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Wimbledon: Crap, There Was Tennis On
So, apparently the first portion of the Wimbledon finals were held this morning as the ladies finals are all over. Yep, completely missed that....
World Cup: No, There Will Be No Live Blogging Today
The coveted third place game between Germany and Portugal kicks off in a little while and there will be no one to live blog the event. I certainly won't be able to do it. Not when Bravo's showing "The Restaurant" marathon all afternoon. But, of course, there are plenty of people blogging about the...
Terrell Owens: Portait of a Franchise Killer as a Young Man
Surprisingly, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens used to be a little kid —with hopes, dreams, aspirations of making life miserable for his future employers and teammates—and the Philadelphia Eagles still, for some reason, have a little online scrapbook of T.O. as a pup on their Kids Club ...
Week In Deadspin: Still Reeling From RFK
• ESPN not only wants your sports blogs, they're signing their top staffers up, whether they know it or not. • You absolutely cannot beat Kobayashi. • Jose Canseco demanded a trade. Really. • Three strikes ... you're dead. • The four-millionth reason baseball players should stay away from Match.co...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the ghost of Ken Lay enters your bedchamber, rattling chains, crying "Scrooooge!" ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Joel "Freezer Repair" Casamayor vs. Lamont "Oatmeal Cookie Dough" Pearson, at Phoenix. We freely admit it; we made up the nicknames. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at Chicago White S...
Just One (Real) World Cup Match To Go
All right, well, this is it: Just one more World Cup game — one that counts, anyway — and this whole thing is over. On Sunday, it's France vs. Italy for the World Cup title and all the international respect for its citizens and its style of play that comes with it....
Lick Your Lips And Prepare To Enjoy Ozzie Guillen
Ozzie Guillen: Gay community icon? He's on his way, as an alternative lifestyle supper club in Chicago has named a drink after the Jay Mariotti-bashing manager of the White Sox. And by the way; white socks with black shoes? How tacky, Chicago. From the Chicago Sun-Times:...
Eddie Griffin's Odd Film Choices
In case you were in desperate need of some of the inside details of the Eddie Griffin masturbating in his car story — and, obviously, you were, because what person in his right mind isn't? — the official PDF version of the complaint in the lawsuit against him has been released. Our personal favori...
The Closer: Mets Soldier On Without Pedro
Notes from a day in baseball ......
The Baseball Slasher Flick
We love movie taglines: Our personal favorite is for the Steven Seagal/DMX actioner Exit Wounds: "Hurts goin' in ... hurts goin' out." But it's also tough to beat the tagline for this 2000 horror flick The Catcher: "Three strikes ... you're dead."...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you go into the hatch to press the button ... • MLB: St. Louis at Houston. We can't take much more of this, guys. [ESPN] • LPGA, HSBC World Match Play Championship, first round, at Gladstone, N.J. We're pulling for Annika Sorenstam, only because Virada Nirapathpongporn is way too...
"He's The Hoff"
We did everything in our power to avoid this story, but sometimes these things take on their own inertia. Can't be stopped, can't be helped: You know how it goes....
Another Reason To Leave The MLS
The joke about employees skipping out of work to watch the World Cup has become so prevalent that even ESPN is making the joke (and setting it, cleverly, to a U2 song). But what about when one of your employees is, well, a soccer player?...
Look! A Funny Gary Williams Photo!
Apropos of absolutely nothing, here's a rather silly photo of Maryland head basketball coach Gary Williams. Careful with those wings, Coach....
Of Streaking And Shrieking
At first we thought all the shrieking coming from Maria Sharapova on Tuesday was because of this guy. Apparently not. Sharapova, it seems, has a habit of screaming on every shot, something of which we were blissfully unaware until today, due to the fact that we watch her matches with the sound off. ...
Hirshey: One More Time For Some Old Frenchmen
David Hirshey — whose beauty has been captured photographically at ESPN.com — is writing for Deadspin throughout the World Cup....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as firemen sift through the burnt rubble of what used to be the back end of your house (it was quite a party) ... • Boxing: Light middleweights, Jerome Ellis vs. Neil Sinclair, at Colorado Springs. Isn't Colorado Springs more than a mile above sea level? Just how I like my boxing; with...
And They Call It The Streak
There are few things of which we are certain, but one is this: When we get out of bed at an ungody hour to view Maria Sharapova playing Elena Dementieva in the Wimbledon quarterfinals (Sharapova won, 6-1, 6-4), what we don't want to see is this (pictured). We want this. And perhaps this. Under no ...
Live Blog: France Vs. Portugal
We're down to the final three teams in the World Cup — unless you count the third-place game, and who counts the third place game? — and we're knocking out one of them right now. The first team in the World Cup Finals is Italy; who will be the second, as they say?...