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Dark Side Of The Locker Room
Being a sports reporter is, at times, an absolutely horrible job. Sure you get to watch games, travel and interact with athletes, but there is a horrendous downside. (Which is pretty much everything else.) And this is never more disturbingly clear than when a reporter has their first (or 50th) awful experience with a half-naked, exhausted athlete. Sometimes they'll be openly dismissive, sometimes they'll yell, and sometimes, well, they'll fart in your face. Most of these stories never end up in the newspaper the next day. So now, Deadspin proudly presents "The Dark Side of the Locker Room" where current and former sports writers can share some of their most distressing interactions. If you've got your own story to share, please send it along to ajd@deadspin.com.
Today's story comes from Joel Reese, a Chicago-based freelance writer who's impressive body of work can be found at Joelcreese.com. Joel shares his harrowing tale of watching former Cowboys' fan favorite Golden Richards fall apart.
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• Ira Newble, hanging out with Mia Farrow in Darfur. [Signal To Noise]
• Fun with soccer pee. [Unprofessional Foul]
• Hating teams that are not the Buffalo Bills. [Te Dukes Of Awesome]
• Honestly, who cares about Carlos Delgado's stupid non-home run? [Rumors And Rants]
• The end days of 'Melo in Denver. [With Malice]
• Great, Jim Edmonds is being praised again. [The Big Picture]
• Lousy sex nicknames from baseball's past. [It Is High ... It Is Far ...]
• There's an Akron basketball player. Duck! [Rush The Court]
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We're looking at every NBA Playoff series through the eyes of both Free Darko. Here's Free Darko's look at the Boston Celtics-Detroit Pistons series. Your author is Bethlehem Shoals.
Ring the alarm and call in the ponies: Starting now, these Celtics are no longer playoff disappointments. They've spent long enough confounding and outraging us -- from this moment on, they're underdogs.
The 2003 Mr. Irrelevant is quite a character on that "Bachelor" show. [The Sports Point]
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ...
• "As a Lethbridge, Alberta, resident, I am rooting for Peace River's Chris Osgood to win another Cup." -- demoncracy
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NHL Closer
The NHL Closer is written by five checking-line centers from Melt Your Face Off. When we're not receiving praise for our work ethic, we're taking shots to kill the pain from blocking shots. Raskolnikov momentarily stopped playing along the boards to write this recap.
Grinders do so much good for our everyday life. They fill our stomachs, pulverize coffee beans, collect hashish powder and score goals in the most painful way possible outside of listening to Sean Avery whine about his mascara. Kris Draper scored his third goal of the playoffs 3:45 into the first period by using an archaic weapon: his chin. The mandible tally launched a three goal Detroit outburst in the period, leading to a 4-1 Red Wings victory and a Stanley Cup Finals appearance.
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