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Best Of Luck To Ashley Force At The ESPY Awards Tonight
Even though they'll air this Sunday, the ESPY Awards are happening tonight in fantastic L.A. at the Nokia Theater, what should be the home of Baron Davis and the L.A. Clippers. All the glitz, glam, Valvano, and Timberlake any sports fan could ask for....
Alright, Brett Favre Might Be Kind Of A Dick
Amidst all the Brett Favre will he?/won't he?-coverage during the past two weeks, one topic that's come a lot is the status of his precious legacy in the eyes of his fans and the league. The Brett Favre purists and sycophants don't want to see Brett be "Willie Mays on the Mets" "Johnny Unitas on the...
To Watch Tonight
Hard to believe that all of this occurred in Ohio ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Oscar Diaz vs. Delvin Rodriguez, at Norman, Okla. (10 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]; James Toney vs. Hasim Rahman, for vacant NABO heavyweight title, at Temecula, Calif. (11 p.m., ET). Still over earlier than the All-Star Game. [FSN]...
New England Patriots Helmet Tattoo Guy Auctioning Off Rest of Body
Not content with the awesomest tattoo ever, Victor Thompson will now sell off other places on his body to the highest bidder. He's even set up his own website, tattmetoo.com . For the low price of $200 per square inch, you can make it happen....
British Open Preview: Living In A World Without Tigers
This year, please welcome back Shane Bacon, golfing bon vivant from Dogs That Chase Cars, as he gives us a fantastic preview to this year's British Open. It can still be interesting without Tiger. Right?...
Afternoon Blogdome: Murray Chass Stomps His Way On To The Internet
• Throw another blog on the fire: This is becoming a tiresome trend, but still amusing. New York Times sports writer Murray Chass unveiled his new "website" to the world with this charming introduction:"The proprietor of the site is not a fan of blogs. He made that abundantly clear on a radio show w...
Please Come To Altoona, Will Ferrell!
Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you're doing and listen. Cannonball!...
NFL's "Concerned" About Players Flashing Gang Signs
Gangsta players beware: The NFL isn't going to tolerate your confusing finger gestures anymore. The league has stated they'll be cracking down on any "suspicious" hand gestures flashed by players during the game in an effort to eliminate the promotion of gang culture in the league....
Big Money Undefeated in 7 of 7 NBA Games Reffed by Scott Foster
You'll recall that Foster was the referee who received more than 134 phone calls from Tim Donaghy. Now, R.J. Bell, a sports betting expert, has examined the lines in the games surrounding those telephone calls. He found that when the line moved two points or more (described as a significant line mov...
698 Georgia Fans Donate $10,000 for Right to Buy Season Tickets...Curse Matthew Stafford
It's wonderful to see so many Georgia natives embracing higher education. Just wonderful. Georgia only had 698 season tickets come open and they fill the requests based on a complicated system called "who gives us the most money?"...
John Daly and Butch Harmon in Catfight on Eve of British Open
After swing coach Butch Harmon said Daly was more interested in drinking and having a good time than he was in being a good golfer. Daly, who is more interested in drinking and having a good time than being a good golfer, took offense. Now he's finally firing back from England. Sort of....
Kornhesier Crabgate, The Next Day: Shocking New Details Emerge
Now it seems that key sources are backing off from their claims that ESPN chatterbox Tony Kornhesier had acted like a pompous ass at a Delaware seafood restaurant recently. Here's the original item from the Pulp Culture Blog in the Wilmington News Journal, which claims that Kornheiser threw a fit wh...
Newt Gingrich Pleads With The Packers To Keep Brett Favre
Brett Favre's aligning himself with some interesting people during his messy unretirement quest. First it was Fox News' Greta Van Susteren and now he's picked up an endorsement from another figurehead of conservative punditry, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich....
Worst Getaway Attempt Ever
UFC champ-turned-whack-a-mole Quinton "Rampage" Jackson got himself into a bit of trouble on Tuesday, fleeing the scene of an accident, evading police, and then being arrested at gunpoint by Newport Beach police. Not only was our protagonist riding on rims at the end of the pursuit, but another stic...
This Time It Counts (Well Into The Morning)
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
Afternoon Blogdome: Alyssa Milano Intends To Shed Her Baseball Player-Dating Past Forever
• For the love of the game, not the players: Apparently, Alyssa Milano has decided that dating baseball players is no longer beneficial to her personal well-being."They are grown men playing a little boy's sport. That makes them childish," she said. Based on the stunning post-Milano regressions of B...
Brothers Hit Back-to-Back Hole in Ones on TPC-Sawgrass 3
Davis Massey is 11 and his brother Hanks is 9. If you really want to piss off your golfing friends, forward this link along to everyone who golfs and has never hit a hole-in-one. Which is basically everyone. Then ask, did you ever get a hole in one before? That question infuriates golfers. And now t...
Breaking Down College Football's Championship Futures Market
Future bets are out for college football. Updated ones at least. For odds to win the national championship and over/under on wins for the season. Now that we’re about six weeks from kickoff some of these propositions start to get pretty interesting....
Jeff Allison's Re-Renewed Sense Of Purpose Comes From Hamilton
Jeff Allison, the 23-year-old pitcher buried in the Florida Marlins farm system is destined to hear the Josh Hamilton comparisons throughout the rest of his career. Like Hamilton, Allison was a highly-touted prospect, a high school pitching phenom, who's been featured in more fall-from-grace stories...
Tony And Jessica Think That Journey Totally Rocks
It wasn't all fun and wetness at the American Century Championship golf tournament at Lake Tahoe this weekend. Tony Romo and a very orange Jessica Simpson spent some quality time at the Journey/Heart/Cheap Trick concert at Harveys outdoor arena on Saturday night. Here they are arriving for the festi...