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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you eat your Krispy Kreme (notice the words on the graphic in the upper right corner of the above video) ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Ricky "Let Sanctions Work" Quiles vs. Nate "The Vegan" Campbell, at Tampa. [ESPN2] • Motor sports: NASCAR Busch Series, Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200, fi...

Fever Pitch ... Throughout History
The Sporting News has a good piece about the evolution of pitching, which we read with interest until seeing the dreaded word "gyroball," which tends to provoke in us the same reaction as the word "disco." But until then there are some fun tidbits, such as the fact that until 1881, the distance from...

Stupid Sexy Jockeys ...
What could be worse than being busted for marijuana in a random drug test? Well, perhaps being known for the rest of your life as "The Dildo Jockey." Yeah, that would be a little embarrassing, we think....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy League injuries: Ow, my pants! • 1 p.m. Boise State quarterback Jared Zabransky: How come my Playstation NCAA '08 won't run the Statue of Liberty? • 2 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: Is it true the upper brackets ar...

NBA Roundup: Cowabunga, Dude!
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night
What you missed while shooting the curl ... • NBA: It's obvious that a freak radiation accident has given the Mavericks super powers. • Baseball: Zito vs. Soriano, Round One. • College basketball: Virginia beats Virginia Tech; Virginia Graham has mixed emotions....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you eat cereal from a football helmet ... • College basketball: Virginia Tech at Virginia; Memphis at Texas-El Paso. Fighting Gobblers peck it out for state pride and ACC supremacy. [ESPN] • College basketball: George Washington at Charlotte; North Carolina at Georgia Tech. Heels ca...

Sorry: More On Livingston's Knee Injury
First off, in no way are we dismissing the severity of Shaun Livingston's devastating knee injury from Monday. We simply can't imagine going through that ... we got queasy watching Marcia Brady getting hit in the nose by the football. But that being said, there is no denying that Livingston's knee n...

Barry Bonds Never Can Say Goodbye
The most telling exceprt from KGO radio's big interview with Barry Bonds on Tuesday? It wasn't that Bonds has apparently been getting death threats (there's enough nuts out there to make that sadly inevitable). Nor was it that Bonds says he feels "exhausted" (honestly, when hasn't he?). We're not ev...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1:30 p.m. Texas DB Aaron Ross: More of in Texas: Books or longhorn hood ornaments? • 2 p.m. NHL with Scott Burnside: My sweater is pulled over my head, my brother is pummeling me and we're banging things with sticks. In other words, we...

NBA Roundup: Upon Further Review, Cornbread Maxwell Is Sorry
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while planning your lunar eclipse party ... • College basketball: Texas fought the Law and the Law didn't win. • NBA: Suns finally lose to an Eastern Conference team, and it's, wait ... who? • NHL: No sooner does Bill Guerin make his debut for Sharks than he is sadly devoured by Pred...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as, for some reason, Dick Vitale posters start replacing Chairman Mao posters all over China ... • College basketball: Villanova at Connecticut; Maryland at Duke. The tournament committee should be just about ready to screw up the brackets after this. [ESPN] • College basketball: India...

... And Italy Is Awarded Another Penalty Kick
When even French TV announcers are laughing at your attempts to take a dive, perhaps it's time to just consider playing straight up. Even Barry Bonds is looking at this and saying "That's cheating, dude."...

Mission Accomplished
So if we're understanding Shaq correctly, the past few NBA MVP awards have been tainted, but being lauded by the current Commander-In-Chief is juuuust fine. No taint there....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 12:30 p.m. Nebraska DE Adam Carriker: Tell us some of those inspiring Illinois Benedictine College Eagles football stories that coach Callahan used to tell you, please? • 1 p.m. Page 2's Patrick Hruby: We would like to hear more about ...

Well, That Was A Bit Of A Letdown
Whether she was channeling Bruce Pearl or Minnie Pearl, Pat Summitt's antics before the Tennessee men's game on Tuesday was the least offensive aspect of the evening, as it turns out. When one considers that Dick Vitale was there, and that Peyton Manning was in the crowd singing, viewers should cons...

NBA Roundup: Solar Power
Notes from Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering where the hell is Beeks? ... • NBA: Teams with carnivorous mammals in their nicknames now officially just barely trying when they play the Mavericks. • NHL: Bertuzzi, 24 others suddenly have a lot of packing to do. • College basketball: Attention ... Pittsburgh can st...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you are beaten savagely by your Verizon network ... • College men's basketball: Michigan State at Michigan; Florida at Tennessee. As long as all the coaches remain clothed, everything's gonna be juuust fine ... [ESPN] • NHL: Dallas at Tampa Bay. Stars vs. Lightning would be bette...