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White Sox Clinch Playoffs. It's Ozzie Time!
The Chicago White Sox just beat the Tigers 4-2 and are heading to the playoffs for the first time in five years. This means many things, but what's most important is that White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is about to become a very big, very loud part of every baseball fan's life. So, you know, that'...
What Now, Big Mac?
Tomorrow night, beleaguered former hero Mark McGwire will make his first public appearance since those pesky steroid hearings back in March. At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, former players and various local luminaries — we saw Ray Lankford and Illini basketball coach Bruce Weber earlier this year — ...
Yeah, Red Smith Totally Used To Eat Weird Crap
OK, so we were just watching the rerun of this morning's episode of ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" — we can only watch the same "SportsCenter" so many times before our soul starts to collapse into powder — and we saw Hometown Columnist Woody Paige eat a whole canister of dog food....
Tom Brady The Next Namath In More Ways Than One
We were pleased to see that Patriots quarterhunk Tom Brady shook off his hangover enough to lead the Pats to a last-minute victory over the Steelers last week; we were beginning to become somewhat concerned about his tendency to get all bombed and start hitting on Olsen twins....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while being harangued by John McCain on national TV ... • MLB: Padres win to pull to .500. Oh, and they also clinch the NL West. • MLB: Yankees regain lead, Red Sox fans regain comfortable loser image. • Tennis: Federer advances in Thailand Open, easing your deep concerns....
Deadspin Party Crash: Bill Simmons' NYC Book Signing
Last night, at the Riviera Cafe in New York City, Our Boy Bill Simmons launched his worldwide tour to promote the release of his first book, Now I Can Die In Peace. And we — Deadspin editor Will Leitch and "photographer" Lockhart Steele — were there, because the bar serves alcohol and had some Arizo...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch while waiting for Acme to deliver the latest gadget to catch the roadrunner ... • College FB: Cincinnati at Miami of Ohio. Why does the University of Miami have a branch in Ohio? Not sure. We don't even know why they have one in Florida. [ESPN2 • MLB: Yankees at Orioles. We kind of mis...
Baseball Owners (Get This) Might Be Untrustworthy
We're not saying that baseball owners who claim they're losing money are full of horse manure or anything, but a report in The New York Post says that Major League Baseball will not be offering MLB.com up as an IPO because owners don't want to open up their financial records to the public....
How Much For That Bayless Column In The Window?
So we hadn't visited our old friends at The New York Times on the Web in a while, so we thought we'd log in. We're kind fond of George Vecsey, and we find Selena Roberts quite hot. But on our way inside, we were stopped at the door by a large, sweaty, metaphorical security guard. "May I see your ...
Just To Freak You The Hell Out
So, we have to say, if you're trying to get people talking about your alternative weekly, it's difficult to come up with much better than putting this picture on the front page. The Boston Weekly Dig is messing with a lot of Boston frat guy's minds — and New York construction guys — and that's jus...
We're Exhausted, And The Playoffs Aren't Even Here Yet
Despite what The Smoking Gun has discovered Major League Baseball thinks about the American League East, we appear primed for a final five days of rather intense pre-playoff madness. The Yankees and Red Sox are still tied, the Indians are tied with them too and the White Sox are still toying aroun...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching Riverdance and trying to pick out Bengals' receiver Chad Johnson ... • MLB: Braves, Angels clinch their division titles, decide to celebrate together to save money. • MLB: Yankees lose, Red Sox split, and it's tied — so let's start planning for the big series, shall we...
Etan Thomas Gets His Dylan Thomas On
Left-wing sports blogger Dave Zirin praises Washington Wizards forward Etan Thomas for speaking out against President Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Thomas has long been beloved in the black community for his activism, and in a speech, he said he agreed with Kanye West's asse...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch between the drunken calls from Pat O'Brien and Bill O'Reilly ... • College FB: Toledo at Fresno State. A game too big for local TV, too boring for pay-per-view. [ESPN2] • MLB: The team-formerly-known-as-Anaheim can clinch against Oakland. [KCAL] • MLB: Rockies at Braves. Atlanta can al...
Set Tivos To C-SPAN!
Like most people, we watched last spring's and summer's steroid hearings with many healthy dollops of amusement; it was alternately:...
When Bronson Arroyo's Rock Isn't Hard Enough
MTV channels its inner Page 3 today, looking at the worst music offerings from professional athletes. (We're going to assume "ESPN Hollywood" has done this story about six times.)...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Woody Paige
We hate to frontload this feature with such an apt subject — it's only our second one — and after Woody Paige there's really no place else to go, is there? After spending the last hour reading his old Denver Post columns, we're really kicking ourselves: We could have saved a lot of time and effort...
Blogdome: The Hell Of Being A Padres Fan
• "I don't care what you do now. Go ahead and win the dumb division. Or just keep crapping all over yourselves. I could care less either way. I have the Chargers and my Gloria Gaynor CDs." [Gas Lamp Ball] • Eddy Curry is either brooding over the way the Bulls are treating him, or sitting at home get...
If Tom Cruise Were A Lineman
As obsessive as Madden 2006 players tend to be, we're surprised it took this long to be discovered, but it appears a glitch in the game has Jets offensive lineman Michael King listed as seven inches high. (That's him in the picture, doing a pretty excellent job at blocking a Buccaneer, considering...
In The Wake Of Chad
We've always liked Jets fans, if just because they have that unique New York blend of bitter cynicism and unabashed homerism toward their team. They're like the woman who has nothing nice to say about her spoiled younger sister ... but she'll have your throat if you do....