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NFL Roundup: Bengal Breakthrough
• As Arizona Cardinals fans, we always wonder what the day will be like when, after years of torture, our team finally breaks through and shows they're serious about this whole winning business. It must have been that exciting for Bengals fans yesterday. Realize: A baby born the last time the Beng...
Athlete Run-Ins: Lamenting Caminiti
Today's final athlete run-in story is a sad one, because it's a nice story about the late Ken Caminiti. It comes to us from Jason in Houston:...
Blogdom's Best: Tennessee Titans
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NFL ...
Fe Is The Symbol For Iron. So You Know.
It's a pivotal week for Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson. No, no, not the AFC North-deciding game against the longtime nemesis Steelers at Heinz Field, silly. Johnson has officially raised the bar by proclaiming that he will perform the "best touchdown celebration ever" when he scores against Pi...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: OK, you and Buster Olney in a nerdy pillowfight to settle once and for all who is smarter. • 1 p.m. Mid Majors with Kyle Whelliston: All right, we're sorry about the pseudo-rip last time. Please make Bally s...
Portis Becomes Depressingly Self-Questioning
Ladies and gentleman, we present to you, after a one-week hiatus for Thanksgiving, Redskins running back Clinton Portis' newest creation: "Reverend Gonna Change," with those pretty crazy teeth and hair and the whole thing. On our scale, this ranks above "Dollah Bill" but behind "Dr. I-Don't-Know."...
Athlete Run-Ins: Ben Gordon, Iron Chef
Today's first athlete run-in story touches on something we've always wondered about athletes: Do any of them have any idea how to cook? (We wonder odd things sometimes.) From Brian, a former University of Connecticut student and occassional acquaintance of current Chicago Bull Ben Gordon:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NCAA Dream Tournament: The ESPN SportsNation site says: "After starting with 32 teams, we've widdled down the bracket of our dreams to arrive at a LSU-North Carolina and Georgetown-UCLA Final Four." Ah, "widdled?" What's that? •...
Bruce Weber's Lawn Exploits
Well, we won our bet and we have made our post. It occurs to us that if Illinois can win over Xavier on Saturday, the Illini will likely be in the top 10, and we are less than convinced they belong in the top 10. But that's all technical talk; you can get that from Andy Katz, along with a consider...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.. The Fantasy Focus: I'm afraid you've bitten off more than you can chew, ESPN fantasy games expert Eric Karabell — I'm in a Fantasy Chessboxing Pool. Try that one on for size, my nerdy little friend. • 1 p.m. NFL Draft Expert M...
The Rematch That Isn't, Not Really
The college basketball season really gets going tonight, as our beloved Big Ten takes its ritualistic beating in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, one of the few things ESPN does every year that makes us smile. And the centerpiece game is, of course, the "rematch" of last year's national championship gam...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Peter Kerasotis
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom. Yes, you read that correctly. Wisdom. How did Charles Dickens miss the boat on this whole one-sentence paragraph thing? Clearly today's breed of sportswriters are far better wordsmiths than the old quill pen-and-in...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Ric Bucher: Please tell us tales of your days at The San Jose Mercury, trading bon mots in the press box with noted wits Rich Leiberman and Bruce Macgowan. • 2:30 p.m. College BB with Joe Lunardi: You have made the Elite...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NBA with Jim O'Brien: So does Jack Ramsay make you call him "Doctor" at family gatherings? • 2:30 p.m. Boxer Jermain Taylor: Talcum powder and adhesive tape — not just for boxers anymore. I'm wearing them right now under my clo...
NFL Roundup: Fore!
• Honestly, what more can you say about Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson? This will almost certainly be a poll later this week, but his "putt the football with the pilon followed by a Tiger Woods fist pump" was, once again, completely inspired. (All it was missing was an awkward high five.) If t...
Greg Gall Free To Stumble Down Street
Fans of America, you can now breathe easier: You can still get shit-faced, run onto the field and slap Carson Palmer on the ass, and you won't have to worry about much time in the clink. A day after a zealous prosecutor threatened to put crazed Bengals "fan" Greg Gall away for 30 days for becomin...
Tiger Woods: Mr. Cool
While skipping through The Sports Frog this morning, and we came across this photo of Tiger Woods' famous shot at the 16th hole at Augusta in The Masters this year....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: It just occurred to us that "Fantasy Football Focus" sounds like a particularly gas-guzzling American automobile. Or, at the very least, an unlikely name for a Hybrid. • 3 p.m.. CFB With Beano Cook: Admi...
Polls: You Love You Some Sheriff
Well, the readers have spoken, and in yet another trouncing — we never have any close polls around here, which we suppose is our fault — your favorite Clinton Portis costume is Sheriff Gonna Getcha, with 38.1 percent of the vote. (We think it's the Led Zeppelin shirt; impossible to resist it.) Sec...
Throwing The Book At Greg Gall
Some more news from our old friend Greg Gall, the guy who has spent an inordinate amount of time drinking with Deadspin readers. (By the way, we will be in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving week, so Greg, hey, drop us a line, we'll chat.) Ordinarily, when American Heroes like Gall bolt onto the field, t...