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Week In Review
Week In Review
Red Sox pitching prospect Beau Vaughan is having a gun pulled on him by the photographer that took this photo. [Portland Sea Dogs]
Espn
Would You Pay $57,000 To Have These Men In Your Living Room? Rush Limbaugh's Ex-Wife Did
Everyone remembers how awful the Rush Limbaugh experiment on ESPN was. How long did it take for him to say something inappropriate? Two weeks? But Limbaugh resigned, ESPN looked a little foolish, and everyone moved on. More »
Even Kenya's Olympic runners can't escape the country's civil war. Yeah, your $6 beers this weekend aren't really that bad of a deal. [ESPN]
2008 Olympics
Chinese Bar Owners Sign Pledge Not to Serve Blacks, Mongolians?
The report originated in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and is, evidently, not a joke. I'm not an expert on the SCMP but it's evidently a reputable newspaper in Hong Kong. We've linked to the blog post discussing Miller's article because you have to subscribe to the newspaper to read some of their online articles. Including this one. Perhaps some of our overseas commenters can provide more information on the newspaper. Per Tom Miller of the SCMP: More »
John Daly's British Open performance is...not so good. 89 today. Dead last. [Dogs That Chase Cars]
Night light theater
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after installing this in your backyard ...
• Boxing: Middleweights, Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jose Rojas, Primm, Nev., (9 p.m., ET). Primm: Last chance to gamble before leaving Nevada. [ESPN2]
• Cycling: Tour de France, stage 13, Narbonne to Nimes (8 p.m., ET). Perhaps you'll see the Triplets of Belleville ... [Versus]
• MLB: Chicago Cubs at Houston (8 p.m., ET). LillyMania grips a weary nation. [WGN]
• Soccer: USSF Development Academy Championships, U-18 championship match, at Carson, Calif., (11 p.m., ET). And you though you had nothing to watch tonight. [ESPN2]
Vanderbilt football joins the Fulmer Cup standings with a raucous arrest in Ybor City. Bowl berth a virtual certainty. [EDSBS.com]
Afternoon Blogdome
Afternoon Blogdome: Just Because Your Hat Is Pink, It Doesn't Mean Your Soul Isn't Red
• Attack of the Pink Hat: You tell 'em sister: " Yes, I own a fitted authentic gameday hat, proudly on display in my Blogspot picture. That's usually my Sox gear of choice. Wearing it right now, in fact... nice wide brim to cover up a hangover with. But you know what? Sometimes I don't WANT to look all hard-core like that. Sometimes I want to look cute and/or girly and/or sparkly while still showing my support for my team. Sometimes I want to be a baseball fan while also showing off my nice, perky, 23-year-old tits in some kind of Alyssa Milano-inspired sports garb, or while showing off my ability to accessorize glitter effectively." [Mass Hysteria] More »
Sponsors
I Was Shopping For My Wife Bonnie...
" I buy most of her clothes and Mrs Pearl was in the same shop! And it just was an accident you know, we started talking... about panty hose, she was saying... whatever that's not the point of the story but what the point is is that through this accidental meeting... it's like a Hitchcock movie you know where you're thrown into a rubber bag and put in the trunk of a car, you find people. You find them. Something, is is it karma? Maybe. But we found him, that's the important thing. " More »
ESPN Comment Of The Day
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ...
• "Williams must think there's a ring in the near future or he'd have opted for a shorter contract." — dwillwas snubbed
(Re: Deron Williams, Utah Jazz)
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Mike Tyson to fight in some place called Benidorm. [Euro Weekly]
Superfans
Freddy Sez: Chill The Hell Out
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth on Thursday by certain commenters over my lack of knowledge on Freddy Schulman, the rickety, meshugga gentleman who haunts Yankee games with a frying pan, a teaspoon and odd, colorful signage. For pinstripe fans, it must have seemed as if I were insulting an eccentric old uncle. So consider this my apology to Freddy and all others like him, even though he is obviously several varieties of crazy, and probably has Dee Mirich on speed dial. More »
Major league baseball
Man Loses Phillies-Brewers Bet and Goes Homeless For a Week
Two D.C. area men bet over which team would finish with more wins in 2007, the Phillies or the Brewers. The Phillies finished with more wins. As a result, Chris Jollay, a 36 year old Brewers fan, lost and lived as a homeless man for a week. Luckily, D.C. news WUSA-9 is all over it: According to the bet, Jollay was allowed to carry one bag of items. Christman approved all of the items. Jollay says, he carried 12 power bars and 100-calorie snacks, a disposable camera, $20 dollars, contact lens, a marker and pen, and a bottle of Jack Daniels. "I brought a big bottle of that, just to pass the time. Especially when it was cold...made the nights go faster." What could Jollay have won if the Brewers had finished with more wins than the Phillies? Per WUSA 9: "I would have gotten to move in with [Christman's] wife. She'd have to cook me dinner and I'd go to her slumber parties and [Christman would] move into my place," Jollay says. Touche. Local man loses bet and goes homeless [WUSA 9]Jollay goes homeless [Steve Heckman Online]
Brewers fan loses bet; forced to go homeless [SportsbyBrooks]
Brett Favre
I Can Think Of No Better Metaphor For The Favre Situation Than This
How to say goodbye to the Wisconsin legend that is Brett Favre? Well, other than a life-sized statue made entirely of cheese, this giant corn maze will have to do. (Or would it be giant maize maze?). It's fitting, too; because visitors will take a confusing, roundabout journey where each new turn leads to a dead end; just like the Favre story itself. If you build it, they will come. More »
Tennis
Ashley Harkleroad And Her Strategically Placed Towel Photos Are Now Available For Your Perusal
Lately, there's been much clamoring around the internet about tennis steamstress Ashley Harkleroad's upcoming Playboy spread this month. With good reason, of course. Based on her recent ESPN the Mag interview about the shoot, she seems affable, confident, and very into herself: More »
Truck carrying Nike tennis shoes crashes in Oregon and passenger dies. Investigation hampered by motorists stealing shoes. [The Oregonian]
Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly Is Stealing My Material
Rick Reilly uses the celebrity washroom.
It's conveniently located down a short flight of stairs just off of the main dining room at Edgewood Tahoe, which was the host course of last weekend's American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. If a spectator or a lowly journalist attempts to use the washroom, he is shooed away by two muscular security guards. Only the likes of Tony Romo, Ray Romano and, yes, Rick Reilly, are allowed to use it.
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