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Some Helpful Advice For Jerry Rice
The official word is in: Jerry Rice will play for the Denver Broncos next season. To help Jerry get around in his new digs, knowing his past proclivities, we helpfully provide him a sampling of area businesses....
Who Knew Olympians Even Understood Money?
According to the Athens (Ga.) Daily Herald (link via WSJ.com's Daily Fix), Olympian shot putter Adam Nelson is selling himself on eBay. For 6,000 clams — the current price, anyway — you can have your name/business/Web site/plea for love plastered across Nelson's jersey at the upcoming World Track...
Sports Illustrated Keeps Finger On The Web Pulse
Featured Web site in Sports Illustrated's "SI Players" section this week: ManuGinobili.com....
AI Gets Gays All Hot And Bothered
From OutSports.com's Daily Blog today:...
McEwing Still Stalking Wright
One of the more amusing subplots of spring training this year was the strange, moderately disturbing friendship that developed between Mets third baseman David Wright and then-Mets-now-Royals utilityman Joe "Gritty, Gutty, Spunky, Fiesty" McEwing. Wright was reportedly in tears when McEwing, tota...
Blogdom's Best
Stuff That Our RSS Reader Didn't Reject This Morning Why is it that people keep signing up to sign the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field? Jeff Gordon's just the latest example of someone making an idiot out of themselves. [Ivy Chat] Why do Red Sox fans keep jeering Edgar Renteria? Try Kevin Mi...
Blogger's Stockholm Syndrome
One of our favorite unheralded blogs is The Yankee Despiser. Essentially, some guy who can't stand the Yankees writes just about everything you'd ever need to know about the Yankees. Frankly, we find more information and commentary about the Yankees there than we do at most fan blogs. Anyway, TYD — ...
In Manhattan, This Could Get Him A One-Bedroom With A Working Toilet
Mike Tyson, whose debt is larger than most third-world nations' GDPs, has bought a $2.1 million home in Arizona. He is scheduled to fight another stiff white guy in June in Washington, D.C. So that's fun. We're still waiting for Little Mac to challenge him again....
How To Become Famous? Retire
SportsBusiness Journal — which we actually subscribe to, even though it pretty much requires a second mortgage — gives its yearly Q ratings of the popularity of top athletes. (The rating measures how the general public recognizes people. And athletes are people too, apparently.) The site's subscr...
Today in MLB Blogs
We see a time in the future when independent baseball blogs will be hunted down and persecuted — forced to assimilate with the all-mighty MLB Blogs.com corporate giant (motto: $4.95 per month; it is futile to resist!). But a handlful of brave resistance fighters will carry on the fight for blogging ...
The Sad Tale Of Alex Rodriguez
Fun story in the New York Daily News today. At a benefit for a mental health clinic in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, Alex Rodriguez admitted that he receives therapy to deal with his "issues." He told TV's "Extra" that "therapy is an incredible thing and you might get to know ...
Barry Bonds' Email Of The Month
One of the great parts of BarryBonds.com — the portal with which Mssrg. Bonds chooses to communicate with the groundlings — is the "contests." One of the contests is the "Fan of the Month," an award given to the best email Bonds' site receives. This month's winner, announced yesterday, was Michae...
People Who Knew NHL Was Gone Feeling Optimistic
According to the invaluable Eklund's Hockey Rumors:...
The Vanishing N'Awlins Scene
Legitimate question: Is there any point to having sports teams in New Orleans anymore? The Hornets can't draw any fans after just two years in town, the Saints stink and are hated by the five Louisianans who care and now they're the top candidate for the inevitable NFL move back to Los Angeles. S...
About Last Night ...
What you missed due to the restraining order ... Spurs go up 2-0 on Suns: Our immunity to NBA Fever still has physicians baffled. Yankees clobber Tigers: A-Rod gets two homers. Or was that I-Rod? Jor-El? Ack, green kryptonite! Bucks win NBA Lottery: A 6.3 percent longshot comes through, giving hope ...
Ewing's Ex Gets Her Pound Of Flesh
Patrick Ewing's ex-wife certainly had to deal with her share of indignities, from his alleged affair with a Knick City Dancer to the infamous Atlanta Gold Club Trial. Well, she gets her revenge this morning in the New York Daily News, talking trash while promoting her new novel, Brickhouse, abou...
How The Suns Saved The NBA
We'll be honest: On the whole, we're not really big fans of self-proclaimed Best American Writer Neal Pollack. (We've always considered him pretty much schtick in a vacuum.) But we must admit, his newly posted Slate piece on the Phoenix Suns is kind of brillant. A longtime Suns fan, he argues tha...
To Watch Tonight ...
Please welcome, making another appearance on our sofa — my ass. (Applause) Game 2: Spurs at Suns. Come see the franchise based solely on air conditioning. Dodgers at Giants: This used to be fun, back when Bonds and Beltre were juiced. NBA Draft Lottery: In which you are humiliated by a ping pong bal...