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Artest And Jackson Already Suspended For Next Season
This is an interesting way to end the blogging day: Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson were just suspended by the NBA for the first seven games of next season. Yes, you read that correctly: next season....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch while you carve soap ... • Welterweight Boxing: Gatti vs. Gomez, Cintron vs. Matthysse and Margarito vs. Williams. Unsilent Majority highly recommends this. [HBO] • Cycling: Tour de France, Stage 7. From Bourg-en-Bresse to Le Grand-Bornand and back. OK, not back. [Versus] • TNA Wrestli...
One Grand Salami, Please ... Not On White!
Earlier yesterday, reports leaked that Gary Sheffield said black and white players are treated differently under Yankees skip Joe Torre, Derek Jeter "ain't all the way black," and that he never used steroids because "steroids is something you shoot in your butt," in an upcoming HBO interview. Needle...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your cat demands an iPod ... • Golf: American Century Championship, first round, at Lake Tahoe, Nev. At least Berman's not here. [ESPN2] • MLB: Pittsburgh at Atlanta. A more compelling matchup you'd be hard to find. [TBS] • Softball: KFC World Cup of Softball, round robin, USA vs. C...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. AFL w/Force QB Chris Greisen: We're telling you right now, we're going to keep flogging this league until cows fly, "journalism" be damned. You got a problem with that? • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Better boxer ... Robert De...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch following a long afternoon of cleaning up after Brett Favre • Major League Lacrosse: Philadelphia at New Jersey. Don't deny it; you know you are ALL OVER THIS. [ESPN2] • Soccer: MLS, Houston at Chicago. Our nipples explode with delight. [ESPN2] • Women's softball: World Cup, round robi...
If This Isn't A Sport, What Is?
What's a sport? We think competitive eating is a sport, and if you want to play around, we suppose rock paper scissors is a sport too. But how far can you push it? Claynation's Clay Travis makes the argument that counting is the new hot pseudo sport....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NFL draft w/Steve Muench: Let's relive the glory, shall we? • 4 p.m. World Series of Poker: When I called you a cheater, I didn't know you were the Sundance Kid. • 4 p.m. Football Scientist KC Joyner: Are you responsible for thi...
Dan Patrick's Next Destination Is Duller Than You Think
Digging around the notes columns of the Chicago Sun-Times, The Big Lead thinks they've found what Dan Patrick's next move is. It's not nearly as exciting as we were hoping....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your iPod demands more songs with fiddles ... • Boxing: Junior middleweights, Joel "Meat" Julio vs. Cornelius "Cornholio" Bundrage, at Hollywood, Calif. Who needs sleep? Not us. [ESPN2] • Cycling: Tour de France, Stage 4, Villers-Cotterets to Joigny, France. For all of your previous...
A-Rod Scores Them In Bunches
The guy who provided this here site with The Tip That Shook The Nation — involving Chris Berman and a certain leather-clad female — of course earned a place in our our mythical Tipster Hall of Fame. And in our hearts. But he's slipping, unfortunately. His once great fastball is now merely a languid ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 12:30 p.m. Page 2's Bill Simmons: That cartoon Simmons head looks like it has jaundice. May I offer you a cool washcloth and some antibiotics, Bill? • 2 p.m. Baseball Am.'s John Manuel: Dmitri Young is certainly not dead. (He's not, is...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch on orders from your parrot • MLB: All-Star Game. My write-in campaign for Ryan Garko has failed. I may watch anyway. [Fox] • Poker: World Series of Poker. Hey, these cards are marked! They're a mess. A chocolate mess! [ESPN] • Cycling: Tour de France. Blood tests after every mile is a ...
Worry Not, Everybody: You'll Be Seeing Plenty Of Bud Selig
We know that you, like us, have been on your proverbial pins and your proverbial needles wondering whether or not baseball commissioner Bud Selig would attend the game in which Barry Bonds destroys our collective faith in humanity by breaking Hank Aaron's home run record. Wonder no longer!...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Ex-MLBer Goose Gossage: If you laid George Brett's and Kirk Gibson's longest home runs against you end-to-end, would they circumnavigate the globe? • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry Blount: Sorry, my question is on back order. It shou...
Chandler: This Year You Are Mine, Dan Patrick
If you are reading this, Dan Patrick, let's clear the air on this interview nonsense right away. To put it bluntly, last year you snubbed me. You were the only player at the Lake Tahoe American Century Golf Championship to do so — I even talked with Mike Schmidt. Mike freakin' Schimdt....