It's hard to imagine an opening day that could have gone better for the Orioles, and that doesn't just include the torrent of abuse they let loose on "Treasonous Tex." As Dash mentioned earlier, there's already panic in the Bronx after Baltimore's 10-5 spanking of New York on Monday. But things couldn't be lovelier in Crab City, which enjoyed the following cosmic justice, albeit only for a day. • Johnny Damon appeared to have a shot at catching Cesar Izturis' fly ball in the eighth, until an Orioles fan bumped his glove in a battle for the ball at the top of the left field wall. It ended up as a two-run homer that gave the Orioles an 8-5 lead. Call it "Avenging Jeffrey Maier.'' Although the fan in Baltimore didn't appear to …
The ghosts of campaigns past mean Steve Clarke must urge Scotland to get off to a brisk start to World Cup qualifying when Austria visit Hampden Park on Thursday. Since reaching the 1998 World Cup, Scotland have won only three of 11 opening games.
“I didn’t know that,” said Clarke. “I’m not getting six hours’ sleep a night anyway, thinking about my selection, and that’s just chopped it down to four.
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“Listen, a good start is important. Without putting too much pressure on ourselves we want to start the group well. We won’t know until the end of the campaign what a good points total will be so it’s important we don’t…
Almost every December all around the UK, temporary winter wonderland theme parks crop up, usually in out-of-town car parks or disused industrial sites. They promise hours of seasonal fun with Santa’s grottos and magic sleigh rides – but what disappointed families often get is Santa’s static caravan covered in tinsel and two emaciated donkeys dressed in plastic antlers dragging a wheelbarrow. Imagine that, but online and with a bit more cash behind it, and you have Fifa World.
Announced via a typically histrionic press release, Fifa World is a “virtual environment that celebrates the power of football and the rich history of its pinnacle events”. Built into the hugely successful online multiplayer game Roblox, which allows its 55 mi…
Preston Johnson has been to Wembley before. “I saw Coldplay in concert once,” the American says. But the former professional gambler and NFT (non-fungible token) enthusiast will be attending in a new capacity on Sunday as Crawley, the club he co-owns, attempt to seal promotion to League One.
“I have some family and friends that are flying over and I’m going to spend some time with them Saturday,” he says. “On Sunday, the schedule is pretty much set. We have a meal before the game. Sky Sports asked me to do an interview at midday. So if I wasn’t already really nervous, now I get to do a TV hit. But it’s part of the experience. I will not complain.”
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Team Liquid and Gaimin Gladiators each recorded a sweep on Friday to advance to the upper-bracket final in The International 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Liquid posted 37- and 50-minute wins on red to dispatch Cloud9, while Gaimin Gladiators notched a 33-minute victory on green and a 24-minute triumph on red to topple Tundra Esports. Liquid and Gaimin Gladiators will clash on Saturday for the right to advance to the grand final. The two losing teams in those contests were dropped to the lower-bracket quarterfinals. Cloud9 are set to face Team Falcons on Saturday, while Tundra Esports will challenge Xtreme Gaming. Team Falcons and Xtreme Gaming advanced to that bracket by posting sweeps over BetBoom Team and Aurora, respectively. Team Falcons secured a 25-minute win on red and a 60-minu…
Because the British have a notoriously elegant sense of humor, they've been quite taken with the names of Olympians like luger Semen Pavlichenko and ski jumper Andreas Wank. Wait 'til they get a load of this guy. Sadly, there is no athlete with the mellifluous moniker of Cunty Spunkfuckshitpiss. And no, the BBC did not run somehow run that name on its chyron. That's merely a screengrab of Mr. Wank, altered by Welsh photoshop fiend @JimboLoony. When a dream dies, what sound does it make? [ Nyheter 24] …
Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: New York Giants. Your 2017 record: 3-13. Another team went 0-16 in the NFL last season, and yet these Giants somehow had the more disastrous season. It was astonishing. Thrilling, really. Here we have the most overly mannered of NFL franchises. A team that’s run like a Park Avenue co-op board. A team would play in formal morning suits if the uniform code allowed for it. The Giants are so thirsty to appear dignified that it is truly, deeply awesome to watch them spend an entire season stepping on rakes. They got shut out by a team starting Drew Stanton. They let…
Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: the Cincinnati Bengals. SPREADING JOY THROUGHOUT THE LAND… Your 2014 record: 10-5-1. That includes a first-round playoff loss to the Colts that I cannot remember at all. I know I watched it. I know I sat there and stared at a television for three hours, attempting to absorb it. It was no use. Whenever the Bengals play a playoff game, my brain sets itself to INSTAWIPE because it knows it the game will not be worth preserving in memory. The Bengals have lost in the first round of the playoffs for four straight years by a combined score of 103-43. They have…
The tourney doesn't start until tomorrow; today was merely a practice for the Netherlands. A practice open to the public. The Dutch team began the practice session by jogging around a track in Krakow, and when they reached one end of the circuit, "several hundred" or around "500" fans began hooting monkey chants at Nigel de Jong and Gregory van der Wiel. The best part? UEFA has already denied that the abuse was racially motivated. [ Guardian, Mirror] …
Even with the injured knee. This will make Woods the first sports billionaire. At least he doesn't have a hot swedish wife, or an island home, or a huge yacht that costs more than the GNP of Moldova. Then it might be kind of hard to root for the guy to make putts over man-boobed fifty year olds. "Woods, who won the U.S. Open last month despite a bad knee, is on track to exceed $1 billion in career earnings by 2010 after earning $115 million in 2007, said the American magazine which publishes an annual list of the world's richest people. Forbes in Wednesday's edition said it would take 32-year-old Woods a bit longer to actually pocket that amount as taxes and management fees eat into his prize and endorsement money." Yeah, the taxes on $75 million a year in en…