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News And Views From Basements All Across America ... Is Indy Car Racing exploiting Danica Patrick? [SportsFan Magazine Two stupid kids with stupid older brothers get rich thanks to Scott Boras. [Amazin' Avenue] The lonely life of a Devil Rays blogger. [Drays Bay]...
Come See The Silly Sports!
We are but a month away from The World Games. What are The World Games, you ask? They're essentially a yearly audition for the Olympics by all the goofy sports that really would like to make it to the real games....
Clemens Sets Nerd Stat Record
If the sabermetric nerds ran the planet, Roger Clemens would have been carried off the Minute Maid Park field last night. In a 9-0 loss to the Reds, Clemens, according to The Hardball Times' Lee Sinins, set the all-time record in the RSAA (Runs Saved Against Average) statistic. What does that mean? ...
NHL Officially Falls Below Lacrosse
Even as it comes a little closer to a deal, according to the invaluable Eklund's Hockey Rumors, the NHL just keeps sliding closer to oblivion. Sportbusiness.com reports that ESPN has decided not to renew its option to broadcast NHL games next season....
MLB Is Down With The Kids, Dawg
Major League Baseball last weekend hosted the second annual (deep breath) "Little League Urban Initiative Jamboree." There are countless things that are amusing about this. Here are a few:...
Rose Goes In The Front, Big Guy
From a profile of Mike Lieberthal in the Delaware Country Times (Pa.):...
Jeter Rips The Lid Off
Following in the steps of Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter has now launched his own Web site through MLB.com. We've been making fun of Barry's site pretty regularly, particularly its tendency to use its position as Barry's Only Place To Talk To His Fans Without That Racist Media Standing In The Way to tel...
Words Fail Us
Rodman To Participate In World "Wife-Carrying" Championships In Finland [Fox Sports]...
Entering The Draft Too <em>Late</em>
For all the sturm und drang surrounding minimum age requirements and high schoolers entering the NBA Draft, rarely do people consider the poor saps who should have entered the draft, but didn't. At NBADraft.net, columnist Aran Smith looks at a few dolts who cost themselves millions by remaining in s...
Well, Bush Certainly Understands Black People
According to Bloomberg News, the NBA has hired Bush campaign consultant Matthew Dowd to clean up its image and bring in new fans. Dowd, who was Bush's "Chief Strategist" in his successful campaign last November, says he has given the league "some strategic advice," most notably on how to win fans th...
The Minor League War Zone
Rickey Henderson might be plying his trade with the San Diego Surf Dawgs, but his former team, the Newark Bears, are still playing their games in one of the country's worst hellholes. The blogger Extrawack went to a Newark game this weekend and came away depressed and terrified....
Mark Cuban Gets His Pat Croce On
One of the many things we admire about Mark Cuban is that he hasn't written one of those Donald Trump, Pat Croce-esque books about "How To Be A Winner" or "YOU Can Be A Success!" Cuban always seems to be honest about the whole thing; he had a hot dot-com, he sold it at the exact right time and he'...
Danica Mania: The Aftermath
Like a lot of people, we were on the couch Sunday, cheering on Danica Patrick — and, perhaps even more so, David Letterman — at the Indianapolis 500. A friend of ours was asking us the other day, perplexed, whether or not we found Danica Patrick physically attractive; we said that he was wrong to ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hopelessly entangled in the volleyball net ... Suns unnecessarily extend tedium. Frank Thomas returns from DL, sparking White Sox to ... no wait, he's hurt again. Men attack each other with large sticks for two hours. No one is arrested.—Rick Chandler...
To Watch Tonight ...
What To Watch While Searching For Your Pants ... Red Sox at Yankees: I'll have two beers, please ... one for drinkin', and one for throwin'. Gentlemen, start your Fandango. Unnecessary remake of Burt Reynolds classic The Longest Yard opens at a theater near you. Senior PGA Championship. Come watch t...
Leftovers: Soccer Hooligans On The Street
Liverpool soccer fans celebrate championship by drinking, dancing in streets. Or, as they otherwise call it — Friday. [A href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/story.jsp?story=641788">Belfast Telegraph] Hey Kellen Winslow, you know that $3 million we gave you? We need it back. [The D...
Whither David Aldridge?
An excellent post on SportsFrog.com brought up something we hadn't thought about in a while: Whatever did happen to David Aldridge? We know everyone was pretty pissed at him for that whole Celtics trade thing, but he was essentially banished for The Screamer That Is Stephen A. Smith. He supposedly...
Another Non-Descript Gay "Comes Out"
OK, we'll be honest: We're getting tired of gay athletes. What, you ask? You didn't know of any gay athletes? Well, the only gay athletes that exist, apparently, are those who play obscure sports at tiny universities. (The most only thing wrong with gay athletes is how they inspire every journalis...
He Would Have Scored Higher, But He Kept Losing His Pen
Fantastic tidbit from FootballOutsiders.com's "Four Downs" column, in the section about the New York Giants:...
Rickey Does What Rickey Does, Baby
Surprising no one, Rickey Henderson rocked in his San Diego Surf Dawgs debut last night. We honestly would lose our collective minds if Rickey made it back to the bigs; we think we would just follow him around, like Phish or the Grateful Dead or REO Speedwagon....