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To Watch Tonight

What to watch while you "ride the giant jellyfish" ... • MLB: Division Playoff: Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox (7:30 p.m., ET) Experts agree: There's an excellent chance that both teams could lose. [TBS] • College Football: Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee St. (8:00 p.m., ET) On a Tuesday?...

Afternoon Blogdome: This Robot Wears Pajamas

Nice hats!. C.C. Sabathia, Ryan Braun, and J.J. Hardy are either celebrating their playoff berth by kicking it in the club or they are starting the worst boy band of all time. [Chuckie Hacks] Kickball fight! That's adult kickball, by the way. Because 30-year-old hipsters bouncing a giant red ball ar...

Plaxico Burress Has Tardiness Issues

When the New York Giants suspended Plaxico Burress last week, everyone sort of assumed it had to be something more nefarious than simple "insubordination"—like those domestic disturbance calls to his home or maybe short-selling Lehman Brothers. It turns out that it was just because he didn't show up...

Pitchers Cliff Lee in American League and Brad Lidge in the National are your Comeback Players of the Year in baseball. As you know, Lee returned from injuries suffered in a horrific bear attack and Lidge was severely beaten and left for dead in a Houston parking lot by Albert Pujols. [AP/Yahoo]...

UConn is 5-0, in the Top 25 for the second time ever, and has a nationally televised date with North Carolina on Saturday. Too bad their starting quarterback broke his foot and is out 6-8 weeks. Don't you hate when that happens? [AP]...

Jets safety Eric Smith is suspended one game for trying to remove the facemask of Arizona's Anquan Boldin with his teeth. [ESPN]...

To Watch Tonight

What to watch while you fight back against boondoggles ... • WNBA: Eastern Conference Final, Game 3. New York at Detroit (7:00 p.m., ET) Ypsilanti on fire! [ESPN2] • NFL: Monday Night Football. Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgt Steelers (9:00 p.m., ET) Hey, is that another sack? [ESPN] • Movie: "First ...

Afternoon Blogdome: Ughhh!!! Scary!!!

DeShawn Stevenson is ready to start the season: The Washington Wizards guard spent $1,000 on these personalized wristbands featuring modified Lil' Wayne lyrics. Well, something is definitely blowing. [DC Sports Blog] Who needs stock options? It's not that the Devil Rays couldn't find one person to t...

Wall Street Crisis Trickles Down To Nation's Country Clubs

You've probably been following the current financial crisis in New York and the subsequent showboating in Washington meant to end it all and thought to yourself, "Yeah, but how is this going to affect me?" Well, why don't you stop being selfish for five minutes and think about the people who will tr...

Jason Williams (no, the other one) is retiring from the NBA after 10 seasons. [L.A. Times]...

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers' consecutive games started streak may end tragically at 4. [Sports Odds]...

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will play the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Take the AFC winning the coin toss and parlay that with the over on "Glory Days." [ESPN]...

To Watch Tonight

What to watch while you search for a very sharp axe ... • MLB: Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies (7:05 p.m., ET) [Comcast, WDCA]; Florida Marlins at New York Mets (7:10 p.m., ET); Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers (8:00 p.m., ET). [ESPN]. If this keeps up, the Wild Card will have to be d...

Brazil Mourns Murdered Soccer Player

Brazilian soccer fans were stunned this week when second-division star Thiago da Silva was attacked and murdered on a soccer field in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. A former member of Vasco da Gama, one of the nation's most popular teams, da Silva was overwhelmed by three men who handcuffed and beat...

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert says speculation that LeBron James will bolt to New York in two years is "an insult to the city of Cleveland." LeBron's habit of wearing Yankee caps to Indians and Browns games is merely an insult to hat makers. [AP/ESPN]...

Afternoon Blogdome: The Fallout Zone

• We preferred the Epoch of Undulation: "The Era of the Unbeatens is over, and the sooner we all shut up about it and enjoy the Time of Uncertainty, the better off we will all be." [The Arena] • We're all OSU here, right?: Possibly delusional Ohio State fans try to rationalize their way back into th...

Alert! "[Brett] Favre’s ankle appears to be healing quickly" Also, signs point to him possibly having eggs for breakfast, but that's unconfirmed. [AP/Yahoo]...

Lady Vols Coach Taken Out By Ninja Raccoon

Like many top-flight athletes Tennessee women's hoops coach Pat Summitt underwent the offseason peril of arthroscopic shoulder surgery. No, she didn't dislocate the joint while a dunking a basketball (ha! can you imagine!?), but she had been suffering from "instability" problems after heroically sav...

To Watch Tonight

What to watch while you ask for more ketchup on your 12-year-old McDonald's hamburger ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (7:10 p.m., ET). It's all up to Pedro. Oh boy. [CSN, SNY] • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Twins (8:10 p.m., ET) Slowey Fever ... Catch it! [ChicagoLTV, Fox Sports Nort...

Hard-Nosed Boxer Will Perform His Own Surgery, Thank You Very Much

There's tough, there's boxer tough, and then there's Keyser Soze "shoot your family in the face to prove you value nothing" tough. Then there's cruiserweight fighter Juan Carlos Robles. After putting his motorcycle in a ditch, Robles recovered from a broken right kneecap, a dislocated right elbow, a...