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About Last Night ...
What you missed because you can't chance seeing that Applebee's shrimp commercial one more time ... • NCAA Basketball Tournament: Where to begin? Let's just say that the end of regulation of the UNC-Wilmington vs. George Washington game was the most exciting we've seen in many a moon phase. • World ...
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What you missed while playing with your Albert Einstein action figure ... • World Baseball Classic: Chan Ho Park helps matters for a change — Korea beats Japan to keep U.S. alive. • MLB: Bonds homers in spring win over Brewers, is 7-for-9 with three dings. Enjoy it while you can, Giants fans. • NBA:...
ESPN Ombudsman Continues To Tilt At Windmills
Time to check in with ESPN ombudsman George Solomon — the Mr. Woodman of the Welcome Back Kotter episode that is the Worldwide Leader in Sports. We often wonder where they keep Solomon over at Bristol headquarters; does he have a desk in the basement? Where does he eat lunch? (we assume he brown-b...
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What you missed while stockpiling beer and deli meats for the long days of basketball ahead ... • NBA: This round goes to Artest — Kings stop Kobe, Lakers, for 13th straight home win. • College Basketball: "Bunch mad ... Bunch smash!" John Bunch (7-foot-2, 320) leads Monmouth over Hampton in NCAA To...
ESPN's Barry Bonds "Scoop"
Remember last week, when we were pointing out that ESPN seemed to be underplaying the Barry Bonds steroid revelations? Some of you thought ESPN was protecting Barry because their upcoming reality show with him, while others defended the network, saying that it was merely reflecting the opinion, "Hey...
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What you missed while hiring some guy to make your NCAA Tournament office pool picks ... • World Baseball Classic: Korea makes Kimchi out of the U.S. team. • NHL: Stars top Canucks for eighth straight win at home. But you knew that. • NBA: Knicks lose to Nuggets despite "Starbury"'s 25 points. Welco...
NCAA Pants Party: Boston College Vs. Pacific
Boston College Eagles (26-7) vs. Pacific Tigers (24-7). When: 12:40 p.m. ET Where: Salt Lake City...
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What you missed while taping a giant NCAA tournament bracket to your living room wall ... • College Basketball: Duke beats Boston College for ACC playoff title, No. 1 NCAA Tourney seed, all leading to the inevitable Krzyzewski-Redick man groping. • World Baseball Classic: U.S. beats Japan 4-3 amidst...
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• NBA: Pistons 92, Wizards 110. The Wizards have now beaten the Pistons twice, which I find confusing. Gilbert Arenas must be really mad at Flip Saunders....
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• 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 ...
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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?...
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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 ...