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One Tiny Tidbit On: The Reds, The Twins, The Blue Jays and The Rangers
Baseball is here! Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're previewing the season by going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. Today we close out this feature with four leftover tidbits from four different teams. On Monday we'll begin previewing the Worl...
Bad News Bears
We hate to get all Jim Calhoun on you today, but this kind of rankles us: why was Maine forced to play the University of Wisconsin at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee in one of college hockey's Frozen Four semifinals? "It's a tough environment to come into," Maine senior captain Greg Moore told the...
"Cut Me, Doc, Cut Me. Oh, Check, By The Way"
While everyone is focusing on the World Cup, another big event being hosted by Germany is tragically being ignored: The European Chessboxing Championships. The only board game which requires talcum and a cut man begins on April 21 in Cologne with two fights; the first between German middleweights ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Before we begin, please go into the bathroom and fill this. Thanks. • Noon. NBA with Ric Bucher: A San Francisco-based writer for a national audience? What a stupid concept. • 2 p.m. Boxing Promotor Don...
About Last Night ...
What you missed as your approval rating at home dipped below 35 percent ... • NBA: Nets, who may never lose again, win 14trh straight behind Kidd, Jefferson. • MLB: Now this is what we're talkin' about — threats, beanballs, Pedro Martinez wins first start ... it's what Mets vs. Nationals should be. ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your collection of bobble-head dolls hold a closed-door meeting concerning your collection of Barbie dolls ... • College Ice Hockey: NCAA Division I tournament, semifinals, at Milwaukee, Boston College vs. North Dakota; Maine vs. Wisconsin. Our brackets are a mess; we're just watchi...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Diamondbacks
Baseball is here! Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're previewing the season by going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. Today: The Arizona Diamondbacks. Tomorrow we c...
Power To The Peepl
Reaction continues to pour in on yesterday's spelling bee post (OK, we got one note, which was attached to a rock and thrown through our window). Toward the end of the post we noted that there are actually people who protest in front of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.; folks ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLS star Alecko Eskandarian: Oh, like you had to put "MLS star" in front of this name? Isn't that like putting "Golf star" in front of Tiger Woods? • 3 p.m. Baseball author Nate Silver: Hit me with some obscure statistics, you g...
Anybody Actually Watching This Show (Other Than Us)?
Here's the thing about the ESPN "reality" series Bonds on Bonds; everyone seems to have an opinion on it, but practically no one has actually seen it. Even Barry himself missed the debut episode on Tuesday. We don't know what the ratings were, but they can't be good; ESPN went into damage control ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while tearfully writing your very last love letter to Katie Couric ... • MLB: Rollins hit streak to 38, but Phils lose to Cards 4-3. Come on, people! Where's the love for Rollins? • NBA: Knicks top Cavs to end nine-game losing streak, but Larry Brown still isn't buying any new proper...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your car's navigation system keeps directing you to Hooters ... • Boxing: Junior middleweights, J.C. Candelo vs. Verno Phillips, at New Orleans. Just what the city needs after all its been through. Sanctioned fisticuffs. [ESPN2] • MLB: St. Louis at Philadelphia. It's Mulder vs. Scul...
Four More Tiny Tidbits On: The Devil Rays
Baseball is here! Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're previewing the season by going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. Today: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays. By the way,...
When Words Collide
It was the mother of all spelling bees; the 1971 Chiefs-Dolphins of word competition. In case you were for some reason watching basketball on Saturday, two young contestants in the Treasure State Spelling Bee in Billings, Mont., slugged it out for four and a half hours — 25 rounds — before a champ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1:30 p.m. NBA with Chris Broussard: When is Ron Artest going to drop the charade and stuff someone into a garbage can? (I have April 10 in my office pool.) • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: I've noticed that in the New Testament ...
Needling Barry, Day Two
Sorry, we can't show you any fresh anti-Bonds signs today. The Giants' game with the Padres at Petco Park was postponed; the first Padres rainout since 1998, and only the 16th in their 38-year history. Just as well, because the ESPN reality series Bonds on Bonds debuted that evening, and who wants...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while trading in your wife for a donkey ... • Women's College Basketball: Shell Game — Maryland Terrapins take first national title, beating Duke in OT. • NBA: So the Nets are good now? Who new? New Jersey's 13th straight win clinches Atlantic Division title. • MLB: Dodgers' first ...
Three Tiny Tidbits On: The Twins
Baseball is here! Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're previewing the season by going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. Today: The Minnesota Twins....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. ESPN Radio's Mike Greenberg: Oh, we see! You are the prissy one, and Mike Golic is the slob! And from this comes the humorous situations! • 4 p.m. Phoenix Suns' Eddie House: Duke and UConn in the finals, Eddie? How'd that pool w...
It's Never The Crime, It's Always The Coverup ...
We know football season is five months off, but it may take that long to unravel this mystery. At the risk of going all CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on you, we present the photo above, sent in from a reader with the following note attached:...