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ESPN's Barry Bonds "Scoop"
Remember last week, when we were pointing out that ESPN seemed to be underplaying the Barry Bonds steroid revelations? Some of you thought ESPN was protecting Barry because their upcoming reality show with him, while others defended the network, saying that it was merely reflecting the opinion, "Hey...
Mexican Beans Sold Separately
Fantastic find from The Wade Blogs: Currently up for auction is a wristband worn by Barry Bonds in 1987 for the Pirates that says "Say No To Drugs."...
Jacking Yourself UP!
One of the excerpts from Game Of Shadows involves the authors claiming that because Bonds put on 15 pounds of muscle in three months, he must have been on steroids. (To be fair, this is one sentence in the book, and the only one we've seen so far that even slightly overreaches.) Baseball Musings t...
Barry Bonds And The Chamber of Secrets
Well, there's less than two weeks left until the official release of the book Game of Shadows, the Barry Bonds expose by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. We suspect that your kids have been on pins and needles in anticipation and have probably been bugging you ...
The Barry Bonds Creationism Argument
We've been keeping an eye on the fallout, two days later, of the big Barry Bonds expose in Sports Illustrated, and we've noticed the debate being framed thusly: Do you believe in Barry or do you believe the book?...
But What About The Kids??!!
And so, only now do we learn that the weapons of mass destruction were real. Barry Bonds had them in his medicine cabinet. Baseball fans love statistics, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters have provided plenty — every pill, cream, lotion and chemical used by Bonds since 1998. Multiple witne...
How Important Is It To Care About Bonds?
Hey, we made it five posts in today before any Barry Bonds posts. We want some credit for that....
Let's Not Forget The Real Victim Here
In all the rigmarole destined to take over the sports airwaves in the coming days, let's not forget who will suffer the real ramifications of the definitive proof that Barry Bonds took steroids story: ESPN....
Bonds Won't Get Off The Hook This Time
OK, if you've hadn't a chance to dig into the Bonds Sports Illustrated story yet, we cannot recommend it more highly....
The End Of Barry Bonds
So we just got back from lunch ... what'd we miss?...
Bonds' Comedic Timing As Pitch Perfect As Ever
It's one thing for Barry Bonds to to dress up as Paula Abdul as a prank in spring training. (Or, more accurately, as a Media Event for his reality show.)...
Barry Bonds Is Ready For His Closeup, ESPN
Call us cynical, but we've been mulling over this whole Barry Bonds-in-drag thing that occurred at the Giants spring training practice field on Tuesday. Upon further review, we smell a very large and stinky rat. This, you see, was a very un-Barry-like thing to do. Whatever Barry is about, he is no...
Hide Your Eyes, Children
Your eyes are not deceiving you, unless you think that's a picture of a sane human being unworthy of ridicule, in which case, yes, your eyes are deceiving you....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Giants
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Barry's Back, And So Are the Memories
It was 7:59 a.m. in Scottsdale Ariz., and even the lizards were holding their breath. Would Barry Bonds show up for his first spring training workout? After all, Bonds had hinted, then retracted, then hinted again that baseball was no longer fun, and that he might retire. Then — 8 a.m.! Bonds arri...
Welcome To The Bizarro NFL
Word on the street is that the Green Bay Packers are set to hire San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McCarthy as the team's new head coach, with an announcement to come maybe later today. This may come as a surprise to, well, anyone who is familiar with the final NFL regular season stan...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The 49ers
Previously we have examined the great fan blogs of the NFL and Major League Baseball, and what an interesting journey it was. But every great story needs a strong antagonist, and to that end we now present the anti-blogs — those Web chronicles devoted to abhorrence and loathing — what the French c...
Blogdom's Best: San Francisco 49ers
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 ...
Meet The New ABA
The seats were uncomfortable, the snack bar didn't have much of a selection and the halftime show was nonexistent (the sound system broke, causing the scheduled singer to go home). But professional basketball returned to San Francisco on Tuesday, and for the 1,000 people or so who turned out at Ke...
Kruegergate Refuses To Die
Remember when Larry Krueger was fired from his job as late-night sports talk host at KNBR-680 in San Francisco back in August? You don't? Well, he was, and now he's back, waving legal briefs and suing everyone in sight....