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NFL Update 3: Hochuli Strikes Again
If you hate muscle-bound referees AND the helmet-to-helmet rule, you're about to get a two-fer. Ed Hochuli was banished to Charlotte for the Atlanta-Carolina game today, and didn't waste any time letting Panther fans know of his budding reputation. Turns out that Hochuli threw a flag on a hit that t...
Dustin Pedroia: Enemy of the Geese
Dustin Pedroia's stat lines this season have no doubt caught the eyes of fantasy baseball geeks, but his road to approach teammates like Big Papi in superstar status has been a bit tougher. Of course, everything's tougher when you're only five foot nothing. A profile in today's Boston Globe tells ta...
Mosley Knocks Out Mayorga At the Bell, Berto Cruises Past Forbes
With under a minute remaining in 12th round Sugar Shane Mosley floored the rugged Ricardo Mayorga for the first time in the fight. El Matador probably should have just stayed down and enjoyed a smoke. Instead he rose to his feet only to eat a crushing left hook about half of a second after referee ...
'We Beat Georgia By This Much' And Other Games
No. 8 Alabama 41, No. 3 Georgia 30. The Crimson Tide continue to impress in national primetime. Last night, they dispatched of their second Top-10-ranked opponent this season, with neither game being played at home. Georgia's choice of shrubberies and uniform color proved to be moot as Alabama ran u...
HOLY CRAP! Phillies Win NL East On An Incredible Double Play
Jesus. Brad Lidge tried to give the entire city of Philadelphia a heart attack. In the top of the 9th with a two run lead, Lidge allowed a run to score and proceeded to load the bases. Jimmy Fucking Rollins made a ridiculous double play to clinch the National League East for the second straight year...
Nobody Can Resist Andre Berto
Tonight's HBO Boxing card might be headlined by Sugar Shane Mosley against the aged Matador, Ricardo Mayorga, but the real show will be the co-feature starring my very own man-crush, Andre Berto. The former ESPN prospect of the year is a prospect no more, now he's a dynamic welterweight with a belt...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while examining your dog's nose... • NCAA Football: Wisconsin @ Michigan (In Progress) [ABC] • NCAA Football: Mississippi State @ LSU (7:30 p.m. EST) [ESPN2] • NCAA Football: Alabama (8) @ Georgia (3) (7:45 p.m. EST) [ESPN] • NCAA Football: Illinois @ Penn State (8:00 p.m. EST) [ABC] •...
Hull City's Shocking Upset Knocks Arsenal Off the Top of the Table
Absolutely nobody could have possibly seen this result coming. The Tigers of Hull City are officially the biggest surprise of the new Premier League season, especially after their eye-opening 2-1 victory over Arsenal, at Emirates Stadium no less. The Gunners took a 1-0 lead shortly after the half o...
Torry Holt Would Like to Apologize for Sucking
First Steven Jackson was totally not happy with Rams' head coach Scott Linehan's decision to bench Marc Bulger in favor of Trent Green. Former All Pro and now mediocre wide receiver Torry Holt is the latest to voice his displeasure with the whole situation. He just wants to play some football, "It w...
Elway Engaged To Former Raiderette
Former Denver Broncos superstar John Elway is engaged—to a former Raiders cheerleader. Traitor bastard! Paige Green, a 41-year-old that Elway met at a golf tournament three years ago, moved to Denver a year after she met the NFL Hall-Of-Famer. John presumably celebrated the engagement in typical Elw...
Dueling Squirt-Guns to the Death
The following is a tale of assassins, of deception, of high speed car chases, balloon grenades, and of guns — lethal guns filled with vicious H20. It's no surprise that the participants of StreetWars, a water pistol competition operated by a "Shadow Government," are described as mostly being in thei...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you search for a very sharp axe ... • MLB: Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies (7:05 p.m., ET) [Comcast, WDCA]; Florida Marlins at New York Mets (7:10 p.m., ET); Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers (8:00 p.m., ET). [ESPN]. If this keeps up, the Wild Card will have to be d...
Bring It On! Deadspin Ladies Take On The Idaho Cheerleading Controversy
Once upon a time, a site called The Black Table had a regular feature entitled Waxing Off, in which women gathered in an online roundtable to discuss issues of the day, and also to make fun of Will Leitch's shoes. And so we got to thinking: With so many great female sports bloggers out there, why no...
Fort Hill's Principal Is Making An Ugly Situation Even Worse
This past weekend our own Marcel Mutoni brought you the story of alleged racist taunts at a football game in Cumberland, Maryland between Fort Hill High School and Dunbar High School of Washington DC. To recap, Dunbar's celebrated coach Craig Jefferies took his team on a road trip to western Marylan...
Seahawks Message Board Poster Succeeds In Creating Rivalry With The Giants, Fails As Human
On many occasions, team message board trash talk veers toward some very unpleasant depths, but some of the stuff being circulated on the popular Seahawks fan message board "Seahawks Huddle" right now has sparked an amazing amount of negative responses thanks to its unprecedented levels of classlessn...
The Knicks Just Love Throwing Money At Allan Houston
It seems like only yesterday that the New York Knicks were paying Allan Houston $20 million a year to not play for them. In fact, it was as recently as the 2006-07 season, during which Houston - who had retired in 2005 because of a arthritic left knee - was the second highest paid player in the leag...
AL Roundup: Let's Play "Pounce on the Punto"
• Twins 7, White Sox, 6. : Coming into this series, the Minnesota Twins were 2.5 games back of the Chicago White Sox, but now sit atop the AL Central with a half game lead after storming back from a 6-1 deficit to defeat the spiraling White Sox 7-6 in a dramatic 10th inning. The Twins sturdy closer ...
Innuendo Bowl LXXI: #1 USC Trojans vs. Oregon State Beavers
Do you like games where the No. 1 team loses on the road? Well, too bad, because that game's not for a few weeks. Until then, we have a nice Pac 10 game between two "rivals" for you which will be over by mid-second quarter. We got ESPN's Chris Fowler, Jesse Palmer, and Craig James(er) in the box. We...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you ask for more ketchup on your 12-year-old McDonald's hamburger ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (7:10 p.m., ET). It's all up to Pedro. Oh boy. [CSN, SNY] • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Twins (8:10 p.m., ET) Slowey Fever ... Catch it! [ChicagoLTV, Fox Sports Nort...
The Person Most Troubled By Chris Cooley's Playbook Package? Mom, Of Course
It's a shame that we missed this earlier, but with the enormous amount of Chris Cooley dong-related news floating around out there the last couple weeks, some of it was carelessly overlooked. Including this interesting story from Monday, where the Washington Post's Mike Wise approached the Cooley fa...