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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLS with DC's Jamie Moreno: Ow, my shorts! • 4 p.m. Football Scientist KC Joyner: Are you telling me ... that I just put an abnormal brain ... into a 7-foot tall ... 52-inch wide ... three hundred and fifty pound gorilla? • 10 p...
Just When We Think The Yankees Are Out Of It, Someone Pulls Them Back In
Roger Clemens — you may remember him — is back in the news, having been arrested in a Minnesota restroom for soliciting sex from an undercover ... whoa, sorry. Let's back up. I've made a painful error; let's start over. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) threw six innings of two-hit ball against the Red Sox...
About Last Night
What you missed while scrubbing your retinas ... • MLB: Yankees get your hopes up before their inevitable demise. NY 4, Boston 3. • Basketball: Actual USA Today headline ... "LeBron's Laser-Sharp Focus Leads USA Over Uruguay" • Soccer: In which we are shocked to learn that David Beckham is injured a...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while developing through chemicals the best damned roller skater in the nation ... • Basketball: FIBA Americas Championship, second round, at Las Vegas, Uruguay vs. USA. Uruguay's mascot is the fearsome two-toed sloth. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at New York Yankees. This looked a lot more c...
Andy Rooney Is Quite Old
Editor's Note: Given our longstanding love of Andy Rooney — we remind you that we own every book Andy Rooney has ever written — we've been trying to avoid any discussion of his recent and now infamous baseball column all week. Alas, inertia has overtaken us. To save our broken heart, we decided to h...
I Can Haz Maps Of The Iraq, And Such As ... ?
We've had some fun at the expense of our friend Lauren Caitlin Upton, the Miss Teen South Carolina who mangled a beauty pageant question so completely on Friday that the entire world is talking about it. Such as. But now it seems some real good has come of all this. A new web site has launched, Maps...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.. Morning Buzz: Have you noticed that ESPN's chat lineup is becoming less and less noticiable on their home page? • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: New slogan ... Excitement? You Bet Your Ass! • 2 p.m. Virginia Tech QB Sean Glennon...
Jumpin' Jacques Flash Has Chicago Glowing
In a world where the Milwaukee Brewers spent 125 days in first place, there was danger in the air for every Cubs fan. But a new wind was about to blow ... . Jacque Jones was once the object of ridicule and scorn at Wrigley Field; Cubs fans going from actively booing him to simply sitting on their ha...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while organizing your chickens ... • MLB: Your first-place Cubs drop the Brewers to third. Let's see, who does that leave in second? • Basketball: Small island territory falls to the might of LeBron James and the U.S. But Uruguay looms ... (ominous music) ... • Tennis: Um, you don't ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as all the verbs in your latest book project go on strike ... • Basketball: FIBA Americas Championship, second round, at Las Vegas, Canada vs. Argentina, at Las Vegas [FSN]; Puerto Rico vs. USA. Winner of Warm Weather bracket will meet winner of Cold Weather bracket for title. [ESPN2] ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy BB with Nate Ravitz: Is it weird to have invented a Colorform dress-up game in the likeness of Lenny DiNardo? • Noon. MLB Insider Rob Neyer: What's it like on the inside? is it anything like the outside, only with more ...
Miss Teen South Carolina Has Discovered The Map To Our Hearts
She captivated the nation with her controversial stances on maps, and "the Iraq, everywhere such as." Yesterday we showed you the video of her performance at the Miss Teen USA Pageant, and like the rest of "U.S. Americans," you instantly fell in love. Now, here's more of Miss Teen South Carolina Lau...
Brett Myers Wishes To Clear The Air
Only one apology in this edition of Who's Sorry Now?, if we're not counting Michael Vick. It's Phillies reliever Brett Myers, who expresses regret over calling Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Sam Carchidi "a retard" during a terse exchange Saturday. Myers had given up a couple of home runs against th...
Looks Like We Have Us Another Race, Folks
Well lookee here, the Padres have decided to make this interesting after all. Geoff Blum's two-run homer in the seventh and Jake Peavy's 11-strikeouts led San Diego to a 3-1 win over Arizona, cutting the Diamondbacks' lead in the West to two games. And since the teams play each other six more times ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while corraling your emu ... • MLB: Chase Utley is back, which can only mean ... World Series! Phillies 9, Mets 2. • Basketball: OK, this has got to be traveling, or carrying, or something ... U.S. easily handles Mexico in FIBA action. • Tennis: Roger Federer somehow beats the great ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Gods make moon go away ... • Basketball: FIBA Americas Championship, second round, at Las Vegas. U.S. vs. Mexico. You're going down, Bumble Bee Man. [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Detroit. It's a party, and for once you're invited. [ESPN2] • NFL: Preseason, Cincinnati at Atlanta...