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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Luc Longley carries you and the TV out of the burning house ... • Arena Football: Georgia at Philadelphia. Nicknames? We're lost. Anyone? [ESPN2] • Baseball: New York Yankees at Minnesota. Welcome to the Snow Globe. [ESPN] • NBA: Pistons at Knicks. It's all right now, I learned my l...

Who's Sorry Now? Old Leatherface Edition
Does WFAN have an ombudsman? Because someone needs to tell the network to place Don Imus in a block of ice and shove him toward Greenland, where he can be unfrozen sometime in the future when they figure out a cure for old. Why was Imus racially taunting the Rutgers basketball team again? Not even h...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Mind if I call you Bob? • 3 p.m. After Jackie author Carl Fussman: Will you be promoting this on Imus in the Morning? • 4 p.m. Page 2's Patrick Hruby: No, I have no idea why the Pulitzer Committee is ignor...

NBA Roundup: LA Confidential
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basektball Association ......

The Daily Closer: Can We Panic Yet?
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing full contact Monopoly ... • NBA: Wade is back for Heat, but not at full strength, evidently. • MLB: The Giants are who we thought they were! • NHL: Islanders win shootout, trip to playoffs (no soup for Toronto)....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Pluto petitions Bud Selig for reinstatement to the Solar System ... • Boxing: Cruiserweights, Matt Godfrey vs. Felix Cora Jr., at Uncasville, Conn. [ESPN2]; Heavyweights, Travis Walker vs. George Garcia; heavyweights, Raphael Butler vs. Art Binkowski, at Minneapolis. Uncasville is a...

Minor Enterprise: Fisher Cats Fans, Assemble!
What's coming up in the world of minor league baseball ... it's the triumphant return of Rick Chandler's Minor Enterprise!...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy League injuries: Ow, my hair! • 2:30 p.m. Inside College hockey: Let's go right to the action, shall we? • 3 p.m. Force's WR Chris Jackson: Think Tampa Bay could use you now? We do....

NBA Roundup: Feel The Heat
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

The Daily Closer: Just Call Him A Good Pitcher And Leave It At That, OK?
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while in custody for attacking people with fresh fruit ... • MLB: No soup for you! Daisuke Matsuzaka fans 10 in seven innings in Yankees Red Sox debut. • NHL: Brodeur, Devils are Kings of the Atlantic. • NBA: Heat are in the playoffs, and those Cavs jerseys are making us thisty for o...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory tries again ... • Auto racing: Formula One, practice for Malaysian Grand Prix, at Kuala Lumpur. If you plan to watch this, well, here's to you. [Speed Channel] • College hockey: NCAA Division I Frozen Four at St. Louis, Maine vs. Michigan State; North D...

Some Lucky Prison Will Soon Have A Wacky Costumed Mascot
We're a bit late on this, but no matter: When the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Triple-A baseball team changed its affiliation from the Phillies to the Yankees this year, their mascot, The Grump, decided to celebrate in his own special way. Jay S. Hastings, who wears the mascot costume for the Yankees...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested chat questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Baseball insider Keith Law: ESPN hasn't talked about the gyroball for more than two hours now. What's going on? • 3 p.m. NHL with analyst Barry Melrose: Hitching their wagon to the World Extreme Cagefighting network ... wis...

NBA Roundup: Down Goes Zero!
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

The Daily Closer: Big Fun At Needle Park
Notes on the day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing ping pong with Hurley ... • MLB: Cubs ... win? Lilly administers 4-1 beatdown of Reds. • NBA: Zero goes down, as do Wizards' playoff hopes, most likely. • NHL: We spit on your 6-on-3 advantage! Caps 3, Thrashers 2....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you are menaced by giant squid ... • Major League Baseball: New York Mets at St. Louis. Seriously, kids: Braden Looper is starting tonight! [ESPN2] • NBA: Chicago at Detroit; Sacramento at Denver. Kings' Magical Misery Tour gets underway. [ESPN] • Soccer: UEFA Champions League, quar...

If Only This Policy Applied To Julian Tavarez
Note to Cincinnati Little Leaguers: You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. As we mentioned briefly last week, a new rule there for the upcoming season forbids any type of "negative chatter" during youth baseball games. To illustrate, we've made this chart....