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About Last Night ...
What you missed while lamenting the cancellation of the World Series of Strip Poker ... • MLB: Bonds gains ground as Giants lose some. • Soccer: First the Atlanta Braves fail to win their division, and now this? • Women's World Basketball Championship: You could have let this humble African nation w...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch listening obsessively to Bob Dylan's radio show... • Basketball: World Championship for Women, preliminary round, USA vs. Nigeria, at Sao Paolo, Brazil. Do they use that same oddly-colored ball? [FSN] • MLB: Texas at Detroit. Tigers holding on by their fingernails ... come on! If you d...

MSNBC Is Bringing Barbaro Back
We don't know what possessed MSNBC to dig up two-month-old Barbaro content today, but they did. And the specific column that they decided to dust off for readers is a doozy. Here now is Bernie Lincicome of the Rocky Mountain News, who tapped out a heartfelt ode to everyone's favorite injured steed o...

Smiles, Everyone! Smiles!
As we mentioned Tuesday, FIFA president Sepp Bladder wants to get Marco Materazzi and Zinedine Zidane together on an island for a final reconcilliation concerning the infamous World Cup head-butting incident. But after a full 24 hours of being mocked by the British tabloids, this crackpot scheme may...

The Dance, She Is Over
Something seems amiss today. We can't quite put our finger on it ... a great disturbance in The Force, like a million baseball fans crying out at once. So we did what we always do when world events confuse us; we headed over to Wikipedia. And sure enough:...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 3 p.m. NCAA football with Beano Cook: Yeah, those things on the helmets are called facemasks. We think they may catch on. • 4 p.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: So we're guessing at this point the nickname has something to do with ice cream?...

The Closer: Making Headlines The Royals Way
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while inquiring about the Holy Grail ... • MLB: Six errors? No problem! We're the Cubs! • Soccer: FC Barcelona clobbers Levski Sofia of Bulgaria 5-0, as ... um, we lost you at "soccer," didn't we? • Women's World Basketball Championship: Feel our wrath, China! Now manufacture us some...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as it is revealed that Lance Armstrong actually cheated by using Flubber ... • Basketball: World Championship for Women, preliminary round, USA vs. China, at Sao Paolo, Brazil. Same-day tape ... Internet users, please do not reveal the shocking conclusion of the USA vs. China game. [F...

And Somewhere, Fred Smoot Sheds A Tear
The country is England, the sport is "Conger Cuddling," and the athlete pictured here is pointing his ... wait a minute ... no! His eel! He's preparing to toss an eel! You people are disgusting sometimes....

Failure To Launch
In these troubled times in which we live, we believe that it's good to feed the soul occasionally with some inspiring words from a true American. Such a man is Texas Longhorns fan and sometimes actor Matthew McConaughey. Let us never forget his fiery speech from last week, leading up to the Texas-Oh...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: Alll I can say is, George Reeves must have had a similar fantasy team to mine. • Noon MLB with Rob Neyer: I have just beaten a home intruder senseless with Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders. • 3 ...

The Closer: Freakin' Marlins ... !
Notes from a day in baseball:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering why you haven't seen Naked Cowboy lately ... • NFL: You know, it's very possible that Oakland might win one game this year. • MLB: If I were a Carpenter ... Cardinals win! We are light as a feather, we are as happy as an angel, we are as merry as a schoolboy. We are a...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you wonder what the heck ever happpened to that third Manning brother ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at Atlanta. Why not beat the rush and give Dusty his going-away present now? [WGN] • NFL: Minnesota at Washington. Look out for Fred Smoot under those pileups. [ESPN] • NFL: San Diego at Oa...

The Fast And The Furryous
If you sat through more than one college football game on Saturday, then obviously you forgot that this past weekend was also the opening of hamster ball racing season. PETCO sponsored races at nearly all of its 800 stores in the U.S. on Saturday, which they called the Hamster Ball Derby. Accordin...

Mess With The Catman, Get The Claws
If we've said it once, we've said it a million times; when football broadcasters are allowed to attempt humor — especially at Fox Sports — it's all of us who suffer. Coming out OK in the end, though, was Carolina superfan Greg Good, known to all as Catman. Let's wrap up the details for you once ag...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. IRL champ Sam Hornish Jr.: So, do you guys have OnStar? • 3 p.m. NCAA FB with Mark Schlabach: Before Saturday's Penn State-Notre Dame game, when was the last time that two non-helmet logoed teams have met? • 12 p.m. NFC East bre...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while securing your clove hitch ... • Tennis: Switzerland Rules! ... Roger Federer tops Andy Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 for third consecutive U.S. Open title. • NFL: Rush Limbaugh's favorite quarterback throws three TDs as Philadelphia Eagles stifle Houston No-Bushes. • MLB ... AL We...