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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Baseball Blunders w/Rob Neyer: Would writing angry Amazon reviews count as a "blunder?" • 3 p.m. College football w/Beano Cook: When we heard that line on the Sopranos this past Sunday, "Someone should tell her she's dead," we ...
Heat Take 1-0 Lead Despite Lottery Distractions
It is perhaps telling that, the morning after Shaquille O'Neal and his Miami Heat looked strangely dominant in a Game 1 win over the Pistons, the NBA event that garnered the most online attention was the draft lottery, which was won by the Raptors, who now conveniently aren't run by a moron....
Eastern Conference Pants Party: Pistons Vs. Heat
As disappointed as some of us might be that we didn't get our LeBron-Wade Eastern Conference Final, we have a feeling it'll end up happening someday, somehow. Let's not get greedy just yet. Let's just watch to see if those workmanlike Pistons — who, for all their lack of popularity today, were Ameri...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you're just hanging around with Madonna ... • MLB: Atlanta at San Diego. Peavy is still pissed. And we can't really blame him. [TBS] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 1, Miami at Detroit. Didn't we all see this coming? Yes. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 3, ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Boxer Fernando Montiel: Welcome, Mr. Montiel. Please bear with us while Pat Buchanan goes through your pockets and Orrin Hatch checks your ID. We apologize for the inconvience. • 1:30 p.m. IRL's Michael Andretti: You're my secon...
Seminoles Institute New "Anti-Cocaine" Policy
Some bad news for Jon Kreft, that Florida State recruit who was arrested for having cocaine in his ass (that's a crime??!!): The Seminoles have rescinded their scholarship offer. He clearly has failed to met the exemplary moral standards expected of the students of Florida State University....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as TiVo begins recording scenes from your life, including that time you killed a guy (too bad "The Twilight Zone" is cancelled; we'd make a bundle with that one) ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Boston. OK, back to good, old-fashioned intraleague hatred. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Sabres at ...
It's All About That Inside Post Position
Jon Kreft is a seven-foot-tall, Uwe Blab of a center, and he's the top recruit coming to Florida State next year....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penske crew chief Matt Borland: Was that you I saw yesterday on the side of the road leaning against a Volvo, waiting for Triple A? • 2 p.m.. Baseball with Buster Olney: How's the Roger Clemens recruiting coming? I head that the ...
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• MLB: Yankees @ Mets. The Yankees injury report contains about as many names as the Vietnam War Memorial. 8:00, ESPN....
Wichita State Needs A New Mascot
They're not renaming themselves, thankfully, they just want to replace the guy on the left there. When I first saw the headline, I feared that the people at Wichita State had gotten tired of all the jokes that make people like us so happy. But that's not the case, and besides, changing to somethin...
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• NASCAR: Nextel All-Star Challenge. I'm not sure how an All-Star event works in an individual sport, but okay....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the NSA listens in on your Chinese takeout order ... • NBA Playoffs: Eastern Conference semifinals, Game 6, Detroit at Cleveland; Western Conference semifinals, Game 6, San Antonio at Dallas. These series are not going as planned. We like that. [ESPN] • MLB: Atlanta at Arizona. Home...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Rattlers' WR/DB Randy Gatewood: What does nine years in the Arena Football League even feel like? Have you ever wished you could look up between plays and see a cloud? • 2 p.m.. Boxing with Dan Rafael: I say, that man struck th...
Record For Stuffing Face With Pig Ass In Jeopardy
You're probably going to make fun of us here, but we consider competitive eating a sport. We do. We never had until we worked with writer Larry Getlen on his story "The Champions Of Consumption" for The Black Table, our old stomping grounds. The two-part series looked at the history of competitive...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while very much enjoying Lima Time ... • PGA Tour: Bank of America Colonial, first round, at Fort Worth. If having a Fred Funk poster on our bedroom wall is wrong, then we don't want to be right. [USA] • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay. It's every young boy's dream to one day wear ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Croatia
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Croatia! And for World Cup previews th...
Buzzsaw Asks Leinart To Tone It Down A Tad
You know, it's one thing to have only one playoff victory in 40 years, or to have a never hosted a playoff game in the nearly 20 years you've been in your new home....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: Go to bed old man! • 2 p.m. Chicago Fire's Chris Rolfe: What exactly did Andy Herron do to earn a six-game suspension? • 4 p.m. College hoops with Andy Katz: How many of these games have you played ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as literature hooligans invade your book signing and a melee breaks out ... • MLB: New York Mets at St. Louis. Cardinals fans repeat the line we've heard on the X-Files so many times: "Mulder! I need your help!"[ESPN] • NBA playoffs: Conference semifinals, Game 5, Cleveland at Detroit;...