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About Last Night...
• Syracuse 58, Georgetown 57. The 'Cuse advances to the Big East conference finals, and Jim Boeheim decides he's going to start cursing like a drunken sailor after every game....
Mexican Beans Sold Separately
Fantastic find from The Wade Blogs: Currently up for auction is a wristband worn by Barry Bonds in 1987 for the Pirates that says "Say No To Drugs."...
Jacking Yourself UP!
One of the excerpts from Game Of Shadows involves the authors claiming that because Bonds put on 15 pounds of muscle in three months, he must have been on steroids. (To be fair, this is one sentence in the book, and the only one we've seen so far that even slightly overreaches.) Baseball Musings t...
You Got To Blog Just To Make It Today
We know what you're thinking: What does MC Hammer think about this Barry Bonds business?...
Barry Bonds And The Chamber of Secrets
Well, there's less than two weeks left until the official release of the book Game of Shadows, the Barry Bonds expose by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. We suspect that your kids have been on pins and needles in anticipation and have probably been bugging you ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while scrubbing the big red maple leaf off of your torso ... • College Basketball: McNamara, Syracuse stun No. 1 UConn in OT, Boeheim manages to keep the profanities to a minumum. • World Baseball Classic: Mexico helps U.S. by blasting Canada 9-1. Take that, you hosers. • NBA: Nash-l...
Boston College Golden Eagles
1. All The News That Is Fit To Print. Think you're going out on a limb by picking BC as your dark horse? The New York Times already beat you to the punch. The Old Grey Lady picked BC to win it all back last fall. Good news since the Times' Midas Touch worked so well on past winners like John Kerry, ...
Jim Boeheim Hates Your Guts
In the type of game that gets us so freaking excited for the tournament next week we almost wet ourselves, Syracuse pretty much just clinched a NCAA tournament big by beating No. 1 Connecticut 86-84. The key, not surprisingly, was guard Gerry McNamara, who had 13 assists and hit a huge 3-pointer t...
David Wells: More Fun Than Should Be Allowed
How great is it, honestly, to have David Wells around? We're almost sorry to see the Red Sox pitcher come back from that knee injury, because it means he'll be busy again. And we've learned that an idle David Wells is an entertaining David Wells — it's kind of like if Gary Busey all of a sudden sh...
The Barry Bonds Creationism Argument
We've been keeping an eye on the fallout, two days later, of the big Barry Bonds expose in Sports Illustrated, and we've noticed the debate being framed thusly: Do you believe in Barry or do you believe the book?...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while apologizing for all the tech issues yesterday ... • World Baseball Classic: Canada wins over the United States 8-6. Even long after the Winter Olympics, U.S. still on thin ice. • NBA: Hornets return to New Orleans, but Kobe spoils the party, as he is wont to do. • NHL: Another ...
But What About The Kids??!!
And so, only now do we learn that the weapons of mass destruction were real. Barry Bonds had them in his medicine cabinet. Baseball fans love statistics, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters have provided plenty — every pill, cream, lotion and chemical used by Bonds since 1998. Multiple witne...
How Important Is It To Care About Bonds?
Hey, we made it five posts in today before any Barry Bonds posts. We want some credit for that....
Gilbert Arenas Can't Stop Shooting
Via Mr. Irrelevant, we present this picture of Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas, who had a rather nuts battle with Boston's Paul Pierce last night. (Pierce hit a game-winning shot at the buzzer.)...
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What you missed while quelling locker room dissent on your Fantasy Baseball team ... • World Baseball Classic: Take that, Mexico! That's about $177 million worth of pitching that the U.S. threw at you. • NHL: Stars stop Oilers in shootout, which is still a weird sentence to type but that's modern ho...
Let's Not Forget The Real Victim Here
In all the rigmarole destined to take over the sports airwaves in the coming days, let's not forget who will suffer the real ramifications of the definitive proof that Barry Bonds took steroids story: ESPN....
Bonds Won't Get Off The Hook This Time
OK, if you've hadn't a chance to dig into the Bonds Sports Illustrated story yet, we cannot recommend it more highly....
The End Of Barry Bonds
So we just got back from lunch ... what'd we miss?...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Red Sox
We re less than a month from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. ...
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What you missed when your kid's G.I. Joe collection went AWOL and turned up in Barbie's Dreamhouse ... • NBA: Kobe's 43 not enough as Spurs spank Lakers. • College Basketball: This is troubling, NCAA bracket-wise. Gonzaga beats LMU by 1 in WCC championship game, after having won in the semis over Sa...