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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA FB with Todd McShay: RUTGERS, BABY! • 1 p.m. Horse racing with Barbaro: OK, we made this one up. But $50 says a bunch of people submit questions anyway. Including Pat Forde. • 1 p.m. NCAA FB with Joe Schad: Joe Schad, you ar...
Is Your Relationship With Barbaro All That It Can Be?
Even though he has faced many obstacles recently — including a stinging defeat in our Hall of Fame balloting of a couple of months ago — Barbaro has somehow always found the will to survive. And now the racehorse is on the verge of the most dramatic triumph of all, as doctors announced on Wednesda...
Mota Somehow Finds Way To Fail Drug Test
Yesterday, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota was suspended 50 games for testing positive for steroids, and, as Baseball Musings points out, he at least didn't do the "might have accidentally put the wrong thing in my body" excuse; he manned up and apologized for his mistake. The suspension proves what w...
Clinton Portis Is Keeping Curious Company
We'll confess, we don't watch that "Flavor Of Love" show on VH-1; we remember once having good thoughts about Flavor Flav, many years ago, and just seeing the highlights of the show makes us extremely uncomfortable, like we're watching Reagan in the last throes of Alzheimer's or something. (We bet...
NBA Roundup: Isiah Thomas Farewell Tour Makes First Stop
Notes from yesterday's action in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while apologizing for a subpar day for your site yesterday ... you'll do better today ... • NBA: Nellie's back, an so are the Warriors we've come to know and love. LA 110, Golden State 98. • NHL: AFLAC duck storms out in disgust as Jagr's overtime goal (the 104th game-winner of his c...
NBA Kicks Off In Earnest, And That Means It's Isiah Time!
Well, it's a beautiful time of the year, because not only is there a full slate of NBA games tonight, but one of them involves ... the Knicks! Yep, Isiah's boys tip off tonight in the strangely disappointing locale of Memphis, as they face the Grizzlies. Of all the games tonight, we're most intrigue...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your Coca-Cola can Halloween costume — so popular last night — now becomes a sad shell of loneliness and despair ... • College football: Fresno State at Boise State. The Broncos undefeated? A WAC team headed for a Bowl Championship Series game? When did pigs start flying? [ESPN2] • ...
It's LeBron Night In Bristol
As mentioned by The New York Times yesterday, Nike is trying all kinds of new ways to promote the new LeBron James shoe. The most unique way is their sponsorship of "SportsCenter" tonight: The 6 p.m. show will be sponsored entirely by Nike and the LeBron shoe. We don't know if that means all the com...
Leftovers: There He Goes, Hitting Himself In The Head Again
• Goodbye, John L. Smith. [Lansing State Journal] • Ron Borges is aware he's not so loved. [Boston Magazine] • It's possible that Jim Caple might be full of it. [The Big Lead] • The death of the oldest living player. [UmpBump]...
Nothing Like Permanent Markings Of Architecture
During our travels around Busch Stadium last week, we are sad to say we didn't come across these two toolboxes, who have tattos of old Busch Stadium and new Busch Stadium, respectively, on each of their backs. (You can see a close-up version of the tattooes at the link, if you dare.)...
Survivor Never Gets Old
We've all heard some pretty great soccer goal calls in the past, but we might have never heard a more spirited one than this one. Frankly, we think all goals/runs/touchdowns/points should be announced in song....
Jesus Gets An Automatic Major For Cross-Checking
Finally, the protection you need to ward off Miroslav Satan during the power play. Or possibly for that problematic away game against the New Jersey Devils. Over at Christian Throwback Jersey.com, no sport is untouched by the power of Christ. In the basketball section, for instance, there are even...
Blogdome: The Most Annoying Guy To Watch A Game With
• Yeah, we'd lose our mind if we had to watch football with this fellow. [Extrapolater] • The worst champions of the last 30 years. Guess who's No. 1. [Rich Kotite Banged Your Mom] • The New York Giants, in hip-hop form. [Off Season On Smash] • On the potential offensiveness of Halloween costumes. [...
See? It's Not So Hard To Get Hired By ESPN
We've mentioned this before, but we have much sympathy for the plight of the veteran female sideline reporter. Lots of these women, Lesley Visser, Suzy Kolber, so on, have been working the NFL beat for years, and not only do you have to deal with Joe Namath trying to lick your face, you have to also...
Free Darko Previews: Amare Stoudemire
We're at the start of the NBA season, with all its drama storylines and sturm und drang and months of madness. To us, part of the beauty of the NBA is that its focus, while ultimately on the team, falls on the individual. The plight of one player becomes an epic tale in the shadow of Jordan; who is ...
Drew Brees Hates The Witch He Has For A Mom
If Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his mother were, you know, speaking to each other, this would make for a rather awkward Thanksgiving. Fortunately, he hates her!...
Steelers Choose To Stay The Course
We should be saving this for our Heartfelt Fridays post, but, you know, we couldn't wait. So ... sorry. In the Steelers' press conference on Tuesday, coach Bill Cowher said that he is officially taking the blame for the team's 2-5 start, warning everyone to lay off of quarterback Ben Roethlisberge...
The Skinny On The Harold Reynolds Lawsuit
Mr. Balk mentioned this yesterday, but we'll never stop having fun with The Smoking Gun's copy of Harold Reynolds' suit against ESPN. For a document put together simply to defend Reynolds' high moral character, it's full of juicy details. Some highlights:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Um ... what? • 2 p.m. NBA with Kiki Vandeweghe: Did Larry Brown ever "flex the real hard juice card" when he coached you at UCLA? • 5 p.m. Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith: This may be the only reason I've seen...