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Nuts About The Nats!
• The National's fantastic new theme song. [Why I Hate DC] • Will the Yankees have no starters for the last All-Star game at Yankee Stadium? [Wicked Good Sports] • Tim Legler, being "subtle." [Sports By Brooks] • How the Braves rotation is like the cast of "Cloverfield." [Right Down Peachtree] • OK,...
The Bissinger Fall Out
• Bissinger wigging out on a radio show a while back. Skip to about the 8:50 mark. [790 The Ticket] • EDSBS gives a long rundown of this whole Costas Now thing. [EDSBS] • Of course, Shanoff's fired up about all this. [Dan Shaoff] • Hey, how'd Braylon Edwards do? [Sons of Nev] • MDS is appropriately ...
Well, So Much For A Cubs World Championship
I found this over at The Big Lead and couldn't stop laughing. Why would Sports Illustrated do this to the Cubs? Chicago is in first place in the NL Central, a game ahead of the Cardinals, just minding their own business and enjoying their place in the sun for once ... and then SI has to pummel them ...
ESPN Hair Trading With Blogs
• Mike Greenberg, Mel Kiper and company showing all kinds of good humor with The Sports Hernia. [The Sports Hernia] • Josh Howard, better role model than you think. [The Bleacher Report] • This is a good way to end your high school baseball season. [The Sports Point] • Leave Donovan McNabb alone! [T...
Brady Quinn Is A Giving Soul
• Brady Quinn gives out the nice draft gifts. [Joe Sports Fan] • Fun sports you didn't know about. [Food Court Lunch] • Ten useless sports jerseys. [The Love Of Sports] • Your guide to heckling the Boston Red Sox. [Heckler's Prospectus] • The true fun of going to NFL Draft parties. [AOL Fanhouse] • ...
A Kiper-McShay Draft Day Hair Trade
The shocking Mel Kiper-Todd McShay follicle swap [The Sports Hernia]...
Red Sox Wine List Thankfully Missing "Sweet Carowine"
The Red Sox, hawking wine for charity and sheer annoyance. [Sox & Dawgs]...
Die, Bruins, Die!
• God is trying to kill all of UCLA's quarterbacks. [Gutty Little Bruins] • More praise for NHL playoff beards. [The Love Of Sports] • Kelvin Sampson, likely to be back in coaching. [Rumors And Rants] • Sports' worst father-son combos. [The Play In CA] • It can't be fun to be a Pirate sometimes. [On...
Trying To Make It Back To The Bigs
• Who's the next Gabe Kapler? [Indy Spotlight] • Anytime Joe Posnanski talks, we all listen. [Outs Per Swing] • Another anti-draftite. We wonder if Drew will have anything to say about this. [East Coast Bias] • Yes, Magic Johnson was ALWAYS serious before playoff games. [The Handsome Club] • Jeremy ...
Yeah, You Can Have Your Stupid Draft
• Sam Keller might not be drafted, but he's doing well with the ladies. [Busted Coverage] • Pity the new Red Sox field reporter. [Red Sox Monster] • Revisiting the blog NBA awards, or something. [With Malice] • It's a good thing Dubya gets good seats now. [Bugs And Cranks] • Continuing to pick apart...
Fun With Blue Jays Fans
• A day in the life of a progressively drunker Blue Jays fan. [Joe Sports Fan] • Bengals fans, donate your Chad Johnson jerseys. [Who Dey Revolution] • Fun with Mets fans in Philly. [The 700 Level] • Doesn't look like the Wizards are going to hang around very long. [Waiting For Next Year] • Marv Alb...
Debating Race And Offensiveness, Chicago Style
Over the weekend, much commotion was made about the various Fukudome T-shirts and bandanas that were being sold at Wrigley Field. The one item that's caused the most controversy is the "Horry Kow!" T-shirt that is apparently now banned from being sold by vendors, which featured a slant-eyed Cubbie, ...
You Can, Like, Make Rope With It
• Here's what happened on 4-20, man. [The Slanch Report] • Some more great old commercials. [Half Court Heave] • What happened to the Bulls? Here's one look. [Indignant Online] • Manny seems to be enjoying himself. [The Love Of Sports] • Watch your hands, Coach Karl. [Lion In Oil] • Mike Tyson havin...
Fukudome Flattered That Cubs Fans Want Him to House The Sandwich Of Investing Sockdrawer
Kosuke Fukudome sure has been a nice investment for the Chicago Cubs, hasn't it? And the cultural movement has swept up the north side of Chicago. The transition from Japan to America has been almost seamless (.317 average, .442 on-base percentage) for him, but the fans haven't quite gotten it down ...
White On Black Violence
• Joe Calzaghe beat up Bernard Hopkins last night. [Ring Report] • Sal Paolantonio disses San Francisco defensive backs. [Niners Nation] • Happy Birthday, Mr. Smoot. [Mister Irrelevant] • The Minnesota Wild-Colorado Avalanche playoff game on Versus was bumped in upstate New York by an infomercial fo...
Wax On, Barry, Wax Off
• Barry Bonds gets bumped in wax museum display. [Larry Brown Sports] • Mike Greenberg talks about blogs and ... defends them? [FanHouse] • NBC might be putting NHL playoff plugs in 30 Rock. [Best Week Ever] • Looking back on Isiah Thomas's time with the Knicks, in video compliation. [FanIQ] • Hawk ...
That'll Be Enough, C.C.
• Indians fans would like to cut off contract talks with C.C. Sabathia. [Let's Go Tribe] • Carlos Zambrano, CRAZY. [Cobra Brigade] • Scary, scary fans. (Yes. Red Sox-Yankees. Why do you ask?) [Red Sox Monster] • Why doesn't Joe Torre have an LA home yet? [Curbed LA] • If the 49ers HAD drafted Jake P...
Listening To Old Games, Now, In Real Time
• A grand experiment involving time travel, radio broadcasts and the Brooklyn Dodgers. [This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics] • Garbage Pail Kids, and the future of sport. [Food Court Lunch] • Fun NFL Draft games. [Bleacher Report] • Japan and China will settle this over ...
The Very Limber Jason Taylor
• We're sorry: "Dancing With The Stars" freaks us out. [The Sports Hernia] • Joe Borowski, DL'n' it, kind of. [Legend Of Cecilio Guante] • What's the best way to remember Jackie Robinson? [Bean Town West] • Was Michael Beasley the best freshman ever? [Rush The Court] • Along with Alfonso Soriano's o...
Facial Hair Helps You Hit
• Manny's magic mustache. [Red Sox Monster] • In (more) praise of the great Stan The Man. [Baseball Legends] • The lower tier of sideline reporters can be downright depressing. [SportsWrap] • The ball will just not get in the hole. [Food Court Lunch] • The NBA MVP race, as seen by "The Wire." [The O...