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About Last Night
What you missed while scrubbing your retinas ... • MLB: Yankees get your hopes up before their inevitable demise. NY 4, Boston 3. • Basketball: Actual USA Today headline ... "LeBron's Laser-Sharp Focus Leads USA Over Uruguay" • Soccer: In which we are shocked to learn that David Beckham is injured a...
In One Way, The Illini Already Are Champions
The college football season is but three days away, and to the hardcore fan, that means only one thing: The Fulmer Cup has been awarded! And yes, this year's winner of Every Day Should Be Saturday's yearly ode to collegiate athlete malfeasance is one that hits us close to the heart. Somewhere aroun...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while developing through chemicals the best damned roller skater in the nation ... • Basketball: FIBA Americas Championship, second round, at Las Vegas, Uruguay vs. USA. Uruguay's mascot is the fearsome two-toed sloth. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at New York Yankees. This looked a lot more c...
Red Sox Fans Try To Explain The President Of Red Sox Nation Thing
We do not speak the language of Red Sox Nation. We do not dislike the Red Sox, or their fans, and we do not think the city of Boston is racist. We love Boston! We just don't understand the Red Sox Nation thing; it just scares us. That said, many of our best friends are Red Sox fans, and they're at l...
Start Collecting Pennies For Bonds' Ball
It might be time to start pouring some funds into your Paypal account, because Matt Murphy's auctioning off of Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball has begun. It's rather pricey....
Andy Rooney Is Quite Old
Editor's Note: Given our longstanding love of Andy Rooney — we remind you that we own every book Andy Rooney has ever written — we've been trying to avoid any discussion of his recent and now infamous baseball column all week. Alas, inertia has overtaken us. To save our broken heart, we decided to h...
ESPN's "Fans" Seem To All Have espn.com Email Addresses
If you watched "Monday Night Football" earlier this week, you might have noticed a new segment called ESPN's Rowdy Friends, in which fans are encouraged to shoot videos of them acting like idiots — which is what networks and leagues think we are, as they remind us daily — so the "best" ones can be ...
Don't Try To Breathe In Bejing
• China's pollution is going to smoke a lot of Olympic athletes out. [Lion In Oil] • Sportszilla is looking for your one-minute NFL previews. [Sportszilla] • Tim Couch, driving one Browns fan mad. [Brown Town Frown] • Which current player is most likely to break DiMaggio's streak? [Vegas Watch] • ML...
NFL Season Preview: New York Jets
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....
Alston Polishing His Offseason Slash Moves
Remember when Rafer Alston was a feel good story, the streetball player nicknamed "Skip To My Lou" who transitioned his game to the NBA? Well, maybe not "feel good" — the guy did plead no contest in 1997 for assaulting his girlfriend — but certainly, it wasn't this bad, was it?...
I Can Haz Maps Of The Iraq, And Such As ... ?
We've had some fun at the expense of our friend Lauren Caitlin Upton, the Miss Teen South Carolina who mangled a beauty pageant question so completely on Friday that the entire world is talking about it. Such as. But now it seems some real good has come of all this. A new web site has launched, Maps...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.. Morning Buzz: Have you noticed that ESPN's chat lineup is becoming less and less noticiable on their home page? • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: New slogan ... Excitement? You Bet Your Ass! • 2 p.m. Virginia Tech QB Sean Glennon...
Bruins Nation Taking Down USC, One Coach At A Time
Hell hath no fury like a UCLA fan with some dirt on someone in the USC football program. The Internets are abuzz today with the news that Todd McNair, USC's running backs coach, was convicted accused (and pleaded out) of dogfighting and animal cruelty back in the 1990s. The Los Angeles Times did up ...
More Proof That You Should Ride Your Kids HARD
You might remember old Southern California quarterback Todd Marinovich as the guy who was absolutely ruined by his hard-driving father. Once considered the "robo QB," Marinovich's dad famously didn't allow his son fast food and claimed he wanted to produce the "perfect" quarterback. As kids tend to ...
A Report From One Of Briggs' Fellow Motorists
Now that Bears linebacker Lance Briggs has confirmed he was the one driving that Lamborghini Monday morning that was left on the Edens Expressway in Chicago — he's giving some ridiculous explanations too — we are happy to provide you with a report from a reader who was right next to Briggs' car last...