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If Only This Policy Applied To Julian Tavarez
Note to Cincinnati Little Leaguers: You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. As we mentioned briefly last week, a new rule there for the upcoming season forbids any type of "negative chatter" during youth baseball games. To illustrate, we've made this chart....

Blogdome: BP Talks!
• There's another Varsity Letters reading tonight, with the Baseball Prospectus crew. We shall be there. [Gelf Magazine] • What the heck happened with that Dana Altman non-hiring? [Signal To Noise] • The Phillies have fun at-bat music. [The 700 Level] • Spanish racers don't like hot dogs. [Lion In O...

Everybody Should Have A Nittany Lion At Their Party
Looks like when it's offseason at Penn State, it's pretty tough for the beloved JoePa to keep a firm grip on the ears of his players. Because some Nittany Lions could be in some serious trouble after a weekend altercation....

Meet Your D—-spin Pants Party Winner (Kind Of)
Well, the final standings are in from the D—-spin Pants Party Pool, and we have a mostly anonymous winner we suspect we'll be hearing from today....

Soccer Guy Throws Down On Jim Rome In Dorkiest Feud Of The Week
Those who watched the World Cup last year know how opinionated former US soccer star Eric Wynalda can be, but when you get some alcohol in him, he even goes after the sacred cow that is Jim Rome....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Has anyone ever seen Jon Miller and Karl Rove in the same place at the same time? • 1 p.m. Tennis Mag's Peter Bodo: Say hello to the other hobbits, would ya? • 3 p.m. Ex-MLBers Al Downing, Tommy Dav...

NBA Roundup: Rocky Mountain High
Notes on Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

RIP, Eddie Robinson
Legendary college football coach Eddie Robinson died last night at the age of 88. Robinson was the all-time winningest Division I coach, but he's more famous and beloved for what he did for his players through the years at the traditionally black Louisiana college. (When he was hired in 1941, the sc...

Billy Packer's Curious Choice Of Words
By now, many of you have heard about the Billy Packer "fag out" comment — to Charlie Rose, of all people — but if you haven't seen the video, here it is, at the 35:34 mark....

About Last Night ...
Yes, we think that the pan speaks for all of us ... • College women's basketball: Tennessee wins NCAA title; no one rips off their shirt a la Brandi Chastain. Bah. • MLB: Barry Me Not On The Lone Prairie ... Giants don't exactly impress Padres in opener. • NHL: Buffalo Goals Won't You Come Out Tonig...

Gauging Your Women's Sports Interest
If you're not adequately impressed by the countdown clock ESPN's giving us for the Rutgers-Tennessee women's national championship game tonight — here's something weird; in women's hoops, they have the professional draft the day after the national title game — then here's a sporting event that's pro...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you suddenly notice that it smells like the Lord in here ... • College women's basketball: NCAA tournament, championship game, Rutgers vs. Tennessee, at Cleveland. Ah, now for the main event. [ESPN] • NHL: Buffalo at Pittsburgh. Blades of Glory. [Versus] • Soccer: UEFA Champions Lea...

CBS Is Taking Augusta By Storm
With the Masters just two days away, it's time to get in the swing of things, and by "swing of things," we mean looking like this....

Leftovers: Taking Home Busch
• What old Busch Stadium memorabilia can mean. [The Morning News] • The Hold Steady love the Minnesota Twins. [MTV.com] • The Boston Globe comes up with a concept that, uh, you've probably seen before. [Yanks Fan Vs. Sox Fan] • Yes, this was not a good first pitch. [Gheorghe: The Blog] • Penn State ...

The Sad Aftereffect Of The Chinese NFL Cancellation
As we mentioned yesterday, the schedule NFL game between the Patriots and Seahawks in China has been canceled. That's good news for each team's players and coaches, whom we suspect had little desire to break from training camp and head to freaking China....

Why The Terrorists Hate Us, Reason No. 131: The 12-Person Beer Bong
If the Milwaukee Brewers don't do one other thing in the entire future of their franchise (and there's a possibility they won't), it just doesn't matter. Their legacy is secure and we call them heroes; for they have already given us the wonder of racing sausages, and the greatness that is the 12-per...

Curt Schilling Faces The Blog Music
Yesterday wasn't the most pleasant day to be a Red Sox fan — a friend of ours who loves the Sox was lamenting last night that "the season is over;" Red Sox fans are the best — and no one took it harder than Curt Schilling himself....

Yeah, About That Versus Deal ...
Far be it from us to imply that the NHL might have made a mistake aligning itself with a network as shaky as Versus, but ... well ... it's not a good sign when your network might be pulled off cable right before the playoffs....

Blogdome: Time To Look At The Backfield
• Hey, what NFL teams still need running backs? [Winning The Turnover Battle] • It's a Rookie Wiki. [Rookiepedia] • An NL Central preview, with pictures. [Joe Sports Fan] • The Big Ten wasn't so bad this year. [Bad Idea Blue Jeans] • What people were searching for, postgame last night. [Thighs Wide ...
