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Afternoon Blogdome: Lisa Guerrero Will Take All Your Jobs
What hath T.J. Simers wrought?: Lisa Guerrero: Model, actress, reporter ... sports blogger. We think our work is done here. [SbB] That's older than John McCain, BTW: Hall-of-Famer Ernie Banks and his wife have adopted a 1-week-old baby. Ernie Banks is 77. That means when the child is graduating from...
Detroit Tigers' Season Cruelly Refuses To End
Despite what the calendar says, the Detroit Tigers called off their season weeks ago. They've won 5 games this month. They've lost 12 of their last 13, given six in a row to the Indians and Royals, their closer has already retired, Gary Sheffield is sharpening knives in his basement, and despite leg...
A Philadelphia police bomb squad was called in to investigate three suspicious packages that were discovered at Citizens Bank Park yesterday. Only after the packages were detonated did cops learn that it was actually ammunition ... for the Phillie Phanatic's hot dog cannon. (That's not the joke.) Wo...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you call in sick for your presidential campaign ... • MLB: Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies (7:05 p.m., ET). Whither Ron Gant? [Comcast, Fox Sports South] • MLB: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (7:10 p.m., ET). Either way, Omar Minaya sleeps the sleep of the just. [ESPN, SNY...
Afternoon Blogdome: Driving The Ball Up The Middle
• Sometimes you feel like a nut...: The five words you never want to hear at the end of your MMA fight: "The right testicle is inside." [With Leather] • Mile High Mediocrity: Putting together a list of the Denver Nuggets' greatest "intangibles" players is not as hard as it seems. Naming five Denver ...
2007 Tour de France champ Alberto Contador on the possibility of the most famous bike-riding guy of all time joining his team: “I think I’ve earned the right to be the leader of a team without having to fight for my place, and with Armstrong some difficult situations could arise in which the team wo...
"The NCAA hasn’t busted a single big-time men’s basketball program in nearly two years. It hasn’t nailed a major football program in nearly 15 months. It’s the longest stretch of compliance for the once iron-fisted organization in 46 years and the second longest ever according to an analysis of the ...
Georgia-Alabama Game To Be Friendly Backyard "Funeral" (With Cussin')
The premier game of this Saturday's college football schedule is the evening tilt between No. 3 Georgia and No. 8 Alabama, two SEC schools that have very little animosity toward each other. The host Bulldogs are instructing their fans to dress all in black as part of an innovate strategy designed to...
Kermit Washington To Punch Third-World Hunger In The Face
Drought, famine, and crippling poverty better stay on the bench for this fight because Kermit Washington is coming out swinging. The former NBA baller and American University alum has his own non-profit organization called Project Contact Africa, that wants to throw a roundhouse right to the skull o...
Afternoon Blogdome: Your Little, Hotter Sister
• Have Babes, Will Travel: Only one of the three University of Michigan students who appeared in the "Girls Of The Big Ten" issue showed up to the Ann Arbor Playboy party, so they had to bus in the ladies from Michigan State to save the day. It's like a soothing balm, isn't it, Spartan fans? [Busted...
Afternoon Blogdome: Cristiano Ronaldo Will Buy Your Love
• We blame Richard Gere: Nobody combines righteous indignation with salacious hooker stories quite like News of the World, but do you think Cristiano Ronaldo even cares that his girlfriend is a high-priced call girl? Isn't that what "transfer fees" are for? [The Slanch Report.com] • Don't Cry For Me...