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Greg Maddux, Wise Man In The Clubhouse
Earlier, we talked about new Dodgers pitcher Greg Maddux's pretty debut for Los Angeles, tossing a no-hitter for six innings and generally showing why it's always a pleasure to have a Greg Maddux on your team....
Joe Torre, Back When He Had To Work A Little Bit
Even among people who hate the Yankees, there is a grudging respect for manager Joe Torre, who exemplifies class, stoicism and wisdom in a game that many consider often lacking in all three....
Finally Making Some Money Off Southeast Jerome
Fully capitalizing on something it stumbled across last season, the official Redskins site Redskins.com is now selling T-shirts adorned with every Clinton Portis character from his press conferences last year. Those who were with us last season will remember our schoolgirl crush on Portis, particu...
"You Want Me To Do That With You?"
The mad geniuses at Free Darko aren't taking the summer off: They're finding absolute gems like this video, which features Timberwolves superstar Kevin Garnett gets his Bob Harris on while visiting an Asian television show....
Fight Some Real Sports Discrimination ... Today!
Every Day Should Be Saturday has the heart-wrenching story that deserves the soft focus and tinkling pianos of the most touching "My Wish" story: The sad tale of the white wide receiver....
Remember: Dale's The One Who's Always In Trouble
One of our favorite old stories — memorialized in a classic early Bill Simmons column — was the Atlanta Gold Club trial. Remember that? The one where all the athletes — Patrick Ewing, Andruw Jones and, uh, Stephen Baldwin — kept getting sexual favors from a strip club in Atlanta. (Yes, Rodman was in...
Leftovers: Chan Ho, Bleeding
• Chan Ho Park, really not feeling so well. [Baseball Musings] • Juan Gonzalez and his bag of steroids. [New York Daily News] • Former jocks turned actors, if you can call them that. [CourtTV] • Hey, some rare good press for ESPN Mobile. [Technology Review] • The Arena Football 2 playoffs are ON THE...
Some Good Ole' Texas Schadenfreude
As you would probably suspect, many Oklahoma rivals are having some fun with this Rhett Bomar no-show job business, and nobody's going crazier with it than the Hook 'Ems of Texas. They've had a little photoshop contest on a Longhorns message board, and they're having all kinds of fun....
Blogdome: An Open Letter To George Solomon
• We thought the most recent column from ESPN ombudsman George Solomon was among the more critical and reasonable ones he's written. Here's a dissenting (and somewhat convincing) view. [Fan's Attic] • How this year's baseball season is like the 2001-02 NBA season, and how the Mets are like the Nets....
We Can't Believe This Hasn't Happened In Philly Yet
From the Videos That Scare You To Your Very Core Department comes this from-the-stands video of Brazilian soccer team Gremio supporters at a game last weekend. If you think this isn't terrifying enough, here's, as Paul Harvey might say, the REST of the story:...
Your Unwarranted Kevin Costner Update
You can always tell how Kevin Costner's career is going by how much he remembers he "loves the beautiful game of baseball." When he was stalling in the late '90s, he tried to recapture the Bull Durham-Field Of Dreams magic with For The Love Of The Game, a movie so dull and torpid that you'd never be...
God, Training Camp Is So Disgusting
Far be it from us to tell any football team how to run their business, particularly during the big petri dish of sweat and blood and all kinds of other disgusting things in the midst of training camp, but we suspect a new policy the 'Skins have put into place might have been worthwhile to institut...
Yao Ming's Big, Big Stand
Houston Rockets center Yao Ming doesn't just spend his offseasons taking a stroll or two around the track. He also spends it saving elephants by swatting away bullets heading toward them directly out of the air. See, he's not just tall; he's made of some sort of indestructible material....
Buyer Beware ... And Beware Again ... And Beware Again
In a classic Oh, Now You Tell Us moment, Philadelphia owner Jeffrey Lurie has suddenly realized that, aw, jeez, maybe it wasn't actually the best of ideas to bring in wide receiver Terrell Owens....
Ah, Fun With PC Goodness
If you're a Yankees fan so obsessed with your team that you require daily tidbits of minutiae to get through your workday, you might have one of those daily desk calendars. (We have one for "The Far Side.") Fishbowl NY has pointed out the above entry for yesterday, August 2, in which the copy-editin...
Next Up: Gran Turismo!
We are not, as of this writing, professional marketers. We are confused by what people use to sell their products. We skipped class a lot: Sorry....
Poker? We Barely Even Know Her! (Sorry.)
We haven't had any Anna Benson updates for a while, mainly because her husband is in baseball purgatory in Baltimore, they haven't made a divorce announcement in a few months and her handlers have apparently asked her to slow down on the slaughter of bunnies and other adorable animals....
Leftovers: Booting Sooner
• Oklahoma's starting QB is kicked off the team. [The Oklahoman] • You know, a coach who is also a pimp is a versatile fellow indeed. [The M Zone] • A nice review of a book we very much enjoyed, actually. [Orlando Sentinel] • USC player nailed for steroids. [Los Angeles Daily News] • Cubs fans reall...
Fun With Interns!
Did you know they hazed in Canada? We honestly had no idea. We've always thought of our northern neighbors to be far too mannered for such shenanigans and hijinks....
More Corporations Fighting Over Our Cash
Despite our rather obvious and unapologetic Midwest Bias, we do actually live in Manhattan. That means, of course, we pay triple market value for an apartment the size of your closet, we're constantly showing family members from back home the same four landmarks and, most important, we have never wa...