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The Closer: The Wright Stuff
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while kissing Lilly, sending Eddie off to school and getting into another hair-brained scheme with Grandpa ... • NHL Playoffs: 'Canes Mutiny: Rampant Tropical Weather Systems even series with Sabres. • MLB: Richie Sexson and grand slam just kind of go together, don' they? Mariners be...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as TiVo begins recording scenes from your life, including that time you killed a guy (too bad "The Twilight Zone" is cancelled; we'd make a bundle with that one) ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Boston. OK, back to good, old-fashioned intraleague hatred. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Sabres at ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: England
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: England! And for World Cup previews th...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penske crew chief Matt Borland: Was that you I saw yesterday on the side of the road leaning against a Volvo, waiting for Triple A? • 2 p.m.. Baseball with Buster Olney: How's the Roger Clemens recruiting coming? I head that the ...
They Shoot Theismann, Don't They?
The news appears to be improving for Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner who went down during the Preakness with a broken hind leg. Not since that Joe Theisman video did we recoil quite so much during a sporting event (we were all sad when they had to shoot Joe in the lockerroom afterwards, weren't...
The Closer: Mr. Met Kicks Some Cross-Town Booty
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while consoling a sad Johnny Cakes ... • NBA Playoffs: Well, that took longer than it should have. Pistons pull plug on LeBron, Cavs 79-61. • MLB: Our long national nightmare is over. Abreu's five RBI help sink Red Sox, end Phils' five-game loss streak. • NHL Playoffs: Edmonton Fossi...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the NSA listens in on your Chinese takeout order ... • NBA Playoffs: Eastern Conference semifinals, Game 6, Detroit at Cleveland; Western Conference semifinals, Game 6, San Antonio at Dallas. These series are not going as planned. We like that. [ESPN] • MLB: Atlanta at Arizona. Home...
Hey, It's Rivalry Week!
Ah, to be a Yankees fan at Shea Stadium. It's a good thing that someone is rudely making rabbit ears behind this kids' head, or else he'd surely be clocked by the other kid with the miniature bat. We're not sure what to think of interleague play. On one hand, a game between the Mets and Yankees th...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Costa Rica
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: Costa Rica! And for World Cup previews...
The Bond Between Man And Beer, Let No One Break Asunder
Eat your heart out, Zack Hample. The ultimate collector of baseballs has nothing on an unnamed man in Ogden, Utah, who drank an estimated 24 beers a day for eight years, and never threw away any of the cans. When a realtor tried to enter the man's townhouse recently, he found that he had trouble o...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Rattlers' WR/DB Randy Gatewood: What does nine years in the Arena Football League even feel like? Have you ever wished you could look up between plays and see a cloud? • 2 p.m.. Boxing with Dan Rafael: I say, that man struck th...
Daily Closer: You're A Good Man, Kerry Wood
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking 28 action photos of Bigfoot, all with the lens cap on ... • NBA Playoffs: Suns Branded — Elton scores 30 as Clippers force Game 7. Haven't we done this already? • MLB: Pujols has two hits and two RBIs to lead Cardin ... no wait, sorry, do-over. University of Illinois gra...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while very much enjoying Lima Time ... • PGA Tour: Bank of America Colonial, first round, at Fort Worth. If having a Fred Funk poster on our bedroom wall is wrong, then we don't want to be right. [USA] • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay. It's every young boy's dream to one day wear ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Croatia
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: Croatia! And for World Cup previews th...
Goleo, We Hardly Knew Ye
The scene: a conference room somewhere in Germany. Men in business suits are seated around a long conference table. The man at the head of the table begins to speak (for your convenience, we translate from the original German): "Gentlemen, I suppose you're wondering why I called you here today. I ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: Go to bed old man! • 2 p.m. Chicago Fire's Chris Rolfe: What exactly did Andy Herron do to earn a six-game suspension? • 4 p.m. College hoops with Andy Katz: How many of these games have you played ...