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If You Can't Play As The Vikings, Might As Well Ransack Like Them
Having just been alerted by the Mid-Atlantic Hockey League that their season was over at the halfway mark, the Jamestown Vikings decided that they were still vikings after all and proved as much by trashing the historic Viking Lodge in Jamestown, NY....
Rams' Lawyers Attempt to Do What Team Could Not
It's two weeks after Losergate (or, if you will, Super Bowl XLII) and people are still making a hue and cry over cheating charges leveled at the now-humbled Patriots. The latest comes from former Rams player Willie Gary and two Rams season ticket holders, who are suing the Pats, seeking $100 millio...
Berman Videos Want To Be Free
• We tried out the Media Approval Ratings. • We were in Seattle, Oak Brook, Champaign and St. Peters. • John Rocker on steroids. Really. • How to bond in Ohio. • ESPN was protested, kind of. • We talked to the guy releasing all the Berman videos, and then we just posted them ourselves. • Goodbye, D...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you drop your pants and fire a rocket ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Delvin "Free Willy" Rodriguez vs. Troy "Pencil Neck" Browning, Uncasville, Conn., (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2] • College basketball: Pittsburgh at Marquette (9 p.m., ET). Tonight we're all Pennsylvanians. Or, um, Wisconsinit...
Presenting The Deadspin Food Pyramid
Reading this site is hungry work. So, inspired by the Deadspin Pyramid of Success which you saw on Wednesday, we now give you the Deadspin Food Pyramid: Everything you will need to make smart nutritional choices at home, at work and at play! Approved by the Food and Drug Administration*, and smart ...
One Day, NASCAR Will Own Your Ass
The Daytona 500 is this weekend. That's one of the more important of the Cars Going Around In A Circle contests they have on this planet. We don't understand NASCAR, obviously, but we suspect some of you do, so we've asked Jay Busbee, of Sports Gone South, to explain to us why we should care about ...
You Still Have A Shot With Erin Andrews
According to 950 AM in Philadelphia, the wonderful Erin Andrews of ESPN is still on the market. That is to say, she's dating, but "not exclusively dating." So here's your chance, guys! And what the heck, gals too! Oh, and you won't have to battle Tony Romo, either: Andrews says that they are not an ...
Finally, You Know What Those Sad And Poor Kids In Mock Title Shirts Look Like: Sad, And Poor.
The New York Post helpfully had the pictures this morning of what we've all been asking: What happened to those Patriots 19-0 jerseys?...
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition: The Lost Photographs
For all of you aspiring Sports Illustrated swimsuit model photographers out there (or, if you're just cold and/or horny), here's a behind-the-scenes look at several of the photo shoots for the magazine's 2008 swimsuit edition. Busted Coverage found the stash of photos on Flickr, via someone obviousl...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you absolutely refuse to evolve ... • College basketball: North Carolina State at Boston College (7 p.m., ET); Michigan at Iowa (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Rutgers at West Virginia (7 p.m., ET); Fordham at Massachusetts (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]; Stanford at Arizona State (10:30 p.m., ET) [FSN]...
So Who's Ready For Another Run At An Undefeated Season?
Which is harder: Completing an undefeated season in the NFL, or in college basketball? I NEED TO KNOW! With its 68-59 win over Houston on Wednesday night, Memphis improved to 24-0, looking to become the first Div. I team since Bobby Knight's 1976 Indiana squad to finish unbeaten. Hmm, a current team...
No, You've Got It All Wrong, Fellas. Brady Quinn LOVES The Gays
Brady Quinn would like to make it clear: He does not hate gay people. Responding to accusations that he hurled gay slurs at a group of men in a New Year's Eve altercation in Columbus, Ohio, Quinn said on Wednesday that, nope, it never happened. And furthermore, you know that Brokeback Mountain seque...
Only Devean George Understands The Power He Wields
Of all the comments in the wake of the Jason Kidd trade that was, oddly, blocked by Devean George of all people, our favorite might have been in the live blog of the Mavs' game against the Blazers:...
About Last Night
What you missed while pleading with the suicidal moose not to jump ... • MLB: Roger Clemens' approval ratings now lower than Dick Cheney's. • College basketball: Come on, Indiana, make up your mind. Do you want your players choked, or do you want them illegally recruited? I kind of vote for choked. ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after tripping and smashing a 290-year-old Stradivarius ... • College basketball: St. John's at Cincinnati (7 p.m., ET); Kansas State at Texas Tech (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. Has Pat Knight won a game yet? • College basketball: Maryland at Duke (7 p.m., ET). Do not anger the turtle. [ESPN] ...