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ESPN Reports On Who Is And Isn't Showering With Michael Sam
This morning's episode of SportsCenter briefly checked in with reporter Josina Anderson, who is on the scene at Rams training camp. She was asked to talk about how Michael Sam is fitting in with his new teammates, and Anderson went ahead and told us about how Sam's showering habits....

Report: Mark Sanchez Would Rather Ride The Bench Than Play In St. Louis
With Sam Bradford's season-ending ACL tear, the Rams are presumably in the market for a competent, experienced QB. Like, say, Mark Sanchez. Wait, who's running the Rams offense again? Brian Schottenheimer?...

Sam Bradford Out For The Year With Torn ACL
Rams quarterback Sam Bradford went down in the first quarter of the Rams preseason game against the Browns last night with a left knee injury. Bradford was playing in his second game since returning from a season-ending ACL tear of the same knee last year. Initially it was believed that Bradford's i...

A Bunch Of Terrible People Have Raised Over $130,000 For Darren Wilson
Someone has started a Gofundme page for Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old named Mike Brown earlier this month. The fund exists to raise financial support for Wilson and his family to use during this "trying time in their lives." So far, nearly $140,000 has ...

Giants Protest Rain-Shortened Loss, Win First Appeal In MLB Since 1986
This is neat. Thanks to the tarp shenanigans at Wrigley Field Tuesday night, the Giants-Cubs game was called after a four-hour and 34-minute delay. With four-and-a-half innings in the books and the field an unplayable mess, crew chief Hunter Wendelstedt called the game, and awarded the Cubs a 2-0 wi...

John Lackey Traded A Babe Ruth Autographed Ball For His Uniform Number
Save for a brief stint alongside Victor Martinez, John Lackey has worn No. 41 his entire professional life. But ahead of the deadline, he was traded to the Cardinals, who already had a No. 41 in reliever Pat Neshek. Favorite numbers don't come cheap....

Why Your Team Sucks 2014: St. Louis Rams
Some people are fans of the St. Louis Rams. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the St. Louis Rams. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....

Bob Costas Threw Two First Pitches Because The First One Was So Bad
Bob Costas threw the ceremonial first pitch(es) in St. Louis tonight and missed badly on his first toss. After fist-exploding with the Cardinals mascot, he cooly jogged to the rubber for his pitch. It's unclear if it was nerves or just the adrenaline pumping, but he airmailed his first throw throu...

Guy Gives Kid A Foul Ball; Kid Throws It Back On Field
The guy in the blue Cardinals hat caught a foul ball right behind the visitors' dugout in St. Louis and kindly gave the ball to a sweet and innocent-looking child next to him. Turns out he was sitting next to Max Demian. He quickly took the ball and fired it back onto the field. Here's what I thin...

Cardinals Fans Of The Game In Baltimore Are Characters From <i>The Wire</i>
The Cardinals got smoked by the Orioles 12-2 last night in Baltimore and during some down time, the Fox Sports Midwest crew starting shouting out some Cardinals fans still in the crowd. There's Baltimore's own Jimmy McNulty hanging out with D'angelo Barksdale, Russell Bell, and oh yeah, Omar's com...

John Lackey Is A Cardinal, And The Red Sox's Rebuild Is Going Great
The Red Sox are apparently on some sort of accelerated turn-of-the-century-Marlins plan, where they win, bottom out, and rebuild, but it only takes them a year to go from peak to trough and back again. After landing Yoenis Cespedes earlier today, Boston has traded starter John Lackey to St. Louis ...

Theo Epstein Wonders Why The Cardinals Are Getting Extra Draft Picks
Beginning in 2012, MLB's collective bargaining agreement created the Competitive Balance Lottery, meant to give the scrappy underdogs of baseball a hand up with an extra draft pick to help them turn their franchises' fortunes around. The lottery drawing was yesterday. The third pick belongs to the C...

Yadier Molina Leaves Crackers For Brother Jose On Home Plate
Is this the source of the Molina catching prowess? Crackers? ...

Jonathan Lucroy Saved The Brewers, Who Need Him To Keep It Up
Jonathan Lucroy was never supposed to be a star. He was a third-round draft pick; according to Baseball Reference, which keeps track of such things, he never made any of the major top 100 prospects lists; and entering his age-26 season, he had a career .260/.307/.366 batting line. ...

Michael Sam On Dungy: "Thank God He Wasn't The St. Louis Rams Coach"
Maybe Tony Dungy really should rethink whether he would draft a guy like Michael Sam because, for a player dealing with his first NFL training camp controversy, Sam responded to Dungy's I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin' homophobia pretty perfectly. He was funny, mildly self-deprecating, and even said ...

Police: NFLer, Former NBAer Arrested For Fighting Each Other At Club
July can be an easy time for professional athletes to find themselves in bad situations, with little happening in three of the major sports leagues and a summer to let loose. ...

Cardinals Fan Drops Beer On Fans Below
This Cardinals fan takes us on a very satisfying 10-second journey. Dressed in his road grays and holding a newly purchased and refreshing beer, he saunters back to his lady friend at the railing, rests his hand against the rail, drops his beer instantaneously, does a quick welp gesture, and looks...

Replay Review Doesn't Prevent Umpires From Completely Blowing Call
In the seventh inning of last night's game between the Rockies and Cardinals, Matt Carpenter went to first after seemingly being hit by a Franklin Morales pitch. The Rockies challenged the play, and after a lengthy replay review, the original call was upheld despite it being pretty damn clear to eve...