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A Game You And Your Nine Year Old Daughter Can Play Together
So there's this site — Tim Hardaway can tell you all about it — called Stardoll, where you can virtually dress up all the stars into whatever outfits you want them to wear. Apparently, it's a complicated endeavor, with competitions and rankings and all kinds of things that we would consider complete...
Ron Artest Might Have Sneaked In Some Early-Morning Spousal Battery
You know, you think you know a guy ......
Leftovers: Yell About DirectTV
• If you're still mad about the DirectTV MLB deal — and we are — here are some numbers to call. [Humbug Journal] • Donte Stallworth, getting some help. [Pulled My Groin] • Dwyane Wade is ready to come back, probably. [YAYSports!] • The early free-agent signings, as seen through the eyes of Terri Sch...
Don't Expect Your Rec League To Adopt These
These, friends, are the future of college basketball uniforms, and that future is: SPANDEX! OK, not quite Spandex, but there's certainly a skin-tight vibe going on for the four teams who will supposedly try out the new duds during their conference championships this week: Ohio State, Syracuse, Flori...
It's Casual Dress During Spring Training
This guy was spotted in the stands of the White Sox-Cubs spring training game yesterday, and though we're not quite ready for that kind of fierce crosstown rivalry business just yet — it's like trying to have an argument too early in the morning, before you've had your IV of coffee — we like the spi...
The Only Armen Keteyian-Related News We Could Come Up With
Finally an answer to the question: Does Armen Keteyian like to play beer pong in the basement? Yes: Yes, he does....
Probably Need More Hops To Do That, Son
This video has made the YouTube rounds for the last week, but it's still a hilarious answer to the question: What happens if, during a dunk contest, the dunker uses a human prop to jump over ... but doesn't quite clear it?...
Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Blogdome: Chasing The Bulls
• Could the Mavs win 72 games? [WBRS Sports Blog] • Ryan Tucker is feeling much better, thank you. [Kid Cleveland] • Is Greg Oden really not all that dominating? [Cursed Cleveland] • Ron Zook knows how to recruit ... criminals! (We joke, we kid.) [Loser With Socks] • Free agency has gone nuts! [Rumo...
Joe Darger Has Two Mommies (And A Crapload Of Siblings)
Curious, and fascinating story in The New York Times today: UNLV forward Joe Darger is the son of a polygamist father. He has 15 siblings, most of which go to all his games....
Ron Borges' Cut-And-Paste Job
If you don't like The Boston Globe's Ron Borges and would like him to go away, you're in luck this morning: He pretty blatantly plagiarized his column yesterday from The Tacoma News Tribune. The evidence is obvious, and overwhelming....
This Was Probably Inevitable, When You Think About It
You know, it's kind of amazing to us that nobody brought up this possibility: David Beckham yesterday suffered a possibly serious knee injury....
Billy Packer, Information Dissemination Specialist
Of all the "Sweet Christ, Billy Packer is so full of equine excrement" moments, we have to say, the "Just Going For The Ball!" foul from Gerald Henderson on Tyler Hansbrough at the end of the Duke-UNC game is definitely near the top of the list. Whatever your thoughts on the reason for Henderson's a...
Week In Review: The Smokey Tornado
• Goodbye, Balls. • We guarantee you Dick Vitale's Betamax is flashing 12:00. • It's good to be Brian Urlacher. • Tommy Lasorda claims he doesn't pay for sex, but we know better. • We'll take a camouflage Bible over a neon bible, anytime. • Sorry! • You absolutely cannot kill Rulon Gardner. • Whom s...
Who Wouldn't Want This On Their Mantle?
Because we've fallen into the strange rut about writing about the groin areas of men in our late-day posts of late ... here's another one!...
Leftovers: Do Not Taunt Denny McLain
• Denny McLain is mad as hell, and he's ... gonna write a book no one will buy about it. [Detroit Free Press] • It's really, really hard to win on the road in European soccer. [Gelf Magazine] • Fred Taylor should be in the Hall of Fame. Really. [Can't Stand Quin Snyder] • Jake Plummer is Tampa-bound...
Bristol Tailors Better Start Working On His Suits Right Now
As pretty much everybody knew already, Bill Parcells is trading spending his days with Terrell Owens for the chance to spend them with Chris Berman. We'd call that "a lateral move." Parcells is happy to be back in Bristol....
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who'll Be The Least Popular During ESPN The Weekend?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him and let him know what you think....
We Just Don't Think We Can Continue To Live In A Place That Embraces And Nurtures Apathy As If It Was Virtue
A woman that's so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer — a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people an...
Reynolds Taking Down Misconduct Charges, One Nuke At A Time
You know, we're starting to think the ESPN cafeteria really is like our high school cafeteria. A different clique at every table, awkward social advances and perhaps well-meaning but still odd gestures from the goofy seniors toward the attractive freshmen....