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Just One Hour Left To Vote!
We're down to the last hour of voting in our "Who's The Mystery AL Roider?" poll, so if you're gonna get your votes in, do it now, or forever hold something that you would like to think is peace but is actually the screaming, tortured pain you've felt since you were a child....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. NBA with Marc Stein: Does the new NBA dress code apply to beat writers? Some of you guys may have to shave if it does. • Noon. MLB with Buster Olney: Well, if it isn't my old Vanderbilt chum Robert Stanbury Olney III. No one's...
Dodgers Rid Themselves Of Tweedy Math Dork
Not surprisingly, the sabermetric-friendly Web is all abuzz this morning after the firing of Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta on Friday evening. As always, Baseball Musings is on top of the story, looking at the aftermath of the move, tracking the journalists trying to make sense of it and ultimately set...
About Last Night
What you missed while playing bingo at the retirement home ... • NFL: Bears stop Lions in OT, take over first place. No, we're not kidding. • NHL: Mike Knuble leads Flyers over Senators, 5-3 — like we had to tell you. • NASCAR: Carl Edwards wins Nextel Cup, but Tony Stewart, who finished ninth, is r...
Vote: Who's The Mystery Roider?
Now that everyone in this little blog world of ours have confirmed that an American League outfielder has tested positive for steroids, the online world is abuzz with theories as to who it is. Well, we can't exactly just let this whole thing go by without naming some names, can we?...
Your "Winner" Is ...
The results are in, and Deadspin readers have spoken. The most likely athlete candidate to come out of the closet is ... Kordell Stewart!...
Inside The Mind Of Stephen A. Smith
In what we're sure will be an enjoyable feature on his site, blogger Philadelphia Will Do has started a Psychoanalyzing Stephen A. Smith section, where he looks at each of Smith's Philadelphia Inquirer columns and tries to figure out what makes the man tick....
Half-Hour Left To Vote!
Polls are closing at 1:45 Eastern Time for our first gay athlete to come out poll. The race is tight right now, and your vote could make all the difference. We'll announce the results later this afternoon....
Bob Broeg, R.I.P.
If you'll indulge us a little here, we have to comment on the passing of longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bob Broeg. He covered St. Louis sports — and, of course, the Cardinals — for 60 years, starting out as the beat reporter for the St. Louis Browns. He wrote more than 20 books about St. ...
Steroid Rumors Confirmed ... But Who Is It?
On Wednesday, we reported on USA Today Sports Weekly rumors of an American League outfielder who tested positive for steroids. Yesterday, on his "Sports Bloggers Live" radio show, AOL blogdude Mr. Irrevelant interviewed Baseball Prospectus' Will Carroll about the rumor:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Your book "License to Deal" is quite thick and formidable, but for pure door stoppage I'd have to go with Buzz Bissinger's "Three Nights in August." • Noon. NFL with Dave Fleming: Does Mitch Albom know ...
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Umpires
Umpire Joe West was the crew chief for the World Series that just ended and apparently nobody watched. Cowboy Joe West ... hey, that's the same guy!...
White Sox Fans Cheer Phantom Series
Would it be fair to call this year's World Series the "Quite Frankly" of postseason series? The just-complete White Sox whitewashing of the Astros, turns out, was the worst-rating Series of all time, just beating out the Angels-Giants Series of 2002, a Series that had the advantage of going seven ...
About Last Night
What you missed while dusting your girlfriend for Tom Brady's fingerprints ... • College FB: No. 3 Va. Tech routs No. 13 Boston College, will now look to conquer Miami, then the world. • NHL: Mario Lemieux — remember him? — leads Penguins to first win. • CFL: Fan boots 50-yard field goal to win $1 m...
Vote: First Gay Athlete To Come Out?
All right, we promised you a poll, and here's your poll, our first ever on Deadspin. The question: Who's the most likely athlete to come out of the closet first, based off Oddjack's Cultural Oddsmaker, which laid down the odds on five most likely suspects to be the first "out" athlete....
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's The Next Gay Athlete?
With Sheryl Swoopes' earth-shaking announcement that she was (no!) a lesbian, tongues are wagging (sorry) about who the next — i.e., actually surprising — athlete to come out of the closet will be. Our friends at Oddjack have helpfully lay out the odds on five heavily rumored to be gay athletes, p...
Another Way Of Alleviating Baseball's Aches And Pains
Excellent pick up by The Sports Frog: A "massage parlor" in Princeton, N.J., has been accused of doing more massaging on the lower ventral areas of its clients' bodies than on the upper dorsal. The Newark Star-Ledger — your source for all breaking illicit massage parlor news — says the woman who r...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chad Ford: We had no idea BYU had a Hawaii campus, or that conflict resolution was a legitimate major. Any other wild claims, "Dr." Ford? • 4 p.m. Boxer Jeff Lacy: There's a guy we'd like roughed up a little who happens ...
The Link Between DeBerry, The Astros And Dubya
Fascinating column on the addictive, compelling site Black Athlete Sports Network comparing the situation involving Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry's comments on black athletes and the Astros' dubious distinction of being the first team since the 1956 Yankees to make the World Series without a sing...
Your World Champion Chicago White Sox
Well, huge congratulations to the Chicago White Sox, winners of the World Series, a sentence that makes us feel crazy just to type it. People — including a few people already on our comment boards — may say that the White Sox caught all the breaks and only won close games, including last night, bu...