Month: October 2024

Fight fans were saddened yesterday to learn that veteran slugger Kim Leopoldo had passed away at the age of 41. So young! The news was especially hard on Leopoldo since he was under the impression that he was still alive. A posting on a popular MMA message board announced the death of "Kimo" and that quickly spread to "the blogs" and then actual newspapers, which went ahead and reported it without question. (But it was "confirmed" by TMZ!) However, Leopoldo did not have a heart attack in Costa Rica as reported, probably because he had an important court date in California on the same day and I guess he didn't want to miss it. Being alive is very time consuming. So Kimo had to come out of "hiding" yesterday to prove he wasn't dead—just…

Dwyane Wade established tonight’s Game 2 against the 76ers as a Dwyane Wade Night, a performance bound to get the word “vintage” repeatedly attached to it, pretty early on: certainly before the end of the first half, by which point he’d scored 21 on 8-for-9 shooting off the bench. In the second quarter, he’d outperformed the Sixers all on his own, with 15 points to the team’s 13. But the moment when the night felt completely and unquestionably his didn’t come until a bit later. Toward the end of the third quarter, Wade gave the Heat their biggest lead of the night thus far with this absurd shot: Wade didn’t look 36 years old, and the Sixers didn’t remotely look like the team that had just won 17 games in a row, including a breezy victory in Game 1. But early in the f…

You’ve made it to the third and final installment of our Premier League preview, and what lies below is a rundown of what we at Deadspin consider the six (6) least bad teams in all of England’s top flight. This thirdish of the league is important because this is where teams are fighting for all-important qualification to either the Champions League or Europa League, and it is here that the shit, as they say, gets very real. Even within this tier, though, there is a clear divide in talent and thus realistic ambitions. Two teams will most likely be happy to qualify for Europe, but might need extraterrestrial assistance to penetrate the top four. Beyond that, it’s a shitshow, and there are moves to be made and plots to be twisted yet, and no one, least of all we at Deadspin, have any …

Welcome to the 2012 NFL Pro Bowl Live Blog Extravaganza. We will be watching the NFL's ode to the fans and updating the page as all the excitement and big time plays unfold. 7:00 p.m.: Just about to kickoff here in Honolulu. Let's hope it's a good one. 10:45 p.m.: And that seals it. AFC 59, NFC 41. …

The NFL Schedule 11:00, Fox Soccer. EPL. Arsenal vs. Manchester United.
12:30, Comedy Central. Movie. Coming to America. "I got a special treat for ya this evenin'. A young man that you all know as 'Joe the Policeman' from the 'What's Going Down' episode of 'That's My Mama.'"
1:00, TBS. MLB. Florida Marlins @ Atlanta Braves.
1:15, TNT. NASCAR. Nextel Cup Sylvania 300.
3:00, ESPN. PGA Golf. 84 Lumber Classic, Final Round.
3:00, Fox Soccer. Argentine Soccer. Independiente vs. San Lorenzo.
4:00, NBC. Golf. Ryder Cup Preview.
4:00, ESPN2. MLS Soccer. D.C. United @ Chicago Fire. And, after the jump, your NFL viewing maps. This image was lost some time after publication. This image was lost some time after publication. This image wa…

data-mm-id=”_fzbvvnztn”>Bill Self and his Kansas basketball program are in some serious trouble. On Monday, the NCAA dropped a notice of allegations on the school that includes the dreaded "lack of institutional control" charge and a "head coach responsibility" charge for Self. This is a massive deal and, if things go sideways, could spell the end of Self's time in Lawrence.Kansas was hit with three Level I violations in men's basketball. There are also lesser charges against the football program, but those are Level II violations. Yahoo! has the latest on the story:”The Level I violations are tied, in part, to the recruitments of Billy Preston and Silvio De Sousa. Court testimony and documents tied to the federal basketball corruption cases over the past …

data-mm-id=”_ywsas6v1j”>Tom Brady has almost everyone beat in the new century in terms of titles. Jimmie Johnson, true to form, is the exception. When Johnson retires from full-time racing after the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season, a record seven championships will go with him. That haul is a number matched by two legends of the sport: Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty. “I’m so thankful for 18 incredible years of racing in NASCAR,” Johnson said on NASCAR.com of a career that began in 2002. “The sport has been good to me. It has allowed me to do something I truly love. I showed up chasing a dream and achieved more than I ever thought possible. I’m looking forward to next season and celebrating what will be my last year as a full-time NASCAR Cup driver. I know what this team is ca…

data-mm-id=”_s7vuli922″>Dak Prescott's impending new deal has been a talking point since the summer of 2019. As no agreement has been reached between Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys, it remains a talking point. Former Cowboy Emmitt Smith chimed in to the discussion yesterday, saying Prescott should give the team a discount because he can make up the difference in salary with the public attention and endorsements that working for the NFL's most famous franchise provides. Shannon Sharpe disagrees, to say the least. He waxed poetic on how the owners (and, to an extent, Tom Brady) have managed to convince fans that a player is selfish if he doesn't take a discount to help out the team. Skip Bayless argued how much money Prescott makes directly affects the salary cap, which t…

data-mm-id=”_om9vle0y3″>The Miami Heat will meet the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2020 NBA Finals. That means LeBron James will face off against his former team for the NBA championship. This is going to be one of those "Jerome Bettis is from Detroit" storylines where people roll their eyes and get sick of it, but they shouldn't because this is incredible for both LeBron James and the Heat. It might even be unheard of. ESPN immediately dove into the story by asking Eric Spoelstra about LeBron and then showed clips of James celebrating championships when he was a member of the Miami Heat.ESPN already throwing the LeBron vs his former team/coach storyline in Spo's face ? pic.twitter.com/1V3IGRfAPx— gifdsports (@gifdsports) September 28, 2020If you take a moment to step…