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Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Hakeem Nicks is likely to play; Steven Jackson will not. So it's Cadillac time in the Meadowlands! The Rams and the Giants both had hopes of competing this year, and one of them is going to have a lot less hope once this is done....
Deadspin Music Week 2011: The PJ20 Edition
Fine. I admit, this is selfish. No one else on the staff was ever as excited about the prospect of a Music Week featuring Pearl Jam as the unifying theme, even though this band's sports-music connection is more obvious than most. They'll deal. ...
In Michigan, The Grandmas Shotgun Beers Better Than You
Who says you can never relive the glory days? Who says you can't do it at age 85, in a parking lot, wearing a pair of jorts and a Michigan Wolverines windbreaker as you inhale the contents of a Keystone Light Michelob Ultra in just under ten seconds? This is what dreams (and Cirrhosis) are made of...
Your Sunday Night Football Open Thread
Here is your Sunday Night Football open thread. Talk about all your fantasies, groups of people operating towards a common goal and whatever else tickles your fancy. ...
Joe Morgan Led The World's Largest Chicken Dance With Attractive Ladies In German Dresses Yesterday
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati got underway in Cincinnati yesterday. In addition to "music from Bavarian band Musikkapelle Hopfenblaesers" and "The World Bratwurst Eating Championship," there was revelry and there was dance....
Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
All your late afternoon/early evening fun is down below. Let's get lubed up together. ...
Arkansas State's Football Coaches Have Uniquely Suggestive Play-Calling Signals
They may have lost 26-7 to Virginia Tech this weekend, but the coaching staff of the Arkansas State Red Wolves made quite an impression on tipster Doug W....
Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Hey, welcome back. Thanks for joining us for a full day of football open threading. First, the 1 p.m. games. Entertain yourself and others down below. ...
Poll: 54 Percent Of Washington D.C. Sports Fans Disapprove Of Daniel Snyder
"Twenty seasons after the Redskins won their last Super Bowl, just more than half of area sports fans say they view the team favorably. But more than a third have negative feelings about the hometown football team, according to a new Washington Post poll, and fans hold even stronger negative views ...
Your College Football Night Games Open Thread
In a game showcasing everything that's righteous and moral in this cold dark world, No. 17 Ohio State visits Miami (FL) at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN. And in a game that will showcase opposing ends of the Top 5, Florida State hosts Oklahoma on ABC....
Your College Football Afternoon Games Open Thread
The ranked teams playing at 3:30 or 4 p.m. (eastern) are No. 7 Wisconsin, No. 11 Nebraska (ABC/ESPN), No. 12 Oregon, No. 13 Virginia Tech, No. 15 Michigan State (NBC), No. 16 Florida (CBS) and No. 23* Texas (also ABC/ESPN)....
Wife Of Former Vikings Player Charged In Fatal Hit-And-Run, Denies Knowing She Hit Someone
Amy Senser is the wife of former Minnesota Vikings TE Joe Senser. She's also an irresponsible driver/human who faces a felony charge for driving the Mercedes SUV which struck and killed 38-year-old Anousone Phanthavong on Aug. 23....
Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
Today's noon slate includes No. 21 Auburn heading to Death Valley for a game with Clemson (ABC), No. 18 West Virginia squaring off against Maryland (ESPNU), Pittsburgh traveling to Iowa (ESPN2) and Penn State's in Philly to play a Temple team with a fanbase riding high on delusions of probable vict...
What The Hell Did Crazy Dennis Rodman Say In The Bleeped-Out Portion Of This Interview That So Terrified The Interviewer?
Dennis Rodman was on Yahoo's In Depth with Graham Bensinger recently to touch on a few issues. Issues like, how is he still alive at 50 years old? (No one knows.) Is he still batshit? (Yes, definitely.) And is he still partying his giant nose ring off? (See below.)...
Dan Snyder Is Saving The World, According To Idiot
Someone let ESPN senior Jonas Brothers correspondent Lynn Hoppes out of the shallow end of the pool, and this is what happened. ...
Watch A Nervous MLS Rookie Recite A Spoken-Word Love Poem To Hope Solo
C.J. Sapong is a rookie forward for Sporting Kansas City, and he is creepily heartsick for goalie-dancer Hope Solo. So with the U.S. women's national team in town for Saturday's friendly against Canada, Sapong did what any tormented soul would do: he "stayed up late" and wrote her a spoken word lo...
You Can Now Buy The Amarillo Sox Mascot That Had A Huge Erection
The Amarillo Sox Sock had one priapic night in the spotlight, before being consigned to the bottom of the hamper of history. Now the independent league Sox are auctioning off the outfit, presumably for use in sex pervert games, with all proceeds going to charity. [eBay]...
Let's Go Deep Inside The Spine Of Peyton Manning
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Buy Drew's new book, The Postmortal, through here. Find more of his stuff at his Twitter feed....
Finally, A Chance To Dress Up Like The Super Bowl Grounds Crew
This week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast deals with an auction of sports memorabilia that includes, for the first time, Super Bowl grounds crew attire. There are pullover shirts. But there are no NFL-branded lawnmowers. Of course, Roger Goodell has plenty of time to develop corpor...
Rick Reilly Ate Gross Stuff Off Of A Carpet In The Name Of Journalistic Integrity
In August, ESPN's Rick Reilly promised to "come to your house and eat things that are stuck in your carpet" if Peyton Manning didn't start in Week 1. He didn't, and so Reilly ate popcorn off of the floor at Sun Life Stadium earlier in the week....