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Leftovers: Hurricane Edition
• Chiefs-Dolphins move game to avoid Hurricane Wilma, although seeing Ricky Williams picked up and twirled in a funnel would have been cool. [Bruno Boys] • Join the club: New Orleans mayor blasts Saints owner. [El Buzzard] • Girardi takes over Marlins just as Mother Nature tries to warn him of impen...
You Know What They Say About The Size Of A Man's Goatee
More Big fun from the folks at The Bulge Report, which is ranking the top 100 major league baseball players by the size of their, well, units. Yesterday we heard all about Brad Lidge and his "two-seam fastball" — if you know what we mean, and if you do, tell us, because we don't — and today we've ...
Today In Oddjack
Hey, look at all the stuff Oddjack has. Cool. • More details on the depths of Michael Jordan's gambling addiction. • One week until the Breeder's Cup, when the earth shakes on its axis. • How long will the Colts' and Texans' zeros remains zeros?...
The REAL Reason The White Sox Have Suffered
Everyone's talking about curses of the Black Sox and how much White Sox fans have suffered, but MSNBC's Bob Cook points out that the true source of the team's problems is not the past, but the owner Jerry Reinsdorf:...
Those Go-Go White Sox
As the White Sox start preparing for the Astros, we gleefully direct you to this Webshots album called, succinctly, Party With The White Sox Players. Featured are Paul Konerko and, most prominently, surly but "lovable" catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Make sure to check out the one where he's licking jel...
Who Will Be The First Fined NBA Star?
Fun post on Oddjack today: Gambling Web site Bodog has put down odds on who will be the first NBA player to be fined for violating the new dress code....
Blogdome: Coach Fight! Meow!
• Scott Skiles is ready to throw down with Larry Brown. [YAYSports!] • Some day-after musings from Cardinals' final evening at Busch. [Viva El Birdos] • Are we sure this is the right game to have Condoleeza Rice come to watch? [Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer] • We know: We're the only people who care a...
The Odd Career Move Of Leo Mazzone
Anybody else find it kind of strange that former Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone has left Atlanta to take the same job with Baltimore? We understand that he and Ike Turner manager Bobby Cox weren't exactly seeing eye-to-eye anymore — probably because of all the rocking — and we also understand t...
The Early Season AFC North Lead Shuffle
Black is white, white is back, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria ... Bootsy Collins has written a song about the Cincinnati Bengals, featuring several Bengals . There's a long history of successful sports teams recording songs, though we don't quite remember one happening so early in th...
Viva Los Rodmanos!
From the What Could Possibly Go Wrong? file comes today's fun bit from the world of semi-professional basketball: Dennis Rodman is close to signing a contract with the ABA's Tijuana Dragons. Rodman is 44 years old but doesn't look a day over 13. Our love for the ABA is well-documented, and even thou...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. National Columnist Gene Wojciechowski: I am actually so stunned with your physical resemblence to Bill Plaschke that I've lost my train of thought. Wait ... you're the same guy, right? • 3 p.m. College Football with Kirk Herbst...
Jordan Demands Your Rapt Attention!
We haven't heard from Michael Jordan in a while, and Michael Jordan doesn't like it when we haven't heard from him in a while. In a "wide-ranging" interview with "60 Minutes" — for Jordan, "wide-ranging" interviews basically mean there's no actual fellatio shown on screen — Jordan talks to the unf...
Liftoff In Houston
We congratulate the Houston Astros on their first-ever trip to the World Series; we're happy for Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell and all the fans who have suffered through some truly heartbreaking moments. You're going to the Series, and if you ask anyone other than a Cardinals fan, they'll tell you...
About Last Night ...
A pair of underpants revolves slowly on the blade of a ceiling fan, your dog is wearing a sombrero and you are curled up, naked, around your TV, fast asleep. Congratulations, Astros fan ... • NLCS, Game 6: Astros win the pennant! Astros win the pennant! And it may be time finally to retire the lyric...
The Game That Wasn't Supposed To Be
Well, here we are, just a few hours from gametime at Busch Stadium — gametime at Busch Stadium ... never have we been more thrilled to write that phrase — and we still can't quite believe Game 6 of the NLCS is actually happening. The Astros have to still be reeling from the unprecedented series o...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch while trying to figure out the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic ... • NLCS, Game 6: Astros at Cardinals. "Mulder! I need your help!" So many times Gillian Anderson said that on "The X-Files," now everyone in St. Louis knows what it really means. Houston, meanwhile, is chil...
Why Is This Man So Excited?
This is Astros closer Brad Lidge, and in this picture anyway, he's a very excited young man. (It obviously was not taken Monday.) There are many reasons he might be so happy. He could have just closed out an Astros victory. He could have learned that he wasn't going to be a lot of money for his ca...
Leftovers: Sleepful In Seattle
• Hard times in Seattle: Hamlin stable, police investigate slaying. [Seahawks Insider] • Classic Maneuver: Pedro Martinez wants to play for Dominican Republic. [MLB.com] • Report: Girardi to become Marlins manager. If the hurricanes subside by spring training. [Marlins Nation] • Please, nobody play ...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for bot the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • The smart money seems to be flowing toward Roy Oswalt and the Astros tonight. That's making Albert Pujols very mad — and you don't want to make him mad. • It's Troy vs. Florida Internatio...
Today's Favorite Repulsive Unsubstantiated Rumor
From a reader, in response to our recent items on Joe Buck and Todd Zeile:...