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Blogdom's Best: Arena League Shenanigans
News and Views From 40-Year Old Virgins ... • Apparently, they pay you enough in the Arena Football League to afford cocaine. Who knew? [Can't Stop The Bleeding] • Mets fans are losing their collective shit. [Faith and Fear in Flushing] • It just looks kind of weird, the White Sox having a magic num...
Today In MLB Blogs
The facts: Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti has an MLB blog. Tremonti is pals with Boston's Johnny Damon. Damon is rumored to be one of the next big names to go down in baseball's steroids sweep. How about some insight, Mark? Dish, baby. ...
Piazza Just Came Here To Rock
On the list of Things That Make Us Glad To Be Human, this photo of Mets catcher Mike Piazza, via Can't Stop The Bleeding, has to be in the top 100. Interesting enough, this was taken right after Piazza learned that Alan Cumming's new fragrance was out....
Milton Bradley Repeatedly High-Fives His Wife
You know, it had been so long since a good Athlete Beating His Wife story that we were beginning to wonder what was going on. But we can always count on crazy Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley to take care of us. Bradley — who is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury, allowing the LA m...
Communication Breakdown
Taken by Cubs blogger Bleed Cubbie Blue, the above photo is of Dodgers first baseman and fantasy team kryptonite Hee Seop Choi giving hitting advice to Cubs outfielder and even worse fantasy offender Corey Patterson....
ESPN Trims SportsCenter Fat
In case you were having difficulty spreading out your hate among all the SportsCenter anchors, take heart: They're making it more concentrated for you. In a move that had been anticipated, ESPN announced yesterday that it's going to three two-man teams. And "two-man teams" is accurate too; it's al...
Wells Gets Detention, Call Home to Parents
After his pissed-off comments Monday, Boston pitcher David Wells has been sent to the principal's office. Wells, who blasted commissioner Bud Selig and accused him of covering up steroid results, was summoned to New York to chat with baseball brass. Interestingly enough, Selig himself is unlikely ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 p.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: We are typing this from an 11th-story ledge outside the window of our office building, the only thing keeping us from plunging into the abyss being your assurances that we might somehow obtain Angels sta...
From Meathead To Television Capitalist
In what is apparently becoming a trend in high-profile reality shows, "The Apprentice" will feature a former NFL player in its cast this year. ("Survivor" will include former Cowboys quarterback Gary Hogeboom.)...
Saints Searching For a Home
As New Orleans seemingly turns into more of a swamp by the day, it is beginning to occur to sports people that New Orleans has a football team, and that team is going to need somewhere to play. The Saints' home opener was scheduled for September 18, but not only won't be able to play in the Super...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while chasing ghosts with your three friends and a large Great Dane ... • MLB: A's win seventh straight, set stage for disappointing their fans once again in playoffs. • Roddick ousted in U.S. Open despite good looks. • WNBA Playoffs: Indiana Fever beat New York Liberty. Honestly, we...
Choppin' Wood At Baseball Prospectus
The dork fraternity at Baseball Prospectus has long fascinated us. We always assumed they either were four feet tall and were still breast-feeding, or they were the opposite of what most think, all ripped dudes with schlongs that scraped the ground. Turns out, we're completely wrong: They're actua...
To Watch Tonight ...
What To Watch After You've Been Cut By The Denver Broncos ... • MLB: A's at Angels. Doesn't it seem that these teams play each other every day? • WNBA Playoffs. The excitement is palpable.* • U.S. Open tennis. Hey, why is the court blue? * = may not be true....
The Waste Of The Superdome
A look at the Superdome from the inside up. Those who were in the Dome during the hurricane say the bathrooms were overrun with trash and the heat was "unbearable." Which makes it pretty much like every football Sunday, actually....
The New "He Hate Me"
Wide receiver Peerless Price has been nothing but a disaster for the Atlanta Falcons since he was signed as a free agent from the Buffalo Bills; fantasy owners have been wanting to behead him for years. Well, the Falcons finally took care of the whacking today, cutting Price from the team....
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler • Your pathetic attempts to deceive your friends into revealing their fantasy football plans have amused us, until now. • Attention everyone, soccer star Wayne Rooney needs a name for his chil...
Blogdom's Best: Make The Bad Mustached Man Go Away
News And Views From The Disaffected and Bored ... • It has come to this: People are blatantly begging the Orioles to dump Rafael Palmeiro. On anyone. [Camden Chat] • If Cubs fans could actually bury their team under six feet of dirt, you know they totally would. [Bleed Cubbie Blue] • Tennis players ...
Screw Steroids; It's All About Compression Socks
You know, athletes don't just use steroids as performance enhancers; that wouldn't be any fun. The Guardian UK takes a look at some of the more unusual tricks of the trade for runners and other athletes, including compression socks, cashew nuts and porridge....
Skip Bayless vs. Stuart Scott: Whom Do You Hate More?
We have reached the finals of The Road To Bristol, the ongoing, months-long battle to discover, once and for all, the most loathsome ESPN "personality."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 12:30 p.m. NFL With John Clayton: Honestly, though, we think you could actually beat Salisbury in a fight. Come on, go for it. • 1 p.m. NFL With Gary Gillette: Wait, who are you? Do they let you on TV? • 2 p.m. MLB With Peter Gammons: ...