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The Closer: ... With An Arm That Can Bring A Man To Tears
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hanging upside down above a trampoline ... • NBA Playoffs: The Pistons we know and love are back, blowing sweet kisses to Shaq and the Heat ... • NHL Playoffs: The Ducks are not done! They need a couple more hours in the oven before the Oilers are ready to dig in. • MLB: Becket...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your Minuteman border activities net exactly one rabbit and old boots ... • MLB: Tampa Bay at Boston. Because Your Sports Leader cannot seem to get enough of the Red Sox. [ESPN] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 2, Miami at Detroit. If you watch one NBA playoff game all sea...
Some Not-So-Tiny World Cup Tidbits
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. Today: Japan, the United States and Italy! Tomorrow we'll also be featuring leftover tidbits from all t...
Letters To Barbaro
As BarbaroMania sweeps the nation like a crazy horse tsunami, we pause to pay tribute to our army of commenters, who were in top form on Wednesday. Your messages to Barbaro were, um, at once inspiring and disturbing: "Get up. WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. — Jack Bauer, 35; Los Angeles, CA, USA, soon ...
Searching For SpongeBob
If the movies have taught us anything, it's that Alcatraz is escape-proof. That's because of the frigid, shark-infested mile-and-a-half of San Francisco Bay that's between the notorious former federal prison and the city of San Francisco. If you're a 1940s goon, hood, mobster, mug, ruffian, thug, ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m.. Rapids' Jovan Kirovski: A soccer star in Colorado; your life must be exactly like Mick Jagger's. • 2 p.m. NBA with Chris Broussard: Who's the next coach for the Kings? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Exactly; Tom Tolbert. •...
The Closer: Tigers Good, Royals Not So Much
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while emptying the dishwasher and finding the Holy Grail ... • NBA Playoffs: The Sun Also Rises. Diaw's 34 lead Suns to 1-0 advantage over Mavericks. • NHL Playoffs: Sabres strike back, take 2-1 series lead over Global Warming-Induced Weather System. • MLB: Don't look now, but the Do...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you admire your white knit collar polo with two button placket, just like ESPN's Jay Harris ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Boston [ESPN], Atlanta at San Diego. Has there ever been a streakier team than the Padres, in any sport? [TBS]. • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 1, Phoen...
You Don't Bring Me Apples, Anymore ...
OK, we'll admit it; we wrote a letter to Barbaro. Dear Babs: Get well soon, you big, crazy ungulate mammal. Sorry you got hurt, and also for breeding you with legs like chopsticks. Our bad. Well, see ya. Yeah, like you haven't written. Sure. Have you seen New Bolton Center, the hospital in Kennett...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The United States
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. Today: the United States! And for World Cup previews that are even better than ours, check out That's O...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Baseball Blunders w/Rob Neyer: Would writing angry Amazon reviews count as a "blunder?" • 3 p.m. College football w/Beano Cook: When we heard that line on the Sopranos this past Sunday, "Someone should tell her she's dead," we ...
You're With Me, Lycra
Warning: The latest cologne-soaked issue of GQ does not come without pitfalls, and we're not talking about the six-page spread on Tommy Lee and his addiction to searsucker suits. Although we could be. No, to what we refer is much more horrible....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while telling everyone you meet "you're no Jack Kennedy." ... • NBA Playoffs: Introducing Antoine Walker, Gary Payton and Jason Williams; remember them? Heat beat Pistons to take Game 1. • Soccer: Well, this can't bode well. U.S. loses to Morocco 1-0, plus Claudio Reyna strains hamst...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you're just hanging around with Madonna ... • MLB: Atlanta at San Diego. Peavy is still pissed. And we can't really blame him. [TBS] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 1, Miami at Detroit. Didn't we all see this coming? Yes. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 3, ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Germany
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Germany! And for World Cup previews th...
A Ball Just Doesn't Go As Far As It Used To
It's official: Barry's balls are shrinking. Um, we mean the worth of Barry's balls is ... no. What we mean to say is, oh forget it. Let's start over. Baseball collector and comic book artist Todd McFarlane is not as interested in Barry's balls as he once was ... Dammit!...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Boxer Fernando Montiel: Welcome, Mr. Montiel. Please bear with us while Pat Buchanan goes through your pockets and Orrin Hatch checks your ID. We apologize for the inconvience. • 1:30 p.m. IRL's Michael Andretti: You're my secon...