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Honestly, What's NCAA Football Without Hugh Johnson?
High atop the Family Feud board of most popular questions Deadspinions posed to the Democratic Assembly of Deadspin Administrating Saturdays/Sundays (D.A.D.A.S.S.) was, "Who did Sussman bang to get the job?" "Will you guys bring Hugh Johnson back?" Well, I hope the logo hovering over this paragraph...

We Can Finally Watch High School Football On TV Today
12 p.m. — High School Football: Booker T. Washington (Florida) at Summerville (South Carolina) [ESPN] 12:30 p.m. — Little League World Series: Willemstad, Curacao vs. Tokyo, Japan [ABC] 1:00 p.m. — Women's Tennis: Pilot Pen final in New Haven, Connecticut [CBS] 1:00 p.m. — WNBA: Playoffs [ESPN2] 1:0...

About Last Night
• CFL: Before the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' 15-13 victory over the Toronto Argonauts, Canadian touchdown king Milt Stegall is given the key to Winnipeg. Unfortunately, he locked it in his car. • MLB: Boston's win over the White Sox lasts 18 innings, counts double. • NBA: Logic mounts fourth-quarter com...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you give up on installing Windows Vista ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Delvin "Special Needs" Rodriguez vs. Chris "Incubator" Smith. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at Chicago White Sox. Rock out with your Sox out. [WGN] • NFL: Preseason, New England at Carolina. Baby Brady to enjoy his firs...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. High school sports with Chris Lawlor: What the fungus? Hey! Leader! Leave those kids alone! • Noon. Bonds 756th home run auction: Just one question. Do I get one of those paddle thingies? • 2:30 p.m. Lacrosse with John Grant Jr.:...

Dance, Marshall Fella, Dance
Last night, in Huntington, W.Va., the Marshall football team hosted a Women's Clinic, meant, apparently, to explain to feeble minded babymakers the basic concepts of football so that they will understand when to leave the room, when to leave the house and when to just bring more beer. It's not easy...

About Last Night
What you missed while celebrating the birthday of the Big Mac ... • NFL: Preseason ... How's that hangover, Packers fans? Jacksonville 21, Green Bay 13. • MLB: Amazing! Rangers explode again for, uh, never mind. Seattle 9, Texas 4. • Basketball: Take THAT, U.S. Virgin Islands. And THAT. Any other is...

Deadspin HOF Nominee: "Lemme Know"
Most people don't remember it now, but our own AJ Daulerio actually covered Super Bowl XL in Detroit. He didn't do a bad job — we'll never forget when he lost his rental car — but it was early in Deadspin's history, and AJ was still feeling his way around. By the time he arrived in Miami for last ye...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as dogs plot their revenge ... • NFL: Jacksonville at Green Bay. Shirtsleeves at Lambeau? Another reason the exhibition season should be abolished. [Fox] • Little League World Series: Chandler, Ariz., vs. Warner Robins, Ga. With just a bit more rain, youth baseball in Sept. is a real p...

NFL Season Preview: Pittsburgh Steelers
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Howard Bryant on Mike Vick: Oh good; I was waiting for you to weigh in before I formed an opinion on this case. • 1 p.m. NCAA BB with Andy Katz: We've missed you, Andy! Did you miss us? Are you aware that basketball season is abo...

Philly Paper Can't Get Rid Of Stephen A. Fast Enough
Yesterday, we told you how Phawker reported that Stephen A. Smith was being stripped of his Philadelphia Inquirer column. Well, the Inquirer confirmed it yesterday in a story that's as passive-aggressively hostile as the snippiest inner office memo....

The Appropriate Way To Showcase Your Team Loyalty
We're still a month and a half from the ole Red River rivalry game between Oklahoma and Texas, and, as always, emotions are running high. How high? Oh, "bust open the opposing fan's scrotum" high. (That's pretty high.)...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while doing hard time for sausage assault ... • MLB: Brandon Webb's shutout streak has ended, and he couldn't be happier. Arizona 3, Milwaukee 2. • Little League World Series: Chandler Arizona, still gettin' it done. My sentimental friends. Affirmed. • Soccer: David Beckham plays an ...

George Mitchell, Still Slogging Along
In March 2006, we — Rick, actually — wrote, about the announcement of George Mitchell's steroid panel, "it would seem any investigation would have to be so wide-ranging that Bonds could either surpass Ruth and Aaron or retire before it can be completed." We thought that was ridiculous, and we believ...



We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA FB with Bruce Feldman: Hey, Jimmy Claussen stole my beer. And my car! • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: So when do we get robot umpires? Because it would be cool to see Piniella argue with one. • 4 p.m. NFL with Scouts...

Stephen A. Smith's Caps Lock To Get A Well-Deserved Break
You might have wondered, with STEPHEN A. SMITH'S!!!!! frequent outside-of-the-newspaper endeavors (screaming on "SportsCenter," screaming on "General Hospital," screaming at Skip Bayless, screaming at Cheesy Doodles), what his Philadelphia Inquirer editors thought of his output, considering the guy ...