"Upon seeing this, ESPN executives immediately set upon rectifying the situation: Terminating Beadle and apologizing to Smith and Bayless for any offense her comments may have caused."

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I'm starting to think she and Stevens are actually perfect for each other and horrible for everyone else in a five mile radius.

Sums up the entire series.

Until this I didn't realize just how much Nole idolized Pete Sampras.

A straight sports story in Deadspin??? Hey, if I wanted this shit, I'd have gone...anywhere else.

Same here. No one has made me laugh as loud as Mitch.

I'm sure it wasn't the first time he paid her to fake it.

By contrast, he makes Michelle Rhee look like a saint. That's not easy to do.

Well that was glorious, thanks for posting it Sean. Poor Blake, I think he was in at least a quarter of these.

Even that font seems fucking racist.

Crack reporting at its finest!

Some meda outlets are reporting a sketchy, hoodie-wearing character was seen loitering around the practice facility.

Seriously. We need to keep government out of private matters like publicly funded stadiums.

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Gaylord Perry, author of Me and the Spitter....

I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. I went to a minor league when I was 10 years old, and saw Rickey Henderson play. I took my son to a game when he was 10, 29 years later, and there was Rickey Henderson, playing outfield for the Dodgers.