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For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project is barreling into you this weekend like a linebacker into Joe Paterno's brittle kneecap. IM your college football thoughts, observations, and wise-ass remarks to DeadspinFootball on the AOL Instant Messenger. And I'm sorry if I can't get back to you... I'm busy organizing ...

SI.com Is So Nuanced You'd Never Notice
Here are some stats for you, via CBS MarketWatch: SI.com has 7 million unique visitors a month, far behind ESPN's 20.4 million visitors. This is a rather large discrepancy — Yahoo and Fox Sports are ahead of SI as well — but one that SI.com doesn't worry too much about....

Introducing The Deadspin Sportshuman Of The Year Tournament
Since Sports Illustrated is making its unveiling of the 2006 Sportsman Of The Year award into a two-month enterprise, we figured we could do the same thing. Therefore, we are introducing the Deadspin Sportshuman Of The Year tournament, where 16 nominees will compete for the sainted title. We've put ...

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project, electricity willing, is alive and kicking today. The AOL Instant Messenger name for your brilliant and witty college football observations is "DeadspinFootball." And please don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site, a link, etc)....

End of the Line for Curtis Martin?
Nice - if, you know, it turns out to be true - scoop from the Newark Star-Ledger:...

Great Moments in Sports Journalism: Hell, We'll Give it a Shot
Over at Gawker we run a regular feature called Great Moments in Journalism where readers send in particularly egregious examples of overwriting, poor writing, excessive use of clich , or any other example of journalism gone wrong. We very rarely nominate sports pieces, since most of our readers don'...

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
1:00, CBS: Jacksonville @ Philadelphia Baltimore @ New Orleans Houston @ Tennessee...

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project kindly requests your presence again today. The AOL Instant Messenger name is "DeadspinFootball," and I'm looking for your thoughts and observations of the day's college football games. And please don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site...

Peter King, 13 Years Ago
A fascinating look back by the folks at 10 Cent Freeze Pops as part of their "Looking at old issues of Sports Illustrated" series: A 1993 cover story by everybody's favorite international online superstar Peter King about why the NFL is boring....

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
1:00, CBS: Pittsburgh @ Atlanta New England @ Buffalo San Diego @ Kansas City Jacksonville @ Houston...

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project is back up in your grillpiece for another Saturday. The AOL Instant Messenger name is "DeadspinFootball." And please don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site, a link, etc., even if you've done it before, because my memory isn't so great...

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
Your NFL Scoreboard, and your TV distribution maps:...

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project rolls hard again this weekend. The AOL Instant Messenger name is "DeadspinFootball." And please don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site, a link, etc., even if you've done it before, because my memory isn't what it once was). And I hope...

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
National Football League:...

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project is back for another glorious weekend. The AOL Instant Messenger name is "DeadspinFootball." As always, don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site, a link, etc). And don't take it personally if you get the 'away message.' It hurts me as m...

That Is Exactly What It Looks Like
What you're looking at is a picture of a kangaroo boxing a human being. A terrible human being. I'm afraid it's very real, and it's a part of the 2006 Animal Olympics. They're brought to you from China, a country that apparently believes in animal rights every bit as much as they believe in human ri...

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
First, your NFL Scoreboard....

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project is back for another glorious weekend. The AOL Instant Messenger name is "DeadspinFootball." As always, don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site, a link, etc). And don't take it personally if you get the 'away message.' It hurts me as much...

Hazing, Or An Endorsement Of Intimate Apparel?
When it comes to accusations of boys being forced to wear lingerie and drink hard liquor, I could really go either way. If it's Michael Jackson doing it, then sure, there could be some cause for concern. When it's being done voluntarily by high school baseball players... I'm probably OK with it....