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Zack Greinke: "Let Me Go Home!"
The truly amazing folks at Yard Work — an anonymous blog that's written in the voices of ESPN writers and "personalities" — are having a grand time playing around with ESPN.com's new "writing" gig for A's closer Huston Street. Yard Work imagines a continuous column written by Royals starter Zack G...
Wait ... Where <em>Are</em> You, Anyway?
So we're watching Around The Horn right now. The panelists today are Jay Mariotti, Tom Cowlishaw, Bob Ryan and Bill Plaschke. They've been blabbering on about the NBA Finals for about 10 minutes now. They are reporters, talking about events on their beat, or at least that's the conceit, right?...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as the cops make various demands outside by bullhorn ... · Game 7, Pistons at Spurs: Let's see who the media can blame this time. · College World Series, Double-Elimination Round: Florida vs. ASU. Loser gets to leave Nebraska! · U.S. Open Women's Golf Championship. Or, as they call it ...
Left On Base: Burning Dolphin Rubber
· Corvette Summer: Dolphins' Quintin Williams arrested for drag racing. [Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel] · Sorenstam lures opponents into false sense of security at U.S. Open. [The Golf Blog] · What Game 7? Suns, Knicks talk Richardson-Thomas trade. [Sportsaholic] · Transsexual to play in women's socce...
Trippin' Balls
We have always heard the stories about former Pittsburgh Pirates Dock Ellis and his no-hitter in 1970. If you haven't, the legend has always been that Ellis threw a no-hitter that day while under the influence of LSD. We were never quite sure whether or not to believe it; we saw someone on LSD on...
Blogdom's Best: It's Cute When Newspaper Reporters Pretend They Go Online
News From Chairs With Little Rollers On Them ... · Boston Globe profiles message board poster, but gets everything wrong. [Sons Of Sam Horn] · White Sox fans finally starting to believe. They're totally going to regret it. [SouthSideSox] · Sympathy for Vinny Castilla and his "tired bat." [District o...
Tracking The Sportswriter Hacks
Tonight is Game 7 of the NBA Finals, which always inspires Cheetos-stained hacks to break out all their superlatives and bold proclamations. Like all sportswriters, they presume that no one will remember today's birdcage liner when tomorrow's hotsheets come out. But they are wrong. We are watching...
Would You Call This A Throw Pillow?
We've never been to Japan, but we have heard many stories, most notably about all the varied ways a blond girl from the United States could make some really easy and strange money simply by hanging around with uptight Japanese businessmen half her height. We always chalked these up to urban legen...
Well, "Talk" Is Just A Word, Really
NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus, representative of holding-out Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens and pretty much the most hated guy in the NFL right now, said this to a reporter last week:...
Today In MLB Blogs
As if the world doesn't hate us enough already, somebody got the bright idea recently to send Tommy Lasorda to other nations to act as our ambassador. He has just returned from Japan, where he was part of a "delegation" representing us at the World Expo. We know this because Tommy has just recoun...
For My Next Trick, I Will Get Punched In The Face Repeatedly
Many NBA players — all athletes, really — find that once their careers are over, they aren't quite sure what to do with themselves. Should they become a coach? A commentator? Start a car dealership? Spend some time with their 14 children spread across the country? NBA veteran Kendall Gill has a n...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: Isn't this June? Instead of devising a seven-month plan to acquire Mark Brunell, shouldn't I be, oh, I don't know, having a life? · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Once again I've strained a tendon trying to lea...
The Goofy Brooklyn Nets Design
Now that the NBA lockout is settled and we are assured of continuous basketball until 2010, we can now look forward to the most intriguing franchise move of all: The New Jersey Nets heading to Brooklyn. While some people debate the merits of a new stadium at all, Nets owner Bruce Ratner has skipp...
About Last Night ...
What you missed due to the fact that what happened in Vegas, didn't stay in Vegas ... · Austin Powers: Texas reaches CWS championship round. · French dissed again: Campbell pulls out of French Open. · Clemens, age 43, wins 334th game. You, age 26, pull a muscle playing video poker....
Sneakers: Rock The Vote, America!
We know that the whole point of ESPN's Page 2 is to write about the culture of sports, from entertainment to clothing to ... well, whatever the media kit says, just trust that. But this is getting ridiculous....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as life passes you by in a conga line outside your window ... Mets at Phillies. This meeting of the Doug Mientkiewicz Fan Club will now come to order. Wimbledon After Dark. We won't tell you what happened. CWS: Texas vs. Baylor. The ping! you hear means that none of these guys will be ...
Left On Base: Rose's Sad Gallop Continues
Rose will go to Cooperstown. Don't get excited: he's just signing autographs. [MSNBC] Larry Brown may be talking to Knicks. Yeah, that's just the move to improve your health. [Akron Beacon-Journal] Dodgers: "Screw it, let's just disband." Gagne to have season-ending surgery. [BrownBullfrogBaseball] ...
And The Children Shall Lead Them ...
Minor league promotions are always fun — we were a big fan of the team that gave out free vasectomies for Father's Day a few years back — but the Northern League's Kansas City T-Bones have come up with a great one. In July, the first two innings of the game will be played by two kids on an XBOX o...
Blogdom's Best: It's Bad Enough We Have To Watch It <em>Once</em>
News And Views From People For Whom RSS Is A Stat ... All-Baseball.com columnist begs and pleads for instant replay to stay away from the diamond. [All-Baseball.com] A remembrance of Darryl Kile, three years to the day of his death. [Viva El Birdos] Unfortunately, SportsCenter is still planning on s...
This, Of Course, Means You Can't Use Your Hands In Heaven
It's actually kind of surprising we haven't heard of this before, though if it were to happen, it was obviously going to be soccer. The Reading soccer club of England can now buy an officially licensed coffin. The coffin weighs 500 pounds and is a "blue and white striped coffin adorned with the c...