thread Page 17 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
The noon games include Oregon State at No. 8 Wisconsin (ESPN), Toledo at No. 15 Ohio State (Big 10 Network) and Florida Atlantic at No. 17 Michigan State (ESPN3)....
Your U.S. Open Semifinals Open Thread
Weather permitting — and it's expected to do just that — both the men's and women's semifinals will be played in Flushing Meadows, NY today....
Your First Game Of The NFL Regular Season Open Thread
Phillippi Sparks's daughter will sing the United States of America's national anthem. Then, the New Orleans Saints will try to cover a 4.5-point spread against the defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers. Al Roker and Kid Rock will be there....
Your Miami-Maryland College Football Open Thread
The prime time college football slot on ESPN tonight: Miami at Maryland. They're both unranked, but they're also both recently scandalized, which is really all it takes to make the national broadcast. One has been disgraced by a former booster; one has been disgraced by sponsored clown suits (et cet...
Your MLB Open Thread
Baseball is on! Let's watch others labor while we refrain from laboring. There are 16 games to choose from today, if you need to choose. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that any will feature Storm Troopers as umpire escorts. That time has passed....
Your "Do You Want A Tennis Open Thread?" Open Thread
Labor Day is a perfect "hang around and watch TV" holiday. Tennis fills the background noise-void perfectly. So watch the final 16 men and women whittle themselves down even further, on CBS all day....
Your College Football Night Games Open Thread
Nine Top 25 teams play tonight, including a pair of Top 20 matchups....
Your College Football Afternoon Games Open Thread
Skip Holtz will try to beat the team Daddy Lou used to coach! How awesome is that?! So awesome that it's a network game! Oh, pretty much every Notre Dame game is on NBC, you say? Of course it is. Because that's how it was foretold....
Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
It's the first big college-football Saturday of the season. Yay. No. 18 Ohio State, which lost its The in a haze of Tresselmanic scandal, plays Akron at noon (ESPN). Also at noon on the WWL, No. 23 Auburn hosts Utah State (2) and Northwestern visits Boston College (U)....
Your College Football Kickoff Open Thread
College football is back and badder than ever—well, actually, probably back with its usual badness—and that means it's time for your All The Games Are Horrible But, Like, Three of Them Opening Long Weekend....
Your NFL Preseason Football Open Thread
Three games tonight. Carolina visits Cincinnati at 7 p.m. eastern. Cleveland heads to Philly a half hour later. And, Washington plays in Baltimore at 8 p.m....
Your Monday Night Football Bears-Giants Open Thread
We are still ready for some football. Bears, Giants, Tirico, Jaws, Gruden, all of that. But no Osi. 8 p.m., ESPN....
Your Cowboys-Chargers Open Thread
We are, in fact, ready for some Sunday night football. Or whatever the relevant NBC song is. Game's on NBC, 8 p.m., Collinsworth, Michaels, perhaps even Deadspin chronicler Andrea Kremer. And Rivers, Romo, all of them, at least for a half. That's something....
Your Yankees-Red Sox Open Thread
Trying something a little newish here: Any of you want to talk about Sunday Night Baseball, Yankees-Red Sox? These are the two best teams in the AL, playing a rubber game to determine who'll win the series and lead the East. Freddy Garcia against Josh Beckett. 8:05 p.m., ESPN, Fenway Park, all of th...
Your MLB TRADE FUCKING DEADLINE Open Thread
We've covered Beltran-to-the-Giants, and the considerably more important Fister-for-Furbush trade....
Your USA-Japan World Cup Final Open Thread
USA lineup: Solo; Krieger, Rampone, Buehler, LePeilbet; O'Reilly, Boxx, Lloyd, Rapinoe; Wambach, Cheney. Let's go get it, girls....
Your MLB All-Star Game Open Thread
The game counts, as does this thread. So what if so many selected players have bailed on the competition—including Jeter? You've got Craig Kimbrel and Jonny Venters and Aaron Crow and Ricky Romero. The players you'll tell your grandkids you saw....
Your Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Open Thread
Perhaps Nathan's annual Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating contest has lost a bit of its luster in recent years, as the Kobayashi-Joey Chestnut rivalry we first tasted in 2007 never entirely materialized after that....
Your Afternoon Heavyweight Championship Of The World Open Thread
Earlier in this week, regular Deadspin commenter/hardcore-boxing fan "Iron Mike Gallego" emailed with a plea for an open thread for today's heavyweight championship fight between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye. Slow sports day. Quirky to have boxing on in the afternoon. Probably would have had ...
