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Blogdome: Rethinking Simmons
• A somewhat softened — somewhat — tone on Bill Simmons and what the Web is now. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • Why is Adewale Ogunleye ashamed of his college? [We Are The Postmen] • Joe Dumars can spot talent. [Need4Sheed] • Lots and lots and lots of baseball playoff numbers. [Yellow Chair Sports] • A ROC...

Where My Team Stands: St. Louis Cardinals
If we've learned anything about Octobers the last few years, it's that the month tests, stretches and hones every aspect of loyalty fandom. Typically, we pretty much just tell our friends that we'll see them sometime in November. It's a stressful time....

Kids And Darts! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
And so finally, we have the concept for the next Johnny Knoxville movie. The British Darts Organisation is campaigning for their sport to be included in the 2012 London Olympics; and to that end, they've opened the Darts School of Excellence in London. It's for for kids ages 7 to 18, as England atte...

Ron Zook, Water Skiing
After our Illini's shocking upset victory over Michigan State on Saturday, we felt like we had no choice but to post this picture of coach Ron Zook water skiing. Weeeeee!!!!!...

Where My Team Stands: Detroit Tigers
If we've learned anything about Octobers the last few years, it's that the month tests, stretches and hones every aspect of loyalty fandom. Typically, we pretty much just tell our friends that we'll see them sometime in November. It's a stressful time....

How Close You Were, Dusty
Ah, such a rite of fall: The ritualistic execution of baseball managers. It always is a fun day, the day right after the baseball season ends, because managers just get picked off left and right. It's only a matter of time until Florida, bewilderingly, cans Joe Girardi, but we're gonna look at Cubs ...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Ah yes, sending e-mails to someone named Buster. Isn't that what got Mark Foley into trouble? • 3 p.m. NFC West with Rodd Newhouse: Setting John York adrift in the middle of the Pacific is permissible as l...

Where My Team Stands: New York Mets
If we've learned anything about Octobers the last few years, it's that the month tests, stretches and hones every aspect of loyalty fandom. Typically, we pretty much just tell our friends that we'll see them sometime in November. It's a stressful time....

NFL Roundup: Orton Should Be Getting To Bed Right About ... Now
• So we actually stayed up and watched the full scale of the Bears' dismantling of the defending NFC champions last night, and we're pretty sure nobody's going to beat Chicago for quite a while. It actually hurt us to watch them hurt the Seahawks; everyone looked bigger, stronger, faster, meaner. ...

A Deeply Regrettable Wrong
Before we get started in on an extremely busy sports day, we have some business to attend to....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while ... hey! Where the hell are my Lorna Doons? ... • MLB: Cubs end season with 8-5 win over Rockies. Let the housecleaning begin. • NFL: Chicago Bears remain as only unbeaten team after ... oh no! Todd is having another heart attack! • NASCAR: Tony Stewart crosses finish line mome...

NFL Week Four, Update #4
• New England just ass-romped the Bengals. This was not something I had anticipated. The Patriots offense was struggling, their secondary was hurting, and I thought Carson Palmer and the Bengals wide receivers would take advantage. 'Twas not the case. Laurence Maroney gashed them all day, Corey Di...

To Watch Tonight...
• NFL Football. Seattle Seahawks @ Chicago Bears. The NBC schedule has been really good so far. But see me in Week 6. 8:15, NBC. • Boxing: 1986, Tyson vs. Berbick. I'm not sure how they plan to turn this into a 30-minute program. 10:00, ESPN Classic. • Movie. Gladiator. I actually didn't really like...

John L. Smith Knows What You're Thinking
And he's acting accordingly:...

NFL Week Four, Update #3
• The Raiders are confusing me. Maybe it's just because they're playing the Browns, but they're rolling. They got a touchdown from some damn linebacker who ran for a touchdown after Rueben Droughns politely handed him the football. And Lamont Jordan, who I actually thought passed away in the offse...

LeftoverDome...
• I'm not sure if Brandon Lloyd is better at rapping or being a wide receiver. I'm also not sure if that's a compliment. [Saved by the Blog] • The Bears/Seahawks game might not mean as much as you think it does. [Foul Balls] • Here's a Giants fan who could not be described as optimistic. [Sports Mon...

NFL Week Four, Update #2
• The Jets damn near pulled off the greatest play in the history of sports. It was one of those, "Hey, let's keep lateralling the ball and see what happens" deals that always ends in miserable failure, but this one last about seven minutes and made a hell of a lot of progress before finally peteri...

That Is Exactly What It Looks Like
What you're looking at is a picture of a kangaroo boxing a human being. A terrible human being. I'm afraid it's very real, and it's a part of the 2006 Animal Olympics. They're brought to you from China, a country that apparently believes in animal rights every bit as much as they believe in human ri...

NFL Week Four, Update #1
• Drew Bledsoe and Terry Glenn have hooked up for two touchdowns, sending the message to Terrell Owens, "You know, we'd be fine if you did kill yourself. Owens himself has caught 3 balls for 73 yards, though he did drop a pass in the endzone. Kim Etheridge ran immediately onto the field and claime...
