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So There's This Big Soccer Game Today, I'm Told
Okay. Take a look to the east. See the sun rising? Okay, look at the little blotch of land right below it. Don't see it? Here, use my binoculars. Hmm... you still don't see it? Okay, well look at this Mercator projection map. Right there. England. Located somewhere in that country, probably in that ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as (no end to sentence due to writers' strike) ... • Boxing: Heavyweights, Eddie "Torture" Chambers vs. Calvin "Lou" Brock; lightweights, Josesito "Mario" Lopez vs. Tyrone Harris "Poll", Tacoma, Wash. [Showtime] • College football: Nevada at New Mexico State. The only animals more dang...

Colts and Pats Match-Up Poised to Tilt Axis of Earth
The Indianapolis Colts/New England Patriots death-match hype is reaching its condition critical stage, as every single person on the planet tangentially-related to either one of those regions or to sports writing has to have an opinion about it. They must. This is the game of the millennium, you see...

Blogdome: Shameless Plugging for Those Kind Enough to Send Me an E-mail
(Ed. note. Hi! Listen kids, I'm actually doing my Daily Examiner duties as well today, but will be done with it shortly so I can devote the rest of the time to you. Things will get better, oh, in about an hour. For now, I'm frantic and trying to do 15 things at once. Be patient. Thank you. Resume re...

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy FB with Scott Engel: Is this the New Nerddom? • 1 p.m. MLB with Jayson Stark: Could the Expos be brought back? Because A-Rod would like to play in Montreal. • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Raphael: Best boxing chat anywhere, a...

As Close As We Come To A Vacation
The last time we took a day off, Nick Saban announced he was headed to Alabama, Bill Cowher left the Steelers and a young man named A.J. Daulerio bought his plane ticket to head to the Super Bowl. How young we were! How little we knew!...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the Halloween sugar rush begins to subside ... • College football: Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech. One Tech to rule them all. [ESPN] • NBA: Detroit at Miami; Phoenix at Seattle. Finally, America can get its Nash on. [TNT] • Soccer: MLS, playoffs, Eastern Conference semifinal, second ...


Raiders Fans Would Rather Look Elsewhere, Thank You
It's not easy being a Raiders fan. First off: What goes with black? Seriously! It's also difficult to find time to cheer, what with all the drinking of infant's blood. And worst off, the Raiders' lousy game with the Texans this Sunday happens to be at the same time as The Most Important Battle Betwe...

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for tonight's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA football with Pat Forde: What does your wife think of all the Pat Forde groupies? • 2 p.m. SportsNation on ESPN Radio: Are you wearing pants? • 3 p.m. NHL with Barry Melrose: Is there shrinkage in hockey?...

High School Football: Gayer Than Gay?
This isn't easy to say so we're just going to say it: According to a new survey, one third of former high school football players have had sexual relations with other men. That's according to a new study to be published in the Journal of Sex Roles, which I totally just read by accident, and that's t...

What They Done To Our SI?
If you haven't read Sports Illustrated lately, well, never fear: Slate's Josh Levin has taken care of that for you. And it didn't take him very long. Those of us who remember curling up with an SI for a good hour-plus of intelligent reading probably don't even recognize the magazine anymore; instead...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as local punks egg your car ... • NBA: Dallas at Cleveland; Seattle at Denver. No Jub Jub? [ESPN] • NHL: Hurricanes at Panthers. Baby it's cold inside. [Fox Sports] • Movie: Poltergeist. You moved the headstones but you didn't move the bodies! You didn't move the bodies! [ABC FAM]...

In The '60s, The Wildcats Knew How To Party
Shannon Ragland, a Louisville-based self-published author, has written a new book claiming the a Kentucky-Xavier football game in 1962 was "fixed." Everyone's denying it, of course, but that's not even the best part. According to the book, old Kentucky players would receive blow jobs from dudes for ...

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA Insider David Thorpe: What's it like on the inside? Do you have a shank? • 1 p.m. Tennis with Peter Bodo: Is this a Nickelodeon children's show? • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Is it hard to drive in Boston these days...

Hey, The NBA Season Is Starting!
The NBA season tips off tonight, and we should all take heed: It'll be the last time anybody cares about an NBA regular season game. Enjoy!...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you read Scott Boras' neatly-typed apology letter, which may or may not be sincere ... • NBA: Portland at San Antonio; Houston at Los Angeles Lakers. Charles Barkley is back! Did you miss him? [TNT] • NHL: Pittsburgh at Minnesota. Try to control your Penguin Lust. [Versus] • Boxing:...

Penn State Fans Aren't Particularly Sportsmanlike
Generally speaking, we enjoy a good harmless scrum among rival fans, but ... this would seem to cross the line considerably. How far past the line? A Michigan blog is appalled by this. And why wouldn't he be? Any normal human would be....

The Patriots Are Just Tempting Fate
As the above video shows, with all the hatred directed at the Patriots right now — the batshit nuts Easterbrook type, and other more planetary notions — we're legitimately surprised no one has gone after Tom Brady's knees yet. (KSK might have been the first with this idea.) We would never advocate s...

We Had To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Dallas Cowboys' WR Patrick Crayton: A chat? Wouldn't a note on your locker suffice? • 1:30 p.m. Radio's Colin Cowherd: Are you actually typing your own answers, or are you stealing them from The M Zone? • 2 p.m. TMQ's Gregg East...