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About Last Night
What you missed while absent-mindedly packing your friend's parachute with dirty laundry ......
Things To Do In Albuquerque When You're Drunk
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Bode Injures Ankle; Vows To Continue Failing Anyway
Playing a game of pick-up basketball in which the winners and losers aren't important, Bode Miller rolled his ankle. Bode is set to run his final Olympic event on Saturday, his fifth and final chance at a medal. But, there is good news. The ankle injury is not severe enough to keep Bode's indomita...
Tonya Harding, The Female Butterbean
The Sports Pulse takes a look back at the rise and fall (mostly fall) of Tonya Harding over the past twelve years. It's hard not to think about her and Nancy Kerrigan when the Winter Olympics roll around. It was a time when it was OK to be a figure skater and not appear to still going through pube...
About Last Night
What you missed while writing your Death List Five ... • Winter Olympics: Oops — while Hedrick, Davis are busy bickering, Italian zooms by both of them to grab gold in 1,500. • College Basketball: Notre Dame almost, but not quite, upsets No. 3 UConn. Hey, it's just like football! • NBA: Vince Carter...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bob Sansevere
The St. Paul Pioneer-Press has an annual contest called "Average Joe Columnist," in which a field of 16 non-journalists submit sports articles, and are judged American Idol-style by sports editor Mike Bass and columnist Bob Sansevere. The latter, it seems, fancies himself in the Simon Cowell role — ...
About Last Night
What you missed while vacuuming the dog ... • Winter Olympics: U.S. ice dancers win silver, Bode wins bupkiss. • College Basketball: MO! Adam Morrison leads Gonzaga to 14th straight win. • College Basketball: Syracuse sends No. 14 West Virginia to fourth loss in five games. And then, depression set ...
The House of Mirrors That is the Mind of Barry Bonds
What would we see if we could step into the mind of Barry Bonds? The Mad Hatter would be hosting a tea party in there, certainly. Posters of Gilbert Gottfried and Prof. Irwin Corey on every wall. Fantastic creatures would abound — animals not found in nature, such as a spiny jackrabbit, and a half...
About Last Night
What you missed while playing with your friends after school ... • NBA All-Star Game: LeBron rallies East to win over West in that thing that follows the slam dunk competition. • College Basketball: This coach literally phoned it in — Oklahoma State routs No. 6 Texas. • Winter Olympics: Doh! U.S. me...
ESPN-Sponsored Texas Tech Recruiting Materials
As you may know if you've watched ESPN at any point over the last few weeks, tonight debuts "Knight School," a six-episode reality show detailing the quest of sixteen young men to be chosen as a walk-on to the Texas Tech basketball team....
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• NBA: San Antonio Team of Tony Parker, Kendra Wecker, and Steve Kerr win RadioShack Shooting Stars competition. Police in San Antonio are able to subdue the all-night rioting....
Nudie Magazine Day!
Well, alright, it's not a magazine, it's a calendar. But I think you'll enjoy the Nude Curlers Calendar anyway. The Wade Blogs has gotten their paws on these titillating photos of various curling athletes, and I agree: I'll take the nude curlers over the SI Swimsuit Issue. It's not a judgment on t...
Just How Drunk Was Eddie Sutton?
Well, he blew a .22. To figure out how many drinks per hour that is, first, we have to take a guess at the man's weight. Now, I've been fired from my job trying to guess people's weight at the carnival three or four times, so I'm not very good at it. But if we guess an even 200 pounds, consuting ...
Bode Bites It Once More; French Guy Gets Robbed
In his third stab at medaling in the Torino Games, Bode Miller once again has refused to conform to society's unjust request for him to win something. NBC's going to let the anticipation build for 8 more hours before showing it to us, but this time, Bode hit a gate, lost his balance, skied off the...
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• NBA: Sophomores 106, Rookies 96. I guess "Second Year Guys" wouldn't look quite as snazzy across the front of their uniforms. Andre Iguodala has 30 of the most meaningless points ever scored....
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What you missed while staging the Battle of Midway in the bathtub ... • NBA: Antonio Davis rushes into stands to defend wife — the only defense the Knicks played all night (rim shot). • College Basketball: No. 1 Duke, No. 2 Florida both roll to 17-0, setting up dramatic Rose Bowl showdown. • NHL: Ye...
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What you missed while folding and ironing your socks (sad, really) ... • College Basketball: The Indiana University knocks off No. 7 Illinois at the real Assembly Hall, to the tune of this. (Ed.'s Note: The person who wrote this has been fired, and also killed). • NBA: Now you may reveal the fact th...
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What you missed while watching your Golden Globes Pool picks go up in flames ... • NBA: Lakers beat Heat as Shaq and Kobe have their Brokeback Mountain moment ... • College Basketball: Our Rashad Anderson Fan Club is looking pretty darned prescient after UConn snaps Syracuse's win streak. • NHL: Gre...
Mo Vaughn, Still Pickin' 'Em Up And Settin' 'Em Down
We always liked former Red Sox first whaleman Mo Vaughn, if just because of his always-refreshing honest about where he spent his spare time: strip clubs. (We'll just say reporters always knew where to find him when they needed a quote.)...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NFC Conference Championship: Come on, it's Panthers vs. Seahawks, people! Won't someone please ask a question? Um, anyone out there? Hello? • 1:30 p.m. Spurs SF Bruce Bowen: As both a good long-range shooter and an excellent d...