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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested chat questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Baseball insider Keith Law: ESPN hasn't talked about the gyroball for more than two hours now. What's going on? • 3 p.m. NHL with analyst Barry Melrose: Hitching their wagon to the World Extreme Cagefighting network ... wis...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you are menaced by giant squid ... • Major League Baseball: New York Mets at St. Louis. Seriously, kids: Braden Looper is starting tonight! [ESPN2] • NBA: Chicago at Detroit; Sacramento at Denver. Kings' Magical Misery Tour gets underway. [ESPN] • Soccer: UEFA Champions League, quar...
F-Rod Is A Big Fan Of The Bottom Of His Cap
In his new book The Cheater's Guide To Baseball, Derek Zumsteg looks at all the different ways baseball players and managers have cheated (or tried to cheat) throughout the years. It's a highly entertaining book; our favorite part is "Tips For Doctoring Bats For Amateur Players."...
Help This Fat Man Have A Heart Attack!
We don't usually pay much attention to these, well, blatant Internets grabs at attention, but we kind of liked this one: A 435-pound-man is auctioning off his running in the Boston Marathon. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. We think he's probably got a while to go....
Everybody Should Have A Nittany Lion At Their Party
Looks like when it's offseason at Penn State, it's pretty tough for the beloved JoePa to keep a firm grip on the ears of his players. Because some Nittany Lions could be in some serious trouble after a weekend altercation....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Has anyone ever seen Jon Miller and Karl Rove in the same place at the same time? • 1 p.m. Tennis Mag's Peter Bodo: Say hello to the other hobbits, would ya? • 3 p.m. Ex-MLBers Al Downing, Tommy Dav...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you suddenly notice that it smells like the Lord in here ... • College women's basketball: NCAA tournament, championship game, Rutgers vs. Tennessee, at Cleveland. Ah, now for the main event. [ESPN] • NHL: Buffalo at Pittsburgh. Blades of Glory. [Versus] • Soccer: UEFA Champions Lea...
The Sad Aftereffect Of The Chinese NFL Cancellation
As we mentioned yesterday, the schedule NFL game between the Patriots and Seahawks in China has been canceled. That's good news for each team's players and coaches, whom we suspect had little desire to break from training camp and head to freaking China....
Teddy Roosevelt's Gonna Do What He Has To Do To Win
So poor Teddy Roosevelt, in the grand president mascot races at RFK, can't catch a break: He didn't win at all last year, and he's resorting to desperate measures ... like, say, rappelling from the roof of the stadium on Opening Day yesterday. Poor guy: He still didn't win. The Bull Moose party, the...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested chat questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Anyone want to trade for Jose Contreras? • 3 p.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: The better boxer; Charles Bronson in Hard Times or Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose? • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB w/Dou...
Joakim Noah, Gleefully Making No Sense
Thanks to Every Day Should Be Saturday, we have the bizarre interview with Joakim Noah after the Gators' win last night which confirms, if you had any doubt, that nobody has the foggiest idea of what Joakim Noah's talking about....
Looking To The Past To Overcome The Present
Now that Florida has won its second national title in a row, everybody's an amateur historian — which is good, because sports would be no fun if it has professional historians. The big question: Are the Gators one of the best teams ever? The answer of course is that there is no answer, which is why ...
At This Rate, Florida's Gonna Win An Oscar This Year
It was rather difficult not to admire Greg Oden in this game, but Florida, man, those guys are good. Not the epic game we were hoping for ... but when you go 4-for-22 from the 3-point line, it doesn't really matter if you have a 64-year-old Bill Russell under the basket....
Give Us At Least ONE Shining Moment. One Will Be Fine.
All right, well, we think we can all agree that, as sports fans, we are owed an epic national title matchup tonight. This has been the least memorable NCAA Tournament of the last decade — except for those ones we can't remember — and the only thing that can salvage it is a Connecticut-Duke or George...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after being gnawed by wombats ... • College men's basketball: NCAA tournament, championship game, Florida vs. Ohio State at Atlanta. We have the strangest feeling of deja vu ... is Troy Smith on the premises? [CBS] • Major League Baseball: Baltimore at Minnesota; Texas at Los Angeles A...
What A Win Tonight Would Mean: Florida
A national title, or a championship in any sport, resonates for years beyond just one small victory for a group of tall men. It stands for something not just in athletics, but for a university as a whole, a matter of civic pride, an achievement disparate groups of people can all stand alongside, joy...
NCAA Championship Game Blogdome: Let's Play Two
What they're saying, blogwise, about tonight's National Championship game ......
This Can't Turn Out Well For Anyone
OK, this is no laughing matter, but Wolverine Nation can't be happy that when this 35-year-old man went out to meet a "kid" he met on the Internet, he decided to wear his lucky Michigan cap. Next to "First down, Troy Smith," the next phrase a Michigan fan does not want to hear is "Hi, I'm Chris Hans...
What A Win Tonight Would Mean: Ohio State
A national title, or a championship in any sport, resonates for years beyond just one small victory for a group of tall men. It stands for something not just in athletics, but for a university as a whole, a matter of civic pride, an achievement disparate groups of people can all stand alongside, joy...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB Insider Keith Law: If we declare war on Canada, who gets the Blue Jays? • 2 p.m. MLB Insider Rob Neyer: Can there possibly be this much inside information? The season is exactly one game old. • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB with Gene. So ...