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About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking helicopter lessons instead of drinking at Moe's ... • MLB: Cameron, Padres hand Dodgers seventh straight loss, 7-3 ... and, is Mark Hendrickson talking on a cell phone during the game? • Tennis: Paul Goldstein ousts former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt at Countrywide Classic. No,...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you accidentally press the button on the signal watch again, summoning a pissed-off Batman Superman ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets. Mr. Met needs fresh meat. (We'll be at this game, by the way.) [WGN] • WNBA: Washington at Connecticut; Seattle at Phoenix. Well of course yo...

A Short Note On The Royals
It's the sentence we never thought we'd live to hear. But there it was, just sitting there in the notes column of the Kansas City Star's Royals gamer on Sunday. It is at once awesome in its randomness, and frightening for the images it conjures. Even more terrifying: we know that someone, somewher...

Contagious Headbutting Sickness Strikes Again
Hey kids, time to drag out those scissors and the colored construction paper once again, because there's a horse in trouble. No, not Barbaro; he's relaxing in Pennsylvania watching premium cable. This time it's City Affair, a race horse in Britain which was — get this — headbutted by jockey Paul O...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11am. Baseball with Joe Morgan: How many phone books do you sit on to reach the microphone? By the way, have you talked to Harold today? Is he all right? • 1 p.m. Cold Pizza's Skip Bayless: Hey, how come you don't leave a reflection in...

The Closer: It's A Joe, Out Of Control
Notes from a day in baseball ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while mowing your eyebrows ... • MLB: Maddux gets first win since June 9 as Cubs prevail 8-7 over Mets. • Tennis: Agassi Hardcourt Farewell Tour rolls over Xavier Malisse in Countrywide Classic. • WNBA: Because you've been dying to know, Connecticut 89, New York 71....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as TiVo blackmails you with all those Lifetime Network shows you're recorded ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Texas. A chance for away fans to boo A-Rod for a change. [ESPN] • MLB: Red Sox at Athletics. Being big fans of both the colors red and green, we're torn. [NESN] • Softball: Phila...

More Mascot Nightmare Fuel From Our Friends In Japan
Japan is hosting the World Basketball Championships this year, and you know what that means: confusing cartoon mascots. You'll feel exactly like you've been hit over the head repeatedly with a Pachinko machine after viewing BAD Badtz-Maru — some sort of bad-ass penguin, we're told — and his "frien...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. NBA writer Marc Stein: Help! I've been kidnapped by the Quite Frankly staff, forced to watch Stephen A. Smith against my ... shhh! They're coming! • 2 p.m.. Baseball with Buster Olney: I do so enjoy our little chats. Another sc...

Where's The Love For Jered Weaver?
The headline on SI.com this morning reads, Weaver-Mania hits LA. As well it should: Jered Weaver won his seventh straight start on Sunday for the Angels ... that's seven career starts, and seven wins. Not since Fernando Valenzuela started 8-0 as a rookie for the Dodgers in 1981 has something like ...

The Closer: Can't Anyone Follow A Simple $%#&%! Order?
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while making out with Calamity Jane ... • Motor Sports: Denny Hamlin overcomes a black flag (is that like a red card?) to win Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway; and look ... a fight! • MLB: Vernon Wells helps Blue Jays administer a good ol' country beating on Yankees, 13-5. • Tennis...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your Cardinals hat finally floats back to earth ... • Boxing: Super middleweights, Allan Green vs. Anthony Bosante, at Tulsa. It's a party; burritos and talcum for everyone! [ESPN2] • MLB: Twins at Indians. Bob Wickman, we hardly knew ye. [Sports Time Ohio] • MLB: Cubs at Nationals....

Hey, Coaches, Leave Those Kids Alone
If you enjoy watching tiny basketball players running rings around their confused, older and larger opponents, and you can't wait for the Golden State Warriors' season to start, then you'll enjoy the video here, which is part of a Washington Post story on 10-year-old phenom Justin Jenifer of Balti...

Chalk One Up For The Little Guy
And so the debate rages: Does Johnny Damon, or doesn't he, suck? We refuse to take sides, but one thing we can report is that our nation's babies are now involved. A New Bedford housewife, still miffed over Damon's defection to the Yankees, had been trying to sell "Johnny Damon Sucks" baby bibs on...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. EA Sports' Kendall Boyd: Wait ... my joystick's not working ... • 3 p.m.. UFC champion Tim Sylvia: Ever gouged out a guy's eye and then hit him with a log? • 4 p.m.. Texas Tech WR Joel Filani: Think you're going to beat Alabam...

The Closer: Vernon! VERNON!
Notes from a day in baseball ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while apologizing for still not being able to send out email ... • Golf: Well, well, look who has taken over at the British Open. • MLB: What, Me Worry? Bonds homers to lead Giants. • Tennis: Serena Williams makes quarterfinals of Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Op ... ah,...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Margaret Hamilton blows by in midair on her bicycle ... • MLB: Houston at Chicago Cubs. This could be the day that Dusty gets fired. You wouldn't want to miss that, would you? [WGN] • MLB: New York Yankees at Toronto. Well, they won't have Shea Hillenbrand to kick around anymore. [E...