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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA FB with Todd McShay: I'm so delighted with this chat that I could stab someone in the leg out of pure joy. • 2 p.m. MLS with MF Chris Armas: Wow; I've never chatted with a Los Angeles Galaxy draft pick before. • 3:30 p.m. Bo...
No Better Reason To Get In A Bar Fight Than This One
This pasty fellow, described by Every Day Should Be Saturday as "so aggressively white that bleach is afraid of him," is South Carolina quarterback Blake Mitchell, who was arrested after a bar fight early Wednesday morning....
What, All Flights To Utah Were Booked?
Whenever we blow $600,000 on blackjack and loose women, we know that it's time for another trip to Cuba. Olympic officials in Thailand recently had that same thought, as they packed off Olympic boxing champion Manus Boonjumnong to the balmy shores of North America's favorite island, with the notion ...
Fast Times In The AL Central
We can't imagine what it must be like to be a fan of an American League Central team right now. (Unless of course you're an Indians or Royals fan, in which case you've certainly moved on to the unparalleled bundles of joy that are the Browns and Chiefs.)...
The Closer: Tigers Caught In Vicious Cycle
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while lamenting the cancellation of the World Series of Strip Poker ... • MLB: Bonds gains ground as Giants lose some. • Soccer: First the Atlanta Braves fail to win their division, and now this? • Women's World Basketball Championship: You could have let this humble African nation w...
GW Hoops Coach Just Can't Wait To Turn Head And Cough (Or Whatever It Is They Do These Days)
Thanks to the increasingly indispensible DC Sports Bog, we have the rare opportunity to see the head coach of a major college basketball franchise pretty damned excited to get himself a prostate exam....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch listening obsessively to Bob Dylan's radio show... • Basketball: World Championship for Women, preliminary round, USA vs. Nigeria, at Sao Paolo, Brazil. Do they use that same oddly-colored ball? [FSN] • MLB: Texas at Detroit. Tigers holding on by their fingernails ... come on! If you d...
Leftovers: Whole Lotta Ducks
• The many permutations of uniforms in Oregon. [Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer] • Thanks to Mr. Forde over at ESPN, here's the Ohio State punk band. Yep. [Dead Schembechlers] • Jamie Foxx just shows up at college gyms, wondering if anybody wants to ball, we guess. [GW Hatchet] • Is tonight the differen...
Off With Their Heads!
We mean not to sound overly sensitive, but we'll admit to being somewhat uncomfortable with the new ad campaign for New York's SportsNet NY, the station owned and operated by the Mets....
That's All For The Leftover Bulls
Something struck us as awfully sad today when we learned that Toni Kukoc is retiring from the NBA. It always makes sports fans feel old when someone who they remember coming in as a rookie ends up retiring, but somehow Kukoc hanging them up felt different, probably because he was the last guy left...
By This Rationale, Most Of You Are "Hazed" Every Weekend
OK, what does this picture say to you, other than "They should really think about having those big whiteheads removed, or popped, or something?" Does this look like some debacherous, out-of-control, dangerous exercise? A way to maliciously prey on unsuspecting freshmen who don't understand the horro...
MSNBC Is Bringing Barbaro Back
We don't know what possessed MSNBC to dig up two-month-old Barbaro content today, but they did. And the specific column that they decided to dust off for readers is a doozy. Here now is Bernie Lincicome of the Rocky Mountain News, who tapped out a heartfelt ode to everyone's favorite injured steed o...
Blogdome: Karl Malone, Shifty Hunter
• Karl Malone will bribe you for elk ... or something or other. [Need4Sheed] • A-Rod, milk sponsor. [copyranter] • Hey, what's the deal with all the mohawks? [Beating Anorexia] • John Hodgman is a rather hysterical fellow. [Dan Shanoff] • Todd Bertuzzi speaks, you see. [Orland Kurtenblog] • Don't bl...
Unfortunately, It Appears Emmitt's Going To Be On This Show For A While
Last night, Emmitt Smith continued his inevitable decline into post-athlete career depression by "shining" on "Dancing With The Stars," impressing the judges with his ... aw, jeez, we can't even type this without feeling bad about ourselves and everything about sports....
Smiles, Everyone! Smiles!
As we mentioned Tuesday, FIFA president Sepp Bladder wants to get Marco Materazzi and Zinedine Zidane together on an island for a final reconcilliation concerning the infamous World Cup head-butting incident. But after a full 24 hours of being mocked by the British tabloids, this crackpot scheme may...
The Dance, She Is Over
Something seems amiss today. We can't quite put our finger on it ... a great disturbance in The Force, like a million baseball fans crying out at once. So we did what we always do when world events confuse us; we headed over to Wikipedia. And sure enough:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 3 p.m. NCAA football with Beano Cook: Yeah, those things on the helmets are called facemasks. We think they may catch on. • 4 p.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: So we're guessing at this point the nickname has something to do with ice cream?...
It's Like Tonya Harding, But Less Manly
It must be frustrating to be a backup punter. Most football players don't even consider the starting punter a real part of the team; the backup punter might as well be the waterboy. It must cause all kinds of anger and frustration, but you're a punter, so you can't express it. Lots of repressed rage...