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About Last Night ...
What you missed while mourning the loss of Ingmar Bergman ... • Cycling: Alberto Contador wins Tour de France (pending urinalysis). • Motor sports: So Tony Stewart pretty much owns the Brickyard, eh? • MLB: That sound you hear is THE CUBS a half-game out of first!...
NFL Season Preview: Carolina Panthers
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, running one every weekday, we have to start this week. So there you have it....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you're Waiting for the DJ... • MLB: ESPN Sunday Night Baseball St. Louis at Atlanta. Willie Harris needs just 51 consecutive hits to break DiMaggio's record tonight (not really). [ESPN] • Professional Doping: Stage 14 of the Tour de France. Eat Pyrenees, bitches! [Versus] • The F...
I knew well in advance that I'd come out of the Winky Wright/Bernard Hopkins fight frustrated, confuse, and unfulfilled like Katie Holmes' first romantic encounter with Tom Cruise. Truthfully I can't even bring myself to write up my thoughts on the fight, besides, I feel as if I've already inundated...
For Those With Too Much Expendable Income
We're not obsessed with playing golf, but one thing we can tell you about those who are: They'll buy any piece of junk you put in front of them if they think it'll improve their game....
ESPN's Secret Interoffice Complaint Memorandum
Sometimes we forget, in all the frustrations and angst that watching ESPN causes us, that Bristol really is just an office. An office with a cafeteria, a human resources department, water coolers, parking spaces and football analysts who take pictures of their penis. It's like all of our offices. So...
Phillies Get Started On The Next 10,000
I think we all remember the halcyon days of April 1883; a simpler time, when Chester Allen Arthur was President, the Brooklyn Bridge had just opened and the Philadelphia Phillies franchise had no losses whatsoever....
Adam Laroche Knows Comedy
You know, it's really difficult to find a species of human being with a more refined sense of humor than a professional baseball player. Hell, the Padres all urinate on each other, after all....
Phillies Fans Finally Find Their Happy Place
While hanging out at the ole Philly Pants Party this weekend, we were amazed when a man, during our tailgate, walked up and handed us a flier. "Celebrate 10,000!" it said, with the requisite Web site all posted up and ready to go. The guy was wearing a Phillies jersey and, it seemed, in most circums...
Dwight Gets His Schrutebucks
In case you hadn't heard, Dwight Freeney signed a monster long-term deal with the Colts yesterday. And it really is a monster: six-years, $72 million, which also includes a nice little $30 million signing bonus....
It's Philly Pants Party Eve
A reminder to those coming along for the Philadelphia Pants Party tomorrow: Be ready for booze. (And dudes.)...
You Could Be Rich Garces' BFF
You want a gift that keeps on giving? The Boston Globe is currently running what might be the greatest contest since "Whack J.D. Drew Day."...
Your Definitive RPS Report
We didn't have the opportunity to watch the big replay of the Rock Paper Scissors tournament over the weekend — what a grand three days of sports we have on tap this week! — but we were hoping that it was like competitive eating, in that there was a modicum of training and skill involved. According ...
The Wind Was Angry That Day, My Friends
"Help! The infield tarp has got me!" If you heard those words, what would you do? The host Colorado Rockies cowered in their dugout, but the Phillies' Shane Victorino is made of stronger stuff. Hearing the panicky cries of Rockies groundskeeper Keros Johnson, who was trapped in the middle of a wind-...
Saturday Afternoon Stuff To Watch
12 p.m. — Drag Racing: NHRA Sportsman Series in Norwalk, Ohio [ESPN2] 12:15 p.m. — Movie: Best In Show [TBS] 1 p.m. — 2003 ALCS Game 7, Red Sox at Yankees [ESPN Classic] 3 p.m. — PGA Tour: AT&T National, Third Round [CBS] 3 p.m. — Arena Football Playoffs: Colorado Crush at San Jose SaberCats [ESPN] ...
Bad Day For Neshek
It was a bad day all around for Pat, who suffered his first loss last night. Fortunately, his beautiful designed Web site — not that we should talk — will keep updating, and even putting up these in-no-way-uncomfortable-to-watch videos. Next year, Pat. Next year....
Today, A Victory For America
We just returned from Joey Chestnut's world record breaking performance at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Championship, and, to be entirely honest with you, we're not sure when we've had more fun at a sporting event. Full report tomorrow ... but as for now ... USA! USA! USA! Nobody eats like us!...