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Week In Deadspin: Goodnight, Sweet Stephen A.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE CHEESY DOODLES? • Sean Salisbury has something he'd like to show you. Hey, where are you running? • Welcome to LA, Mr. Beckham. • Your national champion Florida Gators. (Kind of.) • Bill Simmons will have to finally acknowledge college basketball • Mark McGwire, stay wherev...
Leftovers: Free Rory!
• OK, it's really starting to look like the NHL did something fishy with the Rory Fitzpatrick voting. [Off Wing Opinion] • Darvin Ham's mom is getting herself in all kinds of trouble. [Michigan Live] • The Eagles have their fair share of dumb songs too. [The 700 Level] • Could the Buzzsaw someday ac...
Vince Young Cares About Your Financial Future
Now that Vince Young has proven quite clearly — once again — that Merrill Hoge is a damned fool, there's only one place left to go: To the land of prepaid debit cards!...
NBA Roundup: Pass The Steve Nash, Please
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Playoff Pants Party: Ravens Vs. Colts
Again, so we don't overrun the site with Pants Parties tomorrow, we thought we'd preview Saturday's first game today. So here you are....
Leftovers: The New Leader Of The Buzzsaw
• The new Buzzsaw coach is ... Mike Sherman? Hoo boy. [The Fanhouse] • Bud Harrelson's kid officially pleads guilty to helping a friend kill his stepfather with a sword. [North Country Gazette] • Robert Goulet is doing a Super Bowl ad. Awesome! [Gheorghe: The Blog] • Shawne Merriman isn't beneath ha...
Hirshey Quickie: On Mr. Beckham
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
Vote For Rory Falls Short; Is There Something (Ice) Fishy Going On?
So, as we mentioned yesterday, the Web campaign to vote Vancouver Canucks defenseman Rory Fitzpatrick into the NHL All-Star Game fell just short, finishing in third place after once climbing near the very top. Fitzpatrick took it in stride — considering some NHL players and analysts were acting as i...
End It Like Beckham
Despite our lack of Spice Girls and refusal to call anything "the loo," soccer bon vivant and World Cup slacker David Beckham has rejected Real Madrid's contract offer and is headed to our shores. Didn't we fight a war to prevent this kind of thing?...
NBA Roundup: Denver Will Hold Off On Printing Any Playoff Tickets
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Leftovers: Changing Your Number Works, Apparently
• The No. 1 selling jersey in the NBA? It's Kobe again. [CNBC] • Whatever brings in fans in Philly. [The 700 Level] • The full report on the Jason Kidd divorce filing. [The Smoking Gun] • The Chris Webber in Philadelphia era appears to be over. [Fox Sports] • Dee Brown, video game CHAMPION. [Jazz No...
Harrick Always Could Recruit
We knew something like this would happen eventually. Jim Harrick, coach of the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League, has a player who is making $2.06 million per season. Two mil, in the D League. Where the previous top salary was $24,000. Leave it to freakin' Harrick....
NBA Roundup: Acht Du Lieber! Mavs On A Tear
Notes on Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Leftovers: So Close, Yet So Far
• Rory Fitzpatrick falls just short in NHL All-Star balloting. [TSN] • So if Joumana Kidd gets to beat her kids, does that mean Bob Ryan gets to beat her? [North Jersey] • Jamaal Tinsley knows little about cars. [Bad Idea Blue Jeans] • Tank Johnson pleads not guilty. Excellent. Come on, trial! [Foul...
Scott Weiland Gets His Lee Corso On
If you're not up on your aging "psychedelic" hair metal band sports trivia, former Stone Temple Pilots and current Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland is an inexplicable fan of Notre Dame football. (We guess his dad went there; amazingly, Weiland didn't make the trip.) This morning, Weiland relea...
Of Open Mics, And A Very Special Message For Buzz
You know, we've just about had it with Buzz. And obviously KSN-TV Wichita sports director Jim Kobbe feels the same way, after some technical problems prompted his potent outburst during a live sports broadcast. We've said it before and we'll say it again ... we love inadvertently open mics....
BCS Blogdome: There's Got To Be A Morning After
What they're saying in Blogville about Florida's 41-14 win over Ohio State in Monday's BCS Championship Game ......
Caltech Beavers Beat The Odds
One of the first things we decided when we started this site a little more than a year ago, was that any time a college basketball team ended a losing streak of more than 200 games, they would get their own post. So here's to you, California Institute of Technology. Your 81-52 win over Bard College ...
Leftovers: Whither Ron Mexico?
• Could the Bobby Petrino hire lead to Michael Vick being traded? [Falcons Locker] • SI.com's Oops Moment with the end of the Cowboys game. [Blogging The Boys] • Football Outsiders runs down the wild-card weekend. [Football Outsiders] • Saying goodbye to the late Bobby Hamilton. [The Final Lap With ...