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Left On Base: Wait ... Where's Larry Brown?
· Cavs Catch Ferry: Cleveland has a new GM. [Cleveland Plain-Dealer] · Valentine to Baseball: World Tourney is "insulting." [Associate Press] · Have Gun, Will Travel: Clippers' Wilcox arrested. [USA Today]...
Today In MLB Blogs
OK, here's the thing. Baseballs are plentiful and relatively cheap. So why do people become village idiots when one is batted in their direction? We've seen fathers elbow their young daughters out of the way in order to catch a foul ball at a major league game. We've seen men knocking over the eld...
Blogdom's Best: Since When Do Republicans Care About Baseball? (Wait ...)
News And Views Sent From A Fat Guy Into The Air ... · The GOP is pissy about billionaire George Soros' bid to buy the Washington Nationals. [Can't Stop The Bleeding] · A new blog launches, devoted to Astros stud Craig Biggio and his odd quest to be hit by baseballs. [Plunk Biggio] · Confusion about ...
Cricket Star Not Well-Endowed, Kind of Chubby
Warne, whom the British tabloids have been tracking for years, is being divorced by his wife after he was nailed for cheating on his her for the umpteenth time. This in itself is not necessarily newsworthy; athletes, we hear, are known to sleep around a bit, maybe, not sure. But the story here is pr...
The Most Pointless Job On Earth (And You Can Still Get Fired From It!)
ESPN is reporting — and apparently they're actually reporting it this time — that the Minnesota Timberwolves have hired former Suns guard (and notorious dater of black chicks) Rex Chapman to be the new general manager of the team. He replaces current general manager Jim Stack, a former Northwester...
What Clinton Portis Likes In A "Bad Bitch"
An update to the wht kinds of groupies does Clinton Portis like item:...
OK, Sometimes Peter Gammons Freaks Us Out A Little
From today's Peter Gammons column:...
Hey, Sometimes You Need A Place To Sleep During Devil Rays Games
Well, it was only a matter of time. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays — the saddest, cheapest, most desperate franchise in baseball — has taken to selling furniture at the ballpark. Seriously. The D-Rays have a deal with a local furniture outlet to sell ottomans and sofas and all kinds of things you lie d...
Draft Star Warming Up In Underoos
Meanwhile, as Utah's Andrew Bogut talks about the large numbers of big black stiffs, North Carolina guard Marvin Williams — his only real competition for the first overall pick — merely sounds happy to be watching cartoons, drinking Capri-Sun and playing kiss tag....
Bogut Obsessed With Big, Black Stiffs
NBA Draft is tomorrow night, and Utah center Andrew Bogut is expected to be the first pick by the Milwaukee Bucks. Bogut is not considered a can't-miss prospect, and he thinks it's maybe because he is white. In an interview with Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune, Bogut points out that there are ple...
David Beckham No Longer Fantasized About In Prison
Apparently, athlete culture's a little different in England than it is here. Soccer "megastar" David Beckham — also, in England, you don't necessarily have to be all that good at your sport to be the most famous — lamented to the soccer press that he is losing all of his gay fans to rugby star Gav...
The Bizarro Bill Simmons
From the great Yard Work satirical blog, here's an imaginary (but just barely) selection from Bill Simmons' mailbag:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: If you want to write a real bestseller, you should out all the gay Yankees. The entire infield, right? Come on Olney, give! · Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: Hi, I'm an advertising executive in Manhattan. ...
The Curse Of Don Novello
The San Francisco Giants, thanks largely to a balky knee that has absolutely nothing to do with steroids, are 14 games under .500, 11 games behind the first-place San Diego Padres and appear stuck in a rather large ditch with poor plumbing and a strange puddle of something green. But a new theory ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hiding from your pit bull ... · We So 'Horny: Texas wins College World Series. · Yankees Salvage Win In Ninth Over Mets: Trained snipers on roof slowly lower rifles aimed at Jason Giambi's head. · Zoom, Zoom: Tony Stewart wins NASCAR Save Mart 350....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch now that Elimidate has been cancelled ... · Wimbledon, Day 5: Federer and Roddick try to liven up this dying party. · It's a small world after all: LA Dodgers vs. LA Angels at an undisclosed location near Disneyland. · Subway Series: Wouldn't this be the worst time ever for a newspaper...
Left On Base: Sorenstam Hanging Around Like A Demented Barnacle
· U.S. Women's Open: Sorenstam surges to, well, ninth. [The Golf Blog] · Larry Brown plans hospital stay, and we're not feeling too well ourselves. [MSNBC] · Somehow a red card just doesn't seem sufficient: Soccer star robbed during interview. [SI.com] · A monster hangover, plus this: Dolphins wave ...
This Week In Weird Foreign Sports
We tend to find European sports terminology hilarious, mainly because it points to how equally absurd American sports terminology is. We all might know what "a blooper to shallow left" means, but to anyone not intimately familiar with baseball terminology, that's just nonsensical babbling. So here...
Tracking The Sportswriter Hacks
Yesterday, we speculated how much backtracking each of the major sports pundits would do if they were wrong about last night's Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Here's a look:...
Blogdom's Best: The Nationals (wha?) Are Buyers Buyers Buyers
· A 2,000-word treatise on whom the Washington Nationals should trade for as they (huh?) make a run for a division title. [Capitol Punishment] · Confused Philadelphia phans aren't quite sure what they're supposed to yell at Boston fans. [The 700 Level] · Cubs fans have officially jumped the cliff: T...