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Life Lessons With Darryl Strawberry
About a month-and-a-half ago, we told you about an auction that could bring Darryl Strawberry to your classroom to teach your kids a few lessons. We liked the idea and wished we had some spare change hanging around ourselves. We could use a lecture or two from Darryl....
The Bay Area Athletics Of Fremont?
For years, people have been figuring out how to either attract fans in Oakland — remember, they closed off the upper deck this year, and few complained — or how to get the heck out of there. Well, it seems like they might have finally figured out how to bolt the Coliseum: Head to Fremont!...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Pacific-10 Conference
Thought we were done previewing things? How could you think that, with your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool a mere five months away? You've got to start studying now if you want to beat that chick in the mail room. So who's with me? Let's Gooo! (Please send contributions to [email protected]...
Lonnie Smith Wanted To Shoot John Schuerholz
We had heard that Lonnie Smith, the former Cardinals and Braves outfielder whose frenetic baserunning was almost as breathtaking as watching him try to play defense (Bill James once pointed out that Smith "really does fall down almost every game), had battled some drug problems back in the late '80s...
NBA Roundup: Return Of The Donald
Taking a look at Monday's action in the National Basketball Association:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while cautiously negotiating the bunny hill ... • NFL: Seahawks prevail over Raiders despite knee to the groin. • NBA: Jazz Man ... Okur's block preserves Utah's win over Detroit. • NHL: Virtually meaningless statistic of the week: Ducks beat Penguins to tie mark for most straight ga...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Atlantic 10 Conference
Thought we were done previewing things? How could you think that, with your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool a mere five months away? You've got to start studying now if you want that edge. So let's go. (Please send contributions to [email protected])....
Welcome To The Moe Howard 500
Our next story comes from Texas, land of lizards and slapstick, where a NASCAR rivalry boiled over into, well, pretty much what you might expect. Following the Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, an "unidentified crewman for Scott Riggs' team" knocked over driver Kevin Harvick, his wife...
About Last Night ...
What to watch as you prepare for a little light home improvement work ... • NFL: He's a clutch wideout impacting the game, talking 'bout eight seven, my homey Reggie Wayne. Breaking all the records, the best we've all seen, it's the dynamic duo eighty eight and eighteen ... • NBA: Sonic Nation ... L...
About Last Night...
• NBA: Wizards 124, Celtics 117. Gilbert Arenas came out during the pregame intros in a boxing robe, and then scored 44. It's what he does. • College Football: Arkansas 26, South Carolina 20. Darren McFadden, 219 yards rushing and two touchdowns. Decent night. • Boxing: Floyd Mayweather wins unanimo...
Block A Shot And Boogie: A Day In The Life Of Isiah
This is an older video, and we've never seen it ... but that doesn't make it any less hypnotic. Shake it, Isiah ... SHAKE IT!...
It's Really Just Cruel To Not Allow Rasheed To Bitch And Moan
Much has been written about the new "zero tolerance" rule in the NBA, which allows referees to slap a technical on anybody who so much as sneezes in their general direction. Already, three players have been ejected because of the new rules, including Mike Bibby, Carmelo Anthony and, yes, Rasheed Wal...
Funny How All The Corn Is Brown And Dying
If it's October or November, in part of the country that isn't infested with commie pinko postgraduate hippie folk — that is to say, the middle part — the season means one thing: Corn mazes!...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing "GI Joe pulls over the Barbie Dream Car and does a strip search" ... • College football: Louie Louie, oh oh, we gotta go now ... No. 5 Louisville tops No. 3 West Virginia. • NBA: Cuban on his best behavior (kind of), but Mavericks still lose to Spurs. • NHL: Can anyone ...
Stop Shuler Surrenders To The Polls
We have told you before about the noble quest of StopShuler.com, produced by a group of Redskins fans who want to keep their former quarterback — and current Congressional candidate — Heath Shuler from returning to Washington....
Please, Sir, Keep The Gutteral Utterances To Yourself
This is Al Argibay, and he has a goatee and, we presume, walks around making this arm motion all day. And he's pissed, because he was just thrown out of his gym for grunting too loud....
Mota Somehow Finds Way To Fail Drug Test
Yesterday, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota was suspended 50 games for testing positive for steroids, and, as Baseball Musings points out, he at least didn't do the "might have accidentally put the wrong thing in my body" excuse; he manned up and apologized for his mistake. The suspension proves what w...
NBA Roundup: Isiah Thomas Farewell Tour Makes First Stop
Notes from yesterday's action in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while apologizing for a subpar day for your site yesterday ... you'll do better today ... • NBA: Nellie's back, an so are the Warriors we've come to know and love. LA 110, Golden State 98. • NHL: AFLAC duck storms out in disgust as Jagr's overtime goal (the 104th game-winner of his c...
NBA Kicks Off In Earnest, And That Means It's Isiah Time!
Well, it's a beautiful time of the year, because not only is there a full slate of NBA games tonight, but one of them involves ... the Knicks! Yep, Isiah's boys tip off tonight in the strangely disappointing locale of Memphis, as they face the Grizzlies. Of all the games tonight, we're most intrigue...