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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your cat takes its medication ... • College basketball: Mississippi State at Mississippi; Michigan State at Illinois. God, why do they keep televising this team. We've suffered enough. [ESPN] • College basketball: Wichita State at Northern Iowa. Someone get a doctor! He tried to pro...
Leftovers: Have A Seat, Kobe
• Kobe Bryant suspended, though we're skeptical whether he deserved it. [Pounding The Rock] • The Cavaliers are going to have a new point guard tonight. [Kid Cleveland] • So you know, LL Cool J does not do steroids. [Steroid Nation] • Here's how the Lions can win 15 games next year. (Not really.) [P...
Negro Bowl I: The Black Coaches Guide To Success In The NFL
As you might have heard from a media outlet or two, this is a historic Super Bowl because it features two African American head coaches for the first time. The odds are good that this might be a topic over the next few days....
Tony Dungy's Rabid Fan Base
From all accounts, Indianapolis Colts Tony Dungy is as honorable a man as you'll find in the world of sports, revered by many and respected by all. He has, of course, also had his suffered his fair share of personal tragedy as well....
Adjusting To A World Without Barbaro
As you might expect, it has been a difficult day here at Deadspin World Headquarters. The death of Barbaro has affected us all; it has been difficult to write about non-Barbaro related news today. None of it means anything without Barbaro around....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after viewing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie trailer ... • College basketball: Pittsburgh at Villanova; Kansas at Nebraska [ESPN]; San Diego at Gonzaga. That's prounounced GonZAYga, you Philistines. [ESPN2] • College women's basketball: Ohio State at Purdue. Nothing is more feminine ...
Leftovers: Kind Of Amazing That This Guy Took A Team To The Super Bowl
• Bobby Ross no longer coaching the Cadets. [ESPN] • If Spring Training is just around the corner, that must mean it's time for another excellent Billy Beane interview on Athletics Nation. [Athletics Nation] • Wayne Rooney didn't have sex with a grandmother. Probably. Oh, who knows. [Guardian UK] • ...
Most Dominant Sports Team Of All Time? Think Shuttlecock
Debate raged on ESPN Radio into the wee hours this morning over which athlete is more dominant; Tiger Woods or Roger Federer? Then the argument shifted to which team was the most dominant in all of sports history? The 1980s 49ers came up, as the did the '80s Lakers. John Wooden's UCLA basketball tea...
Goodnight, Sweet Prince
A sad day, everyone: The Thoroughbred Times is reporting that Deadspin 2006 Sportshuman Of The Year Barbaro has been euthanized....
Daulerio At Super Bowl XLI: Greetings, Spinheads
Deadspin Super Bowl XLI "correspondent" A.J. Daulerio has arrived in Florida and is ready for some fisticuffs. He'll be filing sporadically, randomly and without warning all week. Here's his first dispatch....
To Watch Tonight...
• NBA. Indiana Pacers @ Detroit Pistons. Mike Dunleavy does not have the same brawl-inducing potential as Ron Artest. 7:00, ESPN. • College Basketball. UCLA @ Stanford. Stanford's Brook Lopez had a triple double last week. That's something. 8:00, FSN. • Women's College Basketball. North Carolina @ M...
LeftoverDome...
• Dirk Nowitzki spills his milkshake. [NBA FanHouse] • Lincoln Kennedy, a former NFL Top-10 draft pick and former NFL Network personality, takes a stab at Arena Football. [SI.com] • The Oshawa Generals lose, the mayor loses a bet ... and March 20th in Oshawa will be declared "Steven Colbert Day" in ...
To Watch Tonight
• College Basketball: Syracuse @ Louisville. I bet this seemed like a good idea before the season started. 7:00, ESPN. • High School Basketball. Dematha (Md.) vs. Towson Catholic (Md.). Ha ha, you guys have to spend a year in college, ha ha. 9:00, ESPNU. • College Basketball. Michigan State @ Ohio S...
LeftoverDome...
• Buffalo Sabres fans earn themselves a poor reputation in Columbus, where it's hard to do such things. [German Village Media] • The ins and outs of Michael Wilbon's duties at the Washington Post. [Washingtonian] • A world club championship for hockey could be in the works. That actually sounds kind...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your approval rating approaches single digits ... • Boxing: Junior middleweights, Richard Gutierrez vs. Teddy Reid, at Uncasville, Conn. Come on down, it's not like you're not going to be in Ucasville anyway. [ESPN2] • Extreme sports: Winter X Games, at Aspen, Colo. Dude, you oversl...
Leftovers: Some Tractor Trouble
• Robert "Tractor" Traylor, doing himself and Michigan proud. [Detroit News] • Jeff Weaver, off to the Mariners. Ah, Jeff, we barely knew ye. [Seattlest] • Al Unser Jr., drunk awfully early in the morning. [ESPN] • Terry Bradshaw is not dead, so you know. [KSLA]...
That's All We Need: ANOTHER Blowhard In DC
So here's a scary thought. If you thought Curt Schilling had a tendency to opine, uninvited, on subjects that don't inherently concern him now, wait until he runs for Senate....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as militant squirrels capture your nuts ... • College men's basketball: Clemson at Duke [ESPN]; UCLA at California; Southern California at Stanford. Yeah, considering the parking situation for that Cal game, we'd suggest leaving the house now. [Fox Sports Net] • College women's basketb...
Leftovers: Bad Mascot, BAD!
• This is not how a mascot is supposed to behave. [Austin 8 News] • Returning a dog named Jeff Garcia. [Run Up The Score] • If you're truly desperate for Super Bowl tickets. [Don't Want Your Opinion] • This is how you run a company: Give everybody the day after the Super Bowl off. [Inside Indiana Bu...
Taking Down The USA, One Touchdown At A Time
Every year, usually more than once a year (whenever there's a major sporting event), some soulless, dumb "research firm" tries to convince us that the office workers of America are somehow skirting their duties serving The Man by paying so much attention to something that might divert them from star...