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Arenas And Durant, Like Burns And Allen
You just know he insisted on that, and that he practiced in a mirror for months to get it exactly right....
Yes, EIU Wrestlers, We Understand Your Point
Last month, the Eastern Illinois University wrestling program was discontinued by the school, which cited low academic marks from the team. The grapplers immediately protested in the only way they know how....
It's Becoming More Fun To Talk About The NBA Than To Watch It
So, to make this clear, in the last week or so, Kevin Garnett has alternately been going to the Bulls (definitely!), the Lakers (without question!) and now the Suns (put it in the books!). ESPN has all the different scenarios, which include the Suns giving up Shawn Marion or Amare Stoudemire, the Ce...
This comprehensive — and impressive — breakdown of Deadspin links offers us the unique opportunity to watch someone statistically analyze of the work we do when we're still trying to wake up in the morning. (Your job should provide such good fortune.) We pretty much agree with everything here, thoug...
Just Another Anonymous Night At The Ballpark
In the last eight years, we've seen way too many baseball games. We've seen a World Series winner (woo!), we've seen a freaking typhoon and we've seen Joe McEwing hit home runs for two different teams. (He's still in the Red Sox minor league system, by the way.)...
Boog Powell Would Never Had Stood For This
We just thank God that Roger Clemens wasn't around to see this. Clemens, exercising the Unlimited Vacation clause in his contract, was in Connecticut when Scott Proctor walked in the winning run in the Orioles' 3-2 victory over the Yankees on Tuesday. Evidently mindful that it was Serious Heart Cond...
What The Hell's Going On With This Redesign?
As you surely notice looking around the site, there's some massive design changes going on. (You'll notice that it looks suspiciously similar to Gawker.) We're not exactly sure how this is all gonna work either, and we're working through it ourselves, but let's try to explain what's going on and the...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while waiting in line to buy a phone ... • MLB: Walk this way ... Orioles beat Yankees in the least exciting way possible. • Tennis: Venus Williams upset in first round of ... no wait, she won. That was close. • Soccer: We warned you ... you underestimate Peru at your own peril....
David Beckham Is Trying Rather Hard To Make It Clear He's Tough
In a promotional photo shoot with Reggie Bush and the New Orleans Saints, David Beckham definitively illustrates, once and for all, the differences between football players and soccer players....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you await Young Frankenstein, the musical ... • MLB: Colorado at Chicago Cubs. The barefoot guy tried to take the field, security refused to yield, do you recall what was revealed the day, the Rockies died. [WGN] • WNBA: New York at Sacramento. Liberty. Monarchs. We're getting the h...
The Exact Human Opposite Of Jim Nantz
Ron Jaworski? Please. This is your new MNF foil for Kornheiser....
Heath Shuler Will Always Be Heath Shuler
• Heath Shuler, still bad at sports. [Roll Call] • Rod Beck, what a closer should be. [Signal To Noise] • How the WWE screwed up the Chris Benoit "tribute." [Simon On Sports] • Today's Happy Gilmore moment. [Fox News] • Bulls not going after Kobe. [SI.com]...
About Those My Wish Segments ...
As you've surely noticed, "SportsCenter" is running its yearly "My Wish" campaign with the "Make-A-Wish foundation" all this week. We covered our thoughts on this little segment last year, when we said, "First off, it should be obvious that we have no problem with sick and/or needy children getting ...
Two players, 22 inches. That's the height difference between Minnesota Minor League baseball teammates Ludovicus Van Mil (7-foot-1 pitcher) and Christopher Cates (5-3 shortstop); quite possibly the greatest height differential between teammates in all of sports. Well, if you don't count horse racing...
Like NBA Stars, But Smaller And You Can Eat Them
One of our favorite old sports stories involves Doug Flutie, when he was at the height of his Bills popularity, and then-Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson. In the locker room before the game, Johnson, to presumably fire up his troops, destroyed a box of the Flutie Flakes cereal sold to benefit autism res...
Grow, Controversy, Grow!
Our favorite headline of the month so far comes from Philadelphia, where jockey Victor Molina has been charged with domestic abuse. The victim? His racehorse, whom he kicked in the stomach following a race at Philadelphia Park. The headline? Jockey Short With Horse, naturally....
Who Wants To Sex Yao?
• Meet the woman whom Yao shall impregnate. [The Big Picture] • All the CFL preview you can handle. [Boatman Blog] • If you're the general manager of the Pirates, you probably shouldn't have your own live call-in show. [BuccoBlog] • Hey, Yankees fans: Your prospects suck. [On The Show] • The all-bre...