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Stories That Don't Suck: Self Esteem, Ballad Of Big Star, Fantasy Baseball, Michael Lewis's First First Thing
Every week, I'll excerpt a handful of stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that I urge you to read for one reason or another. Send any suggestions to [email protected]....

The One Where People Clear The Air About Some Of Tiger Woods' Female Acquaintances
We get a massive amount of tips in our inbox each week. Some are pretty interesting, but don't get published for one reason or another....

Last Night's Winner: Pedants
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like sticklers for the rules who believe that a lane violation is still a lane violation even in the final minute. In other words, me....

Food Producers Meet Greeks, Make Orzo Together: New Mexico State-Michigan State Open Thread
Having Kalin Lucas, Raymar Morgan and Tom Izzo means MSU is a threat to make a run. Jahmar Young and Jonathon Gibson are pretty sick themselves. Lunardi says NMSU's just happy to be there. Can they prove him wrong?...

The Best Thing You'll Read About Tiger's Sexting
What could Joslyn James have written to elicit Tiger's, "Hold you down while i choke you and Fuck that ass that i own"? Perhaps: "My screenplay really isn't coming together. Need some dialogue for the enraged donkey-owning farmer." [Slate]...

A Bounty Of Aggies! Utah State-Texas A&M Open Thread
In the marquee matchup of teams with the same name, the Mormon Aggies look for their first tourney win since 2001, and the ten-gallon Aggies try to advance to the second round for the sixth year in a row....

Resplendent Caddyshack Mascots To Pester Dumas-esque Heros: Minnesota-Xavier Open Thread
The Golden Gophers have a championship-winning coach and solid team play. Xavier's Jordan Crawford dunked on LeBron. This one should get the Bradley Center rocking. Order a thematically appropriate sandwich and comment — pretty sure that's what Sean Miller's doing....

Swarthy Wolves Seek To Swarm Yet Another Type Of Bear: Montana-New Mexico
There's a New Mexico? Montana's coach is named Wayne Tinkle. Will Rebecca Rushin make an appearance as a wheeling and dealing small town sheriff causing everyone to bemusedly say "That's so meta?" More short-lived-NBC-comedy-jokes wanted....

Hellacious Clergymen Try To Put Down Endowed Steers: Wake Forest-Texas Open Thread (NAIL BITER ALERT)
The Longhorns have had a crazy season, but they've got the talent to go on a run if they can get around Al-Farouq Aminu and Skip Prosser's Ghost. Comment and coordinate who to blame if this turns into a brick-fest....

Here's Your Pretty Tiger Woods Sexting Word Cloud
We dropped Tiger's texts into Wordle and this is what we got....

A Side-By-Side Examination Of Tiger's Golf Performance And His Concurrent Sexting
As you know, many of the texts in the Tiger Woods-Joslyn James correspondence were sent during Tiger's golf tournaments. At the Barclays, for instance, Woods finished a disappointing second but also expressed a fond wish to make Joslyn James sore....

Angry Hue Seeks To Smother Feral Cats: North Texas-Kansas State Open Thread
Jacob Pullen tries to seriously mess up the Mean Green, who were not involved in this and who feature no players named Joe. Discussion of Frank Martin's theatrics should be as profanity-laden as possible....

Sexting Tiger Threatened To "Slap, Spank, Bite and Fuck Till Mercy"
Well these texts from Tiger Woods to porn star Joslyn James are predictably gross: "After i cum you better start sucking my cock to get it hard" etc. See the full transcript after the jump....

"Here Are 10 Things To Expect After You Turn 30"
This Black Table article was published, shit, six years ago and I'm encouraged by the fact that it is still as painful now as it was on March 18, 2004. Getting older is not fun. Make it stop....

Irving To Milk One Last Cash Grab Out Of Texas Stadium
It'll cost fans and demolition aficionados (I call them demolitionados) $25 per vehicle to watch next month's implosion of Texas Stadium. The hole in the roof is so God can watch the implosion for free. That's the saying, right? [AP]...

Ron Washington Tested Positive For Cocaine Last Year, Which, Let's Be Honest, Is Pretty Awesome
SI.com narc Jon Heyman reports that Ron Washington, the Rangers' 57-year-old manager and all-around swell guy, indulged in a popular but illicit recreational drug last year. "I did make a mistake," he tells SI.com, speaking very, very quickly. [SI.com]...

Chicago White Sox: Non-Performance Is No Indicator Of Future Results
Will Leitch will be previewing/musing on every baseball team each weekday until the start of the season. You can pre-order his book and follow him on Twitter. Today: The Chicago White Sox....

Cockpunch Night In The NIT
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

Never Mind: Pacquiao Concert Canceled
Sorry to have gotten your hopes up. But only 603 of the 8500 tickets available had been sold, so they're calling the whole thing off. [Honolulu Advertiser]...

No Glass Jaw For Pacquiao; Possibly A Tin Ear
The multi-platinum recording artist (and occasional boxer) will perform his first American concert in Hawaii this weekend, and will give away one of his championship belts to a lucky fan. The luckiest fans, however, won't be within earshot. [Honolulu Advertiser]...