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Leftovers: NHL Rewards Us With Its Presence
· NHL hopes to reclaim your love with big opening-night lovefest October 5. [NHL.com] · Lightweight entertainment: Tarver-Jones bout set for Oct. [East Side Boxing] · Predictably, Rodman pulled over for speeding — twice — during charity rally race. [Chicago Tribune] · There's no crying in football! ...
Blogdom's Best: How Do The Cardinals Do It?
News And Views From 40-Year-Old Virgins ... · Cardinals blogger tries to figure out just how this team remains so good. (It's LaRussa's hair. Shhh.) [Viva El Birdos] · Some guy gets all excited about hanging out with the Milwaukee Brewers. [Thoughts From The D Nation] · Boy, it sure seems like Larry...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... · Three little words that are our reason for living: ChiSox and under. · The majesty that is the Gawker vs. The Onion softball game. · Bengals fans (all 14 of them) are really riled up thi...
Today In MLB Blogs
A few things you should know about MLB Blogs.com: · They like to call their site "The Area." · All the blogs are most likely written by no more than two people, tops, down in the MLB.com basement (one on weekends). · They claim that their bloggers "Get down to the nitty-gritty." If by that they me...
Checking In On ESPN's Worst
It's been 24 hours, so we feel we have to check in on BravesBeat's Road From Bristol, which allows visitors to vote in a 64-person bracket to decide just who truly is the most loathsome ESPN personality....
Getting Drunk With Joe Theismann
More on new ESPN Monday Night Football analyst Joe Theisman. Last year, a nice blogger man named Paul Katcher came up with the Sunday Night Football drinking game. Highlights:...
Naked Cricket Chicks And Cricket Dudes
If you're the type of person who plays virtual cricket on your PlayStation2 — and, of course, you totally are — you were this close to having yourself quite a treat. The game version of Brian Lara International Cricket — we don't know who Brian Lara is either — was to feature a nude streaker base...
The Tarp That Ate The Cardinals ... On Sale!
St. Louis Cardinals, still reeling from the magical season of 1985 that just missed ending in a World Series win, might not want to hear about this, but you never know: Maybe they'll want to burn it. As the final year of St. Louis' Busch Stadium draws to a close, the Birds are auctioning off some ...
Now They Are <em>Literally</em> Convicts On The Field
Reason No. 32,452 that people in other countries are infinitely more unhealthy about their sports than we are: Welsh Premier team Carmarthen Town has signed a man who is currently in jail. Craig Hughes, who plays some position called "striker," was banned from attending soccer games for eight year...
It's Slap Joe Theismann Day!
Yesterday, ESPN announced that its "Monday Night Football" team for 2006 will have Al Michaels and Joe Theismann in the booth. Michaels was a given, but the analyst job was up in the air. And it would be fair to say that Theismann who has a tendency to do to football analysis what Lawrence Taylor ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters · 10 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: Let's just drop the pretense and admit that the only reason we're interested is because of our Fantasy League, OK? · 2:30 p.m. MLS Commissioner Don Garber: Uh, for the life of me I can't think of a questio...
Who Has Larry Brown Mania? Anyone? Anyone?
The time was 1:30 in the morning, and we had just finished a failed attempt to talk our girlfriend into having sex with us. In our frustration, we turned on ESPNews, and apparently the world had exploded. Graphics were flashing everywhere, anchors were jumping up and down on their desks and Linda ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed when the Pillsbury Dough Boy had you arrested for inappropriate poking · Maddux: Gets 3,000th strikeout. You: Eat 30,000th Chicken McNugget. · Phelps wins 200 free at World Swim Championships despite that meddlesome Aquaman. · Sosa mistakenly uses non-corked bat, ties Frank Robinson ...
Mistakes At Si.com
Interesting note on SI.com right now. On Michael Silver's column is the following rejoiner:...
To Watch Tonight ...
What To Watch Until Squirrels Eat Through The Cable ... Twins at Yankees: N.Y. needs to finish ahead of Red Sox, if for no other reason than to stop a Fever Pitch sequel Boxing: Ren Gonz lez vs. Samuel Hern ndez. Bantamweights — they're so cute at that age. WNBA: LA Sparks vs. Phoenix Mercury. Feel ...
Leftovers: Old Tennis Player Bolts Sponsor
These boots are made for walkin': Agassi leaves Nike for Adidas. [TSN] Knicks, Brown planning nuptuals. [Sporting News] Ty Law, Lions to walk hand-in-hand toward the sunset. [Fox Sports] Outbreak! Cardinals bug out of training camp due to viral epidemic. [Arizona Republic]...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... The Nationals expose their true colors, which look remarkably like the Expos. Never bet on a quarterback named Chad: Jets plan to suck this season. We were wagering on the Orioles before i...
Today In MLB Blogs
We've been following this site for some time now, and to put it plainly, MLB Blogs is in trouble. They are Woodward & Bernstein before Watergate. Drudge before Monica. MLB Blogs needs a big story — a scoop, a defining moment. Also a spell-check function wouldn't hurt....
Blogdom's Best: Free The Teenagers!
News and Views From Somewhere Where You Won't Find Any Girls ... This whole NBA age limit thing is starting to get some folks real fired up ... and we could have some more lawsuits on our hands. [TrueHoop] A bunch of bloggers meet up and decide there might be a race problem in baseball. [BeerLeaguer...
Set Tivos To "Thug"
For you night owls who just can't handle hearing Bryan Adams on SportsCenter anymore, we suggest tuning in to ESPN2 tonight at 12:30 ET. It's a special show called "It's The Shoes" — part of ESPN2's "Block Party" — with Eagles wide receiver asspain Terrell Owens and rapper Trick Daddy (who, impres...