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Liftoff In Houston
We congratulate the Houston Astros on their first-ever trip to the World Series; we're happy for Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell and all the fans who have suffered through some truly heartbreaking moments. You're going to the Series, and if you ask anyone other than a Cardinals fan, they'll tell you...
The Game That Wasn't Supposed To Be
Well, here we are, just a few hours from gametime at Busch Stadium — gametime at Busch Stadium ... never have we been more thrilled to write that phrase — and we still can't quite believe Game 6 of the NLCS is actually happening. The Astros have to still be reeling from the unprecedented series o...
Bamberger Can't Stay Away From High Schoolers
We have a hard time getting all fired up about teenage golf "sensation" Michelle Wie. Nothing against her, of course; she seems like a nice enough girl. It's just that we find it incredibly strange that everyone's using a barely pubescent girl who hasn't won any tournaments to try to get us to watch...
The Morning After
This is exactly what we did last night, when David Eckstein had two strikes on him in the ninth inning against Brad Lidge: We shut off the television. Watching your team make the last out to end a season — particularly one that's on the road after an immensely frustrating series, particularly when...
Will Cards Return Home To See Busch Off?
Well, tonight's the night when we'll discover if Busch Stadium, the home of the Cardinals since our father was 16 years old (and the place we spent pretty much every other summer Sunday afternoon until we were that age), will be torn down without Cardinals fans truly being able to say goodbye. Aft...
NFL Roundup: Some Pretty Skunk Weed
• Ricky Williams had six more yards yesterday than he's had droning "60 Minutes" profiles about him in the last year. So you know. Fortunately, that eight years is still about 50 less than the interviews Esquire writer Chris Jones has given about smoking pot with Williams. Maybe Ricky will catch u...
Playoff Roundup: Sad Birds
Thoughts on a weekend of baseball that can only be described as "grueling:" • Now, we're Cardinals fans, we've made that clear, so grain of salt, all that. But the way that game ended yesterday was just flat-out mean. Whatever your thoughts on the umpires — we tend to cut them slack, because they ...
Blogdom's Best: Houston Astros
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Bill Romanowski, Workout FREAK
After uncovering the groundbreaking scoop that Ricky Williams likes to smoke pot, "60 Minutes" this weekend talks to former Bronco Bill Romanowski about his steroid abuse. Yep: Romanowski used to take steroids. This, by our count, is about the fourth time Romanowski has "confessed" to steroid use;...
Sanders Gets To The Ball, Then Explodes
Thoughts, Perceptions and Gripes from a series-tying 4-1 Astros victory over the Cardinals in the NLCS last night:...
Reminding You Once Again: The NLCS Is On
We didn't think we were doing a very good job of hiding this, but some of you still wondered, so we'll make it as plainly obvious as we possibly can: We are rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals. As you might have guessed from the Reggie Miller corn maze item earlier today, we are from America's Hea...
Playoffs Pants Party: Cardinals vs. Astros
Well, fortunately, we have F/X. Like last year, the Cardinals and Astros are playing a game of their NLCS on an obscure cable network that's up there near the Outdoor Life Network. But that's fine: It's only the playoffs. Anyway, this is a rematch of a series last year that, since apparently nobod...
ESPN's Butkus Sham Finally Over
Not to imply that the ratings for ESPN's "reality show" "Bound For Glory" weren't through the roof, but no one seems to have noticed — save for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — that the whole show was full of horse manure. Dick Butkus, who was "hired" to "coach" a Pennsylvania high school team, has l...
SI And Mike Price Bury The Bodies Together
Sports Illustrated announced this morning that it and former Alabama coach Mike Price have "amiably resolved" the lawsuit Price filed against the magazine for a story it ran in 2003....
Playoff Roundup: We Warmed Up For The 19th
• We had to run out to see In Her Shoes in the ninth inning of the Astros-Braves game yesterday. Brad Ausmus was coming up, so we knew we wouldn't miss anything. Anybody catch what happened? • Our favorite part of the game is that if the game went so long that Roger Clemens wouldn't have been able...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: "We've got a couple of sleeper picks at quarterback," you said. "You can't go wrong with Michael Vick and Tim Rattay," you said. "You can thank us later," you said. I'd like to thank you now. What's your...
Live Blog: Braves vs. Astros, Game 1
If you're stuck at work at 4 p.m. ET or fortunate enough to live in a time zone that doesn't involve staying up past midnight just to watch a darned playoff baseball game, we're here to help. We'll be live-blogging Game One of the Atlanta Braves-Houston Astros game. We will do our best to appear m...
Playoffs Pants Party: Braves vs. Astros
As Astros blogger Crawfish Boxes points out, the general consensus about the Atlanta-Houston series is that the Astros should win going away. We understand this, somewhat — we begrudgingly picked the Astros to make the World Series, after all — but it seems awfully lopsided, considering the Braves...
Those Racist Cubs Owners
Working presumably from ESPN Page 2 columnist Scoop Jackson's somewhat inexplicable column about racism and Cubs manager Dusty Baker earlier this season, satirical Onion-esque site SportsPickle "reports" that Cubs Management Unsure How To Fire Baker Without Exposing That They're Racists....