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Baseball. Tonight.
The long 162-game journey begins tonight for the Indians and the White Sox. It will be the most heated game between the two teams since Roger Dorn trade Jack Parkman to the White Sox in Major League II....
Leftovers: April Fools Fun...
• Cleveland blogger gives his reasons why the Cavs are going to miss the playoffs... despite already having clinched a playoff spot. [Mistake By The Lake Sporting Times]...
Durham Quickly Becoming Compton East
You know, between the rapes and the drive-by shootings, Durham doesn't sound like such a great place to be right now....
Dominique Wilkins Gets His
Dominique Wilkins, who somehow didn't get into the Basketball Hall of Fame on his first try, will be getting in on go-round #2. Official word hasn't come down yet, but various reports have him getting in, along with former Pistons guard and current GM Joe Dumars and UConn women's coach Geno Auriemma...
Week In Deadspin: Contracting The Bensons
• Officer Selig Fife is finally on the case. • "Bristol Is Big Ten Country" • George Mason Fever is a contagious condition, and if you don't stop scratching, it'll never go away. • Way too much information from Roger Clemens and Peter King. • The Duke lacrosse team story went from horrifying to "h...
Your NL East "Preview"
It is important to point out, before we start predicting our final division, that we have picked a team other than the Braves to win the division for five consecutive years. As if you needed any more assurance that our predictions are always wrong....
Leftovers: The Right Way To Pay Off A Ref
• It is apparently legal to bribe referees in Nigeria. Don't even pretend you're surprised. [ESPN] • Bring us the head of John Wooden! Seriously ... somebody bring it. [Yahoo Sports] • Scranton's sports columnist might very well be a pedophile. Seriously. [Delco Times] • We live in a great world whe...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Padres
We're two days away from Opening Day (two days!), so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at tips@deadsp...
Your AL East "Preview"
Obviously, the landscape of the American League East obviously changed dramatically yesterday, but we're gonna go ahead and try to forecast matters anyway. It's hard, but we must tredge forward, regardless. We must stay strong. Some bad predictions:...
It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated
So, who remembers the Bill Simmons cartoons? Launched, what, a year ago now, the three one-minute tidbits of the life of The Sports Guy were almost universally derided, first by readers, then, ultimately, by Simmons himself. (He called them "a mistake on a lot of levels.")...
Your NL West "Preview"
You know what? This might sound kind of crazy, but we think it's possible that the NL West might not be any better than it was last year. The only way there's any team better than last year's Padres is if Los Steroido somehow stays healthy (and eligible) all season ... and even then we're kind of pu...
Leftovers: Live-Blogging Selig's Press Conference
• Did you miss Bud Selig's press conference on the steroid inquiry committee today? Fret not; it has been live-blogged. [Talking Baseball] • NHL refs has Jack Abramoff's back. [Hockey Dirt] • Nothing funnier than pretending your teammates are one of them gays. [The Toronto Star] • The Adam Morrison ...
Your AL West "Preview"
You know, you wouldn't think it would be that hard to predict the winner of the AL West. Jeez, there are only four teams, after all. Yet we always get this division wrong: We always predict the A's at the wrong time. Which is probably not much solace to A's fans right now....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Nationals
We're three days away from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. To...
In Praise Of The Big Baby
In a way, the undeniably blissful story of George Mason in this year's tournament has taken some focus off what would otherwise being a star-making week for LSU's Glen "Big Baby" Davis. The sophomore center is the type of unique creature almost exclusively associated with college basketball....
Your NL Central "Preview"
Our personal favorite division has had a monotonous feel to it the last few years, with the Cardinals and the Astros advancing and meeting in the NLCS two consecutive times. (This, of course, is fine with us.) We also have a feeling that the NL Central is the only division in baseball with three ...
Leftovers: Afternoons With Rickey
• You can't write too many words about Rickey Henderson. You just can't. [Yahoo Sports] • What kind of world do we live in, where a perfectly innocent Playmate can be hit in the face with a puck at a hockey game? [The Wade Blogs] • Celtics "guard" likes to drive his car very, very fast. [Daily News ...
LeBron James' Mom, On A Rampage
One of our favorite underreported stories of the last few months was the arrest of LeBron James' mother for drunken driving. In case you don't remember the details, Momma LeBron — who, by the way, is the exact same age as Bill Simmons — was placed in the back of a cop car, kicked out the back wind...
The Gruesome Duke Lacrosse Details
Some new developments in the Duke lacrosse team case, which appears to have "tipped" in the last 24 hours; we just saw it featured on our local afternoon news, and we're nowhere near Durham....
Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
As our brother at Defamer noted yesterday, if you can't find something fascinating on YouTube, you're just not trying. Henceforth, we're starting a new feature here at Deadspin: Random entertainment you can find on YouTube in, like, five seconds. It'll run every Wednesday, because Wednesdays are tra...