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The Closer: Welcome To The Grease Fire That Is The AL Central
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while perfecting your Charlie Weis Halloween costume ... • MLB: It's Moyertime! Phils tantalizingly close to playoffs again. Cubs, not so much. • NHL: Well, it didn't take long for Federov to get injured. But at least we still have Tie Domi. • Minor League Baseball: Mike Koplove. Kno...
Peter Gammons Has Returned, Just In Time
Baseball Musings had the great news today that Peter Gammons will be back on "Baseball Tonight" tomorrow night, and late today comes even better news: Gammons is writing again, with his first work since his aneurysm in July. Typical Peter, he has an excellent look at the upcoming free agent pitchi...
This, This Is Why We Lose
So USA soccer "superstar" Landon Donovan was asked whether or not he thought he would be a better player if he was in Europe rather than the MLS. His response was curious....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you pine for the NHL ... • MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks at San Diego Padres. You stay classy, Whale's Vagina. [Channel 4 Padres] • Minor League Baseball: Triple-A Bricktown Showdown, Toledo (International League champion) vs. Tucson (Pacific Coast League champion), at Oklahoma City. Mr...
In Prison, It Could Be A REAL "Game Of Shadows"
So we don't know if you knew about this or not, but this Thursday, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, the authors of Game Of Shadows, the exhausting piece of investigative reporting that stunned the world by revealing that Barry Bonds (no!) used steroids, will face a judge at Phillip Burton Feder...
Leftovers: Voting For Peter
• You can vote Peter Gammons as Boston's best "blues act." Go to it! [Boston Music Awards] • Barcelona is available to the highest bidder. [IHT] • Jay Mariotti, taking "credit" for the White Sox losing ways. [Tom Fornelli] • This guy's mom used to know West Virginia's coach. (Not in the Biblical sen...
The NFL Doesn't Want You To Get Drunk
So the NFL is running a contest called Take A Player To School Day, which encourages kids between the ages of 6 and 12 to apply for a player to accompany them to school....
Chris Fowler, Mrs. BodyShaping
Remember "BodyShaping?" That old ESPN show that featured, uh, people in Spandex lifting things and hopping around at a location of indistinguishable but distinctly beach-like flavor? Well, the host of that show was a woman named Jennifer Dempster, and, as MJD touched on this weekend, she recently ma...
Deadspin Moral Quandary: PK Vs. KSK
Contrary to the popular opinion concerning blogs, we consider ourselves pretty nice guys. We mean well for humanity, pet puppies, occasionally give change to the homeless, say please and thank you, all that. But there's still this mindset that blogs are somehow mean. Therefore, we're looking inward ...
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
By now you've probably heard about the "apology balls" story, in which Pete Rose is supposed to have signed 300 baseballs with the words "I'm sorry I bet on baseball — Pete Rose", and is set to sell them at $1,000 a pop. That's what the New York Daily News said on Monday, anyway, in a rather glaring...
Blogdome: Rethinking Tillman
• If you think you know Pat Tillman, you probably don't. [Fynalcut] • The Raiders aren't just terrible, they're statistically tainting their legacy. [Sports Business Blog] • It's the Jake Plummer doll dressup game. [The Universal Cynic] • Carmelo is George Karl's little buddy. [Need4Sheed] • Here's ...
Darren Prince Understands Athlete Felonies
We can't exactly criticize anyone else for attempting to capitalize off the Maurice Clarett sentencing yesterday: We've certainly earned our fair share of frequent flier mileage from the story....
An Update On America's Dorkiest Sports Feud
So remember, the Sklar Brothers-Bill Simmons feud? Simmons apparently has disliked the "Cheap Seats" hosts' comedy sensibilities for years, and, probably because it's not exactly ESPN's most popular program, Simmons has been allowed to openly mock it in his columns. The Sklar brothers have always se...
Son, This In No Way Reflects On My Own Past Athletic Frustrations
In the grand tradition of the egg fertilizers of Mary Pierce and Todd Marinovich, we present Frank Colavecchia, the father of Rocco Colavecchia, a quarterback for Shenango High School in New Castle, Penn. Last week, Frank posed as a scout from Ohio University — to get into character, we suspect he...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA 2010 w/ Brian Windhorst: Oh Christ, what's ESPN up to now? Well, whatever it is, you can bet the Knicks still haven't won their division. • 1 p.m. Clemson RB James Davis: Wanna buy a Heisman, cheap? • 4 p.m. NFL with Pro Foot...
Hey, Can I Get A Do-Over?
Attention Jeff George: If your son's Pee Wee football league needs referees this weekend, we know some guys who are available. After a wildly entertaining, somewhat comical ending that kind of reminded us of the final scenes in Caddyshack, the Pac-10 wound up suspending the officiating crew that muc...
Mets Fans Are Having A Nice Morning
As established late last night, the Mets clinched the National League East last night behind the gorgeous athletic stylings of Jose Valentin....
Look Inside Big Ben. WAY Inside
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger made his return from an appendectomy — and, ostensibly, from that little head-vs.-pavement business — last night, and it didn't go well, with the Jaguars shutting out Big Ben and the Steelers 9-0 on Monday night. It was the lowest scoring game in Monday Night ...
The Closer: Now Who's In First, Huh Padre?
Notes from a day in baseball:...