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Big Ben Successfully Keeps His Brains From Leaking Out
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
The Florida Gators Make Themselves Easier To Hate With Each Passing Day
The only thing that warrants a chomp is the throat of whichever "creative team" member thought, "For that Shands at University of Florida contest, let's do something like 'Scrubs,' but with total mascot spirit! People will love it!"...
Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
In anticipation of the Steelers visiting the Ravens this evening, someone in Baltimore gallantly took the extra step of emblazoning an Inner Harbor roadwork sign with an anti-rape mantra. Good stuff. This'll be ugly tonight....
Cincinnati's Mascot Got Arrested During Today's Game (With Video)
It goes without saying that the people of Cincinnati don't know how to behave themselves properly when snow falls. But mascots?...
Your College Football Early Games Open Thread
With only 16 Division 1-A games on the slate, only two open threads are needed today. This one's for contests like BCS-deciding Oregon at Oregon State, SEC title game between Auburn vs. South Carolina and Rutgers at West Virginia....
Tiger Woods Is Back In The Game For The Time Being
Yeah, so Tiger Woods apparently "looks like his old self at the Chevron World Challenge." Translation: he's 13-under 131, his best 36-hole score this year by six shots....
There Was A Damn Good Ending To A Football Game That Damn Near Nobody Watched
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Gene Chizik Talks For 20 Minutes And Doesn't Mention Cam Newton Once
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Chizik pleads the fifth on anything we actually want to know....
Heat Strokes, Game 20: In Which We're Reminded That LeBron Is Not A Dick
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, a regular contributor to NBA FanHouse and co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!), is keeping a game-by-game diary of the Heat's season — the one you're pretending not to care about....
Here's The Year In Scandal With Taiwanese Animation
Taiwan's burgeoning animation scene has given us plenty of gems this year by covering sports scandals in a humorous fashion. Here's Next Media Animation's year in review video, from Tiger Woods to Tony Parker and everyone in between. [NMA.tv]...
Heat Strokes, Game 19: The LeBrorschach
FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals, a regular contributor to NBA FanHouse and co-author of The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History (visit the FreeDarko store, too!), is keeping a game-by-game diary of the Heat's season — the one you're pretending not to care about....
Here's Why Andre Johnson Beat Up Cortland Finnegan
Last Sunday's NFL fight between Cortland Finnegan and Andre Johnson did not come out of nowhere. As this video shows, the two were getting testy with each other well before it advanced to blows....
How Pat Summitt Ruined The Best Thing About Women's Basketball
For girls of the late 1990s and early 2000s, UConn-Tennessee was very often the only game that mattered — the ponytail Super Bowl. Then Pat Summitt screwed it all up. Emma Carmichael explains....
Number of Productive Things You’ve Done Today: Zero
A long lunch, tweeting about fantasy football, copious consumption of Deadspin: You've officially done zero today. Stop being a complete waste of space and drink a vitaminwater zero™, with enough vitamins and taste to make you feel like you're doing something....
Select Your Own All-Time Greatest Jewish-American Basketball Team!
Hey, this is funnnn! It spits out customized scouting reports and everything. (My chosen ones, The Stars of David Stern, have "terrible" chemistry thanks to the "notoriously testy" Art Heyman.) Gregg Easterbrook should make one for the entertainment industry. [Tablet/FreeDarko]...
Explaining The Cam Newton Ruling, As Best We Can
We don't know a heck of a lot right now, since the NCAA and Auburn aren't talking. But we can parse the NCAA's statement and try to break down what happened, and what happens next....
Today In Unfortunately Named Minor League Baseball Teams: The Sugar Land Skeeters
"The team will be known as the Skeeters, which celebrates the hometown love of warm Texas nights and an itch for baseball." They left out "one who ejaculates all over the place." God help that poor mascot. [ABCHouston]...
Cam Newton Ruled Eligible By NCAA
The NCAA has reinstated Newton, after he was secretly declared ineligible yesterday (for procedural purposes after an amateurism violation was determined to have occurred). [NCAA, Birmingham News]...
SHOTY Semifinals: No. 1 Brett Favre Vs. No. 4 Jay Mariotti
We've reached the SHOTY Semifinals. Brett Favre left Ines Sainz in arrears, and Jay Mariotti oozed Jason Whitlock's pumpkin. Now, for the nitty-gritty....
Surprisingly Congruous When You Think About It Mixtape Theater: Barry Sanders
Welcome to Surprisingly Congruous When You Think About It Mixtape Theater. Today's entry: Lions great Barry Sanders set to Clint Mansell & The Kronos Quartet's overture from the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack....