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Leftovers: Those Youngs Are Awfully Angry Folks
• Tigers' Dmitri Young charged with domestic violence. [Detroit Free Press] • It's Vijay Singh's Sex Tips For Girls. [Utter Wonder] • Yankees fans and Red Sox fans apparently remember experiences somewhat differently. [Harvard Gazette] • The marketing director of Applebee's has resigned. "Just sit r...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Croatia
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Croatia! And for World Cup previews th...
We Are All Stunned
Well. It's little wonder the The NBA Is Back! platitudes are being brought back out there. This is downright fun....
LeBron's Chance To Take Over
Well, for those of you who are just now waking up from that Clippers-Suns epic last night, there's no time to rest, people. Two more games tonight, with the Mavericks trying to finish off the defending champions and, most compellingly, LeBron James and the Cavaliers continuing their unlikely quest...
Leftovers: Plunking Barry
• Inside the night of the guy who kept trying to hit Barry Bonds. [ESPN] • What's funnier than Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas playing a game of chicken? Not much, really. [New York Daily News] • Inside the mind of Steve Nash's cat. [The Mighty MJD] • So BadJocks has officially gone dog nutty over hazi...
Dirk Nowitzki Gets His Hasselhoff On
We suppose, had we put two and two together, we could have seen this coming. In a way, it has a certain spectacular cosmic inevitability....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Cote d'Ivoire
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Ivory Coast! And for World Cup preview...
Leftovers: CSI: Big Unit
• So, seriously, what IS going on with Randy Johnson? [SI.com] • Uh, Reggie Bush's hamstring is all right, right? Right? [Rotowire] • What would have happened to Steve Nash, had he not been a basketball player. [SPIN] • Minor league team responds to asshead who sued over not receiving free tote bag ...
Neil Everett's Death Wish
We're not sure whether or not to think Neil Everett is:...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Japan
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Japan! And for World Cup previews that...
Carnival Of The NBA No. 28: Darko Is Free
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. — Emily Dickinson...
Dolphins Not Liable For Future Damages, So You Know
We don't mean to imply that the Miami Dolphins are covering their tailfeathers a bit with Marcus "New Mexico" Vick, whom they just signed to a free agent contract, but here's what was included in the official press release about the signing....
Somehow ... The Series Is TIED?
As we wait for Mark Cuban to sleep off what is almost certainly an enormous (and well-earned) hangover, we turn our morning attentions to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. (No offense to the Mavericks, of course; we are one step closer to the sublime possibility of David Stern handing the ...
Hey, These Playoffs Are Getting Kind Of Fun
If you're one of those cynical souls who doesn't take Rasheed Wallace's word as gospel, we should be in for quite an intriguing evening of basketball. In the first game, we get to find out if this will be a forgettable early chapter in LeBron James' playoff career or if becomes something unique, spe...
Hello, Boston!
As that picture brings you back to the immortal "Does "More Than A Feeling" Really Have The Same Guitar Riff As "Smells Like Teen Spirit?" argument, we let you know that we are going back out on the road. (Book promotion never ends.) As soon as we finish up this here site today, we're heading Bost...
Leftovers: All The Best Football Is In Canada
• As has been mentioned, nothing could be more fun than a Ricky Williams-Marcus "New Mexico" Vick backfield. And look! Eric Crouch is on that team too! [San Jose Mercury News] • You know, you have to be pretty fired up for hockey to boo the Canadian national anthem. [Sportsnet] • Clearly, Fred Smoot...
A Lovely Way To Spend Mother's Day
Todd Munson is a Deadspin reader who lives in Los Angeles and — like all good sons — went home to see his mother yesterday, in Omaha, Neb. When he was walking down Dodge Street, the main Omaha drag, he noticed the word "WHORE" on a sign hanging from the pedestrian bridge just above....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: France
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: France! And for World Cup previews tha...
The Closer: We're Up 7-3; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Notes from a day in baseball:...
Leftovers...
• I know what you're wondering: which NFL quarterback/running back tandems would make the best partners in a buddy cop movie? Here are the NFC East and NFC North. And yes, Clinton Portis and Mark Brunell are very strong contenders. [I Dislike Your Favorite Team]...