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We Have Dancing Quakers
You can start filling out your tournament bracket ... at least one tiny little inconsequential part of it. The Pennsylvania Quakers have let their Inner Light guide them into the NCAA tournament. With their 86-58 win last night over Yale, Penn becomes the Ivy League champ, and thus, the first team t...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you eat your Krispy Kreme (notice the words on the graphic in the upper right corner of the above video) ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Ricky "Let Sanctions Work" Quiles vs. Nate "The Vegan" Campbell, at Tampa. [ESPN2] • Motor sports: NASCAR Busch Series, Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200, fi...
Leftovers: Do Not Taunt Denny McLain
• Denny McLain is mad as hell, and he's ... gonna write a book no one will buy about it. [Detroit Free Press] • It's really, really hard to win on the road in European soccer. [Gelf Magazine] • Fred Taylor should be in the Hall of Fame. Really. [Can't Stand Quin Snyder] • Jake Plummer is Tampa-bound...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who'll Be The Least Popular During ESPN The Weekend?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him and let him know what you think....
Hey, Who's Funnier Than Peyton Manning?
You know, when you're talking freewheeling, classic sketch comedy, well, jeez, you're obviously talking about Peyton Manning....
Brian Urlacher, Gleefully Handsy
What better way to start off your Friday morning than a Facebook photo of Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher grabbing a boob. A real, natural boob, too!...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you eat cereal from a football helmet ... • College basketball: Virginia Tech at Virginia; Memphis at Texas-El Paso. Fighting Gobblers peck it out for state pride and ACC supremacy. [ESPN] • College basketball: George Washington at Charlotte; North Carolina at Georgia Tech. Heels ca...
Leftovers: Ankiel Forever!
• Rick Ankiel is indestructible. We, for one, welcome our Ankiel overlord. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] • The Sklar brothers are the least convincing Western sheriffs of all time. [The Sports Oasis] • It's all right to cry, Stephon; crying gets the feelings out. [RealGM] • Betting on Florida to repeat ...
Sorry: More On Livingston's Knee Injury
First off, in no way are we dismissing the severity of Shaun Livingston's devastating knee injury from Monday. We simply can't imagine going through that ... we got queasy watching Marcia Brady getting hit in the nose by the football. But that being said, there is no denying that Livingston's knee n...
Slightly Deep Inside The Brain Of Agent Zero
The best piece of writing we've ever read about Wizards space cadet Gilbert Arenas was the famous Wizznutzz psychological profile of Agent Zero, which includes this brilliant factoid: "Gil was at the birth of his daughter! It wasnt a tom cruise scientology "Silent birth" but Gil did put his Halo gam...
NBA Roundup: Upon Further Review, Cornbread Maxwell Is Sorry
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as, for some reason, Dick Vitale posters start replacing Chairman Mao posters all over China ... • College basketball: Villanova at Connecticut; Maryland at Duke. The tournament committee should be just about ready to screw up the brackets after this. [ESPN] • College basketball: India...
Get Your Morrison/Harding Tickets FAST
We are trying to decide which part of this story is the saddest and most indicative of how our planet is in an irreversible downward incline. (Or, you know, "decline," if you want to say that in fewer words.) Tonight, in Brandon, Mo., The Amateur Boxing Club of Branson — such a thing exists — is hos...
Leftovers: Lose The Finger!
• This, friends, is devotion to the game of cricket. [Deuce Of Davenport] • Jimmy Rollins is launching a record label. [All Hip Hop] • Tiger Woods is taking over Washington, D.C. [No One Appreciates Me] • If you're going to insult a female official, Cedric Maxwell, surely you can do better than the ...
Could Mark Cuban Be Taking Over Wrigley?
We're not sure whether Cubs fans should be happy or sad about this — we tend to think that it couldn't hurt! — but Radar Online reports (and they would know) that Mavericks madman Mark Cuban is deadly serious about attempting to buy the on-the-block franchise....
Book Excerpt: Tommy Lasorda Knows What He Likes ... Sweet Heavens, Does He Ever
SportsByBrooks has grabbed a hold of some of those excerpts from that madam book involving Tommy Lasorda and ... uh ... holy crap....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you are beaten savagely by your Verizon network ... • College men's basketball: Michigan State at Michigan; Florida at Tennessee. As long as all the coaches remain clothed, everything's gonna be juuust fine ... [ESPN] • NHL: Dallas at Tampa Bay. Stars vs. Lightning would be bette...
Leftovers: The Return Of Reggie?
• Would Reggie Miller come back to the NBA? [Dallas Morning News] • Wheelchair flips are cool. [Our Book Of Scrap] • We absolutely support this coaching hire decision. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • That's gross, Matta. [SporTech Matter] • No hajibs allowed on the soccer pitch. [National Post] • The PDF of...
Deadspin Field Trip: The AJ Daulerio Going Away Roast
About a month ago, our own AJ Daulerio wrote, in his Cultural Oddsmaker column, that he dreamed of one day having a roast in his honor. Little did he know that the wheels were already in motion for that very thing....
Dick Vitale, Not Surprisingly, Can't Figure Out His Phone
It is perhaps not surprising that MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER Dick Vitale would have trouble using basic cellular technology, but it is surprising that Vitale might actually say something off-camera that could be construed as "controversial." Or, for that matter, that he would say anything; we always assum...