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Message From the Guest Editor: Checking Out
So last night I psyched myself up for this task and came up with a little arc about how the day was gonna go: We'd start off as enemies, you mocking me relentlessly, me crying into my seventeen iced coffees as I frantically tried to provide content for two sites at once. But surely, I thought, as th...
Adventures in Obscure Sports: Rootball
Earlier this month, the East Coast Championships of Rootball were held in Asheville, NC. An area correspondent reports:...
Leftovers: Once More For Red
• "If they think we got an edge, we got an edge." Nice old Esquire collection of wisdom from one of the true legends of the game.[Esquire] • NBA Board of Governors passes rule to rein in unruly owners, i.e. Mark Cuban. No word yet if the legislation allows for Hannibal Lecter-type restraints, but ...
ESPN Will Give You Fries With That, Not Much Else
How nicely does ESPN treat its employees? We've been forwarded a memo that demonstrates their level of appreciation to a crew that has to endure an association with Tony Kornheiser:...
Breaking: Athletes Also Like to Jack Off to Internet
ESPN reports on a dangerous new problem facing that country's footballers:...
Will a Picture of a Drunk QB Shut You Up For a Little While?
I know, I know, you miss Will. Believe me, so do I. In the interests of moving us a little closer to the goal line, here's a drunken athlete photo: It's Giants QB Eli Manning, although whether or not his expression here is one of inebriation or, you know, the default genetic Manning visage is a ques...
Drew Brees' Mom Probably Won't Be Appearing in Any Soup Ads Anytime Soon
Drew Brees, your New Orleans Saints quarterback, has had a rocky relationship with his mom ever since he refused to sign her as his agent when he came out of Purdue. Unfortunately, things seem to have taken a turn for the worse:...
Harold Reynolds Should Have Gone To Outback Steakhouse
As is usually the case, The Smoking Gun swoops in and gets the documents filed against ESPN by grabby announcer Harold Reynolds. We don't have much to add except to say that we would have been more upset by being taking to Boston Fucking Market than by the actual "innocuous hugging." Happy readin...
Blogdome: We Pretty Much Put Up Everything You Sent
• Brett Favre is like a kid out there. [McSweeney's] • Ben Roethlisberger's concussion far inferior to Steve Young's. [The Itch] • The kids at Suzy Kolber wrap up last night's MNF game. We would have watched, but we were busy smoking up Bill Belichick's kid. Hahahaha, get it? Because he smokes the p...
They Have To Ask: What My Friends Want to Know About Sports
So as soon as I realized was actually going to have to do this fucker, I appealed to friends and relations to basically provide me with content. I asked a collection of sports fans and sports haters alike to appeal to the wisdom of the Deadpsin commenting crowd. (I described you as a bunch of erud...
End of the Line for Curtis Martin?
Nice - if, you know, it turns out to be true - scoop from the Newark Star-Ledger:...
EPSNU "Gay" Announcer Not Happy
Honestly, we were planning on laying off all the gay content for a bit (we can tell how riled up it gets you), but this just came in over the wire:...
Flyers Spectators Almost As Comical As Team Itself
As we mentioned at the top, we're Flyers fans. It's a classy organization* with a rich history and a sense of pride in its traditions. Then, you know, there's this:...
Joe Torre Immediately Bought George Tickets to "A Chorus Line"
Pauper Players' Sunday afternoon performance of "Cabaret" was cut short when Department of Public Safety officials responded to a call that a man was suffering from chest pains, DPS spokesman Randy Young said. ...
Great Moments in Sports Journalism: Hell, We'll Give it a Shot
Over at Gawker we run a regular feature called Great Moments in Journalism where readers send in particularly egregious examples of overwriting, poor writing, excessive use of clich , or any other example of journalism gone wrong. We very rarely nominate sports pieces, since most of our readers don'...
Message From the Guest Editor: Checking In
Okay, listen up, douchebags: I don't like you and you don't like me. But thanks to some of the sloppiest play we've seen in World Series baseball since the Marlins beat the Indians we're stuck with each other for the next twelve posts. My name is Balk, and I'm an editor over there at Gawker, a site ...