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World Series of Poker Resuscitated by ESPN Cameras
ESPN's gambit to shut down the World Series of Poker for four months to give them time to pump up the nine participants at the final table (and position the final table action in a better time slot and month for them) seems to have paid off, with ratings up on the shows leading up to the main event'...
Diamondbacks Lay Off Dozens of Employees (Not Including Adam Dunn)
The purge of off-field employees has started in earnest this Credit Crunch offseason, with the Arizona Diamondbacks releasing 31 employees (around 10% of the entire front office), mostly from the broadcast side of the business as a result of selling all their games to Fox Sports Arizona. Yet again, ...
Afternooon Blogdome: Just a Little Off the Top
• Keeping it all in the family in Boston could lead to skimming "foam" off the top of beer sales at Fenway. (The foam is your money.) [Fenway West] • Speaking of the Red Sox, will the New York Times be forced to give up its share of the Boston baseball club to cover its debts? [Squawking Baseball] •...
HS Championship Game Delayed Due to Lack of Referees
Sure, game officials are the bane of existence and they're all out to cheat for the other team and they're incompetent and corrupt and love being the center of attention and cause eczema in laboratory rats. However, unless someone figures out how to call their own 12-men-on-the-field penalties, you ...
Speedo's Olympic Success Leads to Financial Dilemma for Universities
The theory of trickle-down economics got an Urban Dictionary-style redefinition after the Summer Olympics in August after watching approximately 312,847,708 world records mutilated in the Water Cube, thanks in large part to wearing new LZR Racer suits from Speedo. Now, of course, collegiate and high...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Is This How You Kids Go Hawaiian?
• 12:00 — Biography: Donny and Marie Osmond [BIO] - "Well, you might like to hear some accordion; make that squeezebox swing." (This is our way to suggest that perhaps this is the day to clean out the eaves if you're not a fan of the football.) • 12:00 — Sport: Tennis - Sony Ericsson Championships, ...
Morning Blogdome: And Pennzoil Sponsored the Honeymoon
• Carl Edwards will have his main sponsor, Office Depot, create his wedding invitations using Office Depot wedding invitation stock. Now that's devotion to a sponsor that his bride-to-be will appreciate only after seeing that first check she officially owns half of. (And for the record: if you value...
Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe fluttered Roy Jones, Jr. with a million love taps and took a unanimous decision at MSG over the man who seemed to have married into the Pound-for-Pound-Champion clan in the late 90s as it seemed to become his surname. That divorce is final as Calzaghe, 36, recovered from a bit of a surp...
Obama Love Can Have No Boundaries (Like Decorum)
This is Vancouver's General Motors Place, home of the Vancouver Canucks. During Tuesday's Canucks-Predators game, the largest cheer came for Barack Obama's ascendancy in American politics. Our time in Canada involved mostly two questions, ad nauseum: "Are you an American?" and "Isn't it great about ...
To Watch Tonight: Whatever Happened to General Eisenhower?
What to watch while not watching porn at work anymore ... • Movie: *batteries not included (8:30 pm ET) [HBO Family] - "Frank! It's the love boat to Cuba! Shuffle board and pineapples filled with rum. Know what they do? They put little paper umbrellas sticking out the top so that when it rains, it d...
"Despite the NFL's immense popularity among TV viewing audiences in America, ESPN executives told Arizona State University (journalism) students Friday that it is still a challenge to get the nation to care about (Monday Night Football)." Maybe another John McCain appearance? Stack people like cordw...
Install Texas Stadium End Zone in Your Back Yard (Cheerleaders Included)
In a blatant effort to rearm the Salvation Army in order to fight street to street in the urban centers and rural battlegrounds of America, Jerry Jones and a Coalition of the Willing to Appear Charitable in a Very Public Fashion have offered a unique combination of the gauche and the gaucho to the w...
Afternoon Blogdome: Cause AI and Obama Both Have Lousy Shot Selection
• Rasheed Wallace hooks up the Pistons with Obama Undrcrwn gear, which leads to a very unfortunate AI-Obama comparison from a very white man in desperate need of a segue. [Need4Sheed] • Beisketboll has been berry berry good to Josh Childress in Greece: "We watched a bartender kneel at his feet, and ...
Sailing Around the World: One Way to Avoid Luggage Fees
The Venti test: How many of those buggers you can down with three shots of espresso each without causing your heart to burst from your chest like a torso-based version of "Scanners". The Vendee test: Complete the Vendee Globe race, wherein you sail by yourself around the whole blessed world without ...
Beckett, Lester Take Aim at Charity (and Pull Trigger)
Josh Beckett, putative Red Sox ace, believes the best charity comes at the end of a shotgun. Therefore, he has gathered all his rowdy friends (including fellow hurler Jon Lester-Who-Once-Had-Cancer, comedian Bill Engvall, and singer Troy Gentry) to his ranch this weekend, where they will hold the fi...
All-Purpose Pitching Machine Also Teaches Kids Not to Lie
We had this one really hard teacher in junior high. You know the type of teacher that thinks they're preparing you for the harsh realities of adulthood through tough love, including random screaming and no late papers and picking books about four grades higher than your class' skill set and wonderin...