stoudemire Eats Mostly Kosher, And He Has A Friend He Met "Through Private Jets"
The editors of Bon Appetit magazine—better known as Gourmet for the moderately illiterate—dropped in on a lockout dinner party at Amar'e Stoudemire's house. We learned that it's good to be, uh, staring down a year with no paycheck....