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The Jay Mariotti to the Chicago Tribune deal may not be dead, at least according to Mariotti. And he's never steered us wrong before! [Chi Ball]
Waxing off
Road Beef, Big Papi At The Pink Pony, And You
Once upon a time, a site called The Black Table had a regular feature entitled Waxing Off, in which women gathered in an online roundtable to discuss issues of the day, and also to make fun of Will Leitch's shoes. And so we got to thinking: With so many great female sports bloggers out there, why not import the idea here? It's just crazy enough to work. So behold: The latest edition of Deadspin's Waxing Off. We found seven terrific female writers who were willing to pen short pieces on this week's topic: Road Beef.
Alfonso Soriano has his Keri Wieson, and Jose Reyes has his Bentley Matthews. Allegedly. In the old days they called them mistresses, or groupies, or Me So Horny girls. Today, they're known as road beef. What motivates these enterprising ladies, who know that the athletes of their desires are married, with children and various pets? Let's see what our ladies have to say.
By the way, if you'd like to be part of the Waxing Off writing staff, email myself at Rick@Deadspin.com, or Mr. Daulerio at AJD@Deadspin.com.
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NFL
Kellen Winslow's Out With...Swollen Testicles?
After a summer filled horrifying testicular injuries in hockey and baseball, it appears Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow is also having his own nut trouble and will possibly sit out Monday Night's game against the New York Giants. Pro Football Talk, quoting a league source, says that Winslow was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic "because his balls swelled to the size of grapefruits." More »
1:45 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
By DAULERIO
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Latest by riptorn13: Couldn't happen to a better guy - well except Mike Phelps. more »
College Football
College Football Preview: Texas and Oklahoma Is At NOON (EST) You Drunk Idiots
The biggest week of college football games comes at a good time. Your stocks are tanking, summer is fading, you may or may not get fired in the newest round of layoffs, and you're thinking about getting an MBA or going to law school but you're not sure whether it makes sense to take out the student loads. As if that weren't enough a presidential election is bearing down on you and your condoms broke with the bartender who needs to lose fifteen pounds and eight years. Yeah, you need a weekend on the couch. Good for you. So do I. Especially because my son is learning to walk and this means that my job is to hold his hands and chase him wherever he wants to go. All the stooping is killing my back. It actually hurts to type right now. This is not a good sign. Thank God for football. Here's my breakdown of the 8 biggest games of the weekend. More »
Philadelphia
Greetings from Angryville
Los Angeles Times columnist T.J. Simers touched a nerve with Philadelphia's finest cranks when he penned his pre-NLCS column about the long-established crappiness about my fair city of Brotherly Shove. To wit: "It's an angry place, all right, everything old here in Philadelphia, crumbling and in ruin. Even the city's main attraction has a crack in it.So the prevailing opinion around here is you have to be an obstinate pug to make it in Philly, the football team tough, the hockey team a bunch of bullies and the Phillies rugged competitors like Larry Bowa." More »
Our gala "Final Day of Cubs Bashing" continues, with Top 10 Teams to Root For Instead of the Cubs. [Top Ten Chicago]
NFL
Jerry Jones On Pacman Scuffle: Nothing To See Here. Move Along
First of all, I have a feeling that the movie Max Payne is going to make me want to punch someone myself. Just a hunch. That's evidently what happened on Wednesday with the Cowboys' Pacman Jones, who was at an event for the movie at a Dallas hotel which was also attended by rapper Ludacris and actor Mark Wahlberg. Somehow Pacman got into a fight with one of his own bodyguards — a feat that even Tyson never accomplished — and someone called the cops. Anyway, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says its all cool; the team won't discipline Pac, because they were merely "jiving around." Yes, he said "jiving." More »
12:30 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
By Rick Chandler
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Latest by BumpinUgglas: The Joule sounds more like some sort of physics-themed strip club. Erotic, I know. more »
Lou Holtz on the Texas Longhorns: "All of those orange fans up there. I would say to our players, they wear orange so they can cheer for their team. They'll wear the same orange outfit tomorrow to go hunting. And they'll wear the same orange outfit the last five days of the week in order to pick up trash." [Awful Announcing]
NBA season previews
30 Previews In 30 Days: The Houston Rockets
NBA training camps have begun; the season is rapidly approaching. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. And so we continue our previews: 30 of them in 30 days. Up next is a team that got 27 percent crazier in the offseason: The Houston Rockets.
When last we saw them: Finished 55-27, third in Southwest Division and tied for fourth overall in the West. Despite a second-best-ever 22-game winning streak, the Rockets got escorted out of the playoffs in the first round by the Utah Jazz. It was the second consecutive year the Jazz have eliminated them.
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Northwestern football tickets are easy to come by:"[I]f you make it to Ryan Field on Saturday to watch Michigan State and Javon Ringer take on Northwestern, you likely will hear these words: Who needs two? Northwestern officials expect to draw a crowd of about 30,000, which would leave more than 17,000 empty seats at the recently renovated gem."[Chicago Tribune]
MLB
The Summer That Didn't Quite Last Forever
Walter E. Smithe is a Chicago furniture store whose management figured that they'd cash in big when the Cubs finally broke 100 years of frustration with a World Series championship. So sure were they that this was the year, actually, that they produced a commercial, complete with former Cubs greats frolicking at Wrigley Field. Needless to say, it never saw the light of day. Until now, that is. Take a gander, following the jump. More »
Maybe it's gout?: "The Cleveland Browns sent tight end Kellen Winslow to the doctor for tests after he missed his second straight day of practice with an unspecified "illness." " [SI]
Nlcs blogdome
The Magic Of Prom Night, And Of Being 1-0 In The NLCS
Above we see Anna Li and Cody Yoka on the day of their Senior Prom back in May, and what a magical evening it must have been. It's every young lady's dream to attend prom in a gown dedicated to their favorite baseball team, especially if one attends an all-girls Catholic school, as does Miss Li. (Not shown: Cody's red-and-blue Phillies condom, which sadly went unopened that night). Go John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School! And go Phillies!
What they're saying on the series of Intertubes about Philadelphia's 3-2 win over Los Angeles in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series ...
• Success! Phils Win Game 1. It wouldn’t be a Phillies victory without some curious strategy from manager Charlie Manuel. In the bottom of the seventh against “reliever” Greg Maddux, catcher Carlos Ruiz led off with a single deep in the hole, a tough grounder for Furcal. With the pitcher due up, Manuel could have sent up left-handers Greg Dobbs or Matt Stairs against the right-handed pitcher, but instead opted to go with So “Failure” Taguchi to bunt Ruiz to second base. A look at the Run Expectancy Matrix at Baseball Prospectus will show you why bunting in that situation is a losing play even if executed properly, so success or not, it was a dumb move. But Taguchi turned regular old fail into epic fail by popping up his bunt attempt, caught by Loney in foul territory. [Crashburn Alley]
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Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliot takes Stanley Cup onstage, places it upside down. As a result, riots break out in Detroit. [Going Five Hole]
Tamara Ecclestone
F1 Boss Bernie Ecclestone's Hot Daughter Poses Semi-Nude For PETA
FROM JALOPNIK.COM: We don't know how it's possible that Tamara Ecclestone is even mildly related to her father Bernie, the boss of F1 and general all-around ugly guy. Despite our suspicions on her true paternity, she's posed draped only in a checkered flag for PETA's "I would rather go naked than wear fur" campaign. More »
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