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Here's An Unverified Story About Keith Olbermann Being Obnoxious At A Mets Game [Update]A tipster wrote in last Tuesday:...

Yard Work Upgrades, Eviscerates Peter King Congrats to the wacky folks at Yard Work, who have revamped their site with a shiny new URL and an archive that could judiciously be called "improved." They blast off the new site with a pretty biting satire of Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column, which begins with a pretty fantastic im...

Bob Costas: Hysterical In His Own Mind Don't know if any of you saw this or not, but everybody's favorite Sports Dwarf In A Suit Bob Costas was a guest on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" last evening. It was a bizarre appearance. Our problem with Costas has never been that he isn't smart (because he constantly reminds us that, yes, h...

Mistakes At Si.com

Interesting note on SI.com right now. On Michael Silver's column is the following rejoiner:...

NBA Draft Predictions: Trying To Piss In The Dark While Handcuffed

As previously mentioned, the NBA Draft is tonight. This, of course, is a completely random exercise with 30 different variables liable to change their minds for no particular reason at any given moment. But sportswriters get bored, so we present the Deadspin guide to mock drafts by people who don'...

Tracking The Sportswriter Hacks

Yesterday, we speculated how much backtracking each of the major sports pundits would do if they were wrong about last night's Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Here's a look:...

If There Were Anyone To Fire, Someone Would Totally Be Fired

In this week's Sports Illustrated, Michael Silver writes a long-winded piece about the resurgence of women's softball, not just on a collegiate level, but also in the pro realm. He warbles extensively about Jennie Finch's role on the Chicago Bandits, a professional team that played its first game ye...

Sports Illustrated Keeps Finger On The Web Pulse

Featured Web site in Sports Illustrated's "SI Players" section this week: ManuGinobili.com....