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Live Playoff Blog: Mets Vs. Dodgers, Game One
This is John Maine, and, so it's known, he's really not a bad pitcher. (Why did everyone act like El Duque was somehow Johan Santana, anyway? You know he's about 84 years old, right? Plus, now the Mets have Oliver Perez on their roster, so what could possibly go wrong?)...
Leftovers: Keep Good Thoughts For Bill?
• Is Bill Walsh having a health crisis? [Sports Business Blog] • The Cubs should probably just be run via a reality show. Can't be worse that what's happening. [Chicago Sports Review] • That "Friday Night Lights" show isn't so bad, actually. [The Mighty MJD] • It's like Bull Durham in Mississippi, e...
Stop The World, We Want To Get Off
If there were any real cosmic justice out there, stories such as this would not be allowed to happen; a wise, all-knowing God, concerned only with the greater good, would hurl a giant meteor right directly into our equator first. But ours is a stark, lonely universe, devoid of reason, and we are p...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Milwaukee Bucks
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we continue with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at [email protected]....
Live Playoff Blog: Twins Vs. A's, Game Two
It seems strange to have a 1 p.m. start the day after the same two teams played at the same time the day before, but hey, it's Minnesota. Those folks should feel lucky ESPN's even showing their game!...
The Dangers Of The Play-Calling Screens
You know how it goes. It's a hotly contested game of Madden, or NBA Live, or, say, NCAA Football 07, and you played your ass off and you lost on a last-second touchdown and you think your buddy was sneaking looks at your plays and you threw the controller across the room and you tried to get the l...
Live Playoff Blog: Padres Vs. Cardinals, Game 1
You know, it's absolutely perverse that we are expected to sit here and live-blog a Cardinals playoff game. How, exactly, does one spell a primal scream of pain? Last year, during the NLCS, we realized that we were literally running back and forth, stomping our feet, howling at the television screen...
Leftovers: Yeah, Fire The Bum
• Joe Girardi, obviously a horrible manager who deserved to be fired. [ABC News] • Pete Rose is fat. There, we said it. [Fox Sports] • Brett Favre is Cal Ripken, that's all. [Awful Announcing] • This Illini locker room celebration after their victory made us very happy ... [CSTV] • ... but this news...
Us Against The Music
Little housecleaning matter here: Tomorrow night, right before the Tigers begin securing their 2-0 ALDS lead on the Yankees — sorry — we will be reading things aloud. Using our voice, and perhaps some spackle....
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Detroit Pistons
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we continue with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at [email protected]....
Live Playoff Blog: Twins Vs. A's, Game One
Well, all right, we did this last year, so let's rev it up again. We know you're stuck at work while there's a freaking playoff game on, and we know that, at times like this, the MLB GameCast isn't quite enough....
Hirshey: We Like Our Ukrainians FLAMING!
David Hirshey, now able to eat during daylight hours again, writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
Leftovers: Soccer's Randy Moss
• "That is a disgusting, decidedly unjolly act!" [Soccernet] • The steroid denials are cooking like crazy now. [Associated Press] • Goodbye, Mr. Alou. [Baseball Musings] • Jeez, did Tiger Woods win again? [BBC Sport] • Hello, Leinart! [AZ Pigskin] • The good news: Your site just got mentioned in the...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Indiana Pacers
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we continue with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at [email protected]....
LeftoverDome...
• I'm not sure if Brandon Lloyd is better at rapping or being a wide receiver. I'm also not sure if that's a compliment. [Saved by the Blog] • The Bears/Seahawks game might not mean as much as you think it does. [Foul Balls] • Here's a Giants fan who could not be described as optimistic. [Sports Mon...
For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
First, your NFL Scoreboard....
LeftoverDome...
• It had to happen at some point. It's the Terrell Owens drinking game, "T-Overdose." [NBX Sports] • The jokes are a little lame, it's outdated uninformative, but I spent about an hour and a half watching it. This really can't miss. [Topless Sports News] • More deatils on the collapse of ESPN Mobile...
For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project is back for another glorious weekend. The AOL Instant Messenger name is "DeadspinFootball." As always, don't forget to let me know how you want to be credited (your name, your site, a link, etc). And don't take it personally if you get the 'away message.' It hurts me as much...
Week In Deadspin: All Terrell, All Carl, All The Time
• Anybody hear any Terrell Owens news this week? • Good night, completely useless, prohibitively expensive and arrogant mobile phone. • Heads up! • That it does, friend, that it does. • We'll never forget you, Janky Spanky. • My Lord, there's a beetle in my brain! • "Thick in the britches." • Not ...
Leftovers: Pink Tacos In N'Awlins
• Well, if they couldn't name the Buzzsaw stadium, why can't they make it the Pink Taco Superdome? [WDSU] • Bootsy Collins has another Bengals song, and it, you know, has some funk and stuff. [Cincinnati Weekly] • Jason Whitlock debuts at AOL Sports. [The Fanhouse] • We see nothing wrong with kangar...