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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Ever hear of an entire team going down in a fantasy plane crash in the mountains, and resorting to fantasy cannibalism? Yep, happened to me. 11 a.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: I've just been beaten up by Kenny Ro...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Cell phones on the course — would you smash them with a wood or an iron? · 3 p.m. College Football With Ivan Maisel: How come we never see you at SEC games anymore? · 4 p.m. Recruiting With Tom Luginbill: Which ...
Bill Plaschke: Original Confidence!
The fantastic satirical folks at Yard Work have the best impression of a column by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke that we've ever seen. It has all the hallmarks: fear of technology, six word paragraphs, awkward usurping of pop culture and, best, hideous metaphors:...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. NFL With Gary Horton: When you're charting and ranking grown men in tight pants, do you sometimes think, "You know, this is not how I thought life would turn out?" · 3 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: You're not an ESPN pers...
Bill Simmons Picks His Own Greatest Hits
With tonight's NBA Draft just about five hours away, our main man Bill Simmons clocks in with the50 greatest moments in NBA Draft history. Of course, that's not really what it is; what it really is is a collection of Bill's favorite one-liners from all his draft diaries. One imagines Bill staying...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB With Rob Neyer: Now, don't take this the wrong way, but would you say Bill James is a pitcher and you're a catcher, or vice versa? Because we have a guess. · 2 p.m. NBA Draft With Chad Ford: Hey, so who is new Cavs general ...
OK, Sometimes Peter Gammons Freaks Us Out A Little
From today's Peter Gammons column:...
The Bizarro Bill Simmons
From the great Yard Work satirical blog, here's an imaginary (but just barely) selection from Bill Simmons' mailbag:...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: If you want to write a real bestseller, you should out all the gay Yankees. The entire infield, right? Come on Olney, give! · Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: Hi, I'm an advertising executive in Manhattan. ...
Bill Simmons Translator: We Were Little, Swarthy People. No, Really
ESPN Page 2 columnist/national movement Bill Simmons has filed an unusually brief missive about last night's Game 7. You know what that means: It's time for The Bill Simmons Translator!...
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We Have to Ask ... Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Are sports agents technically rodents, or members of the weasel family? · 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Hey, wasn't that Tyson trying to sell his pigeons on eBay? · 4 p.m. Poker with...
Page 3 Wakes Up And Publishes — Barely
Well, it's Friday, so that must mean it's time for Page 3's editors to remember that they're, in fact, editors and update their "page." To show they mean business, they actually post two stories today. (We know!)...
ESPN Acknowledges It's Sucking The Life Out Of Sports
The New York Post's resident prude Phil Mushnick digs up an internal memo at ESPN that admits they're constantly stealing scoops from other non-ESPN journalists and claiming them as their own. We've noticed this several times — we almost expected a crawl this morning that said "ESPN's Marc Stein r...
Wait ... Where <em>Are</em> You, Anyway?
So we're watching Around The Horn right now. The panelists today are Jay Mariotti, Tom Cowlishaw, Bob Ryan and Bill Plaschke. They've been blabbering on about the NBA Finals for about 10 minutes now. They are reporters, talking about events on their beat, or at least that's the conceit, right?...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: Isn't this June? Instead of devising a seven-month plan to acquire Mark Brunell, shouldn't I be, oh, I don't know, having a life? · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Once again I've strained a tendon trying to lea...
Sneakers: Rock The Vote, America!
We know that the whole point of ESPN's Page 2 is to write about the culture of sports, from entertainment to clothing to ... well, whatever the media kit says, just trust that. But this is getting ridiculous....
Bill Simmons Translator: He Loved "The The!"
Now that ESPN Serious Journalist Bill Simmons has gotten pretty much every single prediction of the NBA Finals completely wrong, we thought we'd check in with him after last night's Game 6 with ... yes ... The Bill Simmons Translator!...
Page 3 Continues To Bring You The News
Today's fun Page 3 Statistical Breakdown:...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... Noon. Live From Wimbledon: Next year, how about a division for monkeys? 1 p.m. College World Series: Seriously, is anyone watching? 4 p.m. Baseball with Gary Gillette. Does the 2005 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia make a better doorstop, or b...