SandJ
has been remiss in failing to acknowledge the end of Will Leitch's reign at Deadspin.com. The past few days have been
a full-on roast of Mr. Leitch, including a piece by Bill Simmons reminding us all how good he was before ESPN neutered him.
Week ending June 22, 2008
From
ESPN.com - I can't decide if this makes me respect A-Rod more and Pete Rose less or vice-versa. Decide for yourself.
Apparently Clemens was all jacked up on Viagra as well as everything else he was taking. The article explains the benefits of it, but wouldn't there
be some, umm.. obvious comfort issues involved with downing a bunch of blues before a start?
From Deadspin's
"The Dark Side of the Locker Room" - Stefan Fatsis (also the author of the wildly entertaining book about the world
of professional Scrabble - Word Freak) calls himself out for being in the Oakland A's locker room in 1996 and not realizing why everyone was so huge.
Shocker! - Evander Holyfield is broke! - In the words of one of his baby mama's lawyers: "My concern is there may be a lot of other mothers not be getting
paid, and I would like my client to be at front of the line"
Courtesy of Deadspin - Bill Simmons is on the outs with ESPN - forgive me for not noticing, but I don't check his site for new content during the NBA playoffs, because, you know,
I'm pretty sure it will be about the NBA playoffs
5/18/08
For anyone who may have thought
that our Preakness piece might have been even slightly exaggerated, we present visual proof (if you're short on time, photos 5-9 really sum it up pretty concisely)
Because I promised not to post
any more Bill Buckley posts this week, I'm posting clips by a man so obviously influenced by Firing Line
that he had is own similarly formatted program, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper: Submitted for your approval - the famous Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka interview, as well as living proof of Buckley's assertion that 99 out of 100 people are interesting and the remaining
one is inherently interesting simply for being so uninteresting
5/14/08
Have you ever admired an athlete or celebrity
only to discover something about him or her that makes you lose all respect for them? This is like that, only the opposite
- The Origin of Boggs (via TastyBooze)
