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About Last Night ...
What you missed due to jet lag ... • NBA Finals: Road Worriers — Heat beat Mavs to even series 2-2. • World Cup: They're not booing, they're saying "Rooooooney!" England advances to second round. • MLB: Todd Hollandsworth's three-run homer leads ... Todd Hollandsworth? You cannot be serious. Anyway,...
When Bat Boys Attack
If you were to believe television broadcasts, every fan who runs on the field is violently tackled, beaten or otherwise pummeled. Networks won't show a guy who's just running around, but they love to see him hammered. Hence, last night's Boston-Minnesota game, when a bat boy wallops a sliding fan an...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while searching for ... a shrubbery! • NHL Finals: They're baaack! Oilers win in OT to come within 3-2 of Hurricanes. • MLB: Better Living Through Chemicals: Giants beat D'Backs as Bonds hits No. 717. • World Cup: Germany beats Poland in penalty time, leaving fans on both teams worke...
The Kids, They Like The Golf
We've been trying to fire ourselves up for tomorrow's U.S. Open — the amount of morale-pumping required to maintain a face-painting level of excitement for televised golf is sometimes more than we can muster — but we just can't quite regurgitate the same Tiger vs. Phil stories. Sorry. We don't have ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while recreating the Battle of Waterloo entirely with chickens ... • NBA Finals: Not quite time for Miami fans to get excited yet, but it's a start. Wade leads two-point win over Mavericks. • MLB: Glavine roughed up, but Mets beat Phillies anyway. • World Cup: Goooooooo oh, forget it...
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What you missed while furiously scrubbing red-white-and-blue paint off of your face ... • NHL Playofs: Hurricane Recchi puts Carolina one step from Stanley Cup. • World Cup: George and Yortuk Festrunk, the two wild and crazy guys, feel a bulge in their tight American pants at this result: Czech Repu...
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What you missed while hitting Bullock's knuckles repeatedly with your face ... • NBA Finals: Shaq gets schooled, ducks press, gets fined, Mavs go up 2-0 on Heat. • Franch Open: Nadal wins it all ... come on, he was player Federer. Nadal owns Federer. • MLB: Cubs beat Reds 9-3, ushering in baseball's...
Justice For Barry Bonds
A little upset that Jason Grimsley had been stealing his thunder, Barry Bonds is back in the headlines. He's dropped his lawsuit against Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, authors of "Game of Shadows," a book that contained parts of his grand jury testimony. The lawsuit was intended to stop the...
About Last Night...
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals: Carolina 1, Edmonton 2. Well, when you can't figure anything else out, just plow into the goalie and hope for the best. Seems like it's a series now....
Favre, Jeter, Kobe, Barry... All Your Favorites
Harris Interactive conducts a poll every year to determine America's favorite athletes. Michael Jordan has occupied the top spot every year since 1993, but this year, Tiger Woods shoved him out of there like Bryon Russel, and Tiger took MJ's top spot. I guess the people of America really loved tha...
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• MLB: Phillies 8, Nationals 9. Twelve innings and thirteen pitchers used in this one. The 10,000th fan in the building today gets to throw the 9th inning for the Nationals....
Terrell Owens, Symbol For The Youth
You know, this is the NBA Finals, the World Cup, the start of some obviously exciting baseball pennant races and, of course, ant soccer. One would think it would be our one Terrell Owens-free time of the year....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while reading up on this sport called "soccer" that they speak of ... • NBA Finals: Terry's 32 help solid-hoofed herbivorous mammals beat the Heat in Game 1. • French Open: Say it with us; Justine Henin-Hardenne. No, once again you've mispronounced it. Anyway, she's in the finals aft...
The End Of The Kyle Boller Era Of Joy
Yesterday, after much debate and "controversy," the Baltimore Ravens finally traded for Steve McNair. Until McNair's legs fall off — we have Week 8 in the pool — he will take over the starting job for Brian Billick and his Nevermores....
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What you missed while trying to figure out if your child is the antichrist ... • NHL Playoffs: Someone had better inform Edmonton that this is only a best-of-seven series. 'Canes go up 2-0 behind Ward. • MLB: Carl Everett, of all people, homers in 11th to lead Mariners over Twins 11-10. • Tennis: Ra...
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What you missed while grooming your ocelot ... • MLB: Alex Cintron's three-run homer leads White Sox over Tig ... wait ... Chicago won a game? Seriously? • Tennis: Venus eclipsed by 17-year-old Nicole Vaidisova in hot, girl-on-girl action at the French Open. • Golf: Vaidisova? She's positively ancie...
When Football Coaches Dope Themselves
This Frank Solich GHB/DUI story? Honestly, it's a gift that keeps on giving....
The Closer: Yankees; Dangerous When Wounded
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while teaching your tortoise to use the computer ... • NHL Playoffs: Prehistoric Fossil Fuels lose game, Roloson, possibly series to 'Canes. • MLB: Bonds' 716th homer will have an asterisk; not because of steroids, but because it came against the Marlins. • No soup for you! Wie fails...