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About Last Night ...
What you missed while being arrested by a monkey ... • NFL preseason: Despite talking with Deion Sanders before the game, Mike Tomlin begins his Steelers reign with a victory. • MLB: Glavine wins 300th at the expense of the formerly-in-first-place Chicago Cubs. • Golf: Tiger tunes up for PGA Champio...
Washington Wizards beat writer Ivan Carter is reporting that the team has agreed to send the rights to Spanish superstar—and Pau Gasol's bosom-buddy—Juan Carlos "La Bomba" Navarro to Memphis. In exchange they'll give up a future first round pick that might be lottery protected (crap). I'm not thrill...
Vazquez Punishes Marquez While Diaz Retires Morales
Nobody thought that Israel Vazquez could be ready for his rematch against Rafael Marquez just five months after he took that battering. Freddie Roach, Vazquez's highly regarded trainer in that fight, declined to train him for the rematch if he was going to fight just four months after major surgery...
About Last Night...
What you missed while wondering if you could pitch for the Royals • Boxing: Israel Vasquez was positively fierce in his rematch win over Rafael Marquez. There will be a third fight, and it will be epic. • MLB: The android formerly known as Barry Bonds hit 755; nobody rushed the field to celebrate bu...
Wake up! They're Underway at Wembley
The sun is already rising on a new season in the Barclay's Premier League. The annual Community Shield match is underway at Wembley stadium pitting Machester United against Chelsea, the champions of last year's league title and FA Cup respectively. While the result of today's match won't be reflecte...
Bonds Makes Everyone Smile
Forgive us for butting in on the weekend, but Barry Bonds just homered to tie Hank Aaron. So: Isn't that great? What a moment to bond us all. Update: You can see the video over at Awful Announcing....
Jean Strahan Is Gettin Paid
If Michael Strahan wants to lose the gap-toothed look he should probably go to the dentist now while he's still insured. Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports(!) has shed some light on the financial terms of the Strahan's highly publicized divorce....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while trying to land your George Jetson car ... • MLB: I second that emotion ... history-making second inning highlights White Sox's 13-9 win over Clemens, Yankees. • Golf: Night of the Hunter at Bridgestone Invitational (but yes, Tiger is lurking). • Football: A 129-yard TD run? Mus...
The Long, Painful "March" To 755
We're not gonna make any predictions this time — and we promise, this is the last time we're gonna end a day with a Bonds post — but Barry Bonds might or might not give this another try tonight....
Somebody Just Give This Guy A Grill Endorsement Already
You knew, somehow, if Evander Holyfield just hung around long enough, waiting for someone to need a big name to highlight some sort of grueling pay-per-view spectacle, someone would give the 44-year-old former heart patient the opportunity to fight for another championship. (Or die trying. Seriously...
Kevin Garnett Brings The Heat
The Celtics landing Kevin Garnett was great and all, but I know that ever since the deal was announced, many of you have secretly longed to see Garnett in a Red Sox uniform. And so you shall. Don't get too exited, greater Boston area ... Garnett was at hand at Fenway on Wednesday just to throw out t...
About Last Night ...
What to watch as your attempt to make smores goes horribly wrong ... • MLB: A terrible night in Minneapolis ... • Tennis: Congratulations, you just spelled Anna Chakvetadze correctly. Here is your driver's license. • Swimming: At the age of 40, Dara Torres wins her 14th national swim title....
Is This The Night Bonds Finally Ends This?
Call us crazy, but we have a feeling Barry Bonds is going to tie and/or break this record tonight. We kind of want him to; we really can't take anymore. The quicker he does it, the quicker we can all move on with our lives. Plus, having him do it in front of the fanbase that hates him more than any...
About Last Night
What you missed while you, Malcolm and Reese finally find Dewey ... • MLB: Ladies and gents, we give you the first place Arizona Diamondbacks. • Swimming: I don't know what a natatorium is, and if I fell in a pool I'd probably sink. Brendan Hansen doesn't have these problems at the U.S. swim champio...
A Big Trading Day, And In Baseball Too
It is perhaps baseball's misfortune to, on the one day a year everyone looks for baseball trades, have its thunder stolen by an NBA trade, but then again, no one's been waiting six years to see where Joel Pineiro would finally be traded....
Barry In Tampa ... What Might Have Been
As we continue our plodding march toward "history," a march that has taken so long that we can't even keep up our outrage anymore, we consider what might have been....
The Report From The Arena Bowl
The man in this picture is Jay Gruden, the younger brother of Jon Gruden and the head coach of the AFL's Orlando Predators. He was one of the many luminaries at the Arena Bowl over the weekend, and the guys from It's Still Football were there. They filed a full report for us, which is after the jum...
The Age Of The Asterisk Is Here: Shift/8, Bitches!
With all that's happening these days in the the world of sports, it has become clear: We need the asterisk now more than ever. And on Wednesday, the Hagerstown Suns — a Class-A South Atlantic League baseball team — will pay tribute to that tiny, brave footnote indicator with its Tribute to the Aster...