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All Readings Should End With Tassels
All right, we're gonna head over to that reading thing now; to remind, it's right here. Because it's only 15 minutes or so from now, we're even gonna let ya know where the after-shindig is....

The Vols Have Soul In The Strangest Places
Let's see Tyler Smith or Chris Lofton pull this off. We gotta tell ya, Jordan Howell is SHAFT....

ESPN Now To Issue Pepper Spray To All TV Correspondents
This was mentioned on Sunday, but was kind of buried ... and when Bruce Pearl paws the lovely Erin Andrews on national television, the world needs to know. Too bad that Ms. Andrews didn't read the Tennessee Athletic Handbook; it clearly states that when dealing with Bruce Pearl a microphone can a...

A Test Of One's Intestinal Fortitude
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Baseball Season Preview: Milwaukee Brewers
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all....

Media Approval Ratings: Gus Johnson
For some reason, we tend to forgive Gus Johnson for sins we'd find unforgivable in other broadcasters. He's high histrionics, high volume, high intensity, high volume, high pitch, all of it. He's 95 percent bluster. Of course, this is why we love him....

Our Final Two Readings, NYC-Style
After the madness of the last month of our life, the first leg of the God Save The Fan tour ends over the next two nights in beautiful New York City, home of the bastard liberal media and hot dogs made of pig snout. It's Manhattan tonight, and Brooklyn tomorrow, and then we're gonna take a freaking ...

ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to finds its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......

Bryant McKinnie, Back In The News, Thankfully
We will always hold a special place in our hearts for the four most prominent participants in the Vikings' sex boat scandal from a few years ago: Daunte Culpepper, Fred Smoot, Moe Williams and, today's featured star, Bryant McKinnie. Those guys have us so much enjoyment that we remain honored to hav...

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure
• In Progress — NFL: Scouting Combine, Skill Positions [NFL Network] • In Progress — Soccer: Barcelona vs. Levante [GOL] • 2:00 — Golf: WGC Accenture Match Play Championship Final (TIGER!) [NBC] • 2:00 — CBB: Syracuse at Notre Dame [CBS] • 2:30 — NBA: Detroit Pistons at Phoenix Suns [ABC] • 2:30 — S...

Klitschko Wins An Easy Decision Over Ibragimov
It wasn't an exciting fight and it certainly won't propel him into the big money, but Wladimir Klitschko won a unanimous decision over Sultan Ibragimov. I had the fight scored as a 12 round shutout, but the judges were a bit more kind to the Russian....

The Volunteers and Tigers Are Delivering At FedEx
I'm back from the Wizards game and I'm actually in a good mood because they won. And hey, the Bobcats minus Gerald Wallace are tough! Since I've been back I've had a chance to catch up on this 1 vs. 2 matchup and frankly, it's even better than the Wizards and Bobcats. The action has been high paced ...

Vroom! Vroom Vroom Vroom!
• Segways! • Mattoon! And other places! • Lots of baseball previews. • Nice week for Keith Van Horn. • Andy Pettitte. Whatever. • We miss you, Harry. • The Marlins want your fat guys. • The Harold Reynolds case may never begin. • Man, you guys love Scott Van Pelt. • Bob Knight, sold out by Lawrence ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your dog is shampooed by aliens ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Richard "Four Eyes" Gutierrez vs. Jose "Wheezy" Varela, Fort Lauderdale (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2] • College basketball: Davidson at Winthrop (7 p.m., ET). Free Gold Rush t-shirts to the first 1,000 fans tonight at the Coliseum!...

Baseball Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all....

Media Approval Ratings: Billy Packer
We're getting awfully darned close now to the NCAA tournament business, which means one thing: The return of Billy Packer as the central force in our lives for a month. We know, we know, he broadcasts games throughout the regular season, but it's not until the Tournament that he takes over the voice...


GSTF Book Tour Stop: Washington, D.C.
As you've surely noticed by the obsessively rigid timestamps on almost every Deadspin post, which are the same every day, we're kind of anal retentive about time. We hate to be late anywhere — in fact, we're usually half an hour early to everything — and our life is meticulously scheduled. It kind o...