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People Who Knew NHL Was Gone Feeling Optimistic
According to the invaluable Eklund's Hockey Rumors:...
The Vanishing N'Awlins Scene
Legitimate question: Is there any point to having sports teams in New Orleans anymore? The Hornets can't draw any fans after just two years in town, the Saints stink and are hated by the five Louisianans who care and now they're the top candidate for the inevitable NFL move back to Los Angeles. S...
Even Jeff Gillooly Is Starting To Feel A Little Sick
Harding Ready For Next Fight [Boxing Talk]...
About Last Night ...
What you missed due to the restraining order ... Spurs go up 2-0 on Suns: Our immunity to NBA Fever still has physicians baffled. Yankees clobber Tigers: A-Rod gets two homers. Or was that I-Rod? Jor-El? Ack, green kryptonite! Bucks win NBA Lottery: A 6.3 percent longshot comes through, giving hope ...
Ewing's Ex Gets Her Pound Of Flesh
Patrick Ewing's ex-wife certainly had to deal with her share of indignities, from his alleged affair with a Knick City Dancer to the infamous Atlanta Gold Club Trial. Well, she gets her revenge this morning in the New York Daily News, talking trash while promoting her new novel, Brickhouse, abou...
How The Suns Saved The NBA
We'll be honest: On the whole, we're not really big fans of self-proclaimed Best American Writer Neal Pollack. (We've always considered him pretty much schtick in a vacuum.) But we must admit, his newly posted Slate piece on the Phoenix Suns is kind of brillant. A longtime Suns fan, he argues tha...
To Watch Tonight ...
Please welcome, making another appearance on our sofa — my ass. (Applause) Game 2: Spurs at Suns. Come see the franchise based solely on air conditioning. Dodgers at Giants: This used to be fun, back when Bonds and Beltre were juiced. NBA Draft Lottery: In which you are humiliated by a ping pong bal...
Leftovers: Whither Thou, Jerry Rice?
Rice may decide on Broncos today. Aging receiver would run patterns on Lark scooter. [Rocky Mountain News] Hey, didn't we just fire him? Brian Hill is back running the Magic. Wheee. [The Sports Network] Agent says Ricky Williams will attend Dolphins camp. But then, his agent says a lot of things. [M...
Tom Verducci Cleans Up His Own Mess
This week's Sports Ilustrated cover story — apparently SI.com has a magazine? — is about "the incredible shrinking slugger." The writer of this story is, of course, Tom Verducci, whose front page interview with Ken Caminiti three years ago got this whole ball rolling. Wouldn't it be hysterical if so...
Yes! Barry's Back!
Barry Bonds' journal has returned! After a torturous 11 days of waiting, we have been blessed with the presence of Our Precious once again. Because he has been hooked up to IVs and heard dire warnings of possible leg amputations, Barry's journal is awful sobering this week. Just a bunch of stuff ...
Rob Neyer, International Man Of Mystery
Everybody's favorite mainstream stat dweeb Rob Neyer just started off his ESPN chat with this meaty missive:...
Hey Fans, Come Pee In A Cup!
In the tradition of wacky minor league promotions everywhere, the Sioux Falls Canaries held a BALCO Be Gone promotion last night. All fans who arrived were given a free specimen cup and were tested for steroids throughout the game. (No word on how many fans ended up juiced.) They also had other g...
Big Cocks On ESPN (Sorry)
We might make fun of ESPN.com sometimes — a little, maybe — but they win big points for this article about cockfighting. It also ends with this classic line: "If I ever live in Guam, all bets are off."...
Today in MLB Blogs
Here at MLB Blogs, we care about you, the blogger. Except for those of you in the greater Chicago area, whom we would prefer to mock (see the photo now up at the top of our site). You all remember Steve Bartman. Welcome back, Steve. Um, that is you there in the middle, right? Moises Alou is nowh...
We're Sorry, But For Wearing Arroyo's Haircut To School, He Deserves Execution, Not Suspension
Student Suspended For Wearing Arroyo Haircut To School [Boston Herald]...
Lousy Closer Spurs T-Shirt Sales
Danny Graves, the firestarter who was designated for assignment by the Reds yesterday, continues to inspire considerable consternation from his supporters and his detractors. Strangely, his biggest boosters seem to be the teammates whose lives he has made miserable all season; Cincy social climbe...
More Cartoon Idiocy at ESPN
"Episode Two" of "Off-Mikes" — the visual interpretation of Mike Greenberg's and Mike Golic's morning show — has premiered on ESPN.com. As usual, it's just a bunch of ADD animation with a couple of buffoon figures doing slapstick. A legitimate question: Who in the world likes this crap? We don't ...
Baseball Prospectus Nerds Make Our Head Explode
We love the Baseball Prospectus guys. They're fun, they're smart, they're scrappy and they're usually right. But sometimes they exhaust us. In a story about the offensive explosion of the last decade (subscription required), they produce the above graph....
Mike Piazza Goes (Log Cabin?) Republican
That photo to the contrary, we now have definitive evidence that Mike Piazza is not, in fact, gay: He loves Rush Limbaugh. Upon spotting Limbaugh at Turner Field yesterday, Piazza — whose brother is head of the Montgomery County, Pa. Republican Party — stepped away from pregame warmups to shake L...