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A Vision Appeared In My Mirror This Morning
After I woke up today for my first round at the helm of Deadspin, I had a rather precarious confrontation in my bathroom mirror. Normally this is a bad sign of how the day will go, especially since the Bowling Green Falcon normally haunts me only during football season and after select basketball g...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. AFL with Soul QB Tony Graziani: So if ESPN owned a portion of the WWE, would we be chatting with Chavo Guerrerro right now? • 2:30 p.m. Predators coach Jay Gruden: How many times during childhood, rounded to the nearest 10, did ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while recovering from your long, long week ... • MLB: The Braves' all-time HR leader is a guy named Chipper. • Golf: A small, angry cloud follows Tiger Woods from hole to hole at the AT&T National. • Soccer: Well, that didn't go very well....
We Doubt Anna Benson Would Have Stood For This
To wrap up today, here's yet another example of just how weird professional athletes are, from a few days ago: They sometimes live in a batting cage. That's what the Angels' Reggie Willits does, anyway....
Our Visit To The Hot Dog Eating Championships
As mentioned yesterday, we headed to Coney Island for the epic Kobayashi-Chestnut duel. We can't imagine a better way to spend our Fourth of July. A confession: For the first time since we started the site, we accepted a press pass for the event. It was a tough call, but, frankly, we feel rather c...
For The Collector Who Has Everything (But Hates Himself)
Via The Lefty, we bring you an auction that will stain your heart and make you long for the tasteful elegance of Takeru Kobayashi vomiting on live national television....
Softball Players Are No Good At Word Games
Burnt Orange Nation ran an interview with former Texas softball pitcher Cat Osterman on Monday, at the end of which Osterman was asked to play a little word association (a recurring BON interview theme). While obviously a talented hurler, Osterman sadly bobbled this assignment. Instead of shooting b...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. ESPN host Stuart Scott: Do you need a restroom break, Stuart Scott? This is the most important question you will answer all day! Talk to the hand puppet! • 12:15 p.m. Patriots DL Ty Warren: That extra potato salad yesterday wil...
Today, A Victory For America
We just returned from Joey Chestnut's world record breaking performance at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Championship, and, to be entirely honest with you, we're not sure when we've had more fun at a sporting event. Full report tomorrow ... but as for now ... USA! USA! USA! Nobody eats like us!...
It's Kobayashi Vs. Chestnut, For All The Folic Acid
After months of speculation and anticipation, tomorrow, the day finally arrives: It's Kobayashi vs. Chestnut, for the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Championship....
Taking The Game Home With You
One would think, theoretically speaking, that it would be difficult to physically detach a stadium seat and then somehow sneak it past security and almost all the way out to their car. But that's discounting the unique ingenuity of your typical Cincinnati Reds fan....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. LIVE from Wimbledon!: Will you look at all this rain? Good thing I wore me rubber knickers. • 3 p.m. Boxer Winky Wright: The light heavyweight division? With a name like Winky? • 3:30 p.m. Boxer Bernard Hopkins: For the last tim...
Les Miles Needs To Work On His Sarcastic Rants
If you're going to start ripping people, Les Miles, go all the way. That way Every Day Should Be Saturday wouldn't have to step in and pick up the slack with some writer's embellishment, turning what was some mildly interesting radio content into something truly memorable. The LSU football coach was...
The NFL Wants You To Watch Less Than A Minute Of Their Players
In a move designed to protect the Internet operations of its 32 teams, the pro football league has told news organizations that it will no longer permit them to carry unlimited online video clips of players, coaches or other officials, including video that the news organizations gather themselves on...
Viva Le Patterson!
After visiting four doctors in four states to cure a problem that could be affecting his livelihood, a man, desperate, decides to head to Canada to receive treatment that the arcane American health care system can't provide for him....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Live from Wimbledon! If we add another exclamation point, will that help? • 2 p.m. NBA Insider John Hollinger: Ah, July. The perfect month to talk Bobcats, eh John? • 3 p.m. Fantasy baseball with Pete Becker: I am resigning as m...
Danny Almonte's Big League Dreams
So this is sad: Danny Almonte, the onetime Little League World Series legend who turned out to be older than everyone had sad — and ended up marrying a woman 11 years his senior — is gonna need himself a new career....