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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · Noon. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: So does Mrs. Crasnick have to sign up for a free trial to get the Insider, if you know what I mean? · 1 p.m. NBA with Ric Bucher. ESPN the Magazine ... quality sports journalism, or glossy placemat? · 4 p...

Smith's Terror Begins In Less Than Two Weeks
We are but nine days away from the launch of NBA "analyst" Stephen A. Smith's "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith," the new live-studio chat show, or, as we like to call it, "What The Hell Is Wrong With The Treble On This Television?" Smith, whose wide-eyed stare straight into the camera makes u...

Bonds Still Giving Away All His Scoops
To remind you: At the beginning of the season, San Francisco roid monster Barry Bonds said that his true fans would ignore what they read in the bastard media and trust only the updates he gave on BarryBonds.com....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while impassionatley engaged in the fight, for your right, to paaaaaarrrrrty. · Guerrero Slams Yankees: We'd make a "Touched by an Angel" reference here if it wasn't so lame. · Brown, Isiah Meet. Strangely, the open Knicks job never comes up. · Armstrong emerges from mountains with y...

To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as your speedboat is being repossessed ... Yankees at Rangers. If Steinbrenner acts quickly, Griffey could be on a plane for this one. From France, the LPGA Evian Masters. Whoa, Lance Armstrong playing through! Washington D.C. United at Kansas City Wizards. May be blacked out in the Ka...

Leftovers: The Scandal Of The Feet
Sandalgate: U.S. lacrosse team sparks national outrage. [Indianapolis Star]Knicks, Brown reportedly to talk on Thursday. [New York Daily News] U.S. receives highest FIFA ranking ever. [MSNBC]...

Today In Oddjack
What you're missing on Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler. NCAA to make sure that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Three baseball lines to make your mouth drool, your eyes water and your propeller hat to spin like crazy. Soccer: Queen Elizabeth to f...

Today In MLB Blogs
Zack Hample, author of The Baseball Collector, is somewhat of a legend in the sports memorabilia world. His claim to fame: He's caught at least one ball in 404 consecutive Major League games. But now the ugly, horrible truth. As we learn in his latest entry, Hample's pursuit is not all that glamo...

ESPN Angers Non-Crack Addict Mayor
From the signs your mayor has too much time on his hands department (and/or is a serious masochist), District of Columbia mayor Anthony Williams is pissed that ESPN isn't taking its road show to the nation's capital. Even worse, he offered to show ESPN bloviator Chris Berman around town....

Mickelson's Wife Openly Mocks Him (Again)
We've always kind of assumed golfer Phil Mickelson's wife is always laughing at him. Her attractiveness level vastly exceeds his — like, vastly — he's more famous for losing at golf than for winning and, all told, he's kind of doof (and a notoriously bad gambler — but we won't get into that here)....

Mr. T Joins Sox's Regular Gang Of Idiots
According to the Boston Herald, the first pitch at Friday's Red Sox-White Sox game is going to be thrown out by Mr. T. Strangely, the big takeaway from this little stunt is that T will be wearing socks. For a guy who we don't remember ever seeing in a shirt, we can't say this shocked us too much....

How To Make Everyone You Know Want To Kill You
In a description of the upcoming ESPN Mobile program, which will give Sprint customers easier access to sports scores while they're bashing their phones against their heads because they're not working because they're Sprint, ESPN Mobile senior vice president Manish Jha described some of the other ...

Just Asking ... Hypothetical ... No Offense Intended
We know we're not supposed to be suspicious of this. We know we're supposed to accept that agent Drew Rosenhaus, who has been a feature subject in every newspaper with a beat writer and seems to want to single handedly send the NFL into a labor war, we know we're supposed to believe every second o...

About Last Night ...
What you missed during your frenzied scramble to buy every Wonka Bar in town ... Schilling gets first save since '92, but let's be honest, it was against Tampa Bay. Lance Armstrong facing little resistance as he approaches Paris — kind of like the Germans in WWII. Pistons fire Larry Brown, official...

McMichael Gets Early Jump On Training Camp With Wife
Miami Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael was arrested last week for spousal abuse, his second arrest for that charge in the last 13 months. (The good news is that she wasn't pregnant this time.)...

Tommy Lasorda Returns To Action
Attention Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. Tommy Lasorda has updated his blog! Everyone please turn on your computers! Every month or so, perhaps simply to justify the free laptop computer, our man Tommy does his duty for MLB Blogs.com. This time he pecks out a loving tribute to the A...

ESPY Mania!
Are you like us? Did you spend last night with your eyeballs rubber-cemented to the television screen, desperate to see who was going to win the ESPYs? Could Lance Armstrong three-peat? Who would win craziest play? What exactly does Curt Schilling look like in a tux? These are important questions....

ESPN Spreads Its Terror Across The Land
Those who were up to watch SportsCenter this morning know that ESPN's already obnoxious "50 States, 50 Days" promotion has begun. The idea, in case it hasn't been sucked down into your soul by now, is that SportsCenter will be at a different location every day for the next 50 days, or pretty much ju...

Cuban Plays Dress Like A Pirate Day
Apparently, Dallas Mavericks whack-job owner blogger Mark Cuban has interest in buying the Pittsburgh Pirates. Cuban is from the Pittsburgh area, which we'll confess we didn't know; we imagined him sprung forth, fully grown, from the Internet, like The Lawnmower Man or something. Anyway, Cuban — w...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: I've been having those dreams again about Astros closer Brad Lidge. Can you help me? 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Now that you're not on that beat anymore, could you write a snarky book ripping the Yanke...