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Deadspin HOF Nominee: Brady Quinn

The art of photography is a delicate, complicated one. You must possess an eye for composition and complexity, yes, but you also must hope your subject — whatever he, she or it is — can be capturing in a moment that reveals something, not just about his / she / its nature, but also humanity as a who...

Like you, we just noticed that there's an ad for a Dane Cook movie on our site. We didn't know this was going to be running, but in case you were wondering if our thoughts about Dane Cook had changed ... they haven't....

To Watch Tonight

What to watch as paramedics struggle to remove the Super Glue from your, well, you know ... • Little League Baseball: World Series, pool play, at Williamsport, Pa.; Walpole, Mass. vs. Warner Robins, Ga.; Taiwan vs. Mexico. Walpole has nothing much left for an encore. [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees ...

Well, Zook might be cheating (but he's not!), but at least the Illini players don't steal credit cards. [HawkCentral]...

Roger Clemens Has A Problem

2007 Postseason Actober.com Contest The Day That Aaron Boone Went Yard [Deadspin]...

An excellent analogy that finally explains Wily Mo Pena. [Baseball Prospectus]...

Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!

We are proud to introduce "Dan Shanoff Is The Tebow," a new weekly column on college football, by the esteemed Dan Shanoff. Here is his preview of the upcoming season, which begins September 1....

NFL Season Preview: New York Giants

Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

I'm not sure how I feel about the full-body columnist photo, which replaces the column mug. Seems to take up a lot of space. And hey, Trent, thanks for dressing up. [Cincinnati Enquirer]...

NBAer Shot At DeShawn's House

It's still early, and many more details are yet to come, but according to WESH in Orlando, an NBA player was shot early this morning at the home of Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson....

Boston-Area Little Leaguers Have Strange Allegiances

Wallpole is located about 20 minutes southwest of Boston. So before the game, the team got a pep talk from Curt Schilling, Coco Crisp and Red Sox manager Terry Francona, and Rando's catch was shown on the scoreboard at Fenway Park. All well and good ... but check out the Walpole team introductions, ...

Joe Theismann And Mike Patrick Have Opinions On Pizza Boxes

Johan Santana Is Mr. August

This will be your one and only Bert Blyleven update for this season, so pay attention. Blyleven, to my knowledge the only Minnesota Twins starting pitcher to have been born in Zeist, Netherlands, struck out 15 Oakland Athletics on Aug. 1, 1986; a Twins record. Or it was, until Johan Santana struck o...

Special Weekend Football Foodie

Over at Ladies, we've started a series called the "Friday Football Foodie" which centers on the third best aspect of football weekends, (behind the games themselves and gambling, respectively), which is the massive amount of eating and drinking you can do while hanging out with your friends. It is t...

My Long Nightmare Might be Over

Oh frabjous day! A report in today's Philadelphia Inquirer says what Phillies Phans have longed to hear since that horrible afternoon of July 26: If he gets the OK from hand surgeon Randall Culp, Chase Utley could be back in the lineup in time for the Mets series at Citizens Bank Park next week. Fro...

Oookie Agonistes

Compared to much of the sports blogosphere, we lead a blessedly sheltered life here at Deadspin Nation. Admission is limited. There are standards of discourse during business hours. The worst of the trolls are jettisoned with all haste. But in most of the uncharted wilds of the internets, lawlessnes...

USA Weekend—you know, the glossy publication that comes in your Sunday paper and contains only the finest in easy Sudoku and relationship advice—has an article this weekend about baseball players with blogs....

Premier League

Sorry for the late start, but had some problems connecting to the wifi here in downtown Chicago. Man U versus Manchester City is already underway, then Arsenal v Blackburn, and finally the big match of the day, Chelsea Liverpool. I'll try to keep running updates as the matches go on and giving some ...

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Surely you've been waiting with bated breath to find out what Marco Materazzi said to Zinedine Zidane that would provoke the shiny-pated Zidane to headbutt the shit out of him during the World Cup last year. (Who hasn't?) In his soon-to-be-released autobiography, Materazzi reveals the now-infamous l...

What To Watch

• 6:00 pm — Little League World Series: Midwest vs. Southwest [ESPN] • 8:00 pm — Chargers at Rams [CBS] • 9:00 pm — I Me Wed [Lifetime] • 11:15 pm — Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Kansas City Chiefs [HBO] -Metschick...