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To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as that sugar rush sets in ... • College FB: Alabama-Birmingham at Memphis. It's DeAngelo Williams time. [ESPN2]. • NHL: Chicago at Detroit. Come watch as the Red Wings compile more wins this season than the Tigers did. [OLN]. • NBA: Phoenix at Dallas. The real question: Is Cuban going...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bob Kravitz
OK, our problem with Bob Kravitz isn't that he's a terrible writer. (He isn't.) It's that too often he phones it in. No, check that — he often doesn't even bother to phone, instead stuffing his column into the backpack of a mental patient, who then wanders in the general direction of the Indianapo...
Blogdom's Best: New Orleans Saints
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NFL ...
Coming Out Of The Blogging Closet
We didn't get to this yesterday, so we're gonna load you up on it now. Those two handsome gents right there are the fine minds behind Faith And Fear In Flushing, one of our very favorite blogs and definitely our favorite Mets blog. Yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal (or online, at least), WSJ.c...
Online Poll Trash Talking
In case you were thinking that Eagles receiver Terrell Owens — or, more specifically, the one person in T.O.'s entourage who knows how to code HTML — was relaxed, laid back and totally happy on his Web Site, check out the poll currently on TerrellOwens.com....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you answer the door and contribute to the rising national rate of juvenile-onset diabetes ... • MNF: Baltimore at Pittsburgh. Forget the rest of the league, these should be the only two NFL cities in America. [ABC] • NHL: Montreal at New York Rangers. Let's welcome our Canadian cous...
Tracking Jay Mariotti's Herks And Jerks
One of our favorite things about the city of Chicago is that it still has two big, brassy, loud newspapers who love to snipe at each other. (And they're even just down the street from one another.) In one of those columns that make our lives worthwhile and meaningful, Chicago Tribune metro columni...
Blogdom's Best: Washington Redskins
It might not — yet — have the online fanaticism and cachet of baseball, but the NFL and its fans are starting to catch up in the world of team-devoted blogs. To this end, Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding blog for each NFL ...
NFL Roundup: A Costly Fumble
• It's pretty astounding that fan guy in Cincinnati was able to run on the field during the Packers' closing drive. First off, they were at midfield, which means he had to run at least 50 yards, probably more, without someone beating him to Brett Favre. (Note: The next time you're in Cincinnati, b...
Week In Deadspin: Get Down Off That Poll!
• Holy crap! The White Sox won the World Series!. • The steroid rumor was confirmed, and then we all had big fun vote on it. • We made guesses on the next gay athlete, and then we voted on that too. Voting is fun. • Two drunk, sad Cardinals fans who are pretty much exactly whom we went to high sch...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch while making fun of that guy who's gonna wear the Burger King guy mask to your Halloween party ... • College FB: Colorado State at New Mexico. What we're hoping for is a good, clean football game without the ACLU getting involved, as they tend to do in this state. [ESPN2] • PGA Tour: C...
Your "Winner" Is ...
The results are in, and Deadspin readers have spoken. The most likely athlete candidate to come out of the closet is ... Kordell Stewart!...
Inside The Mind Of Stephen A. Smith
In what we're sure will be an enjoyable feature on his site, blogger Philadelphia Will Do has started a Psychoanalyzing Stephen A. Smith section, where he looks at each of Smith's Philadelphia Inquirer columns and tries to figure out what makes the man tick....
Half-Hour Left To Vote!
Polls are closing at 1:45 Eastern Time for our first gay athlete to come out poll. The race is tight right now, and your vote could make all the difference. We'll announce the results later this afternoon....
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Umpires
Umpire Joe West was the crew chief for the World Series that just ended and apparently nobody watched. Cowboy Joe West ... hey, that's the same guy!...
White Sox Fans Cheer Phantom Series
Would it be fair to call this year's World Series the "Quite Frankly" of postseason series? The just-complete White Sox whitewashing of the Astros, turns out, was the worst-rating Series of all time, just beating out the Angels-Giants Series of 2002, a Series that had the advantage of going seven ...
Vote: First Gay Athlete To Come Out?
All right, we promised you a poll, and here's your poll, our first ever on Deadspin. The question: Who's the most likely athlete to come out of the closet first, based off Oddjack's Cultural Oddsmaker, which laid down the odds on five most likely suspects to be the first "out" athlete....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as we all, in our own way, refuse to give up our seat on the bus ... • College FB: Boston College at Virginia Tech. Let our football-viewing weekend officially begin. [ESPN] • NHL: Islanders at Rangers. The Islanders suddenly own this matchup, all due, of course, to Satan. [Fox Sports ...
More "Colbert Report" Than "After M*A*S*H*"
It is with much glee that we point out that the mad scientists at Yard Work — the brilliant satirical site featuring mock columns from ESPN luminaries, along with Rickey Henderson, Ozzie Guillen and countless others — have launched their first spinoff site: the affectionately named Hard Wood, whic...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's The Next Gay Athlete?
With Sheryl Swoopes' earth-shaking announcement that she was (no!) a lesbian, tongues are wagging (sorry) about who the next — i.e., actually surprising — athlete to come out of the closet will be. Our friends at Oddjack have helpfully lay out the odds on five heavily rumored to be gay athletes, p...